- Hope you're having a marvelous Monday.
Been doing a series of pipe welding videos
using four-inch Schedule 40.
I gotta get with the cub
on cuttin' these coupons out of these pipe.
Coo-pins!
It a little crooked.
We'll work with it, we'll work with it.
We're gonna run a horizontal route today, the 2G horizontal.
Couple of different methods.
Let me get my hood, my stinger, we'll get into it.
'Kay, 2G, I had two tacks in here about an inch long.
I'm gonna start on this one back here.
Couple of different methods for horizontal
that I like to use that are comfortable for me.
I like to rest the heel of my hand on the pipe down here
and hold this like a pencil and I can kinda get going
and do whatever manipulation I need to do with the tungsten.
I get out here in front of you, I'm gonna change this
and we can wiggle the cup in the rest of the way
and come around and bump into this tack over here.
I'm running about 130 amps, I've got just a bit
of a snug 1/8th inch.
The wire won't fit into it.
Wanting to.
I like to use the 1/8th inch when I'm in the horizontal
so I can kinda get some reinforcement built in there.
Let's give it a go.
(arc welder blowing) I heat up the leading edge
of this tack.
Put the wire in there.
Kinda rolling and pushing on this wire just a little bit.
Runnin' about 130 amps.
(arc welder blowing)
So I started over here on this opposite tack,
heated the leading edge up,
fused the wire in the front of it and came across here
and I stopped right about right here
for the freehand part of it.
The rest of the way,
I wanna rest the cup in here
and just give it a nice glide all the way around
to the rest of it.
Hopefully we can walk it in there nice and smooth.
Again, kind of a snug 1/8th fit
so my wire is just, it won't fall through
but I'm rolling on the leading edge of it
trying to break these walls down,
get a little bit of reinforcement.
(arc welder blowing)
Oops, oops little slip and slide there.
'Kay, I'm coming up to my tack
so I'm heating it up,
putting wire in it.
Woo!
Ma-ah!
Hello.
A little flat, a little flat,
I like to have just a bit more reinforcement,
but you know, wall thickness is broken down on the inside,
I've got just a little bit of reinforcement.
I'd like to have a little more but it works.
To correct that I could have that
gap opened a little bit more, use a smaller wire,
feed more wire, but this'll work.
Again, horizontal routes, you know we did
two methods here where we came off the side
and rested the heel of the hand on here
and kind of slipped along and then for the second part
we walked it the rest of the way.
So, I hope this helps out.
Again, you guys can do this.
You know, everybody kind of sweats horizontal and 6G
and I don't think they're that bad you know,
for being able to see and visualize stuff
I think it works out pretty good, really.
So, get your confidence, clean your material.
Do yourself a favor, clean inside, clean the bevel face.
You can do this.
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Following all over the place there.
- [Camera Guy] All right, yeah.
- You doing a little boozin' today are ya?