This video is old but gold. Seeing the change going from 19/280 up to 20/290 and how it worsened the convexity really helped me in finding settings that worked well for a recent job I did. Watched at least a dozen different how to mig uphill videos and this one helped me the most.
Hi, I'm a young welder at a truck shop. I'm only 30 seconds into the video and all ready I like you. You have listed all my problems I have welding vertically and I know your gunna answer them. Most ppl on UA-cam leave me still questioning things. So thank you for your style of videos.
I have been watching your videos for quiet some time now and personally enjoy the information and knowledge you teach. I cannot recall though if you have ever done any videos on mig welding on thinner sheet metal. I do a lot of auto body repair with my mig welder and would love to see some videos on something along those lines.
Awesome video. I've seen all the uphill MIG videos that Jody put out and this one is probably the best. Summarizes everything quite well about the heat/travel balance that is required.
Hello Jody, I'm a new(ish) welder with no formal training (grew up in the country and we fixed everything with an old lincoln stick welder and did some brazing with a torch). I've recently picked up a Hobart Mig Handler 140 (their 115V unit) and some .030 wire. I've got the 25% Argon/CO2 mix (or maybe the other way around) gas on it so DCEN setup. I'm having trouble welding a lap joint upside down. Modifying a truck frame. Mild steel, 1/4" plate to the ~1/8" (10 ga.) frame. My unit seems to start it's arc over and over and I'm getting broken bead which is seriously ugly and probably not very structurally strong. Setting I came to was 5 on heat (max setting) and 4.5 on feed speed. Love your videos and they have been very helpful to me on this project.
MIG solid wire should be DCEP....makes a lot of difference. Non gas Flux-core DCEN......flux-core with gas, usually DCEP.. 75/25......usually 75 Argon, 25 CO2.
OMG THANK YOU! Teacher was showing me how to do it but not explaining how and i was like moving it side to side every 2 seconds not in a V formation. This seems so much easier!!!
If you see this reply. By now you've probably got your certificate & a welding job. I just started welding this January. Any words of wisdom you can offer?
+Chuck Salerno Jody tells it like it is. I bought my everlast tig (and later mig) welder because of his assessments of the equipment. Support him and get his tig fingers and dvds.
Thought about getting the 210 mp Think I'm gonna go with the Miller multimatic 220 though as soon. Well see, depending on if I owe taxes or get a refund lol
Hey Jody, I really enjoy your videos you pass on lots of helpful tips, I'm a beginner trying to teach myself to weld, I'm fairly ok with stick, wanting to learn mig and it's a little challenging for a lefthanded fella. By the way I also started ordering from you online store, I really appreciate you.
This is completely different from what we’re doing in class. We’re running 18 v 190 wire speed for our route pass then 16v 180 wire speed for the cap. I’m going to give this a try and see if this works better for me
Love your videos. I'm welding Aluminium. Trying your techniques out. Only difference seems to be, I need to move a lot faster the with steel. Anytime you can do Aluminium techniques, I'd be grateful. I have watch all the ones you have done so far. Keep up the great work.
yes v ups are trickier in steel the voltage and current are critically matched, amps have a tiny window of what is too hot or too cold stick is easy but I sure am struggling with straight mig, using an inverter unimig 250, maybe need a smaller tapered nozzle as the nozzle that i have can easily trip on the weld. will try your methods,
@weldingtipsandtricks Thank you for the comprehensive video as always. Those must be hard shots to make, it amazes me how clear your images are of the puddle. Also, thanks for discussing gun angle, for some reason most people don't or it is assumed.
I have been allowed to do a " downhill " pass. Maybe for a grey water tank......maybe. But otherwise...... Great tips i have to say. Always more to learn....
Love the videos!!!! Did the part cool down after you welded it with the first technique? I could imagine that if the part was heat-soaked from the first pass, the penetration would be more than if the part was cold. Thanks again for the awesome knowledge you're passing along!!! 👍🏾👍🏾⚡️
Good observation. I did let the piece cool completely. And you are right. It would make a big difference if the second weld was done with metal still hot
Another great video. Have you ever thought about doing a video on welding thin steel, like from somewhere in the range of an automotive panel thickness with a mig, up to say a bit of 2mm angle with a small, budget stick welder? It's just that I can imagine a lot of people that watch video's on welding tips are weekend warriors, and try a lot of these techniques but end up with a series of holes joined by lumps of slag. Just a thought anyway, as nearly every welding video on youtube are done with decent welders on thick steel and it just makes it all look so easy. Anyway, keep up the good work. Cheers.
Jody- Why is controlling convexity important? Does it simply demonstrate one's control of the process, or is there a strength and safety concern here? I've been studying your mig videos lately because I will be building a roll cage. So if it's something I need to be on top of I need to know it. Thanks for the videos!
Thank you Jody for your work. When America realizes all it's welders were taught by you and are now in Canada, you'll be in work for a looong time. Politics aside, I hope you never realize how much of an asset you are because I know I'd be an absolute horror to be around if I knew I was the king of karate island
Can you do a video or couple of videos on flux cored wire doing all positions aswell as full pen butt weld plates. thanks for these tips as copying the technique and settings I managed to pass my vertical up mig test for my apprenticeship, cheers
you should, maybe explain, that you were on pulse and OFF the spray, stop-start is Russian Pulse, the idea is to lay in welds as fast as possible as a yacht builder we weld seams 20 m long , in ALU, positional as now i have only welds are very easy in Alu, but for me not easy in steel as i lost the use of left hand being entirely comfortable is a must, do a practice run, with the gun not running, first over the length of the pass, in Alu I do 2 foot runs, backstepping after chipping back with a 4 inch saw blade as an employer it took 5 years to train a man in all skills from welding to plateforming and 7 other trades one uses in our trade great photography
Hi Jody, I have my shiny new MIG welder and I'm laying down some pretty OK looking beads on horizontal plate and horizontal fillet welds. Most of the stuff I'm doing at the moment is 3mm or about 1/8". I'm trying uphill MIG on 3mm fillet welds and I either get it so hot that the weld blobs out and looks like brass monkey nuts or it's so cold that the weld looks like a little snake jumping from one piece of metal to the other. I'm finding it hard to get the right settings and also the right travel speed. I'm trying to watch the puddle and do the little upside down V but I've only layed down a couple of welds out of maybe 100 that sort of looked half ok, but were still not acceptable. What tips would you have on these sort of joints? I've seen one vid (maybe your very first?) where you lay down a downhill root and then go uphill fill. Is that overkill for this thickness? Anyway super awesome channel, I've been watching since maybe 2012. Cheers mate!
Great video Jody. Thanks for the tips. What do you use for etching. I've cut a lot of my welds and on some I can see the nugget and others it's almost impossible to see it.
what about using same heat but turning down the wire speed , would that prevent the crowning of the weld . I use around 200 on wire speed and like it , tends to be flatter
Why when I try to weld uphill on stainless as soon as I strike an arc it wants to burn through. I have to move so fast I have insane amounts of undercut, I have a structural test coming up soon 😬 settings 20/ 230 (settings my foreman is making us test at)
+1970chevelle396 It all depends on what you're welding. Thin sheet metal you weld downhill because going uphill you're more likely to burn a hole in it. On thicker metal going uphill is going to give you significantly better penetration.
Jody, love your videos, man. I was wondering if you would make a video mug welding with .045 316/L Stainless flux core? I recently certified with the stuff and I'd be interested to see what you could do with it.
that defect(holes) in both sides, in actual work how would you fixed that? please tell me how. As a welding students, I do not like defects not being repaired.
i know right? in my school i would get red card for that. also we werent allowed much convex shape. we did learn to pause briefly in the center of V / triangle. and move upwards faster so that we didnt double covered the horizontal pass too much. vertical mig was hardest time i had in school
Jody, could you provide a link or name brand of etching fluid in your response to this please. Ive been trying SMAW vertical and would like to cut up a few pieces to see the penetration. Thanks again, nice work man. Pidge.
+PiDGE IAM ox-out 540 passivation fluid by chemclean but its difficult to get in small qty. ... but I have been told that concrete "clean-n-etch" made by seal krete will also work very well for etching carbon steel. I think you can get it at lowes, ACE hardware, home depot, etc.
Hi Jodie , you're channel is amazing!!!! and I really appreciate you're video and you're passion for welding!!! I'm from Italy and here we use a 1mm wire, i want ask you a question : Which setting you use in a 3F position with 1mm wire?Volt and inch per minute(metre per minute)? I asking you this question because I try to change my current welding fab job with something more challenging :-9 Again thanks for you're video
hey I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now and was wondering if you got any tips for 3g tig welding? got a test plate coming up next week.
This video is old but gold. Seeing the change going from 19/280 up to 20/290 and how it worsened the convexity really helped me in finding settings that worked well for a recent job I did. Watched at least a dozen different how to mig uphill videos and this one helped me the most.
Hi, I'm a young welder at a truck shop. I'm only 30 seconds into the video and all ready I like you. You have listed all my problems I have welding vertically and I know your gunna answer them. Most ppl on UA-cam leave me still questioning things. So thank you for your style of videos.
I have been watching your videos for quiet some time now and personally enjoy the information and knowledge you teach. I cannot recall though if you have ever done any videos on mig welding on thinner sheet metal. I do a lot of auto body repair with my mig welder and would love to see some videos on something along those lines.
Going to welding school now and getting my certifications, your videos help out so much man, thanks
Your videos are great. Passed my first 3g mig plate test thanks to you. Appreciate your work.
Thanks so much for putting metric conversions in your videos for us down under. Great videos!
Awesome video. I've seen all the uphill MIG videos that Jody put out and this one is probably the best. Summarizes everything quite well about the heat/travel balance that is required.
I haven't done any uphill welding in a very long time and this is such a great refresher, thank you
Hello Jody, I'm a new(ish) welder with no formal training (grew up in the country and we fixed everything with an old lincoln stick welder and did some brazing with a torch). I've recently picked up a Hobart Mig Handler 140 (their 115V unit) and some .030 wire. I've got the 25% Argon/CO2 mix (or maybe the other way around) gas on it so DCEN setup. I'm having trouble welding a lap joint upside down. Modifying a truck frame. Mild steel, 1/4" plate to the ~1/8" (10 ga.) frame. My unit seems to start it's arc over and over and I'm getting broken bead which is seriously ugly and probably not very structurally strong. Setting I came to was 5 on heat (max setting) and 4.5 on feed speed. Love your videos and they have been very helpful to me on this project.
MIG solid wire should be DCEP....makes a lot of difference. Non gas Flux-core DCEN......flux-core with gas, usually DCEP.. 75/25......usually 75 Argon, 25 CO2.
Try more wire speed & shorten stickout while welding
OMG THANK YOU! Teacher was showing me how to do it but not explaining how and i was like moving it side to side every 2 seconds not in a V formation. This seems so much easier!!!
Your clarity of welds look as if I were doing the welding great job and thank you for such good videos ,jim
Always timely. Just finished a large job with lots of uphill. I'm happy to see that I was correct in my thinking.
Cheers, Jody
I finally passed my 1 inch overhead FCAW cert. test !!! 4 more to go and $400 left to pay to get certified lol (:
+ixCONTA GiOUZxi congrats and good luck
so your gun should be 90 dgress yes?
If you see this reply. By now you've probably got your certificate & a welding job. I just started welding this January. Any words of wisdom you can offer?
Stay at it been welding 30 it a good skill in u can make money
this welder doesn't miss a thing - good work
I have my GMAW fin for school tomorrow, and I am studying techniques tonight, so thank you
Yo big dawg thank you sm for the inclusion of metric units as well… u a real one for that, great video ❤
I still watch this refresher these days just to make sure my technique is good.
i bought the powermig 210 because of you, i love it
+Chuck Salerno I like my 210Mp.Had mine since it first came out.Check out my you tube channel.I did some reviews on the 210 MP.
+Chuck Salerno Jody tells it like it is. I bought my everlast tig (and later mig) welder because of his assessments of the equipment. Support him and get his tig fingers and dvds.
Thought about getting the 210 mp
Think I'm gonna go with the Miller multimatic 220 though as soon. Well see, depending on if I owe taxes or get a refund lol
Great video, explained very clear for a novice (at best) welder.
The 210 MP is a great welder. Its the one I am learning on and It is so much fun! Great choice!
Thank you for including the meter system!
Great tips Jody! I'm going to practice those techniques.
It was like an educational class. Full of information. Thank you so much.
Thank you for taking the time to include metric units in this video, makes it much easier for a beginner like me especially if your outside USA
These videos are legendary 👨🏾🏭
Like your videos... i was specifically looking to see how you rested/set your arms to get a consistent weld. Thanks
Hey Jody, I really enjoy your videos you pass on lots of helpful tips, I'm a beginner trying to teach myself to weld, I'm fairly ok with stick, wanting to learn mig and it's a little challenging for a lefthanded fella. By the way I also started ordering from you online store, I really appreciate you.
thanks man.
gonna weld some structural stuff on a trailer tomorrow and the welds must look and be good.
This is completely different from what we’re doing in class. We’re running 18 v 190 wire speed for our route pass then 16v 180 wire speed for the cap. I’m going to give this a try and see if this works better for me
thank you,
Exactly what I'm screwing up, but I'm doing a t joint doing multipasses. I've been on it awhile!
Love your videos. I'm welding Aluminium. Trying your techniques out.
Only difference seems to be, I need to move a lot faster the with steel.
Anytime you can do Aluminium techniques, I'd be grateful. I have watch all the ones you have done so far.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks man. Been struggling with Uphill, this is 👍 👌 👍 👌
Good vid, I have a welding test today including an uphill weld, feel a little more confident now
yes v ups are trickier in steel the voltage and current are critically matched, amps have a tiny window of what is too hot or too cold
stick is easy but I sure am struggling with straight mig, using an inverter unimig 250, maybe need a smaller tapered nozzle as the nozzle that i have can easily trip on the weld. will try your methods,
@weldingtipsandtricks Thank you for the comprehensive video as always. Those must be hard shots to make, it amazes me how clear your images are of the puddle. Also, thanks for discussing gun angle, for some reason most people don't or it is assumed.
as an apprentice my teacher just said xmas trees mate and work your way up and left me, learnt damn fast was a good start
Pretty sure this will be my next welding test in my class now I'm for sure going to pass thanks jordy 👍
I have been allowed to do a " downhill " pass. Maybe for a grey water tank......maybe. But otherwise......
Great tips i have to say. Always more to learn....
Love the videos!!!! Did the part cool down after you welded it with the first technique? I could imagine that if the part was heat-soaked from the first pass, the penetration would be more than if the part was cold. Thanks again for the awesome knowledge you're passing along!!! 👍🏾👍🏾⚡️
Good observation. I did let the piece cool completely. And you are right. It would make a big difference if the second weld was done with metal still hot
Another great video. Have you ever thought about doing a video on welding thin steel, like from somewhere in the range of an automotive panel thickness with a mig, up to say a bit of 2mm angle with a small, budget stick welder? It's just that I can imagine a lot of people that watch video's on welding tips are weekend warriors, and try a lot of these techniques but end up with a series of holes joined by lumps of slag. Just a thought anyway, as nearly every welding video on youtube are done with decent welders on thick steel and it just makes it all look so easy. Anyway, keep up the good work. Cheers.
thanks for mentioning metric units for us over the sea.
Learned a lot as usual! Thanks, JD
I come from China, thank you for your sharing
Show this to your people maybe they’ll know the standard to meet
Damn, I needed to see this TODAY. Thanks!
Jody- Why is controlling convexity important? Does it simply demonstrate one's control of the process, or is there a strength and safety concern here?
I've been studying your mig videos lately because I will be building a roll cage. So if it's something I need to be on top of I need to know it.
Thanks for the videos!
watch the video again dumbas, you want a good balance between convexity and penetration. more convex = not much penetration
sweet never used either weave before, thats money in the bank thanks.
Hi bro .i am Indian I see you weldig tips good 50/° learn you video thanks bro......
This video is old. Thanks though for the best information
Awesome explanation. Thank you. I’ve been having so much trouble with this weld.
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to teach the rest of us some good techniques. :-)
Thank you Jody for your work. When America realizes all it's welders were taught by you and are now in Canada, you'll be in work for a looong time.
Politics aside, I hope you never realize how much of an asset you are because I know I'd be an absolute horror to be around if I knew I was the king of karate island
thanks a lot for your tips Jody! Ive learned alot from you sr
love your videos!
wish i could make anything close
great job
thank you fr your video
Can you do a video or couple of videos on flux cored wire doing all positions aswell as full pen butt weld plates. thanks for these tips as copying the technique and settings I managed to pass my vertical up mig test for my apprenticeship, cheers
+Ryan C I am making plans for a flux cored wire video but have to get a spool of wire and some more test plates
+weldingtipsandtricks Awsome, cant wait. I work in heavy transport and forestry engineering and we basicly use flux core for everything
you should, maybe explain, that you were on pulse and OFF the spray, stop-start is Russian Pulse, the idea is to lay in welds as fast as possible as a yacht builder we weld seams 20 m long , in ALU, positional as now i have only welds are very easy in Alu, but for me not easy in steel as i lost the use of left hand
being entirely comfortable is a must, do a practice run, with the gun not running, first over the length of the pass, in Alu I do 2 foot runs, backstepping after chipping back with a 4 inch saw blade
as an employer it took 5 years to train a man in all skills from welding to plateforming and 7 other trades one uses in our trade
great photography
Hi Jody, I have my shiny new MIG welder and I'm laying down some pretty OK looking beads on horizontal plate and horizontal fillet welds. Most of the stuff I'm doing at the moment is 3mm or about 1/8". I'm trying uphill MIG on 3mm fillet welds and I either get it so hot that the weld blobs out and looks like brass monkey nuts or it's so cold that the weld looks like a little snake jumping from one piece of metal to the other. I'm finding it hard to get the right settings and also the right travel speed. I'm trying to watch the puddle and do the little upside down V but I've only layed down a couple of welds out of maybe 100 that sort of looked half ok, but were still not acceptable. What tips would you have on these sort of joints? I've seen one vid (maybe your very first?) where you lay down a downhill root and then go uphill fill. Is that overkill for this thickness? Anyway super awesome channel, I've been watching since maybe 2012. Cheers mate!
QUESTION
why such a high wire seed?
I have the same .030 wire short-circuit welder & I only run 160-180 ipm. Am I doing it wrong?
Wikked Frost depends on what you’re welding. More wire= more penetration.
Me too. I was doing 1/4 T-joint and running 100%co2. 180ipm at 19.5v
Another excellent video, thanks Jody
Amazing work jody thank u very much for the tips 👍
Great video Jody. Thanks for the tips. What do you use for etching. I've cut a lot of my welds and on some I can see the nugget and others it's almost impossible to see it.
what about using same heat but turning down the wire speed , would that prevent the crowning of the weld . I use around 200 on wire speed and like it , tends to be flatter
hello thanks for the video but I have a problem when I balance the weld I go down to weld uphill what is it due to?
Can you please make a video about spray transfer mig!! I need help
With vertical up!!
Lack of fusion in the root,not traveling up and pausing in the root?
Thanks for these MIG vids!
Damn. 290? That’s quick. I usually run about 19.7/210. I just ran like 18.3/205 on some square tube.
I wish I worked with someone like you
What consequence does too much convexity have? I can only imagine a sharp corner at the toes? Stress riser?
You're right.....
Why when I try to weld uphill on stainless as soon as I strike an arc it wants to burn through. I have to move so fast I have insane amounts of undercut, I have a structural test coming up soon 😬 settings 20/ 230 (settings my foreman is making us test at)
When doing any MIG vertical stringers for a root pass between two plates 3/16" thick should the gun angle be at 90 degrees? Love all your videos.
@2:29 I always try to keep my "SICKout" short. LOL. Anyway, thanks for the great vids Jody!
+4BoltClevo oops. !!! good eye.
Great instructional video
I normally try to weld down hill. It seems like less metal drips into the tip.
+1970chevelle396 It all depends on what you're welding. Thin sheet metal you weld downhill because going uphill you're more likely to burn a hole in it. On thicker metal going uphill is going to give you significantly better penetration.
Jody,
love your videos, man. I was wondering if you would make a video mug welding with .045 316/L Stainless flux core? I recently certified with the stuff and I'd be interested to see what you could do with it.
Thanks for this video Jody!
that defect(holes) in both sides, in actual work how would you fixed that? please tell me how. As a welding students, I do not like defects not being repaired.
i know right? in my school i would get red card for that. also we werent allowed much convex shape. we did learn to pause briefly in the center of V / triangle. and move upwards faster so that we didnt double covered the horizontal pass too much. vertical mig was hardest time i had in school
it´s great you are mentioning dimensions im Milliimeter too, thanks a lot
Is there a video showing Dual Shield Flux Core .045 on an open root with backing plate?
Hi Jody- would the "Christmas tree technique " work better? It sounds terrible but looks OK. Keep up the good work!!
Excellent, as usual.
that was super, super helpful. thank you
My welding teacher taught that v motion in school. What kind of shielding gas did you use?
Is there a benefit to using thinner wire (.030 vs .035)?
This is a really good video. Thank You.
I mig weld, soft metal angles to soft medal pedestals, straight across and up hill on both sides, do you have any suggestions for me
Can you do a review on the power mig 260
Awesome video!
I've already subscribed quite yelling at me. haha Love your videos Jody keep up the great work!
How did you make that rod tube rack, Jody? when's that video coming out?
+amanlikechris that rod rack video should be coming pretty soon...
Jody, could you provide a link or name brand of etching fluid in your response to this please. Ive been trying SMAW vertical and would like to cut up a few pieces to see the penetration. Thanks again, nice work man.
Pidge.
+PiDGE IAM ox-out 540 passivation fluid by chemclean but its difficult to get in small qty. ... but I have been told that concrete "clean-n-etch" made by seal krete will also work very well for etching carbon steel. I think you can get it at lowes, ACE hardware, home depot, etc.
+weldingtipsandtricks thanks Jody I'll have a look for some now that I know what to look for.
Is there much of a difference in settings with .035 wire?
T joint square tubing I want to say wall thickness 1/8 ? 18 280 giving me a lot of popping
Hi Jodie , you're channel is amazing!!!! and I really appreciate you're video and you're passion for welding!!!
I'm from Italy and here we use a 1mm wire, i want ask you a question : Which setting you use in a 3F position with 1mm wire?Volt and inch per minute(metre per minute)?
I asking you this question because I try to change my current welding fab job with something more challenging :-9
Again thanks for you're video
Do you have tips for vertical square mig weave its for skills USA speed skills?
Can you do a t-joint triple pass with .045 Wire pleaseeeeee
hey I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now and was wondering if you got any tips for 3g tig welding? got a test plate coming up next week.
+Mike Wiegert I posted one several years ago...here is the link ua-cam.com/video/lPEGzCR8LOs/v-deo.html
+weldingtipsandtricks alright thanks Jodi by the way your tig finger is real helpful
New bandsaw? What happened to the fancy stand with porter cable?
+Anthony Catenaro That porter cable saw was on loan from a friend. I needed to return it so I gave him the stand and bought one from swagoffroad.com
But what if I'm using .035 wire what would be the settings
Jody is the best!