Stick Weld Thin Square Tubing
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2020
- An informative overview to help you successfully weld thin wall square tubing with shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), also known as stick welding or rod welding.
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Finally - a welding instructor without a chip on his shoulder!
Hard to find nowadays, most think their $hit don't stink.
He must have an amazing wife
He probably has a good chipping hammer.
Have your considered in-house welding classes?
@@oscar.iruegas9972 I did but my carpet kept going on fire
Something VERY important when welding this thin tubing is FIT. If you have gaps you are in for a very messy time! Grind everything to get the parts to fit with no gap for trouble free results!
Very good advice,fit is half the battle and especially on angle cuts that leave a sharp edge that is thinner again and will give blow through easily.
since I saw your videos i have just stopped looking at any other instructor, I just don't want to learn from anyone else apart from you, i don't even have the words to explain how good you are, thank you so much Tim.
I am very new to welding and every time i watch one of your videos, i feel like i can go out to the shop and lay down a nice bead. You make it look so easy. Hats off to anyone who can truly weld because its definitely a skill that requires some major practice and trial and error. Thanks for sharing all of this great info
I'm also new to welding. My brother has been welding for 25-30 yrs & he's shown & helped my with the basics & turned me loose, giving alot of useful advice on what to do/what not to do, how to do this & that, showing me different bead type running techniques & what to watch for/look for! I've been practicing most everyday out in my shop & having a blast!!!
Your videos are the only ones I have found that actually teaches the best techniques for welding ( at what amperage to put the machine, what rod to use, the angle in which to put your rod, etc.) It really helps a beginner like myself. Thanks a lot!
👏 Absolutely the best welding tutor on UA-cam! Plenty time to explain everything, brilliant videos and in depth explanations
Hi Tim I’m 27 and decided to go back to college to learn welding, currently in my 5th week so far and your videos have been such a great help thank you man 🙏
Thank you for your easy to understand, thorough explanations. As a new tig/mig/stick hobby welder simple explanations are so appreciated and very important! Thank you again and keep up the great work! I'll be sure to reach out to you when I run into some snags which I'm sure will.
Marty.
Really appreciate it. Watched this probably 5 to 7 times in the last few months as I learn to weld thin material. Thanks for the simple and clear instructions
Thanks Tim! Helping me step up my decks and fence building game!
Dude, you're the best! I'm a total noob when it comes to welding and I just want to do some lightweight stuff in my garden (no heavy construction). Thanks for taking the time to vid/edit and upload, much appreciated.
I'm just starting to learn how to weld, I want to thank you for these videos as they are teaching me extreamly well.
I need to do a couple of these joins next week. I don't do a whole lot of welding so this has been a nice clean refresher. Thank you for your help.
While there are many good welding videos on youtube I always check your channel first. Very concise! Thank you
Bro. Thank you so much. This is the answer that I've been looking for for days now. I don't know what is number with my stick, 'cause it has no number in it, but, I'll just adjust my amperage since I always have burn through. You're the man.
Love your Tombstone arc welder, Tim. Great lesson!
by far the best on youtube. i welded in highschool and took welding classes in tech school but kind of forgot most things. just getting back into it and your videos are better then any tech school keep it up great videos and explanations.
BEST beginner vids on youtube thank you so much!!
Very helpful as a novice. I appreciate the work you put into these videos. I'm on an old ass ac/dc welder and I've always done the 'dial and try' method to get things started. On old buzz boxes you have to test for sure.
Thanks! Those old welders are bulletproof, though!
Well presented topic. You have given me some confidence to take this welding to greater heights! Thanks
I keep watching your videos and one day soon I'm going to pull the trigger and get a machine and just start doing it. Welding is something I've always wanted to learn to do and your videos are great.
Thanks a ton! It can be frustrating at first, but once you get the hang of it, fabrication is so fun!
Thank you, I have tried stick welding many times but with consistent ugly results
I will follow your instructions for a hope of better skills in the nearest future!
Cheers
Much better than those videos on Facebook with the "stacks of tacks". :-)
Great demonstration, travel speed arc and temp
Your a great teacher... I sure do like your approach.... nice... simple... not elaborate... no showing off how pretty your welds are... tho they sure do look good. Very practical. Thank you!
Thank you so much Tim, I needed this video, I’m welding a 14 gauge square tubing for my project 👍
Hey Tim mate.. Really enjoying these videos my bro. I'm a complete newbie really apart from my metalwork classes when I was 11/12/13 yrs old going to metalwork classes in secondary school over 35 yrs ago.. LOL
I just bought a small inverter stick welder. I was going to plump for one of those MIG/ARC welders but I got this cheaper model to learn to stick weld 1st and hopefully it goes well enough to get me going well enough so I can step up my game. Until then I'll stick to the stick welder and maybe in the next year or so I'll buy me one of the more expensive welders.
My brother in law has a lotta experience with welding so I will pick his brain as well as using the knowledgeable people like ur good self on YT.
It needs to be said again how brilliant u guys on here are. I salute u Tim for putting all this great content up on here in video format. It helps guys like myself out no end my bro. I really appreciate the time it takes to make these videos with all the editing involved in it so much respect my bro. Take care and keep up the great work man..
Setup and ran perfectly! Thanks for making these great videos.
Everyone should watch your videos. Well done and no BS.
Thanks!
Hi there my name is Tony and I love your videos I am an above-the-knee amputee I am 44 years old and learning the welding trade thank you for your videos I am learning so much this is a great UA-cam video:-) thank you
Excellent, thank you very much for all your tutorials they really helped me ALOT!! A great hug from Portugal !!!
Great to hear!
Natural teacher. Good presentation.
Really helpful pointers for a newbie like me. Thanks a ton.
Hi Tim, thanks for the video, will be of great help.
I'm about to weld a trailer hitch receiver to my welding table which has fairly thin tubing so this is helpful! Thank you
I'm glad I find this video I have a project coming up when I have to weld razor blades together this will comes in handy....
I haven't used my powerarc to stick weld in a very long time. I remember how difficult it was to weld thin stuff when I was starting out.
Good video Tim!
Even Tig and Mig welding thin tubing can be challenging also...
Love your videos Tim. They're so helpful. Thanks so much! ;)
hello mate much respect from across the pond in Britain :) your channel is easily the best most professional and informative of any on UA-cam dude.
i have just purchased a very cheap 100amp arc welder and mask and am very interested in learning this amazing skill.
i want to build and alter motorcycle frames ebike frames in future so your videos are absolutely excellent my friend.
thankfully for the advice about using trial n error, I had to turn the dial down to "15"amp before it would stop blowing holes in the tube
Ur videos are very detailed. Thank you so much bro
This was literally my weld test for a job but for mig. Thank god.
Golden! Thanks!! Greetings from Patagonia Chile!!!
Great video man. Just one suggestion though. If you could annotate a metric conversion on screen this will help out a lot. Cheers.
Metric is not real
@@james10739 it's better than Imperial. I've grown up with Imperial so it's easier for me to mentally approximate, but metric is totally easier to work with than fractions.
@@marsbase3729 agreed 🤝 👍
@@james10739 ... oh please. Another insular y..k.
@@marsbase3729 your lucky, think about us that never work with fractions. only time we work with fractions is when making threads on pipes.
These imperial measurements are alien to us xD
Thank you so much man, your videos are excellent and well made.
Good video Tim, I've just borrowed A Parweld XTS 143 to weld some tubing, l used 2.4 rods, and got good results using the DC set, my Clarke AC set l just sold and ordered the Parweld XTS 143 such a big difference to using AC
Nice. I tried welding for the first time - with the help of your vids unfortunately none of my welds look like that lol thank you for uploading your info. My welds could’ve been way worse. I’ll keep at it
great video,i just started learning thank you for your advice..
I appreciate your videos, thanks for for the guidance.
Your videos are the best.
Thank you for showing me!
If you’re new to welding and haven’t checked out Tim’s welding courses yet, they’re cheap and super helpful.
I’m not paid to say this 😂just very grateful for finding his channel and courses. They were (and continue to be very helpful) as I’m learning. I’m happy I found this video as I’m hoping to start building my own welding table frame with some tubing I just found.
Thanks a ton! I appreciate that!
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Man I used to make a living TIG and MIG welding thin wall aluminum pipe and screens, that was 17 years ago, thank you for this video, Im welding again building things for personal use and damned if I didnt have to look for some help, thank you
Thanks!
Very helpful tutorial, Keep up the good work
Can't wait to learn more so I can build my own recreational park.
Great explanation 👌 thanks!
Great video! Thanks Tim. I’m learning on a little Kutcher welder, on running on 110.. you’re a great teacher man, I’d sure love it if you did a vid on using a Klutch!
Thanks! When my machine comes that will be my first challenge.
Been using tig for my 1/16 square tubing, its slow and argon eating so Ive been trying to stick weld , 1/16 6013 @ 45 amps DCEN, hard to start ,
Going to try your way 3/32 AC ,thanks great movie.
Thank you thank you thank you very informative. Thank you
thank you for a good explanation. here's my sub
At last,a honest teacher.Most have been trained to push the fire,wrong.Drag that e6013 is how to get strong welds..you only push fire when youre blowing out rust from the weld path.This guy is correct,drag fire on clean metal.
Man, I've been looking for a chart like that forever! I was never able to find one that had electrodes, amperage, and material thickness!
I'm glad it helps! I put it together for another video about setting amperage that will come out in a couple weeks.
Thanks for nice tutorial
Thanks. I am learning.
Great video and channel!
What a good tutor Tim is ! Excellent format of information...
Glad it was helpful!
my ac welder has those shunts to adjust the amperage. but when i lower ot to 55 amps, it make a lot of noise. it welds fine but the noise is so annoying. your videos have helped me alot to start welding,👍
Thanks Tim jimmy Aust nice tips
very well explained
Thank you so much!
Thanks man!
Thanks my very first attempt was square tubing like this Ave lots of burn through lol
Thnx for the information
thank you
Thank you.
Beautiful welds Tim...I would have blown a hole through that, for sure! I'll try on thicker tube to start.
Thanks! It takes a bit of practice, but you can get the hang of it.
I always use mig on thin wall but I think it's a good practice makes perfect skill test.
Oh I found it, thank you so much!
Thx. Great info
Thanks! Good info.
thanks a lot sir ❤❤
good job
Thanks buddy 🙏
Awesome man thank you for sharing I just started a project and blew holes all over the place! With balls of pigeon poop! LOL!😂 I will practice for now and use the correct rods...
For me it gets a bit more challenging to avoid blowing holes through the weld when doing an end to end joint like a mitre joint. The fillet joint tends to be a bit more forgiving because you are welding up against the side of the tubing.
I really don’t understand why you’ve not got more subscribers?
Tim's the man. He will resch more subscribers in time.
Thx mate, i just got my stick welder and i think my first test project will be a thin wall elecrode holder
Awesome!
Not a fan of 6013, but you can use it. Harbor Freight has kept 2lb boxes of 1/16" 6013 in stock in recent years. Some of the overseas welders use 3/32" 6013 with a dab-dab technique on thin metal, because that's what they can get. (6013 flux is basically a ceramic and can survive the tropical climate, no small thing.)
They strike the arc at 45deg pushing away from the direction of travel, create the puddle, break the arc, then just as it fades to black, strike it again. You need the angle to push the flux back from the leading edge. You are making a bead of spot welds, but it spreads out the heat, and they make it work!
If you wanted a continous bead you could try 6011 electrode neg.
If you had to do a lot of them, with practice and getting the right settings you could make a decent bead.
I like to use 3/32" 6011 DCEP, and spot weld, that is build up a bead of spot welds. Then I can spread out the heat. That will work on heavy sheet metal too, especially with a copper or aluminum backing block to soak up excess heat.
IF it isn't pretty, "Grinder and Paint make me the welder I ain't."
Just some ideas, thanks for your videos as always.
So to sum up a little bit- less than 30 amps for 1mm of stick. So 2mm stick means 55 amps on the welding machine. I always did 40 per 1mm, and I have many holes sometimes. With less you may have issues to raise an arc.
Thank you for the tips!
Thanks😊
Very good video👍👏
Thank you 👍
I do use 1/16" electrodes on bike tubing. I cut them in half and use them short, because autherwise they are too limp to control. If you cut the electrode in the middle, and clean both ends for the clamp, one will already have the correct end on it. And the other has a part with bare rod sticking out of it. Clip that off right to the flux and one has two usable rods.
I'm welding up a 5 steps with rails to a metal landing that I'm also welding. What thickness and size square tubing am I required by code to use. THANK YOU! LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks👍. Everyone is doing Mig going to get A stick welder I think they are still nice to work with. Or one that will do both
yeah it helps so much thanks a lot I concern to learn stick welding
Glad to hear it!
@@TimWelds that was the best example of thin wall tube welding i have seen, i have welded over 40 years and you nailed it!!
Thanks Tim, hopefully going to be able to apply this to my lack of technique & stop blowin’ holes in shit haha
Great video Tim! Right now I have a project and I’m using thin wall square tubing. But I can’t weld continuously because the amount of heat will make holes on the tubes so basically I tack weld all the joints.
I’m welding on 1.52 mm material and around 60 amps.
Thanks for the great video and helpful information.
Sometimes just tacking them is enough. You may need to travel faster or run a smaller electrode on a little lower current. Also, one thing I forgot to mention in the video, it can be helpful to let the material cool a little between each weld, because if the metal is hot to start with, you'll be more likely to burn through.
If you are doing something like a series of tacks all besides each other, that actually takes quite a bit of skill. You might try 1/16" 6011 with AC, or 1/16" 6010 DC electrode positive at 40-45 amps. The flux is less likely to be trapped.
@@mark6092 thanks for the info. I am not familiar with the English welding terms but I’ll add a link so you can check out what I’m talking about. ua-cam.com/video/_4FpfQSTlEo/v-deo.html
@@kylecordero6386 1.6mm 6011 rod using Direct Current electrode positive, or Alternating Current if that is not available. From what I understand 6010 is not as commonly found outside the USA. It leaves less flux, burns through and floats previous flux better, and starts easier than 6013 rods.