I work in the oil and gas as a rig welder off shore. The test is on 6g test. 6010 root and hot pass. 1/8 7018 fill and cap. The key is to let the pipe cool down before capping. On my root pass I will use a nickel landing with a 3/32 gap and run 6010 5p plus and watch the key hole. With the 7018 I alway point the rod to the center of pipe and hold the walls on each side for a second
I like it when you said that you don't have it all figured out! I have been welding for nearly 45 years. Somedays I feel I have only scratched the surface of things I could know. These days he bigger challenge for me now that I am near 60 is my eyesight, you just don't have the range of focus you do when you are young, thus I have to figure ways to work around that. Most of my welding work over the years has been structural and repair work. I can confidently say I have mastered vertical and overhead 7018. Oddly enough horizontal groove joints give me fits. Mostly because in all those years for some reason in my work they don't often seem to apply. Luck of the draw I guess. Anyway Austin I like your style of presentation and well thought out explanations. I am always trying to better myself especially when fitting and welding pipe, your videos are inspiring and a big help. Cheers and thank you for taking the time to do these videos.
Thanks for sharing Austin, I enjoy the fact that you pass on tip others share with you also. You're doing a great job for the welding profession giving others hope that they can do a better job with repairs around the place and to those who are interested in making welding their profession. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.
Uphand roots are all we do in the fab shop! The boys usually always step it and it turns are great. Downhand is never allowed on any of our jobs in the shop!
Not bad work Austin . It’s better than a kick in the pants . I welded lots of uphand welding years ago . I’ve mainly welded downhand . I’d be making mistakes too initially. But like you said . It comes back easily . Keep it up . I look forward to your videos . Been a subscriber since the get go .
When I learned welding in the army. Our final project was to weld on a 4" wrought pipe. We started on the bottom, did uphill, moved the pipe to be to do flat and went down the other side, ending with overhead on the bottom again. Not difficult but was a challenge for the newby welder.
Another great video I have the same problems you have on not getting the toes filled out I guess is how to say it I am working on building a trailer from an old camper is my latest project and the advise you got from the guy you were working with is what I ended up doing to fill out my toes. Push the rod in and pause for the right amount of time to let the puddle fill things out. I learn alittle more every time I weld
Im an apprentice millwright Just getting my cwb been practicing in the back yard alot finding your channel was a good learning tool eventually ill be on the pipeline in the oilfeilds here in canada somwhere thanks alot man
For your 7018 3/32 pre cap I like to carry a diablo sawzall blade just in case I do get any material stuck in the toe , not as aggressive as a grinder and more fine tuned but eats the grit fast at the toes. Also if you come out a little wider in your weave , swirl or hook you do on the sides a little more you are less likely to have slag inclusions
Set your heat at about 80-85 amps, 3/32” land and gap, gotta step it, open that key hole up and come back into it, stack some dimes in there, also don’t grind into your land and with 7018 it can’t push out and burn out slag as well as 6010 so keep your rod angle towards the center of the pipe if not just a little bit angled back to help it burn out any trash. Hope this helps, this coming from an uphill welder whose just recently started to learn and got certified on downhill so I know the struggles of reversing what your used to.
Almost everyone on UA-cam says to whip and pause but I’ve had my best root passes dragging, as I am still learning and trying to get back into running really good root passes I can’t find much on UA-cam that will help me get better at dragging my key whole along
When you are welding up hill you have to start with lower amperage because when you are welding everything heats up to where you need it. I usually weld at 110-115 up hill depending on thickness.
As stated above 110-115….🤦🏻♂️ come on now you Jabroni how about 70-90 amps for a properly fit uphill gap and maybe 115 for a fill pass with 1/8” 7018 after you have hot passed with 3/32 7018 at about 80-88 amps. Come on man 🤷🏻♂️
Had to do hundreds of them,stepping was easier to get both sides tied in,6010 hot,1/8th 7018 cap,we could get away with a downhill root and hot as long as it was 7018 cap.
On a uphill root pass, try a 1/16th of a gap, don't use a grinding wheel on root pass, use a thin speedy cut disc, wherever your rootpass doesn't come thru properly, cut straight down through rootpass with disc, then weld again, the speedy cut disc will put a new facing on the bevel, you will see the wisdom of this advice that i wish i would have known 42 years ago.
With a 1/16" gap, what size land do you use with it, Sir ? And what amps do you run for different pipe schedules and do you drag or whip or some other technique? I am currently a lone welding student in my garage and my instructor is youtube and the internet but the learning process is painful slow. I only get to do maybe a couple pipes a month.
In welding school on groove weld, was hard with the 7018 to get those toes wet in on the edge. I'd have a small screwdriver ground down to a fine point to get that unburnt slag or flux out. Pausing helped at the toes. But I don't have nearly the experience of some.
Austin, I don't mean to ask you to go through hell for this, but you mentioned "fixing a burn-through." Can you make a video on how to fix that please?
At 3:28 when you started your bead it did not sound like it went in . I have always used sound as well as sight to run the bead in . I knowing there was no penetration would stop immediately and grind it out I used only cotton as ear plugs because you could hear better . Some young broncs would laugh at that until the x-ray would call them out on lack of penetration . all I'd say then was so a listening repair eh . You didn't listen to me and you didn't listen when you were welding . Oh well . In the last 20 years of me welding career it was doing tie ins. Some of the fitups were god awful by circumstance . You needed to know as many welding tricks as possible to stay on top of any repairs.
A metabo wheel works really good to knock the slag out of the edges and i know its contradicting but when i dont have a helper i run low and slow and if i need it hotter i long arc a little
For the gap you are using, is it 1/8"? I just went to a chapter in NCCER and it stated that the maximum is 1/8" and if it's greater than that, you can have deep penetration where we saw in the beginning of the video. I get that it was a few months ago, but I don't know if that's something you measure every time you do it. Oh, the book also stated that the groove can also be 70°, 37.5° on either side for piping. I love watching your videos. Giving tips and taking tips. I wanna strive to be like that. Constructive criticism. I'm just a student and just barely on my end of my second month of school of a total 10 month course.
926 pm I would like to hear more about the pipe you are using. Is it just something you go to the supply store and say I need eight inch pipe. Is it clean or like drill stem etc., what is the thickness you using on you pipe rack, or the eight inch Fence entrance how thick was it. Just plain steel pipe???
Hi. My name is George and I have been watching you weld now for a while and you throw away the rod half way burned? Is there a reason you don't use the hole rod while welding!
Lol it’s a habit from welding on pipeline work. On pipeline jobs now days it’s a big no no to arc outside the bevel. So if you try to start a rod several times and it keeps sticking the end of the rod eventually, or inevitably gets all the flux, knocked off the end, and it makes it harder for the rod to start, therefore taking a risk of arcing outside the bevel so we just throw the rod away. Also starting with a fresh rod lessens, the possibility of getting porosity in your starts. All that to say, in the pipeline world, it is priority to make a clean weld that will pass x-ray over, maximizing the amount of welding rod we burn.
I'm currently in college to get my certification and doing vertical welding is so damn hard I feel like I've started to learn welding for the first time even tho I've welded as a hobbie most my life and I'm 25 lol
Mmmmmh I love a good slag peel.
Welding student here. 5G Uphill is our current project so seeing this in action where I can rewind it is very helpful.
Uphill is all I do, combo welder from Houston 🤘
I work in the oil and gas as a rig welder off shore. The test is on 6g test. 6010 root and hot pass. 1/8 7018 fill and cap. The key is to let the pipe cool down before capping. On my root pass I will use a nickel landing with a 3/32 gap and run 6010 5p plus and watch the key hole. With the 7018 I alway point the rod to the center of pipe and hold the walls on each side for a second
I like it when you said that you don't have it all figured out! I have been welding for nearly 45 years. Somedays I feel I have only scratched the surface of things I could know. These days he bigger challenge for me now that I am near 60 is my eyesight, you just don't have the range of focus you do when you are young, thus I have to figure ways to work around that.
Most of my welding work over the years has been structural and repair work. I can confidently say I have mastered vertical and overhead 7018. Oddly enough horizontal groove joints give me fits. Mostly because in all those years for some reason in my work they don't often seem to apply. Luck of the draw I guess. Anyway Austin I like your style of presentation and well thought out explanations. I am always trying to better myself especially when fitting and welding pipe, your videos are inspiring and a big help. Cheers and thank you for taking the time to do these videos.
That’s how the rest of the industry does it uphill everything 😂
The slow way
@@edstevens9357 the proper way
Thanks for sharing Austin, I enjoy the fact that you pass on tip others share with you also. You're doing a great job for the welding profession giving others hope that they can do a better job with repairs around the place and to those who are interested in making welding their profession. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.
Uphand roots are all we do in the fab shop! The boys usually always step it and it turns are great. Downhand is never allowed on any of our jobs in the shop!
Not bad work Austin . It’s better than a kick in the pants . I welded lots of uphand welding years ago . I’ve mainly welded downhand . I’d be making mistakes too initially. But like you said . It comes back easily . Keep it up . I look forward to your videos . Been a subscriber since the get go .
When I learned welding in the army. Our final project was to weld on a 4" wrought pipe. We started on the bottom, did uphill, moved the pipe to be to do flat and went down the other side, ending with overhead on the bottom again. Not difficult but was a challenge for the newby welder.
Another great video
I have the same problems you have on not getting the toes filled out I guess is how to say it
I am working on building a trailer from an old camper is my latest project and the advise you got from the guy you were working with is what I ended up doing to fill out my toes. Push the rod in and pause for the right amount of time to let the puddle fill things out.
I learn alittle more every time I weld
Love watching you work. Experience and talent. I’ll never practice or work that hard to be that good.
Why not??
Just did the same thing for a weld test on 6” pipe on 6G. I passed, but really could have used these tips before the test! Thank you for sharing!
When running your hotpass and your cap with 7018 always keep your rod pointing up at like a 45 it helps keep trash and porosity out the weld
Im an apprentice millwright Just getting my cwb been practicing in the back yard alot finding your channel was a good learning tool eventually ill be on the pipeline in the oilfeilds here in canada somwhere thanks alot man
Thanks Austin All the best
For your 7018 3/32 pre cap I like to carry a diablo sawzall blade just in case I do get any material stuck in the toe , not as aggressive as a grinder and more fine tuned but eats the grit fast at the toes. Also if you come out a little wider in your weave , swirl or hook you do on the sides a little more you are less likely to have slag inclusions
love this dude high pressure pipes will all be uphill
Set your heat at about 80-85 amps, 3/32” land and gap, gotta step it, open that key hole up and come back into it, stack some dimes in there, also don’t grind into your land and with 7018 it can’t push out and burn out slag as well as 6010 so keep your rod angle towards the center of the pipe if not just a little bit angled back to help it burn out any trash. Hope this helps, this coming from an uphill welder whose just recently started to learn and got certified on downhill so I know the struggles of reversing what your used to.
Almost everyone on UA-cam says to whip and pause but I’ve had my best root passes dragging, as I am still learning and trying to get back into running really good root passes I can’t find much on UA-cam that will help me get better at dragging my key whole along
When you are welding up hill you have to start with lower amperage because when you are welding everything heats up to where you need it. I usually weld at 110-115 up hill depending on thickness.
110-115amp….. with an 1/8” 6010 rod…… up hand……. Doubt it !! Don’t need all that heat going uphand with an 1/8” rod….
As stated above 110-115….🤦🏻♂️ come on now you Jabroni how about 70-90 amps for a properly fit uphill gap and maybe 115 for a fill pass with 1/8” 7018 after you have hot passed with 3/32 7018 at about 80-88 amps. Come on man 🤷🏻♂️
It’s how I was taught in high school, 1/8in land and gap with 6010 at 75 amps then whip the keyhole back and forth. Best looking root bead
just pause on those edges a tick more and it should help with that undercut. Love your videos and have learned a lot!
Thank you for your time and effort you put into making these videos. I enjoy each and every one of them
Definitely step your uphill root. Step and pause with little steps. 1/8 land and gap. Pressure rig welder in Canada
I learned everything uphill. My boy was taught in school to weld down hill 6010 and uphill 7018.
Had to do hundreds of them,stepping was easier to get both sides tied in,6010 hot,1/8th 7018 cap,we could get away with a downhill root and hot as long as it was 7018 cap.
Community College I went to teaches uphill on pipe. They never even discussed downhill that I recall.
Nice.. All I ran was 7018 up.. 6G test out most if time.. And like previous comment.. You can hear the root go in
Uphill bead is best ran with a whip and pause motion 😊
Not 7018 thought...
@@wargamingsupernoob when did I mention a low hy bead? And fyi, 7018 IS an uphill rod 🤦🏾♂️
@@downhilldaddy5282 I know 7018 is uphill. I thought you were talking about fill passes...
I love uphill. Down hill is too easy!
Guy that taught me how to weld had two rules right off the bat. Only 6010 was allowed and no downhill welds until he said different.
What glass are you running on the camera. It’s super clear but it’s easy on the eyes
On a uphill root pass, try a 1/16th of a gap, don't use a grinding wheel on root pass, use a thin speedy cut disc, wherever your rootpass doesn't come thru properly, cut straight down through rootpass with disc, then weld again, the speedy cut disc will put a new facing on the bevel, you will see the wisdom of this advice that i wish i would have known 42 years ago.
With a 1/16" gap, what size land do you use with it, Sir ? And what amps do you run for different pipe schedules and do you drag or whip or some other technique? I am currently a lone welding student in my garage and my instructor is youtube and the internet but the learning process is painful slow. I only get to do maybe a couple pipes a month.
Thanks for the video I get a lot out of it.
In welding school on groove weld, was hard with the 7018 to get those toes wet in on the edge. I'd have a small screwdriver ground down to a fine point to get that unburnt slag or flux out. Pausing helped at the toes. But I don't have nearly the experience of some.
Another thing that helps is wash up on the walls, it help keep that weld flat in the middle too. That and pausing on the walls is a winning combo 🤙🏼
Austin, I don't mean to ask you to go through hell for this, but you mentioned "fixing a burn-through." Can you make a video on how to fix that please?
When you going back pipelining man miss those videos
Love your videos
One of the welders on my job had the stinger in one hand and his other hand was moving the remote up and down.
I was under the impression to weld it to code it had to be uphill because of the lack of penetation in downhill welding
When is the new bed build coming!!!
At 3:28 when you started your bead it did not sound like it went in . I have always used sound as well as sight to run the bead in . I knowing there was no penetration would stop immediately and grind it out I used only cotton as ear plugs because you could hear better . Some young broncs would laugh at that until the x-ray would call them out on lack of penetration . all I'd say then was so a listening repair eh . You didn't listen to me and you didn't listen when you were welding . Oh well . In the last 20 years of me welding career it was doing tie ins. Some of the fitups were god awful by circumstance . You needed to know as many welding tricks as possible to stay on top of any repairs.
You are totally correct. No mistaken that hollow sound of 100% penetration. You can also feel it.
A metabo wheel works really good to knock the slag out of the edges and i know its contradicting but when i dont have a helper i run low and slow and if i need it hotter i long arc a little
Awesome video, Austin. What kind of jeans you got on here?
These the videos we need
Awesome class...Thanks
When I used to test, the grinder stayed in the tool box.
Good video. Good job
Thanks!
For the gap you are using, is it 1/8"? I just went to a chapter in NCCER and it stated that the maximum is 1/8" and if it's greater than that, you can have deep penetration where we saw in the beginning of the video. I get that it was a few months ago, but I don't know if that's something you measure every time you do it. Oh, the book also stated that the groove can also be 70°, 37.5° on either side for piping.
I love watching your videos. Giving tips and taking tips. I wanna strive to be like that. Constructive criticism. I'm just a student and just barely on my end of my second month of school of a total 10 month course.
926 pm I would like to hear more about the pipe you are using. Is it just something you go to the supply store and say I need eight inch pipe. Is it clean or like drill stem etc., what is the thickness you using on you pipe rack, or the eight inch Fence entrance how thick was it. Just plain steel pipe???
Most plants/refineries will run you off for a downhill bead.
Very good Video 👍
Right on
@6:05 are you using a different welding lens for your camera than you did on the previous weld @3:35?
Buen vídeo amigo ! Saludos de Seminole TX.
Thanks for watching!
Hi. My name is George and I have been watching you weld now for a while and you throw away the rod half way burned? Is there a reason you don't use the hole rod while welding!
Lol it’s a habit from welding on pipeline work. On pipeline jobs now days it’s a big no no to arc outside the bevel. So if you try to start a rod several times and it keeps sticking the end of the rod eventually, or inevitably gets all the flux, knocked off the end, and it makes it harder for the rod to start, therefore taking a risk of arcing outside the bevel so we just throw the rod away. Also starting with a fresh rod lessens, the possibility of getting porosity in your starts. All that to say, in the pipeline world, it is priority to make a clean weld that will pass x-ray over, maximizing the amount of welding rod we burn.
The cost of rod is not a drop in the bucket on a pipeline. Bring those 1/2 burnt rods home for the kids to practice with.
Austin are you a 798 pipe welder??
Good video as always. When changing amperage while welding does that damage the rheostat ?
Top top top
Maybe the newer machines don't have a rheostat?
Can't find your Pancake Welding Helmet in your shop???? I want one. Fred.
Unfortunately we don’t carry them as of right now. Check out cmr fabricators
Man if I lived in Oklahoma I'd be your helper for free welding is just fascinating to me.
Welded 25 yrs up hand,welded downhand for 17 yrs.6010 root 7010 f/c.Pipe down hand .It's kills your body and hands.If you like welding be a inspector.
What was your root gap and land size?
What the diameter of that pancake hood?
what kind of 7018s do you use
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Do a pipe with 7018 root fill and cap
They don't do 7018 root pass in the U.S. they do it in europe and some other places
. yeah . I like your vedeo. Sir!? Hope to work in your country sir🙏
Question. Is it ok to put pipe in the hole and pour concrete for a pole barn?
Absolutely
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Thst is what we have to as plant codes idk why
Now do 2 in 6g
I can't stand uphill either
Can anyone answer me why they’re teaching me
Uphill only when I do pipe is that what they do on the pipeline or do they go downhill on the pipeline?
New construction pipelines are primarily downhill. A lot of your plants and vessels are uphill.
A lot of the maintenance on pipelines is uphill also.
Why is pipe line welding down hill ?
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The welder that taught me always said “don’t depend on your remote all the time. Learn how to control your heat from the rod”
Nice machine too. Of course it's the Indian and not the arrow.
You can't weld x53 like that
I'm currently in college to get my certification and doing vertical welding is so damn hard I feel like I've started to learn welding for the first time even tho I've welded as a hobbie most my life and I'm 25 lol
Remember as your welding uphill you have to fight off gravity.
@@ronfussell8244 yeah I'll do one bead it look good and the next looks like shit and that's a repeating cycle just have to practice more lol