MinnesotaDave wrote:Pretty good for what amounts to a large toaster oven
I'm getting to where I believe inverters may actually be "almost" as good as big, heavy, dirty, old welders
I prefer to weave going up too
Don't do it Dave! You are the last hold out in the world. You'll upset the balance, it might affect the Earth's orbit. Should you come over to the dark side, it will leave no one but the many thousands of welders using 4000 LB Lincoln pipeline welders from an earlier century! Evil will win over good!
Haha! Don't worry, my goal is to have enough old equipment to cause the earth to wobble
My 1956 Power Wagon had a 3/8" lock washer laying on top of the flat head engine for 25 years. After rebuilding the engine I put it back. The terrain it drives over is steep enough, but vibration will never cause it to fall off. Old machines such as the ones you have will not cause any wobble. A pollution cloud like Saturn,....... well maybe...no it would take a lot of us for that.
The planets haven't aligned yet. Howard, the fabricator at the pellet mill with the Trailblazer is either eyeball deep in a rushed project, or off with his own two kids and wife on an adventure we hope will give his sons some memory of their father. At the North end of the building we share my bobcat 250, at the south end is the welding shop where his trailblazer languishes unable to be transported through the sea of equipment, people, and Corvettes parked by VIPs who are all in the office congratulating each other on their brilliance at getting a two week job done in one, ( by the way it's Monday of the first week), to where it is needed. Howard is adaptable, aside from some good natured bitching about my welder not being detailed, his welds look and perform equally good from Trailblazer or Bobcat.
I, on the other hand, wonder if I might make nicer welds with more technology? Howard doesn't get it. Why do I want to weld like him? They pay me as much either way. No one there can look at a weld and say I did it or Howard. I explain that I can tell. He rolls his eyes.
I want to know what life is like with anti stick features, three phase welding power etc. etc. Howard is proof that low tech can weld as nice as high tech. I am proof it can't.
1/8 7018 1/2 plate. Uphill. No weave/no nothing, just straight up. About 110 amps or so. Invertech v 350.
Excuse the tie ins.
Very slightly pushing the puddle uphill. 45° angle to the plates.
I practiced on some real thin plate yesterday with 3/32 7018. From 90 to 95 amps. I'm putting these up even though i dont even consider myself in the same league as most of you guys...AK and Jasper and MANY others. Im on summer break from school and I was dying to light up and melt some metal. Couldve held the toes for a little longer and tied into the previous bead better, but thats why ya practice right?
When i preview it shows the pics horizontally for some reason but theyre vert up
I dont have alot of experience with big weaves like AK's and its nice to get to see some done right. They come out looking great. Maybe ill try some of those out next time too.
6010 downhill? .... if I practice that, I might forget and try it on my test and bomb that sucker.
I know that's what the pipeliners do, but I don't think that complies with the weld test requirements in Louisiana.
Michael
Braehill wrote:mbmalone,
Most people run 6010 downhill if I remember correctly and 7018 uphill.
Len
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mbmalone wrote:6010 downhill? .... if I practice that, I might forget and try it on my test and bomb that sucker.
I know that's what the pipeliners do, but I don't think that complies with the weld test requirements in Louisiana.
Michael
Braehill wrote:mbmalone,
Most people run 6010 downhill if I remember correctly and 7018 uphill.
Len
Louisiana isn't somehow "special"...
A 6010 open-root downhill is common practice anywhere you go.
Some employers require 6010 up, and that's fine, as if you can do one, you should be able to do the other, but don't presume there's some "superiority" in one over the other.
Pipeliners, BTW, will often follow the 6010 root with 8010 the rest of the way out.
mbmalone wrote:6010 downhill? .... if I practice that, I might forget and try it on my test and bomb that sucker.
I know that's what the pipeliners do, but I don't think that complies with the weld test requirements in Louisiana.
Michael
Braehill wrote:mbmalone,
Most people run 6010 downhill if I remember correctly and 7018 uphill.
Len
Louisiana isn't somehow "special"...
A 6010 open-root downhill is common practice anywhere you go.
Some employers require 6010 up, and that's fine, as if you can do one, you should be able to do the other, but don't presume there's some "superiority" in one over the other.
Pipeliners, BTW, will often follow the 6010 root with 8010 the rest of the way out.
Steve S
I apologize for just now reading your post, What is the reason for 6010 root? Is it superior penetration? Easy flow and wetting without drip? Good ductility? or something else?
6010 is done in the root simply because its a quick and easy way to make a good root with good penetration, and minimal slag inclusions for the next pass. A 6010 "hot pass" is often done, because the deep-penetration nature of the rod will cook out slag left by the root pass. "Hot pass" is a misnomer, as it's seldom done any hotter than the root; It's just held longer across any point to cook out any slag left in the toes of the root and provide a smooth base for fill and cap passes with whatever rod is called out in the WPS.
