New to welding

[BMan2005]

Just to keep it real and show my experience,. Haha. I didn't have my rod angle correct on my weave and had some undercut and splatter on that weld. Ran a stringer over the top and going to run one on the bottom when I finish the rest.

 

[Shield Arc]

Was that run vertical down hill?

 

[BMan2005]

Slightly down hill, 15-20* maybe at most. The stringer was up hill the same about 15-20* and with 7018. I ran most my root passes with 7014 because in some places there was a slight gap between the flat bar and 1" 3pt arm on the fillet weld. I ran one 7018 pass in the beginning and had alot of spatter and not a pretty weld, think I found out why 7014 is called a filler rod. Other than that I ran 6011 on a few verticals for the root & all my cover passes after 7018.

 

[Shield Arc]

So how do you like that PowerArc 200ST?
Your next challenge will be learning how to run vertical up hill with 7018, and 6010 / 6011.

This vertical up hill 7018 weld was made with the PowerArc 300.

 

[BMan2005]

Honestly, I'm thrilled with it and thanks for recommending it. I have no other welder to compare it to, but I do think it's part of the reason I've been able to learn with it's ease of use to start and ark and keep it.

Yeah that looks as good as my best horizontal weld, probably better. Haha. I tinkered a little with it, but no real start to finish practice, soon though!

 

[Shield Arc]

Yeah that looks as good as my best horizontal weld, probably better. Haha.

You have to remember now, I've been welding for a few weeks.

 

[BMan2005]

After spending the last month or two googling welding, I kinda don't believe you.... Lol. You need to not use the same signature line on various forums

 

[Shield Arc]

I kinda don't believe you.... Lol.

Not buying it?

 

[BMan2005]

Nope

 

[BMan2005]

And DONE, I hope. I scraped the idea of the plate I planned to use. You can see the stress cracks in the original design from Taylor Way and it's already been repaired and patched a few times by the original owner. Time will tell if the new way I repaired it is better or not, in my mind it should be since it's not a corner it's pulling in. I did go ahead and hit it with some primer so it doesn't rust over night.

 

[KubotainNH]

Nice job!

 

[BMan2005]

Thanks KubotainNH

 

[BMan2005]

New addition, welded some hooks & a D Ring to my bucket. I used 3/8" flat stock as a base plate, cut two pieces, welded together, & added a back strap for extra support. Used 6011 for a root pass in everything then a fill/cap & multi pass with 7018.

Next project eventually is building a brush guard on the tractor.

 

[BMan2005]

Tested my welds strength a little. Was cleaning under the barn with the bucket and instead of putting on the hay spear figured I would just wrap a chain to the hook and carry this out to the horses. Not the hardest test, but it held.

Shield Arc I'll be working on padding some beads vertical up before long when things slow down so I'll be looking for you to critique me soon.

 

[Shield Arc]

Shield Arc I'll be working on padding some beads vertical up before long when things slow down so I'll be looking for you to critique me soon.

Sure thing, glad to help!:thumbsup:
Here is a vertical up hill weld I made with 7018.

 

[BMan2005]

That'll be my goal, hope you're a very patient man to wait on me to post a picture of one that nice

It's been driving me nuts not to be able to do anything lately, but we have a kid coming in just over two weeks, our first . I'm sure I'll have plenty of time for practice then since the wife will make me shut everything else down and stay home more for a bit. Haha.

Question, can I run stringers vertical and make multi pass beads that way until I get good enough to weave? Or is it best to do a single stringer & learn to do a weave over that?

 

[BMan2005]

This is where our time goes this time of the year running our bird dogs. From about October-March we are wide open between our jobs and Trials. That one picture is of one of our girls who won National's last year.

 

[Shield Arc]

Question, can I run stringers vertical and make multi pass beads that way until I get good enough to weave? Or is it best to do a single stringer & learn to do a weave over that?

When I was in welding school. We had to pad weld in all positions. Flat, horizontal, vertical up hill, and over head. Personally, I wouldn't spend a lot of time on pad welds. Fillet welds like I posted, and lap welds, are more real life welding. Not very often do you pad weld a flat plate in real world welding.
When you do fillet welds, you can do 3-pass welds, 6-pass welds. Really there is no limit to how many welds you can make.
V-butt plates are very good practice too. If you have a way to put a 30 to 37 1/2 degree bevel on the plates. You can run stringers to fill the V-butt, and a weave pass for the cap.

 

[California]

Definition of 'pad weld'?

Also, is that backing plate welded integral with the heavier plates, or somehow not bonded and removable to leave a flat back?

Thanks for all the instruction here in this thread!

 

[prichard]

Definition of 'pad weld'?


Thanks for all the instruction here in this thread!

Same here, thank you all. But I'm clueless on pad weld.