welcome to whale.com today i got my buddy bob from frankenfab yo and we're going to continue
on this follow-up of tig welding today it's not going to be in the easy flat position bob i'm
freaking out man come on man vertical up man got some 3g going on and uh we got you know our same
standard uh operating utensils here we'll go over but i'm a little bit nervous about about tig
building anything first of all and then secondly uh vertical on camera so paul why don't you tell
us what we're working with here so easy bob it's gonna be okay man melt tools this camera is gonna
be pretty rad too please don't bust my butt about my shaky tig hand so all right so we got the melt
tools on on the tig rig there of course we're going to use 3 8 thick carbon steel 836 plate
beveled at 45 degrees er 70 s6 so the diameter we're going to use is 332 and 1 8
and of course the e318 tungsten along with the the lincoln aspect 375 and we'll show you the settings
as we go because we're going to be maybe coming down a little bit or maybe going up a little
bit on settings we ain't sure are we both yeah i don't know man i have no idea so we're going to
find out um also luckily i don't have to use the foot pedal this time so i can eliminate a little
bit from my hand my hand foot action but uh i'm excited man it's lift arc right so we're running
this time so i don't know i guess we'll find out we'll find out so let's get started let's do it
so here's what we're going to do bob that's the plan i come up with this plan i don't know if you
like it or not but i figured you would uh you'd prep all the coupons since you're going to be
majority welding them all right yeah you like that sure okay i guess sounds like a great place we'll
put a knife edge on it 45 degree knife edge no landing and then we'll uh tack it up either 1 8 or
a tight 1 8 gap and then use 1 8 wire for the for the root all right we get good penetration
all right so if you want i'll weld i will like two inches of it and then i'll let you finish it out
then you wash and you finish it out all right in every pass sounds good so if i screw it up you're
gonna fix it absolutely okay let's get started might have a landing on yeah so let's get started
that's why we use ferd products for that killer bevel
so as you can see we tacked up the 3 8 plates with a 1 8
gap wire and now we're going to put it in the positioner and what we're going to do
i'm going to start at the bottom and demonstrate to the two inch mark and then frankenfab
is going to take over we'll see we're i'm excited again yeah nervous but nervous i'm nervous bro i'm
just i'm just nervous it's just a test this is just the test of the broadcast station
that's a test other broadcast station all right all right turn the broadcast
off you're gonna be okay i'll be fine all right let's get started so as you
can see i said earlier we're using the aspect 375.
this guy over here man can't see nothing no you making it look like it just buttered
just butter and bread over here homeboy
so bob before we get started here's here's a plan
so of course you're going to heat up where i left off where i pulled out right get it nice and warm
and then come in with your wire or have your wire right here get it nice and warm and then dip the
wire right into the puddle and twist it all right and keep twisting it just slow back and forth
and keep a little bit of down force on it a little pressure and work that tungsten back
and forth as you go up as you go up in the bevel okay yes sir so another educational thing is
really important take three deep breaths three deep breaths and make sure you blow out
all right all right let's do it not that hard i know you can do it you did it before
so anyway let's get started we think bob let's do it man all right all right are you ready yep
am i ready am i ready am i ready am i ready i'm ready now
dip the wire right in it and twist it go real slow and twist it
there you go
how am i doing man it looks good looking good just keep doing that just keep that same rhythm
slow down a little bit pull the wire out
pull the wire out there you go all right come on out of it come on out of it
so to tell the tail bob so i did the first two inches bob did the last five inches so as you
can see here we should have started out a little bit lower on that tack and heated it up and then
like i said when you get into it just twist that wire push a little wire to it it made it a little
bit flatter but it made the tie in and then not tightened it it's not what we wanted exactly but
so it may pass or it may not now it's not gonna pass that's under flush all right so then so
i would in in real world i would have to grind that out on the other side and add more material
correct right yeah push a little wire to it if if the guy give you another chance anyway we'll get
so you picked up and started doing really well you know what i'm saying
and we're going and we're going doing pretty good 100
you know a little bit over flush is about all we wanted to do you know on the route
okay and we got a little heavy spot you know which i think you kind of sped up too fast
or the wire you pulled the wire out so anyways you overcame that it kept going
and then we got this dingleberry bob daniel barry i'm gonna call that bob the dingleberry
oh man come on bro anyways we got a little heavy spot there but i think that's when you pulled it
out and you jam the wire back in it because you were kind of getting a little nervous i
was getting scared is that what it is i don't believe it's scary but anyways we can overcome
that you know if we wanted to fix it you want to fix it you want to just roll on with it
i mean we could grind that thin to make that tie in or you could grind that out and maybe
it'll it'll it'll pull it back you know but you know just like this is just a follow-up and um
it's not a test or anything we're not going to cut it and bend it or edge it or do any
nde to it well let's move forward man and then uh let's just cover up we might end up we might
end up having to have a whole video of bob fixing his own mistakes right there you go
so what we'll do is we'll we'll move on to the hot pass and of course you know the hot pass
filler then the cap so let's get started so as you can see i said earlier we're using the aspect 375
by lincoln electric of course so we'll start up here on the polarity so we're
using reverse polarity and you go down to the process and we're using tig of course lift arc
got the output on not using the high freq so on the roof as you can see we started out 120 amps
so we're gonna go the hot pass and i'ma jack it up what are we going to bob 130 135 totally all
right how about one thirty two and a half let's call that 133 138 all right we'll go to 133.
oh man i see myself struggling with this
see the thing about this you gotta you gotta twist the wire to it see i'm twisting it
yeah how i'm filling it up yep and rolling it kind of back and forth a little bit or yeah
well i twist it every time i every time i come across that wire i twist it see
so it adds to it see how it's filling up the sides yes sir
get it hot get it nice and hot
there you go now dip the wire in there you're gonna have to you're gonna have
to put the wire right in the puddle there you go now twist it twist it
now you can't dip it you gotta you gotta stick it right there
what's that you can't dip it you gotta keep keep it right in the puddle and then twist it turn the
wire straight up bob oh my god yeah there you go straight up like this straight up just like this
now twist it and move it back and forth twist it and move it back and forth twist
it move it back and forth yeah yep you got to keep the keep that wire right in there though
keep it right in the puddle that way when you twist it it melts it
yeah i'm like i can't feed the damn thing there we go i don't think i'm built for tig welding bro
i don't know
well bob what do you think i don't i don't want to talk about it you want to talk about it let's just
move on you don't want to talk about it let's talk a lot let's let's try to lie down how about
we shine light what we're talking about how's that how about we do it come on now there it is
so anyway as you see we started out and i'm saying we bob we started out pretty good we were doing
really good to the two inch mark totally tagged in bob tagged in and took off running with it
it's a little uneven but you know it's for for beginners
yeah i don't know it's it it's not uh it's not great at all and uh i don't know i'm not
happy with it i do like this camera that's on here uh it's a great camera it's super
i really do like being able to watch the fact that i'm messing up in my puddle uh but i need
to take a break from it so i asked nicely if we could just take it off and let's see if i can't
fix my mistakes with it off and if i can then i'm gonna maybe not use the camera so much
but if i can't then it definitely wasn't the camera it's me but we know the audience loves
the puddle shots and yeah they're really right there and the belt camera does a great job
but when they're when they're nice they really look good but when they look like that
so we'll get started back uh we'll we're gonna let bob fill in his uh lumpity bumpity road right here
from here up and uh get it flush and then we'll come back and cap it
so you ready to get started let's do it
you gonna walk the cup i think so i didn't mean to touch that
i don't know man yeah you got my head too far
yeah i seen i've seen him i seen him doing it like that but
i i never seen myself doing it like that
all right why are we going to try it just just go
real light don't try to grind it in there you don't think just go real lightly yeah
pick up the pace a little bit faster there you go
make sure you stick that wiring
try not to go too wide if you're going to go any wider go to the middle
not to the outside there you go
speed up a little bit
get almost to the top and just pull out
and then pull out right so we got the fill in at 140 and we're gonna let it cool down
and we'll probably keep it about 140. we might turn it up a little bit what do you think bob
i i'm for it keep it at 140. um yeah we'll see how it goes so before we get started capping it
i switched it out to a jumbo number 10 gas lens which i love to use i mean
i'm trying to throw it off on bob so just like he said me too
i agree he'll like it i'm for it yeah he'll get a little taste in his mouth and he'll be like one
of them ravishing dogs he just got to have that number 10 cup anyways going back to the coupon
or the test piece i'm going to start up a little bit and i'm gonna run the first pass all the way
up we're gonna put a two pass cap on this so bob says the camera's not messing with him he's gonna
make his his look better than mine so we'll we'll see at the end that's right that's what
i said i totally said that we're going to run it up well he's got a little confidence we're
going to run it up and see what it looks like right and then paul's going to do this
or we're going to flip it around see the real deal
yeah put my coupon up there and take yours down yeah what's up
so i ran my sides and you know what for as old as i am freehand i know i know the audience you
guys are way better than this but um you know for my age and everything i think it looks okay
what do you think about it's clean it's slick man i'm about to mangle it up right now
man with free hand yeah that's what i'm about to do let's put the icing
yeah let's do it man yeah let's do it no more waiting let's get this over weld it out
i guess we'll find out what it looks like when we get done
oh bro so bob here we are you're doing pretty good
well i did freehand it kind of all the way i guess if you call it free hand i kind of just
drug my cup back and forth on it i didn't really walk it but anyways you can take over from there
so like i mean you agreed on i'd run the first pass all the way up to the top and then i'll let
you take over and run the full pass all the way up the other side and it started out pretty good
and then we kind of got up here but just like you were saying you freehanded it
for a little while then then you started walking the cup or bouncing the cup around
on that number 10 that you liked yeah i definitely like the 10 cup you know a little better seemed a
little little more incontrovertible ease for me but yeah but obviously in control well the
thing about it is a lack of that's right that's what i kept saying uh make sure you stay on your
wire stay on your wire stay on your wire move it over to the right a little bit that way you
don't have any undercoat so we got a little bit of undercut but you know the main thing
about this whole follow-up tick thing bob is is to get you up to speed and get you learning
yeah and i i think you're progressing pretty good you know i'm trying man
trying yeah but anyway you know it is what it is and um you learn from your mistakes and
practice makes perfect exactly you know i got a lot of mistakes to practice on
so you guys you throw these comments throw these constructive comments in the bottom box there and
yeah yeah let me know how i'm doing keep your negative comments to yourself
so we had fun today what do you say bob it was fun man so it was a little nerve wracking but
it was fun i had a good time i love it i love it coming out here even when i make a fool of myself
but i know i'm getting better eventually a little bob's getting bob's doing very well
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