(laughs)
- What?
- What's so funny?
I haven't even got to the punchline yet.
We got the Cub in here today.
What's up, man?
- How you doing, bud?
- I'm doing good, I'm doing good, hanging.
I threw a little TIG root in here,
you going to do a, you going to finish this
one out in the 2G for me?
- Yes, sir.
- 'Cause I sure appreciate it.
- I need some help.
- And I got done on some of these, and I'm like.
Got the high speed shimmies.
Looks like I'm getting pulled over
by the Florida State Troopers down here or something.
(laughing)
That's not funny.
- Yeah it is.
- No it isn't, get your laughing out of the way.
Cub's going to do a little fill here.
You going to put a fill pass in and then a too big cap or...
- Yes sir.
- You're not going to go for that great big old
figure eight, 532?
- Only with with 5G I would.
(laughs)
- All right, so you got 80 amps, we're running off of
ESAB 285, what else you got set up on there?
- [Cub] Hot start.
- [Older Man] How much you got your hot start set at?
- [Cub] Like 25%
- 25?
- Yeah.
- That's a good number, little crispy start.
Now why would you do that?
- So it voids me from sticking and getting porosity.
- (laughs) Like me?
- (laughs) No
- I left a little porosity a while ago,
man I had to touch it up a little bit.
- Man, calling yourself out.
- And then you're going to do, what the other setting in there?
- Arc force?
- Arc force. What do you got that at?
- 10%
- That's good, on 7018 that's good.
You don't want it digging and gouging.
You better not wreck my root.
- Oh, its going to be wrecked by me.
- Lets get hooked up here and well go.
- [Older Man] So, you're going to do a fill pass,
a single fill pass in here. Flat right?
- [Cub] All right
Try to reach all the way around here.
- [Cub] All right
- [Older Man] Okay
- [Cub] Do I do a little weave,
I got to make sure I'm tying my top of my toe?
- [Older Man] I wouldn't, I wouldn't consider it a weave.
I'd say it was a slight pause on the top side of the toe
of this bead if you're going to do anything.
- [Cub] All right
- [Older Man] Again, you're attempt, what you want to do here
is to leave one in there flat.
You don't want to have it sagging down to the bottom,
and nothing up at the top. You want it in there pretty flat.
You want to save this beveled edge
down here on the bottom too, because that's going to be..
- [Cub] My guideline?
- [Older Man] Right
(sizzling)
- [Cub] This all right?
- [Older Man] Your amperage good?
- [Cub] Huh?
- [Older Man] Is your amperage good?
- [Cub] I can't hear you.
(mumbles)
- [Older Man] Is your amperage good?
- [Cub] Uh, you tell me, does this look okay?
Am I doing it right? I don't know
- [Older Man] Yeah.
(mechanical tool whirring)
- [Cub] Do I want to keep a drag all the time, or..
- [Older Man] No basically straight in.
What I was asking when you were about right here,
is I said is your amperage good?
(mechanical tool whirring)
- [Cub] What do I need to do to improve right here?
- [Older Man] I wouldn't say much of anything.
- [Cub] All right
- [Older Man] I mean you're a little peaking but I,
do you want me to cut that out and reshape it slightly?
- [Cub] Peaking like towards the bottom?
- [Older Man] The bead is peaking, instead of,
right here its pretty flat.
- [Cub] All right
- [Older Man] I'm liking what I'm seeing
right here on my side.
- [Cub] All right, I just need to move faster?
When I peak it right there?
- [Older Man] Yeah
- [Cub] All right, gotcha.
- [Older Man] Do you want me to slightly reshape that
or you want to go with it?
- [Cub] Were going to go with it.
- [Older Man] Okay
(sizzling)
(beep) (mumbles)
(beep)
- [Older Man] Little hot start there huh?
- [Cub] Got bad porosity but then I started to understand
what was going on again. Its been a while.
- [Older Man] What was the porosity from? Long arc or..?
- [Cub] (mumbles)
- [Older Man] Do you think it was,
think your hot start set to high?
- [Cub] Well how can a hot start give you porosity?
- [Older Man] If you long arc it
- [Cub] Oh basically just keep it in there?
- [Older Man] Well, you know that's of the toughest things.
I notice that you're pinching your electrodes off back here
and knocking about three or four inches off
to be steady and that's cool, but we still have to be fast
and accurate and these little bitty thin electrodes
tend to bounce around a little bit.
If you are, when you start you want to strike the arc
and set it in there close. You don't want to long arc it.
- [Cub] All right
- [Older Man] You long arc your flux is not going to create
that atmosphere around the start of your pool.
- [Cub] Gotcha
- [Older Man] Nothing to worry about, I mean were going to..
- [Cub] Grind it?
[Older Man] Well I would, I mean they're starts you know.
If we were going around the circumference
the whole circumference of this pipe we restrike,
we blend into that, we come around here.
This would already be ground out and prepared
and we'd go in to good metal.
- [Cub] Gotcha
- [Older Man] You know? Now if you're doing a test
and all you're allowed after the root
is a file and a wire brush.
Which there's a lot of tests like that.
(interrupted mumbling)
2g, 6g and all that. The only thing they give you,
they don't give you a grinder after the root.
You're done with the grinder, all they give you is a file
and a wire brush. So that's why you want to be fast
and accurate with the... I got it, I got it.
That's why you want to be fast and accurate
with your strikes. You want me to dress this up for you
or leave it for now?
- I'm going to leave to show the people on Weld.com,
the viewers.
- Strike it, let the machine settle down
then you can set it in there.
(sizzling)
(mumbling)
(tools whirring)
- Uh, when's the last time you did one of these,
has it been a while?
- Its been a long, well yeah I can't remember
- Yeah these are tough, I mean again its a small board
its just a fast transition around them.
- Bottom side no under cut.
Started, you got a couple places here when you got around
probably going away from you its hard to see.
- [Cub] So what would you call that? Under fill right there?
- Yeah, I'd call it under fill.
Its not cut, it wasn't by the arc its not like you
raised the rod up and cut it out it was just
you dropped down a little bit.
- Gotcha
- So, again, the more you do,
I mean your basic set of skills is there.
Work on that start.
What happened on that start over there on the second one
- The second one? We were talking earlier you said
on the hot start you got to basic just get it in there
and not long arc it because the hot start there.
- Um, Strike it, its like you got to strike it
and let the machine get settled down.
You can't just stab it in there
just 'cause you had a hot start on,
been my experience anyways.
You always got to strike 'em.
You know its a little bit of a long arc,
not much, but then you can accurately set it in there.
I tend to strike back up and then wash through,
or weld through that strike mark.
That strike mark is in the well hopefully.
- How much would you back up and whats the distance
of your long arc when you're using a hot start?
- 3/16ths, 1/4 inch. If that.
- All right then how far would you travel when you strike it
how far would you travel back
then run over your, where you striked at?
- I'll answer your question like this,
Lets say were brothering on this,
or I'm on the other side of a panel or something
and we've got, how am I going to finish your weld?
I have to strike ahead of your good bead down in here,
and then I have to come back and wash into the highest part
of your finished bead here.
- All right
- So its only about 3/16ths of an inch.
- All right
- Its kind of, you know, all these machines run different
Yeah we can play with hot start and arc force and all that,
but you know the basic skills,
you're striking the arc you're letting it settle down,
you're setting it in there,
and you're making your travel speeds are difficult,
the transitions difficult on the small board pipe.
- Yeah it is
- And I've seen some people, man, they lay 'em there
and its just beautiful they're so good at it.
They do it all the time.
So, now I hope this was educational for the viewers,
Cub and I are learning you know, we admit to that.
Were not perfect, so.
You got anything funny we were going to do? No?
We can't be funny when we have serious porocity (laughing)
we got to grind this out, finish it up here a little bit.
- [Cub] (laughing)
I talk crap and mines way worse than yours!
You had like one hole and mines like a big family
zip code of porosity (laughs)
- A whole field of it there
- I know
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- [Cub] Ouch!
- [Older Man] Cub! Dude!
- [Cub] (laughing)
- [Older Man] They're going to light you up!
- [Cub] Good, good.
- [Older Man] Anybody that's never done that,
if they say that they've never done that they're a liar.
- That's pretty interesting stuff you just told me.
- I'm an interesting guy.
- Yeah! That was fun. (laughs)
I apologize for a second Todd,
so if you could cut that later. (laughs)