Another great channel that's helped me learn to weld is called "making mistakes with Greg" I have no affiliation, just grateful for both of these channels.
It’s amazing how often a bad ground is significant when adjusting mig. I’ve seen lots of people chase setting or blame the machine, but their ground clamp looks like it went through a wood chipper in acid rain, then it’s stuck over millscale…
I just found this channel and I must say very well explained. I have to check out some of your tig videos. That is my weakness. I am Okay at it but who wants to be okay. Lol I have welded mig and stick since about 1990. And I have worked in professional job shops many years. But I never really had a chance to learn it until the last 4 to 5 years when I picked up my 1st tig. I purchased a Everlast 221 sti. No looking back I love the machine. I wish I would of waited a year or so for the lighting with its easier to use interface. I do not weld every day but I have ran a lot of wire though it and it is the smoothest welding machine I have ever owned.
If you remember when Tim first started his channel , just like that young kid Chucky, his welds didn't look that great. He had all the process knowledge, but I guess he did not weld per se for a living, but a welding engineer. He looks really good now and has a fancy HTP welder now in his garage/studio... There are a lot of youtubers that have gotten better at what they are teaching and developed better video and communication teaching skills and have started charging for teaching.
Tim a bunch of the new welders have a synergistic/auto mode. You didn't mention those. They adjust the wire speed with the voltage range complicating what is going on. My Lincoln has the chart, but my everlast does not, it has a synergic mode for Mig that shows the settings (not calibrated for flux core and they were " why do you want to use that for" snobs when i called). Since I don't uncover the welders but every month or two, on the farm, I prefer a chart. I need to make a chart for Tig too. I really like Tig brazing.
I like that you’re able to make things simple and clear. No muss, no fuss. By the way, how are you able to keep your table so new looking? You know I have the same one and there are reminders that I weld on it.
Thanks! I get so many questions that can be solved with just a simple understanding of the basics, so I keep making the basics videos. The table looks a lot newer from a steep forward angle than it does from above. Because I do a variety of work, it doesn't get full time use, but I do use it quite a bit. Most of the actual fabrication work done directly on the table is TIG welded, which is pretty clean, but leaves a ton of little arc marks from grounding through the table. I do clean and oil it regularly and scrape the spatter any time I MIG weld on it.
Simple, clear explanation with good sample beads! The wire speed chart is great but could you include approximate voltage set points to go along with wire speed settings? Overall, super content. Thx!
Thanks! A good online resource for voltage settings is the Miller website. Under resources, they have some weld calculators that will give some recommended settings based on material and thickness.
I'm in Europe, so thank you for the metric. Took all your advices, some other content creators and real life people and bought a MMA/MIG/MAG 180A machine. Started welding today dispite investigating the matter for the three months prior. In my machine you can choose amperage, voltage and wire speed. So, you need to setup all of them, nothing is tied automatically to each other. I guess it's better that way for experienced users but a bit more difficult to get the hang of it for a begginer. The machine does not have a parameter chart and everything I find in significant detail is in inches 😢
Really love your videos! I'm a bit odd regarding my welding "skills". I learnt TIG in my apprenticeship but never touched stick welding. I changed that a few weeks ago and it's FUN. Thank you for all your baiscs and settings videos! On another note: how do you film those arc shots? Phone/Cam behind an auto darkening lens/shiled?
Thanks! I don't film through any sort of welding lens. It's all just camera exposure settings, though I do use an ND filter on my lens to bring the light level down into a better range for adjustment.
Mine works fine in short circuit, but when I switch to pule or double pulls (especially double pulse) it starts to produce spatter I use c18 gas mix (82 argon 18 co2). Do you have any solution ?
Actually I was about to skip this one, because I don't have MIG set up and probably never will, but something left me watching and now I learned something very important for my flux core welding. Because I had the same problems there and obviously your tips apply do flux also. 😀
I haven't done one specifically on that thickness, but I have some 22g coupons that I could. What is the joint type? (outside corner, inside corner, butt) Fit is super important on thinner stuff and it's definitely something that takes some working up (or down) to. Also, if you have pulse on your machine, that can be a huge help. (I usually run 40% background, 40% duty cycle, 120 hz)
@@TimWelds I'm trying to build a 5 sided star. Making the arms at sendcutsend. They will bbend them also. So there are some somewhat greater then 90 degree joints. My attempt at welding some sample material was bad. I tried fusion, 1/16" lay wire. Not good. I should have done the test welding first. I'm supposed to get the parts tomorrow. i tried to send a picture but it doesn't work here. Thx
@@TimWelds I can do 40/40 and 50Hz. I think it helped. I did get some good fusion welds but I also got some blow through. The good ones had good fit. I'm thinking I may make some more arms with thicker material from sendcutsend.
What you are talking about Is "dip" your bacon thing,the next it "spray" which is a fizzing sound. The last is "globular" this is close to pulse MIG. Lots of heavy splatter.. Pp.s you should always "push" the arc not pull it.
I appreciate the comment. Short circuit transfer mode, represented by GMAW-S is the AWS standard term in the codes, but dip is a common name in other parts of the world. I understand the different transfer modes and have several in depth videos about them, but most viewers of this video won't be running spray, so I didn't overload the terminology. A push angle is important when running spray or pulse, but it's well established that either direction is acceptable for short circuit transfer mode, with a drag angle providing a slightly deeper penetration profile.
This is one of the most common problems, and I struggled with it too in the beginning. A magnifying cheater lens or reading glasses is helpful for some people. A good exercise to try is using soapstone to draw a few lines on a plate, then watch those high contrast lines as you weld. You can adjust your hood this way too, starting dark, then lightening it until you see the lines. A lot of it is just practice and repetition, which is a major part of the reason I recommend stacking beads on a plate. That exercise gets boring and once it gets boring, it's easier to notice things and start to see the puddle.
avec l'arrivée de tous ces postes MIG pas cher, c'est potentiellement une véritable catastrophe. Avec tous ceux qui s'improvisent soudeur. Avant en MMA les apprentis soudeur voyaient qu'ils faisaient de la merde. Alors qu'en MIG ils peuvent faire des soudures qu'ils trouvent " jolies" alors que celles ci sont nases. Ce que les gens ne veulent pas comprendre, c'est qu'en MMA c'est l'électrode qui commande dans une certaine plage d'intensité, alors qu'en MIG c'est l'épaisseur de la pièce qui fait la loi. Avec des postes MIG fonctionnant en 110 V ou 220 V on ne peut souder en MAX correctement que 7 ou 8 mm . D'ailleurs avec les postes synergique où le réglage de base peut être appelé avec comme critère l'épaisseur, aucun poste ne vous proposera des épaisseurs supérieures. En chat de poste MIG petit prix, il est vraiment nécessaire de prendre un MIG faisant aussi le MMA et d'avoir la sagesse de changer de procédé quant il le faut. En plus sur internet il y a plein de vidéo montrant des conneries. Alors qu'il n'y a pas de petites soudures, une mezzanine bricolée maison cela peut faire des morts quand cela s'effondre, idem avec un garde corps qui lâche, une remorque derrière une bagnole qui cède, et même avec une mauvaise réparation de bras brouette, si cela vous lâche lors d'une montée sur planche. Merci d'avoir fait une si belle démonstration car en plus quand on dit tout ça, souvent on nous prend pour des cons, genre que l'on voudrait faire les pro qui veulent les snober. with the arrival of all these cheap MIG stations, it is potentially a real disaster. With all those who become welders. Before in MMA, apprentice welders saw that they were doing shit. Whereas in MIG they can make welds that they find "pretty" while these are lame. What people don't want to understand is that in MMA it is the electrode which controls within a certain intensity range, whereas in MIG it is the thickness of the part which is the law. . With MIG stations operating at 110 V or 220 V, you can only correctly weld 7 or 8 mm at MAX. Moreover, with synergistic stations where the basic setting can be called with thickness as a criterion, no station will offer you greater thicknesses. In a low-cost MIG station, it is really necessary to take a MIG that also does MMA and to have the wisdom to change the process when necessary. Plus there are plenty of videos showing bullshit on the internet. While there are no small welds, a homemade mezzanine can cause deaths when it collapses, the same with a guardrail that breaks, a trailer behind a car that gives way, and even with poor repair of wheelbarrow arms, if it lets you down when climbing on a board. Thank you for giving such a great demonstration because what's more, when we say all that, people often take us for idiots, like we want to act like professionals who want to snub them.
One of the best videos about settings, thanks from germany
Thanks! I appreciate that!
Crystal clear as always
Thanks!
Another great channel that's helped me learn to weld is called "making mistakes with Greg" I have no affiliation, just grateful for both of these channels.
He does a great job! I enjoy his channel as well.
Ha, that's the other channel I really like to watch as well
Right!? He's bout my favorite. Him, and weldingtipsandtricks
It’s amazing how often a bad ground is significant when adjusting mig. I’ve seen lots of people chase setting or blame the machine, but their ground clamp looks like it went through a wood chipper in acid rain, then it’s stuck over millscale…
Totally. Wire feed welding is more sensitive to a bad ground than other processes as well. Thanks for the comment!
I just found this channel and I must say very well explained. I have to check out some of your tig videos. That is my weakness. I am Okay at it but who wants to be okay. Lol I have welded mig and stick since about 1990. And I have worked in professional job shops many years. But I never really had a chance to learn it until the last 4 to 5 years when I picked up my 1st tig. I purchased a Everlast 221 sti. No looking back I love the machine. I wish I would of waited a year or so for the lighting with its easier to use interface. I do not weld every day but I have ran a lot of wire though it and it is the smoothest welding machine I have ever owned.
Excellent, clear, and detailed. It's like I'm sitting in your classroom!
Great video Tim. You are a good teacher of welding processes
Thanks Tim! I enjoy welding…I just don’t do it often enough to get very good at it. Your videos always are interesting and help me a lot.
I'm in my last semester of college before graduating with a welding engineering degree. I really enjoy your videos. 👍
This is the most helpful mig welding video out there
Have you lost weight? You're looking good man
Thanks! I was stuck on a long plateau, then recently changed my approach and I'm making some significant headway again. Feels great!
Lol seems like he did lose some weight for real
@@TimWelds can you please do a video on that? I’ve been on a plateau for a while now too
Tf lol.
If you remember when Tim first started his channel
, just like that young kid Chucky, his welds didn't look that great. He had all the process knowledge, but I guess he did not weld per se for a living, but a welding engineer.
He looks really good now and has a fancy HTP welder now in his garage/studio... There are a lot of youtubers that have gotten better at what they are teaching and developed better video and communication teaching skills and have started charging for teaching.
Simple and digestible I love it. Keep up the great work. 😎
Thanks Alex! Appreciate it!
Tim a bunch of the new welders have a synergistic/auto mode. You didn't mention those. They adjust the wire speed with the voltage range complicating what is going on. My Lincoln has the chart, but my everlast does not, it has a synergic mode for Mig that shows the settings (not calibrated for flux core and they were " why do you want to use that for" snobs when i called). Since I don't uncover the welders but every month or two, on the farm, I prefer a chart. I need to make a chart for Tig too. I really like Tig brazing.
The same principles apply with synergic settings, but I'm with you, I like to set the actual numbers.
Always a pleasure to learn more ,thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones
As a high school graduate about to head into job corp for welding, you are a godsend.
Great video, man
Appreciate it!
I like that you’re able to make things simple and clear. No muss, no fuss. By the way, how are you able to keep your table so new looking? You know I have the same one and there are reminders that I weld on it.
Thanks! I get so many questions that can be solved with just a simple understanding of the basics, so I keep making the basics videos. The table looks a lot newer from a steep forward angle than it does from above. Because I do a variety of work, it doesn't get full time use, but I do use it quite a bit. Most of the actual fabrication work done directly on the table is TIG welded, which is pretty clean, but leaves a ton of little arc marks from grounding through the table. I do clean and oil it regularly and scrape the spatter any time I MIG weld on it.
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Excellent video!
Thank you tim best explanation ive seen yet can youbdo one on pulse spray also
Great video per usual! Thanks brother. God bless
Thanks! Appreciate it!
You are a treasure, thanks 🙏
Great tutorial, thank you.
Thanks!
Thank you
You're welcome! I appreciate the comment!
Simple, clear explanation with good sample beads! The wire speed chart is great but could you include approximate voltage set points to go along with wire speed settings? Overall, super content. Thx!
Thanks! A good online resource for voltage settings is the Miller website. Under resources, they have some weld calculators that will give some recommended settings based on material and thickness.
I'm in Europe, so thank you for the metric.
Took all your advices, some other content creators and real life people and bought a MMA/MIG/MAG 180A machine. Started welding today dispite investigating the matter for the three months prior.
In my machine you can choose amperage, voltage and wire speed. So, you need to setup all of them, nothing is tied automatically to each other. I guess it's better that way for experienced users but a bit more difficult to get the hang of it for a begginer. The machine does not have a parameter chart and everything I find in significant detail is in inches 😢
I have a welder that doesn't have a chart. I hate that because, on the farm, i don't weld every week and I CRS.
Really love your videos! I'm a bit odd regarding my welding "skills". I learnt TIG in my apprenticeship but never touched stick welding. I changed that a few weeks ago and it's FUN. Thank you for all your baiscs and settings videos!
On another note: how do you film those arc shots? Phone/Cam behind an auto darkening lens/shiled?
Thanks! I don't film through any sort of welding lens. It's all just camera exposure settings, though I do use an ND filter on my lens to bring the light level down into a better range for adjustment.
Glad u did this video. I have a new miller that I have struggled with. I'm pretty sure I know what's wrong now.
Awesome, so glad it helped!
Than ks Tim , very helpful .👍
Thank you! I appreciate it!
Mine works fine in short circuit, but when I switch to pule or double pulls (especially double pulse) it starts to produce spatter I use c18 gas mix (82 argon 18 co2). Do you have any solution ?
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Actually I was about to skip this one, because I don't have MIG set up and probably never will, but something left me watching and now I learned something very important for my flux core welding. Because I had the same problems there and obviously your tips apply do flux also. 😀
Awesome! A lot of these fundamentals are the same across all wire feed processes.
great tutorial, but my machine has no digital readout to let you know what it is. Good information.
Have you done a video on then steel TIG? I"m trying to weld .03" steel. It's hard. :
I haven't done one specifically on that thickness, but I have some 22g coupons that I could. What is the joint type? (outside corner, inside corner, butt)
Fit is super important on thinner stuff and it's definitely something that takes some working up (or down) to. Also, if you have pulse on your machine, that can be a huge help. (I usually run 40% background, 40% duty cycle, 120 hz)
@@TimWelds I'm trying to build a 5 sided star. Making the arms at sendcutsend. They will bbend them also. So there are some somewhat greater then 90 degree joints. My attempt at welding some sample material was bad. I tried fusion, 1/16" lay wire. Not good. I should have done the test welding first. I'm supposed to get the parts tomorrow. i tried to send a picture but it doesn't work here. Thx
@@TimWelds Its 117 degrees
@@TimWelds My tests had poor fit. I'm going to 3D print a fixture. Hope that helps.
@@TimWelds I can do 40/40 and 50Hz. I think it helped. I did get some good fusion welds but I also got some blow through. The good ones had good fit. I'm thinking I may make some more arms with thicker material from sendcutsend.
What you are talking about Is "dip" your bacon thing,the next it "spray" which is a fizzing sound. The last is "globular" this is close to pulse MIG. Lots of heavy splatter..
Pp.s you should always "push" the arc not pull it.
Unless using flux core
I appreciate the comment. Short circuit transfer mode, represented by GMAW-S is the AWS standard term in the codes, but dip is a common name in other parts of the world. I understand the different transfer modes and have several in depth videos about them, but most viewers of this video won't be running spray, so I didn't overload the terminology. A push angle is important when running spray or pulse, but it's well established that either direction is acceptable for short circuit transfer mode, with a drag angle providing a slightly deeper penetration profile.
I have a problem seeing my weld, no matter how much light I have. Hard to follow puddle when you can't see it. Have good quality helmet and visor.
This is one of the most common problems, and I struggled with it too in the beginning. A magnifying cheater lens or reading glasses is helpful for some people. A good exercise to try is using soapstone to draw a few lines on a plate, then watch those high contrast lines as you weld. You can adjust your hood this way too, starting dark, then lightening it until you see the lines. A lot of it is just practice and repetition, which is a major part of the reason I recommend stacking beads on a plate. That exercise gets boring and once it gets boring, it's easier to notice things and start to see the puddle.
@@TimWelds Thanks I've tried some of you suggestions, soapstone not yet.
What helped me Don was to always get my head in a position where I can always see my puddle. That helped me alot especially welding around obstacles
avec l'arrivée de tous ces postes MIG pas cher, c'est potentiellement une véritable catastrophe. Avec tous ceux qui s'improvisent soudeur. Avant en MMA les apprentis soudeur voyaient qu'ils faisaient de la merde. Alors qu'en MIG ils peuvent faire des soudures qu'ils trouvent " jolies" alors que celles ci sont nases. Ce que les gens ne veulent pas comprendre, c'est qu'en MMA c'est l'électrode qui commande dans une certaine plage d'intensité, alors qu'en MIG c'est l'épaisseur de la pièce qui fait la loi. Avec des postes MIG fonctionnant en 110 V ou 220 V on ne peut souder en MAX correctement que 7 ou 8 mm . D'ailleurs avec les postes synergique où le réglage de base peut être appelé avec comme critère l'épaisseur, aucun poste ne vous proposera des épaisseurs supérieures. En chat de poste MIG petit prix, il est vraiment nécessaire de prendre un MIG faisant aussi le MMA et d'avoir la sagesse de changer de procédé quant il le faut. En plus sur internet il y a plein de vidéo montrant des conneries. Alors qu'il n'y a pas de petites soudures, une mezzanine bricolée maison cela peut faire des morts quand cela s'effondre, idem avec un garde corps qui lâche, une remorque derrière une bagnole qui cède, et même avec une mauvaise réparation de bras brouette, si cela vous lâche lors d'une montée sur planche.
Merci d'avoir fait une si belle démonstration car en plus quand on dit tout ça, souvent on nous prend pour des cons, genre que l'on voudrait faire les pro qui veulent les snober.
with the arrival of all these cheap MIG stations, it is potentially a real disaster. With all those who become welders. Before in MMA, apprentice welders saw that they were doing shit. Whereas in MIG they can make welds that they find "pretty" while these are lame. What people don't want to understand is that in MMA it is the electrode which controls within a certain intensity range, whereas in MIG it is the thickness of the part which is the law. . With MIG stations operating at 110 V or 220 V, you can only correctly weld 7 or 8 mm at MAX. Moreover, with synergistic stations where the basic setting can be called with thickness as a criterion, no station will offer you greater thicknesses. In a low-cost MIG station, it is really necessary to take a MIG that also does MMA and to have the wisdom to change the process when necessary. Plus there are plenty of videos showing bullshit on the internet. While there are no small welds, a homemade mezzanine can cause deaths when it collapses, the same with a guardrail that breaks, a trailer behind a car that gives way, and even with poor repair of wheelbarrow arms, if it lets you down when climbing on a board.
Thank you for giving such a great demonstration because what's more, when we say all that, people often take us for idiots, like we want to act like professionals who want to snub them.
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