What a great lesson. This is a fantastic way for people like me to learn the basics of welding. The fact that you assume no knowledge really makes it worthwhile. Thank you

Helpful tip: when assembling any threaded connection - even nuts & bolts - turn the threaded fastener or fitting counter to the tightening direction of rotation until you feel the sets of threads on the items to be joined "click" into alignment with one another. then rotate in the direction of tightening as usual. This is to prevent cross threading & stripping out of the threads. I learned this procedure in Navy Basic Training, & It's proved most useful. Strip the threads out on the only available firefighting equipment on a ship while it's burning & you're gonna be real unpopular with your shipmates, just before you're all either burned up or drowned.

Love the tie under the coveralls ! Great video lesson.

Best instructional video I've seen in a long time, thanks I was getting rusty.

Very thorough and covers many aspects that are often overlooked. It sounds very old school, but highly informative. The two commentators with one person asking "dumb" questions and the other person explaining is something I have not seen before.

I been using Oxyacetylene equipment 21 years and must note one safety tip, ALWAYS use reverse flow check valves and flashback arrestors if you're torch don't have them you can purchase them at the welding supply.

Gotta love that Purox W-200 aircraft torch. I have one just like it, as well as the later solid forged brass body version that replaced it not long after this video was made. They are excellent torches, definitely one of the very best models ever made.

So good. Thank you very much for putting this up, a lot of precise information.

Thank you thank you thank you so little of this is taught anymore and if you did not go to school your really out of luck appreciate these videos very much

Absolutely brilliant I have learnt so much from watching and the questions were spot on. Thank you 😊

Great antique stuff - I found the detailed flame adjustment section very helpful.

I love this Vedic tip...I learn a lot from it

I am not joking. I used the same bottles for over 15 years in a factory. This is the first time i have ever seen a solid steel safety cap that gos over the top like that one. I always assumed the threads on the bottle was for refilling purposes.

12:45 very good description of shut down, so many weldors get bent out of shape if you mess with their settings.... I guess they are not smart enough to remember or record the settings for future use......and they would rather have damage done to their regulators instead of properly shutting them down not to mention the possibility of having a accident ....

Excellent. Greatly appreciated.

Just what i needed! Greetings, Jeff

Brilliant videos. This is just how I was taught OA welding in the 1970s. Once you learn how to control that pool, you never forget! Thank you. Do you have any on OA cutting?

this was the best i have look at.

i hope you add more classic video about fabrication and welding with best wishes

this is great I would be glad if you write some description about this......add more like this

When charging regulators the user must stand with the cylinder valve between the user and the regulator. This positioning will help protect the user should an regulator incident occur. Also soapy water used for leak tests must be oxygen compatable such as snoop. Common soap/deterget can build up over time creating a flammable buildup on the equipment.

Thanks. It is amazing. I got a lot.

I like how they teach us like we're idiots, it makes it so much eaier to understand.

6:40 he states the cylinder needs to be opened slowly to prevent damage to the regulator, it is also important to slowly open the cylinder to prevent Regulator Blow Out, where the friction and heat of the gas causes the regulator blow out with tremendous pressure and explosive force and flame......that is why you never stand in front or behind the regulator, only to the side, preferably with the valve between you and the regulator.....look up RBO on the internet, there are some good videos showing the results of opening the oxygen valve to fast....

Really informative. thanks for uploading. please upload videos for arc welding also.

best tutorial!!! thanks for share!!!

Excellent presentation.

Thanks for posting this

Great Basics Thank You

The OG version of TIG

It's very very nice to learn new skills and useful

do you have stick welding of this series

I wish I had the voice of the guy asking questions

Using ivory soap for that leak check??

OLD SCHOOL BABY!

0:04... (Director whispering) "energy! energy! energy!"

Audio is only on the left channel. If you don't hear it, check to see if your balance is set to full right.

Excellent.

thanks again

2020 and still useful

thanks for posting this very helpful video. any chance of part 2?

UNTIL THE FLAME BECOME BUSHY

Wow nothing has changed sincen 1979 or 1987 i forgot. I just did welding the other week and basically the same procedure in 2019

Theis is videos very good

5:20....states that putting a hose on a regulator with something in the hose could let that object be blown into regulator....how could that happen, as the regulator does not suck material in from the hose, it only allows pressure into hose...

very nice

good one.

My teacher was hard core welding . Welding metal with heat and it not brazing

According to OSHA regulation(s) you are required to have Flashback Arrestors. You are missing this in your procedure.

Mending two metals into one ok mig Tig stick and flux wire almost like mig but diff. And I'm off cool video oxyacetylene welding came aft old school welding and to what we got today in welding

In this video, and also in my "Oxy-Acetylene Weldor's Handbook", also from the 70s, they open the oxygen tank first, then the acetylene tank. In a newer dvd I bought, and in other youtube tutorials, it's "A before O, or up you go," in other words, acetylene first. Can any pros comment?

Main point don't over tighten. A lot of gas is lost by not checking for leaks

cool !!!

Can anybody compile these types of archival videos technical type. It will be useful for all

....do not use oils, but check for leaks with soap?

The acetylene connection at 10:30 ish didn't stop leaking completely. What's the procedure if it doesn't stop leaking, you can't just keep on tightening, you'll damage the seats then. Might already be damaged and that's why it's still leaking

Excellent. Only some bad teachers could thumb it down.

I learned that it was awesome in school what type of school not saying . Tig was born lol anyway subject off . If no electricity was available one had to weld with gas oxyacetylene welling robotics came later . Subject off good video

If you need a new idea. read an old book

Before that was heating metal the old fashioned way heat y'all know this by now it old school welding even if no gas was available

What filler rods were used?

Is it just me, or is there no audio?

That music was painful

torch srt

Is there such a thing as a dumb question, yeah !!

Too bad the sound is only in left channel. Next it would be ideal to convert the track in mono 25:27 "it could be eclipse?" "nah. nice try tho" lol 1979 blooper

Take a drink every time you hear “what’s happening now”

Annoyed Norm Macdonald teaching us to weld.

Welcome mga BSMARE ng MISAMIS UNIVERSITY!

Damn this video was made in 1979 older than me ...lol

No audio.

The production quality is laughably bad (I thought it was a parody at first) and I could live with that if the info was consistent and up to date. Unfortunately in the beginning of the second segment (about 14:02) he opens the tank valves and the pressure shoots right up in both gauges = the regs were never backed out when the bottles were shut down previously. This comes right after the first segment tells you to *never* do that. Unfortunately it's not funny enough to keep watching as a clown show, so I'll never get to see the rest of it. How does it end? ;)

Great video to make you doze off.