Starter Stick Welders

Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:39 am

Merry Christmas Everyone!
I hope everyone has a good and safe holiday time...

Jody

Superiorwelding · Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:02 pm

Jody,
Very nice welds there! I will pass this video on to a friend that had questions about overlapping SMAW passes.

Thanks for a great year of awesome videos. We all look forward to what you have in store for the coming year.
-Jonathan

Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:28 pm

Thx Jonathan. And thanks for all your help too. Merry Christmas

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mcoe · Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:45 pm

It's funny you should post this, when I was working on the fire pit I was low on gas and wire so i decided to stick weld the whole thing using 7018 and it took multiple passes so I tacked it horizontal then rolled it to 6g position and ran it like a 30" pipe. It was fun since I am not a pipe welder thought I would see how I stacked up. The whole thing took about 4 passes to fill the seam in so I was stacking them in there.

Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:56 pm

admin wrote:Thx Jonathan. And thanks for all your help too. Merry Christmas

Amen!

Both to Jonathan's comment, and to your thanks for his efforts. He's a wealth of knowledge here, and a force to be reckoned with on the facebook page.

A random thought I had today while doing something tedious... Have you considered putting the Weldmonger logo or "Go Knock It Out" as embroidery on a jacket?

Who, here, wouldn't want that on a light demin jacket, or even a heavy winter coat?

Just a thought...

Steve S

mcoe · Tue Dec 23, 2014 9:01 pm

My wife and I both said we would like a hoodie or welding jacket with the logo on it.

Superiorwelding · Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:40 pm

Otto Nobedder wrote:
admin wrote:Thx Jonathan. And thanks for all your help too. Merry Christmas

Amen!

Both to Jonathan's comment, and to your thanks for his efforts. He's a wealth of knowledge here, and a force to be reckoned with on the facebook page.

Steve S

Steve and Jody,
Your welcome and thank you very much.
-Jonathan

jwright650 · Wed Dec 24, 2014 9:46 am

Jody,
I'm glad that you mentioned about taking care of the arc strikes. I never gave it much thought until I played around in the shop one day and had one of my welders help me with a test sample. I chopped up several pieces of A36 3/8 x 2 flat bar and laid them side by side on the work table, had a welder drag a 7018 across them and then grind them up to where he thought that they would be OK to mimic an arc strike on some structural work. I bent one piece without an arc strike for a control piece. He handed them back to me and we placed them in my coupon bender and found out that arc strikes can be a serious problem. Notice in these pics below that everywhere those little droplets were in the arc strike, had cracks initiate in them.

Wed Dec 24, 2014 9:56 am

Yep. Good test to really drive the point home too. Thx. I might need to use these pics later
Best to you and thanks for this post

Jody

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jwright650 · Wed Dec 24, 2014 10:39 am

admin wrote:I might need to use these pics later

Jody

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Help yourself

Superiorwelding · Wed Dec 24, 2014 11:08 am

John,
Thanks for sharing that. I always hear "no arc strikes" but looking at bends like that really shows me why. Thanks.
-Jonathan

nickn372 · Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:41 pm

Wow that hammers home a point. Good pics! And good test too. As a general repair welder you sometimes can't help but make a few arc strikes for the places you need to reach into but I never understood the severity of it. Always as a professional welder you are trying to make a good impression and arc strikes all over the place are not a way to do it. Does anybody know a good way to rectify them if 6 out make one by accident or due to cramped quarters etc...?