..this is a stick weld on schedule 10 SS pipe flange..

For the past 3 months Ive been working as a Welder/Machine operator and all I do is load a table with parts & press a button so a robot can weld them together a.

I then take the product out and weld a small seam followed by a tiny hit with a hard rock , so the job itself isn’t hard by any means , the issue is that after 3 months I’ve just started hitting 45 products made in a day more or less with the old goal being 60 (even that was unrealistic or so I’ve been told by the older guys).

However I’ve now been told that the new goal is 60 on the lower end and 80 preferably , meaning I’m only capable of maybe hitting 55% of the goal on a good day and less than half on a bad day and while I could definitely do a LITTLE better , Its a known fact that the robots fuck up ALL THE TIME & someone has to come and take 10 minutes to almost 2 literal hours to tweak it along with supplies taking at least 7-10 minutes to come as well as it sometimes being defective and this all takes up time when every second is important.

In conclusion: Im willing to work and get better but the pressure is killing my willpower & motivation to prove i can do better and w all the complaining they’re doing to me i feel like an inevitable termination is coming.

Tl/Dr: Cracking Under Pressure 😂 Advice Needed

Looking at buying a stick welder, I owned a miller in the past and liked the machine but I see the Hobarts are 1/2 the price and I just read they are both owned by same company, even the set up instructions are the same. Am I buying the same machine here and just paying for the Miller name? I am just looking for a light use welder to fix lake docks in the area.

I'm starting school soon but my ultimate goal is work my way to pipe welding, during my career what skills etc should I be learning or pursuing to get the most out of my career?

I’ve been making self taught mediocre welds for about 15 years now. We have always a junky ac welders normally picked up at an estate sale for almost nothing and I don’t think I’ve ever used anything other than 6011 rods. The last one finally died and I am looking at moving up in the world. I want to give mig a go but don’t want to give up stick so I figured I would go with a multi unit.
I don’t really know anything about the technical details of which welder works better than another. It seems 6010 is a stumbling block for the multi units. I did give a quick look at the buying guide for the sub but the prices seemed way off I’m assuming because of the pandemic which made me think it was a bit out dated.

I generally have only welded when some piece of equipment breaks and we need it up and running quickly. So dependability matters. I am thinking with a better welder it will be a more enjoyable experience and have some projects I would like to try and build with the mig. Generally we do the work near electricity but also have a few large generators we can take to a field if needed. Price is a little flexible in the $3,000 range would be close to our max but maybe sold higher if there is a big improvement close to it.

Currently in a 6- month welding course, 10 weeks left until graduation, but only 1 week of the whole course is TIG. TIGs just a bit difficult to master in a week lol.

I understand how good of a TIG welder you have to be for most companys, but im curious if theres any job/ career path i could take to learn and do more TIG or am i just SOL?

Also curious if there is any jobs you can start entry level TIG at what are the odds of actually getting the job?

Thanks in advance.

Any other suggestions for how to connect these two cables are more than welcome

Hi friends - working on a metal sculpture using mostly laser cut 12g steel sheet, doing most of our welding from the inside of the structure, which leaves us with a lot of exterior edges that need to be filled where the panels meet. Our initial plan was the fill these edges by welding and then grind them down, but a friend recommended using a weld putty to fill that space and then sand down, but didn’t have an exact product recommendation.

Does anyone have any suggestions on products to look into? It would save us a lot of time as there’s over 50ft of edges like this that would need to be done. This piece will be sandblasted in preparation for powder coating after this step, so it needs to be durable enough for the sand blasting, and have enough strength that the product wouldn’t crack while moving it. The structure itself is very strong, reinforced by 3/4” and 1x2 tubing on the inside, so these edges will not be flexing, and the edges are already very solid.

Thanks!

So I recently got myself a grinder and wire wheels and I absolutely love how good it makes my welds look. However i hate having to take my helmet off in order to swap between welding and grinding modes. So does anyone have any recommendations for helmets where the switch is on the outside. For reference, the helmets we got from the college are Lincoln Electric Viking 1740s. I can live with the swap time for now, but once im actually working it would be nice to speed it up.

I have been at it for about 7 months and TIG is the process I use the least. Having a slow day and figured I would throw down a bead and see what you all had to say about it.

This is my 4th time practicing. It's 18 gauge sheet metal. Flux core .030 wire. How am I doing? Do I have enough penetration? All the videos I see have the welds looking the same on the back side I can't seem to get it like that. Is the white stuff on the back from the flux or the metal not being cleaned enough?

Learning on thin metal so I can repair my car

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Hey guys, im trying to merge a 1999 suburban chassis with a 1979 K5 body, to do this ill need to shorten the suburban chassis but im very hesitant on that as it just sounds wrong to cut and weld a chassis back. does anyone know whats the proper way to do it ? i have no other option as the K5 original chassis is fully rusted out, and i cant get another K5 chassis as im based in the middle east.
please help me out, thank you.

I've just bought my first TIG machine (secondhand) and am working on getting it set up. I've picked up the fittings for my flowmeter and machine and now need to join the dots.

I have some oxy hose left over from my oxy-fuel setup - would I be OK to use this, or am I better to spend money on argon-specific hosing?

I'm not too worried about safety given that it's an inert gas, more about the cost of leakage/permeability.

TIA!

.035 70s6 wire, 3/8 plate, 1/8 root It's not anything crazy but I'm happy with it.

Hey all i made this belt tracker at my old job..was made redundant few months ago and wondering if I should try something new or stick with metal, place was always rush rush and very cliquey

I accidentally cut into this mini ex bucket with a torch burning old bolts off