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No link to that stick welder you like so much?

Nice! Can you make a video on how to stick galvanized pipes?

Love it man, good tips for newbies.

The start of the video was me today 😭

And fine work... and Texas tig. Ya you can do almost anything with an old lightning box and some rod

Honestly this is what I thought the "Trick" was going to be.

Yep, that's what I do.

@@damionlee7658 me too

this video could have been 5 seconds long.

I light tap with a little tickle. Lol seriously

I think that was all of us when we first started... 🤣

Same goes to me .. until now .. Hahaahaaa

Thanks for the caution!

Does gloves insulate well ? especially when the worker is sweating .I believe normal welding gloves are meant to resist heat

@@rex_schd Probably better than bare hands and as long as your not in contact with the welding machines ground there's likely no issue. But, after my experience and to this day, I turn the welder off when replacing rods. Probably overkill but that one experience was enough for me.

Thank you

Yeah it's rare but it can happen it happened on a factory my grandfather was working a guy died from it

+lashes are the best eye protection for grinding

Safety squints!

I think your tampon protects you from your "GAYNESS"

Nice to see other alpha male on youtube

Shaun you’re so full of it lol

everybody lol

Same here, Bud. Especially the toss the thing and walk away. But it's a bike riding type deal... get on it again after a smoke and get to it.

Me this afternoon trying to weld 0.5mm steel tubing onto flat 0.5mm box , with a 2.5mm rod ( cos I hate the 1.6mm rods I have , they fly everywhere ) I made some dirty holes in that thing ..

LMAO that was funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah, they've got all those "sensor" thingies...

😂😂

How are you still alive

@@igorpadurjan5714 because he welded himself back to great shape everytime he's broken.

@@cid4887 genius

He didn't tell you he welded once 49 years ago and then again last year, hell been welding for 50 years right??? . Ya, I've met a few 50 year welders. Can't figure out one end of a rod from the other.

Bitch I've done it since i was born.

so if I'm holding my welding hand with my off-hand, who's holding the stinger and rod? 🤪

I do the same as you sometimes. Not all the time. How I do it depends on how and what I’m welding

Hell I still struggle like that with 7018

No Sh*t....the 1st minute was me in my first day of school years ago.

😂

Definitely me

That’s still me! 😂

Lol

I bet your welds are beautiful unique pieces of art.

I’m on a lot of medication that give me the shakes, the trouble is the more I think about it the worse I get.

@@markharrisllb I shake lots too but it's from drinking to much the night before with the boys. The shakes are how I put the ripples in

@Durval Clinton Ya no need to be rude but durval is right😂

So many questions... Who drinks milk anymore? How was this funny? Do you go the the movies? - if yes, are people around you always triggered? What if you hear something even more humorous before the end of the year, will you come back and edit your comment? Please... help us understand!

@Everything, @ben gib, @Protus: Enthusiasm destroyers....

@ HTHC As a professional welder, I also find this very funny. Keep up the good attitude bro' and don't let the haters bother ya! See ya, gonna drink some milk too.

@@salvagedsteelstudio 🤭 humour police in the house!

Mother's milk?

This. Exactly this. If you're doing a reasonable bit of stick welding you're going to have some stubs laying around that still have enough on them for a few good tacks- just drop them in a handy box or container near the whole rods and grab one or two as needed when tacking. :) I will say though, if you run out of stubs, or are away from your normal welding area/supplies, then this method is a lifesaver. :)

I agree, keep decent length stubs for tacking, also keep you from cracking and breaking the flux on the rod from weight strain using this guy's method.

Or just 2 hand your electrode, other simple solution.

@@timm.6391 - that's definitely what I do when welding (guided the tip with my other hands fingers), but when tacking small things like in this video, you really need to hold them still. Yes, you can clamp them, but for small quick things it's usually down to holding them by hand and one handing the stinger... that's when the tricks above come into play. ;)

Or just tack with you low power wire feed... wire feed flux has its place it larger welds, one being simply fast tacking

it might if you have any uninsulated skin touching the ground source, I.E. your table, or the trailer frame, etc. At least if it doesnt kill you, it makes for a REALLY bad day, and a fun story you can tell the grandkids about that scar.

@@fakiirification wouldn't you be fine as long as your ground was correctly hooked to the work? The electricity should go to the path of least resistance.. or would you become that path?

@@LukeA_55 yes, in most cases you would be fine. But we don't plan safety gear around the 99% of the time scenario. It's that one time something bad happens that gets ya.

@Aaron Czechlski I can feel a slight tingle through my gloves sometimes.

@@LukeA_55 The greatest danger exists while the electrode is away from the work and there is no arc. Under this condition the electrode will be charged up to the welding machine's Open Circuit (OC) voltage, and the welding machine operator will be the only conduction path. Putting the operator in parallel with the electrode while the arc is lit will expose the operator to the arc voltage, which is generally around 20 to 24 volts, and likely wouldn't be noticeable to most humans. OC voltage can be upwards of 72 volts, which can cause a pretty serious shock for all but the most calloused of humans. If the machine is modern with a high-frequency pilot, then the electrode will see pulses of the pilot voltage, which is essentially the discharge from an ignition coil. The purpose of the pilot voltage is to create an initial path of ionized air between the electrode and the work, and could be upwards of 20 kV (Twenty thousand volts.) Bottom line: Stay out of touch.

first minute...show off

first minute...show off

Alex Miller that doesnt make sense

nightmare in action yeah, it does. But only 72% of 81% of the time.

Mel Gross I dont think you know what I mean it's from an old movie

It doesn’t matter, I’m sure that most people didn’t get the reference. A post needs to stand on its own. I think you should be responding to nightmare in action instead. At least my response was an attempt to be funny.

Lol if you flip the rod to the other side of the stinger the 6011 is upside down, but it perfectly turns into the number 1109. Making it an entirely different rod meaning it starts right up

Lol.... Good one!

or 6

Yes yes and yes he'll its only Electricity

No wonder all drunk construction worker's do miracle at my work

Until you wake up one day and find you have shaky hands and a sweaty face when you don't have any beer left. Thats always fun.

this is ok for a hobby/backyard welder but if I saw a fellow tradesman doing this id be taking the piss out of him for the next week. If I saw you doing this I would question your abilities as a tradesman.

@@thebob3712 lol as a boilermaker for 19 years id do the same thing they would be doing other things besides welding

Just hit the end of the rod off the table, it usually breaks off pretty good. Good tip though!

Just file the bastard...with a bastard file.

When I went to welding school, they taught us to put the rod in the stinger and scratch the underside of the metal table with it. The combination of scraping the rod across metal and arcing it up, cleans the rod end well enough to make it useable.

Josias von Leiswolf I just knock it off with my finger or drag it along something

I just us thumb of my glove fresh start every time

A good welding machine has an amp jump at the Beginning then drops it down

Ian Smith That’s right, some of us don’t have a good welding machine though haha 👍🏻

Marty McFly yeah I gotcha man. To be honest when I was doing stick in welding school we had really nice machines but if I was doing a bunch of tacking I’d crank the amps

@@KingOath Yup, that's my machine. A real old Hobart AC machine . I've tried everything possible and the only 2 rods it will weld with is 6011 and 6013 . And even then its a challenge getting the rod to start actually welding.

gumboot65 Yeah same, mines newish but just a budget AC buzz box to get me by till I can learn and buy a TIG. For some reason everytime I use it I have to find the right current setting again and it can be wildly different from one day to the next, same material same rods haha. The other day is was burning along perfectly at 50amps on a 2.5 rod, a week later it wouldn’t even strike at 50 and I ended up running it on 95amps doing basically the exact same type of weld 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ya I ether do that or I find them in my pant cuffs when I wash my pants

I thought about this. My trick is just to use my mig. If it's too thick, I can't weld it so I don't bother and instead wish I had a stick. Good trick though.

I do that too, but I have done it like in the video to

I just clamp halfway down the rod, wiggle the rod until the flux falls off and I have a good connection

Let's just be clear (From a Power Lineman) that 100 amps is about 99.9 amps more than is needed to end your life. The volts do not matter, they aren't what kills you, it's the amperage. 12v at an amperage even close to 1 (just 1 amp) is plenty enough to stop your heart. Not ragging on you, but the way you said it could leave some to believe that "It's just 50 volts DC, it can't hurt you" which is very false. Stay safe out there.

@@TheUndyingAngel666, thanks for the cautionary counterpoint. With those numbers, are you talking AC or DC?

@@TheUndyingAngel666 You are of course correct about amperage being the killer (My first elex instructors of the US Navy taught the 30 milliamp lethal minimum.) but voltage is directly related. The inherent resistance of the human body will limit the current to less-than-lethal magnitudes (and likely less-than-noticeable) if only 12 volts is applied. In the US for just the reason of nominal body resistance, UL cert for an electrical appliance is not required for devices that operate at less than 48 volts peak. The greatest threat caused by potentials in the 50 volt neighborhood is the likelihood of secondary mishap. The welder gets shocked and the start/jerk/jump/twitch doesn't kill the welder, but the fall/drop/etc that results from the sudden involuntary motion kills someone else and/or the welder. Second your assertion that "50 volts is harmless" is false. But also concur with Kenny that the angst that one would experience dealing with utility line voltage or even household load center voltage is going overboard when applied to an arc welder. Thanks for your service out there with the big voltage. May the fangs of the Blue Light Serpent never find you. PS. Yes, there are ways to make even twelve volts hurt like hell, but this is a family-friendly forum, so they won't be mentioned...

@@leehaelters6182 With regard to heat-generating potential, 50 VAC is equivalent to 50 VDC. With regard to dielectric breakover such as sudden conduction through a glove, 50 VAC is more hazardous as 50 VAC == 50 Vrms which has a peak potential of ~71 volts.

@@mikebrookes3856copy that, and thanks!

Theoretically simple? - you'll find out in class, if you can afford the tuition.

Thats exactly what most of people do

Yea agree higher amps less resistance in current flow = easier start up making nice tack welds, or using smaller rod for tacking allowing for less energy resistance making a better arc. Also making sure to have a good ground for very good start up also matters quite a bit.

C W ain’t that the truth!!!

No... you must grab brush... by very far end. Teach control an concentration Daniel son

I just did a little bit of welding this past weekend for the first time with a 70 amp harbor freight stick welder and eventually went to this technique after realizing there was no way I could hold it by the clamp lol I agree, it's great to know I inadvertently was using a trick that is known!

@@checkpoint3260, wax on, wax off!

I have done that 1/2 size rods, too. Makes it easier to do a series of short stitch welds, and it helps when you're welding in tight spaces.

But muh munster coupon?

Yup after 40 years being certified... the half rod comments were wearing on me... 6011 turn the heat up and learn how to weld! Its pretty simple...

@@robertsherman8887 All machines run 6011's?

@@henryrollins9177 It's pretty simple the first two or three numbers are the Rod metal spec's and the last 2 numbers are the Position the the last number is the flux compound. 1 is All position vertical, overhead and flat. 2 is horizontal and flat and 3 is Flat only. 6011 all position 7018,8018 9018 11018 all position. 7014 all position 7024 flat and horizontal...

I worked in a railcar shop, and large parts would come in covered with snow and you would get wet. You had to be so careful, your every move to keep from getting lit up!! Also with so many positions close together, everywhere you looked someone was striking an arc.