textbooks will tell you that the optimum rod angle in relationship to your
electrode angle should be 90 degrees that works out just fine when you're
doing something really simple like a bead on plate right in front of you on
the bench nothing in the way even though there's a lot of forgiveness on your rod
angle you know shooting for 90 degrees in relationship to your electrode angle
it's pretty good from your first learning and just running beads on plate
gotta start somewhere but add one little wrinkle to the equation just these
little 1 inch strips tacked on there and having to weld inside that little box
and all of a sudden the proper electrode angle just goes out the window
can't do it so we're going to talk about tack welding welding up in the corners
and using the long extension along electrode extension to be able to do
that and still see the tip of the electrode still see the puddle and use
some crazy feeding angles for the wire going into the puddle just what you have
to do the first thing I'm going to do is get some tack welds in the bottom of
these corners I didn't bother tacking it on the outside a whole lot and because I
have a little gap there it might be kind of hot when I'm when I'm reaching the
corner and it might peel away a little bit so getting them sealed up a little
bit will help a lot I'm gonna tack all four corners like that and I'm using a
fairly small rod trying to keep the bead kind of small and so the rod is kind of
flimsy it's a .045" diameter rod so it kind of wants to kind of magnetize and
stick to the walls and so in a minute I'm gonna do a little bit of petal
pumping just to get around that you can see the angle of that rod far from what
they recommend in the books I'm just kind of stabbing it down straight into
the puddle and trying to lengthen the arc a little bit as I feed rod so that I
don't crap up my electrode so far it's going okay not great but just okay and
like I said because the filler wire was trying to stick to the walls becoming
magnetized and everything for this little run I'm going to kind of pulse
with the foot pedal and that way I have time to pull the rod loose and then when
I get it loose and pump the pedal and just kind of stab it into that Center of
the puddle the hot part of the puddle coming down pretty much straight up and
down right into the puddle this is a er70s-2 .045" diameter filler
metal let's get a shot of that arc coming down from the top if I can kind
of hard to film this on the inside here I'm gonna pulse with the pedal I'll show
a little bit of the foot motion on the pedal but it has some uses I don't do it
all the time but when I need to I find it really helps if the rod is sticking I
let off the amperage a little bit it gives me just a second to pull the rod
loose before I press the pedal again and then I have time to feed the rod in
there here you can kind of see the hand motion that I'm using to feed the rod
and definitely coming in pretty much straight up from the top having that
really long three-quarter inch long electrode extension with this jazzy 10
cup is really helping me be able to stick my head in there and see what's
going on and still maintain really good gas shielding the secret sauce to this
cup is it's got a couple of screen diffusers in it so you use it with the
gas lens then it's got a couple of extra diffuser screens and that just makes it
really work good unless you extend the electrode really far some other videos
that I've done with this thing you know recently I guess in the past few months
it's a fairly new cup and been out very long but I did a titanium test joint
here so normally you would use a really large cup for titanium but this cup
shields so good that will along with the chill chill block from the fixture I
made a discoloration free titanium weld also welded this little this little tube
hurricane project really worked out well for that another cup that I really like
been showing it a lot over the past few years is the furick number 8 pro it's a
clear cup and I first started using it just to help me film so that we all
could see the puddle better but I discovered really quickly it helps me
see better you know I'm in my 60s and my eyes aren't what they were in my
twenties that's for sure also helps kind of looking through the
cup but it actually actually kind of like a light bulb it kind of lights up
everything and helps me you know see where I'm going see where I've been see
stuff that I normally wouldn't see so you know it's it's a it's a super useful
cup for AC and DC and sometimes for welding down into corners where you need
to look through the cup super useful to you can see me looking through the back
of the cup and I can see my rod kind of feeding in there right there this is
from a recent video that I did just very recently a little lap joint on an
aluminum cube project I won't add a cup to my store unless I've got several
hours on it trying it out on several applications but this number 8 has
really impressed me and so has the jazzy 10 that you saw earlier in the video
this is my store sometimes I bundle products along with
my TIG finger product you can save a little money if you get both if you'd
like to learn more about any of this stuff just go to weldmonger dot com that's
how I pay for these videos thanks so much for watching
you