What Do Y'all think bout my Stick Welds

drummerwelder856 · Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:23 pm

so i have been welding for 3weeks now in school!! I'm doing Stick & Tig Pipe Welding course at Elite Welders Training & Testing in NJ, 12week all together to become a combination welder!!! so far i love it soo much it feels like this is something that i shud have been doing wen i left hs 10yrs ago... but once I'm done its gonna be hella fun and about welding the hell out of anything i touch...

so these pics out from my welds 3wks of class so far.. the first pic is from doing 7018 vertical up i got that in 2days of stick welding, and i did a couple of weaves!!!

the next pics are from my 7018 1/8 & 3/32 caps uphill sch 40 & 80, my teacher says i have the best caps in the class...

and i also stick weld with one hand which not to many welders can do, what my teacher tells me he said it can work in my favor sticking with one hand!!! but I'm just very happy that I'm doing something i really like... i just want to learn everything i can to be the best welder i can be out there and make great money doing it!!! I'm only 27 and i just wish somebody told me about this trade wen i left HS....

but tell me wut y'all think from my 3wks of stick welding...

dsmabe · Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:55 pm

I can't say much since I don't have very much stick experience and even less pipe experience. But to me they look good overall, just watch your restarts, and overall height of your finished welds.

drummerwelder856 · Sun Sep 28, 2014 10:16 pm

Thanks @dsmabe I'm paying a lot of attention to my puddles more than anything so I'm getting hang of it...

Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:33 pm

drummerwelder856 wrote:so i have been welding for 3weeks now in school!!

Hey, if that's three weeks in, you're a natural, or your teacher is a pro, or both.

I can't wait to see week eight.

Steve S

drummerwelder856 · Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:29 pm

@SteveS yea my teacher is probably one of the top welders on the east coast and he's been retired for 15yrs, but yes he's a pro... and thats wit he's making me into in 12wks... the hardest thing so far has been the 6010 root uphill on pipe!!!

TRACKRANGER · Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:36 am

Drummer

You obviously have a great natural ability there. Keep up the good work.

I also admire your enthusiasm. Occasionally things won't go right, if that happens don't let that put you off (!)

Nice job

Ranger

DylanWelds · Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:34 am

Excellent work. Keep it up. What amperage and size rod are you using?

drummerwelder856 · Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:33 pm

@trackranger thanks a lot bro, I'm just trying to do the best i can to become the best code welder i can be!!! thanks for the motivation i appreciate it!!! Australia hows the work out there i wanted to go work off shore up there???

TRACKRANGER wrote:Drummer

You obviously have a great natural ability there. Keep up the good work.

I also admire your enthusiasm. Occasionally things won't go right, if that happens don't let that put you off (!)

Nice job

Ranger

drummerwelder856 · Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:39 pm

DylanWelds wrote:Excellent work. Keep it up. What amperage and size rod are you using?

thanks a lot bro.. my amp was 115 for the sch80 pipe and rob 7018 1/8 and for the sch 40 pipe i was at 80amps and my rod was 7018 3/32

Adam's Got Skills · Thu Oct 09, 2014 5:09 pm

Is that Esab rod? It looks like it in the picture. I personally hate that rod, but I've seen some guys do real well with it. You don't look like your doing bad at all. Looks good to me. There are a couple spots that someone could probably nit pick, but not me man. Good work