welcome to whale.com so on this video we're going to do a man versus machine and we're going to set
it up in a 3g or vertical position and we're going to use a 36 carbon steel plate half inch
thick six inches wide and four foot long and what we'll do we'll set it up on a table just like this
and of course the machine will be there and we'll set the the coupon up next to it four foot long
now and i'll weld the first two foot of it for the man part of course and then i'll set up the
gold coat gkr300d to finish the last two feet for the machine part of it and then we'll compare so
what i'm gonna show you today is the gkr 300d cat series carriage about how to install it
on the track and how to put the components and accessories on it so we can get started welding
with it so here we go i'm gonna put the carriage on the track and it only weighs like 17 pounds
very light easy maneuver and you got the paddle lock design with your clutch assembly to keep to
keep the gear engaged and not and the wheels just fit right on the track it's real simple
just like that very easy convenient light and it's that simple then it has our dovetail design
handle where you put your accessories on the top middle or the bottom and it works very well
because you have all this adjustment before you start welding to know where you need your your
mig gun or whatever you're doing with it so what i'm gonna do i'm show you how how easy it is to
install all the components and accessories so we have two bars one for horizontal the other one
for vertical or both we have your knuckle for your big gun holder and assembly weld oscillating head
two knuckles for the bars
oscillating control cable this is a cable that controls the oscillator then the universal wire
feed cable this cable tells the wire feeder to start when the carriage is switched onto weld
so first i'm going to start out with the main rack box
18 inch rack
so i'm going to go to the shorter shorter arm or shorter rack box and we'll assemble
it
and of course use your universal knuckle
now we'll start the isolating head
adjustable mid gun holder with his knuckles
oscillating cable
and the other end goes to the carriage
we also have your universal cable wire feeder that also connects to the carriage
it's very simple very simple look how easy it is the installation is very easy
now i'm going to install the mig gun
so now we're ready to almost well so what i'm going to do now i'm going
to put a 30 degree bevel all the way down this four foot plate here we go
you know what i'm not a grinder i'm a welder they got that gulco bevel machine that'll zip
right down that thing and make it more consistent it'll look perfect
this thing works really well i wish i had this thing back in the day when they told me to go
grind a bevel on a piece of plate i needed this thing bad [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
so we're going to set the plate up into 3g or vertical position and welt uphill
v-groove and what we'll do is we'll take the diamond spark 50 trc bowler ti-52 t-fd
045 flux core wire with aws spec of a 5.36 and we'll use that wire to complete this weld
after i've knocked the mil scale off i'm going to flip the plates over fit it up with a 1 16
gap and put these strong backs on it to hold it on the other side to keep it from flexing or moving
so it stays pretty straight so you get a nice consistent weld so here we go with man versus
machine i'm gonna weld the bottom to the two foot mark root fill cap and we're going to time it so
then we're going to compare it after we get done to the machine so hopefully i can keep up eyeballs
all right i'm done so as you can see i welded my two foot in put the root fill and single cap pass
on it and you tell me my speed and everything was just about right because when your flux falls off
like that you know things are bright your speed your control your back and forth motion your weave
everything was just right and it didn't come out that bad i think it come out pretty good [Music]
so what we'll do next is we'll hook the machine up and see what the machine is going to do
so i'm going to go through the settings on this everlast power i make 253 dpi
and see you can you can save your settings
you know you save it it's got it's got 10 memory places of memory you put in there and then you
of course your synchronizer here and it's got your two t4t and 4t special we're going to run
on 2t then down it has these two buttons for your gas test and your wire jog setting it up
so you can move over here to your volts we run it 22 and a half
and i'll go through the settings here
i got the inductance set on five the peak arc force of course is your 22.5 volts
so it ends you got your burn back here which is at 0.05
then your volts on your burn back i got it at 10.0 so i got post flow at 0.5
and of course we're running o45 wire steel on the mig setting
with all that being said and done we're running 75 25 gas which runs really good with flux core
you ready so we're gonna start we're gonna put the root in this thing
and i've done some experimenting with it and um we're gonna start out with 5.2 inches per minute
on the travel speed and we're going to go with 4.1 on the width degrees for the oscillator
and the speed of the oscillation we're going to go with 4.5 and i'm sure that's that's going to
do us a good job and what we're trying to achieve here looking good penetrated root
consistent and of course the consistency of it is really going to make a difference
compared to doing it manually especially with this machine and the setup we have going on
so we put the root in i'm really satisfied with it you know we talked about that already
now i want to talk about the cap so i'm a change of perimeters so i've kind of experimented with
these perimeters a little bit and it worked out pretty good so we're going to go with 7.5
inches per minute on travel speed and we're going to go with width degrees at 6.3 on the oscillator
and then with oscillation speed we're going to go with 13.5 and i've had i've had pretty good
outcome of uh these perimeters experimenting with them so we're gonna see how it works
cut it as you can tell everything was on point the travel speed was good the wire feed was
great the heat was great because the flux peel right off look at it it's just hanging there
look at it that's pretty slick i had a little mishap up here all the bbs must have landed
on the cup and came off the cup and then kind of built up right there i can hit that with a grinder
and visually fix that so anyway i'm going to knock the slag off with my fingers
there it goes that's what i like about this bowler wire the slag cools fast which makes it easy to
remove so let's look at the time difference the machine was almost a minute and a half faster
which may not seem like much but i was also fresh as a daisy that morning and over a 10 or 12 hour
shift i'd expect that gap to only grow larger and sure john henry beat the steel driving machine
but he died shortly after me i'm gonna retire to hang out at the beach and drink rum runners
so as you can see man from there down
versus machine and man that thing is slick i mean there's no way i could keep up with that machine
and the consistency of it there's no way you know what everybody else is complaining about oh the
machine's going to take my job the machine's not taking your job it's going to need an operator to
operate that machine to make it look like that i hope you liked the episode of man versus machine
um had a lot of pointers in there for taking care of yourself and letting machine do the work
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