hey everyone welcome to well.com as you guys already know me all the newcomers welcome i'm
income today we're going to be talking about stick welding with 7018. khalid clark is uh messaged me
the other day he said hey mancub mike beecher hey um i'm having problems sticking my rods he's using
7018. you got any quick tips uh to help me so uh stick around guys we're going to do a little bit
of a quick tips i know some new school tricks and old school tricks all right we're going to take
this all the way back to basics because uh khalif don't know nothing about welding he's learning
so i'm going to take this all the way back where you're hooking your machine up so we're going to
go ahead and act like like we're hooking this machine up we're acting like we're putting the
dens in here well a lot of problems i see is these come loose on you well this is going to create a
hot spot and your power travels through this and it's going to reduce the power to your 7018 rod
and it's going to give you a background connection and also when you strike the arc it's going to you
know mess up the current so you always want to make sure this is tight it's going to come undone
come undone eventually too because this heats up metal heats up it's going to
contract when the metal cools down gets colder well over time that's going to work itself loose
always check this once in a while and make sure this is tight all right on the positive side
especially here make sure your connections are good clean take this off inspect it i also i
see like this got a little arcs arc right here make sure that's clean take a wire brush clean
it all right we're trying to avoid everything so that's with the positive side so over on the
negative side same thing i see this is always sometimes loose like i just reach over there
and half the time i see this is loose and a lot of people say oh my ground is hooked to my base metal
what i mean by base metal is hooked right here all right yeah you could have it hooked and everything
looks fine but i see a lot of corrosion and a lot of arc marks right here all right when there's a
lot of arc marks it's black and it's not going to get give a good connection i usually take a
file get all the like the spatter and bbs off from its arcing i just go like that until i see
bright clean metal you want to see bright clean metal all right it takes two minutes to clean
it up after i get the the like the irregulars down like the bbs and all that i just take a wire brush
and clean it until it's completely silver all right you can see there's a spatter right here
you know i'm trying to eliminate all the possibilities i'm having problems i'm stuck
there's spatter right there all right you want to get all that off so this one's actually very clean
so i'm gonna leave that on there also while we're talking about the ground a lot of people leave
the mill scale on uh if you have problems clean the mouse go off hook it right to it
also the uh the plates on the metal let's say the plate's just on the table like this
and you got your ground right here well that current still got to go through here
and it'll vibrate too while you're welding so and also that's going to give you a bad start up
uh so clean your middle scale off and also just put a clamp on here all right if you have a junk
table you could tack to the table if you got a nice uh tavern slot don't tack in it because
bob's watching from the sky all right just put attack clamp on it and tighten it down all right
that's just setting the machine up all right just by hooking your wires up you're going to increase
your chance just by doing that let's talk about hot start this machine has a hot start so on this
machine you basically on this road right here you push it hold that in for a couple seconds
so it goes to one to ten but each number like number one is percent so each time you go up
like number two is twenty percent number three is thirty percent
all right let's say we set this to eight we got our 88 88 amps all right i'm at 88 amps
forgot to hold it in hold it in hot start so we're going to jump up to
i'm already at max 10. let's jump up to 20. so that's 20 percent all right let's say 25
because that's what i did off the thing so you got 85 amps 25 of 85 amps is 21 amps so that
will add 21 amps to 85 all right that's what your hot start is so you're going when you strike an
arc you're going to see like a little erratic at first your heart your hot start it's going
to increase your amps by 21 amps of 85. you'll see it kind of get erratic and that will increase your
chance of not sticking the rod all right it's going to do it for like three or four seconds
all right some machines you can increase the time some machines are automatically programmed this
one's automatically programmed that's nice all right khalib so you got to know your machine so
on this esop 235 rebel so we're over in stick mode we're going to come over here and pee i already
talked to you about not having the machine on 6 to 10 and 60 11. you have it on all electrodes
let me push that all right we're going to go to hot start see how it says hot start right here
this machine has hot start so i like to run mine between 5 to 15 depends how cold cold and hot it
is outside so let's say it's 25 it's easier for me because i did the math earlier let's say it's 25
so 25 of 85 amps is 21 amps so that's going to increase you by 21 amps of uh basically take
85 plus 21 so that's going to increase you by to up to 101 amps some machines has a timer you can
set it for three seconds to five seconds this machine don't have a timer all right so it's
probably going to set you about five three to five seconds you're going to notice it because it's
going to get really hot really quick and then it's going to go away so that's going to increase your
increase your chances of starting that arc right so that's the hot start mechanism i'm not going to
be running this machine so that's it's on this machine we're going to jump back over to the
mini arc force over here and we're going to run a bead on there all right i'll show you
different techniques all right so before we go ahead and start welding so you want to
have good clean base metal all right even if you hook your ground to your table you gotta
be a cod nic where you're gonna basically put your ground if you've got rust on your table
clean it with a grinder all right hit it with this and get it completely silver all right once you
got that done move over to your base plate and clean the middle scale i even clean the middle
scale on the back sides so i have good contact on my table and also make sure your table's clean
when you set your piece of metal down also there's a couple more here or one more
if you just set your metal down like this and you go ahead and weld on it well you're also
that metal will arc out and you're going to lose aims for a second and it's going to make you stick
take a clamp and put it on there and tighten it down all right all right cleve
so once you got all this done so we're almost to striking an arc so what you do
is need to kind of practice without the stinger in your hand you don't want it hot or anything
so you basically imagine we drew a line right here you basically strike it like a match if you ever
struck a match on a on a books like not on a book but a book like this matches so i just basically
stretch it strike it very lightly you don't wanna like like that all right that's very bad all right
be comfortable and i get it right where i'm like a eighth inch away from the base metal
and i just take my time don't be in a hurry and try scratch it like crazy all right be patient
and just barely scratch it very lightly sometimes you get it starting up on these rods sometimes you
get them start earning up before like soon as you like barely touch the surface it fires up
i mean sometimes i don't even feel it and you just kind of strike it strike it all right very lightly
and it usually fires up 99 of time it fires up all right and you won't get stuck and that's
one method another method is you could tap it you said you were doing that all right but all
the other things i just talked about try them if that's going to help on your tap method um
some other times i go like if i stick and i just kind of break it loose like kill it till it over a
lot it'll and it'll help fire off because you got a gap right here and it'll help sometimes it fires
off and you can do that you know and basically it will help you too that's only if i get stuck if i
get stuck i try to increase my chances i have one more chance i just bend it over and help see if it
helps it'll fire off all right also another one is a lot of people let's say you have flux right here
your flux is gone right here see that flux yeah you gotta burn that away before you uh before you
go ahead and strike the arc it's going to stick every time you just strike it over he's like
one way you're not going to get that stick if you crank your machine up high and go ahead and weld
and but that's going to be all your attic you don't have that flux all right so
what you do get rid of that is you either take a grinder cut it off get a pair of dikes all
right in this case i'm just going to cut it off with this victor grain third wheel
i reshape it something came back
all right i make sure i have the metal showing a little bit all right but you want the flux
over that metal since we got rid of the the bare metal right there you you want to take it where
it's nice and uh got the flux on there it's nice and clean all right i kind of taper that a little
bit where that or that metal showing a little bit like 30 seconds uh extruding the uh the flux so
that's how i like it i kind of roll it with a flatter wheel it's easier with a flapper wheel
if you use aggressive wheel it kind of breaks the flux off again all right that's how i like it and
that's going to help you start out all right so let's go ahead and strike an arc you know and
let's practice a little bit all right make sure you're comfortable all right practice a little bit
like uh what i mean practices is yeah i mean get comfortable visualize where you're going
strike the arc at keep it inside your joint if it's outside your joint it's not good inspectors
will fail you if you have orchestrate on your base metal on the outside of your uh joint
right on the face all right basically visualize it i strike about a quarter inch of where i'm going
to start at like in front of it where you're going to start all right like let's say i'm
going to strike an arc i'm going to strike an arc about right here and i kind of come over here and
kind of trace like i'm going to kind of trace this end and come out and establish my puddle all right
all right when you strike you are kind of long arc it but not keep it kind of far away i mean
i keep it really far away because when you long mark it the amps will increase a little bit and
you got to heat that rod up right you're you're preheating that rod so all right so here we go
look at that see how good that fired up then i just keep my rod at least eighth inch away
from the base metal or tighter and all we're doing is that
all right if you want to practice restarts run halfway down this joint stop and re-fire back up
all right here's another tip see how that see how there's a flux over that now and that 7018
leaves that little um i don't know exactly what it's called but it covers it up the flux wheel
that look it was liquid and it covers that little better metal up all right i always
usually have a file either take a file it's i think it's easier with a file you take a file
just go like this yeah i mean i usually just have it like this and go like this a couple times
you're showing that see how that metal cleaned up again or go like this like that sometimes that way
you could do i'm just showing you different ways just do what you think works best for you all
right that's another that's another mistake you could be doing of having a hard time firing up
all right so let's go ahead and fire that up we're doing a restart
so we're going to do the tap method i did the method i did was a like striking a match so
we're going to do a little tap method all right i don't have no arc strike i'm running about 90 amps
all right so i'm going to start about a quarter inch quarter inch like i'm going
to start about right here and just retrace my puddle where i stopped that all right
make sure you're comfortable do a little dry run all right don't be in a hurry also see
if you get electric hood if that's your problem too all right so we're gonna do
a little tap method be gentle with it see how it broke away i just kind of twisted and did it
you know i'm just gonna like that
see the tap method didn't work on me that one but i broke it away at 90 a little bit or at
a 45 just bent it over then um bent it over and it's then the arc started again after as soon as
i bent it over because you're creating a gap right here i mean it started not again but it started
all right perfectly i don't like the gap tap method some people do all right
look at the specs of the rod all right this will tell you if you go to bowler.com
or um sometimes they got the list thing right here this one actually this one tells you
it's 80 to 110 amps all right around the high side of the rod if you're learning
if you're having problems striking so i'm going to be below so i'm going to start at 62. so i'm
gonna have problems striking it right here i mean starting to arc so here this is going to go on
see look i stuck so i'm going to kind of break it away see if it fires see it won't fire running
cold having problems all right the only way i'm going to get this started if i long arc it long
arc it i'm going to increase my amps a little bit see i long darked it but it's way too cold
all right and you're going to get prostitute let me show you again
increase your amps let's go to 110 you're going to see how erratic it's going to start a little
bit because i'm on the high side of the rod i'm running 110 amps all right got that clean
all right so we're going to start right here i'll show you how easy it fires up let's get
rid of this rod i'll show you how easy it fires up i don't even have to try really
all right here we go visualize where you're going to strike get close and think about it before you
what you're going to do see look look at that look how easy that was all right get back in
there and keep your arm tight all right you see that money there that's what you want
all right as soon as you i would do that like 150 times until you start feeling the way you like to
uh strike your arc all right i like to strike it like a match okay that's good once you get that
turn it down a little bit i like running between 88 to 90 depends what i'm doing here
um so yeah that's definitely going to help you that 7018. do it like that all right when you're
on a 6010 setting your arrive more likely or more likely will stick to your basement more
see look it's stuck see it's going to give me problems to start see
see that's going that might be one of your problems all right on the new machines you gotta
have a switch over 7018. i hope you all enjoyed this movie uh definitely these tips are going
to definitely help you had fun doing it uh these are new school and old school tricks they're not
all taught in the book so i'm mancub learning is key and see you guys on the next episode