i have been taking a welding class in my high school for a year now..nexed semseter i will go to collage to take me welding classes

i was wondering if this was good for tig?

i have master stick 60/10-70/18 posions=flat overhead and vertica also have master grove for flat and vertical

im good at mig to all postions!

the pic is one of tig! i did it today and i restarted in the center thats why it looks f-up

lett me know what you think

ps im only 17

 

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Looks good. But I would like to see what you can do with much thinner metal. You gonna be doing some frame work or something, or just want to see what peeps think?

Brian

 

just want opions

 

IMO welding is the best skill you can posess for automotive work.

 

I took welding too, looks pretty good. Put it in a vice and smack it with a 10 pound sledge... then you'll see how good it is

 

That does look pretty good but as said the real trick is doing thin sheetmetal. On the thicker metal like that you need to worry about getting good enough penetration on both peices of metal that its actually a good weld. Do as Metallic said and put it in a vise and give it a few good whacks and see how good it is.

 

looks like a really good bead...is that a t-joint? hard to tell in the pic. I have taken welding last year and this year at my hs, and I love it, like already said it is an awesome skill to have. its awesome now that I have a welder at home now too.

 

yes thats a t-joint weld. and thats pretty darn good. i took welding for 3yrs when i was in highschool. the only position i hate welding with stick os overhead everyother position i kickass in, maybe thats why i took 2nd in the state at the AWS NJsection contest.

but that looks pretty good. next big thing to do is get a great handel on Tig, do stainless steel, alumin, and mild steel. if u can do all 3 of those great, then ur good. it only took me 2 yrs to learn from oxyfuel welding to brazing to cuttinto stick, mig, tig, plasma cutting, arc gouging, and little custom fabriating stuff. the 3rd yr i was in welding i just repracticed what i already knew and goofed off. i was second best in shop, my friend had me in a few things but he also psent money to go to night skool also to get the jump on me. but he is friken good.

also if that was an inside corner weld the pieces of metal would be more even and look like a V.

edit: if that is Tig and im not sayin it isnt, i first thought it was a stick weld with 7018 but if that is tig thats awesome

 

I can oxy acetylene weld and braze just enough to get by Haven't tried a mig welder yet but might pretty soon, got a nasty 5 inch long crack on the inner door skin that needs to be taken care of.

 

very good job!! the real trick will be on a thinner metal though.

 

its tig...ive been working on tig for a mounth now about 20days..and i think i got the hang of it..

thanks

 

i do some mig welding and oxy welding/brazing in school too...the best thing to do to test your welds is
1. use a thin metal
2. put in a vice
3. smack the hell out of it a few times until the weld breaks
4. if the metal around the weld breaks and not the weld itself, then it was a good weld, but if the weld breaks and you can see a clean edge of metal that was supposed to be welded then get some more practice...
thats just what weve used as guidelines in school. destructive testing is fun for everyone!:lala:

 

we did that to one of my friends welds i think it wa a mig weld. we cut a piece of it off and put it under a 30ton i think could have been more but put it in the press and the thing didnt brake at all just bend