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As a Boilermaker I've seen some bad fit ups. You try everything to get it the best you can. Five or six years ago me and my welding partner had a heavy walled 8" supply line. We done everything we was aloud to do, to get a good fit. We had the weld tech, Gf and the plant man over the Boiler come a look at it. After awhile they said weld it. The weld was in the 6g position, the bevels matched up good but we had tight 3/32 gap on bottom and a 3/8 gap on top. It was a interesting fun weld to tig the root pass in it. Out in the field sometimes you just get bad fit ups. Very nicely done root passing the fit up in this video.

When he said "we wouldn't accept this in the field" I laughed and laughed in boilermaker

As a former welder, This is excellent practice and instruction , because its not about whether you get a bad fit up but WHEN??...and the pusher says "Ehhhh!!...I know it's bad fellas but I don't have the time or budget to rework the fit, make it happen fellas that's why I hired you guys, I know you can handle it" as he slaps you both on the back walking away muttering he''ll check back later!!....And there you are out in the field glad that you went thru a training session like this to confidently proceed to make "FUBAR" HAPPEN and build that reputation for dependable professionalism that can be counted on!!....Great video and technique Fellas!!....thx for sharing!!👍

Former RT technician... I saw the title and my inspector sense started tingling. I had to watch. Great work, thanks for the vid.

Glad this kind of video came out.good info. I encounter bad fit ups on pipelines/oilfield locations all the time. Not much we can do but just to "WELD IT BIG BOY"! and tell them xray idiots they can xray deez nutz.

You guys are the people that keep America open. Great video!!

As a young amateur welder i learned quite a bit from this video, great techniques to practice and tryout. Thank you guys for your help in such a competitive market

Not that bad. I have closed up gaps up to 3/8" using a stick welder. Vertical ups. 7018 DC reverse. Having a well equipped shop with a cement floor is a bonus. I spent most of my time with a Miller 4 G doing that kind of work in a plowed field. Made for some interesting days. Have a good one and stay safe.

Love the videos I’m just starting to get into welding and y’all help me so much

Bless It’s like watching an artist at work. Really nice job. Thanks 😊

In my experience I’ve come to love those situations. It makes you a much better welder facing a nice challenge every once in a while.

I took a pipe welding course in 2001, we did all the same techniques shown in your video, 'walking the cup' in the 6G was my favourite. Our teacher was from the pipefitters union in Ontario. I learned alot but never joined the pipefitters union, too much travel and we were having our second child. I have been looking for a multi process welder to work with at home, they are getting pricey. Good video, thanks.

@5:48 nice tungsten inclusion there 👍

Dope video. We need more videos like this.. just men working lol doing things we normally don’t see and take for granted.. plus i like the small goofy things y’all did..

I'm also a professional 6G welder... Love to see it.. This is a part of our job. Nice weld bro.

Thanks for the video lesson. That was a lot of tedious work to just give us an example and I appreciate it and the commentary on the temp and wire size also. 👍

I know you aced it. You know you aced it. Respect.

Andreas Sure made that Cap out look really great considering the constantly changing amount of fill depth as he went around the Pipe. Beautiful Work.

Another great job. Could you please explain how to use measurement tools that you applied before welding?

Excellent demo, great close ups

nicely done, as u say sometimes u just gotta get it done even if u normally refuse such gigs like this u do come across em from time to time.

Right on! Thanks for the info!

True pro welder...Great job and looks better then any welds Ive seen....

So satisfying watching him walk the cup

🔥Nice work guys! 👊

Your welding skills are extraordinary 👍😎

Great tips! Thx!

Excellent video . Dude is an artist . Impressive

amazing work.

From start to finish, how long did it take to weld one of the joints?

Bad fit up is unavoidable. If you have been in the field long enough you will find some crazy stuff. I’ve seen quite a few of these “professional rig welders” do some really shitty work but they have a damn nice rig. Don’t let that intimidate you if you’re just starting out. It’s not the equipment as much as the person.

Gracias amigo muy bueno aprendí mucho de ti y resolví algunas dudas que tenía gracias. Awesome!! 👌 .. thanks buddy..

my welding teacher in the 10th grade was a do it right or dont do it at all type. he made us learn to gas weld with hand feeding the wire, like tig, but with gas. then we had to learn to stick weld, them mig. tig was last. i knew before then, i would make my living by working with metal. nice job, thank u for ur time sir.

This was pure beauty and wisdom. Love this video!

Nice work

Looks great bro I wish I had the equipment in my garage I would do this nonstop till I mastered every type of welding except underwater welding of course. Damn I'm soooo into this as for a living and hobby.

2 bead cap will help hide the hi-lo from the inspector too. Just little stuff like that will help get you by in a jam when your fitter is a mullet.

Representing the 915!! Hell yeah🔥🔥

Beautiful job

Looks great bro

Thanks you MR good job ❤

I don't weld. Always wanted to learn. I watch so many welding videos... This one was extremely in captivating.

Amazing!

nice close up video of the welding. what camera are you using? can you share more?

What torch are you guys using?

That arc out is crisp

Now that man is a tig hand 💪🏽

That's Amazing!

Nice job good looking welds

The last pass is so gorgeous 🤤

Are you welding multiple times the same line while increasing the amps each time ? to fill the hole ?

Well done

Great welding 👌

Thank you.

How much cool time do you leave between passes? Y Thanks for the great video 👌

Awesome 6g weld. Neat beading. Respect

This guy got the skills to pay the bills baby!

thats impressive weld sir

Exelente trabajo Nice

When I was a welder at a place that made burner cells for power plants I always got in arguments with the fitters about joints having excessive hi/lo points and bad bevel’s, But I always made it work . Was never happy about it tho

Damn great job!👍👍👍

looks good.

Esos guantes aguantan buena temperatura???

Great skill

Now that, looks like the stuff I get given to weld... Except yours is cleaned.

Gran trabajo viejo los felicito .una pregunta.,cuanto gana un soldador en usa ?

So perfect 👍

Watching this guy weld makes me wanna weld something up

Won't that area be prone to erosion from product hitting that lip?

"worlds worst fit up" you should have seen me when i decided to undertake my own exhaust work LOL

Stupid question....whats the reason you dont use mig on these welds? im not a pro welder, just wondering

Hello, I don't know what quality of solder you need. do you have problems of welding pollution with the corundum of the grinder disc?

Really nice welds...and welder yoga.

We gets all kinds of awful orders for things that don't fit together at all where I work, you get really good at dealing with it after enough time XD

Beautiful 😄😎🔥🔥👌

Mantap,,, good job

When something that difficult is made to look so easy you know that there is great skill behind that gun...great job making it look effortless

I can still remember in 1966 that the welding rods being used by our military that are made out of 20% chromium, 20% nickel, 3% tungsten, 8% molybdenum, 5% tantalum, 5% niobium, 3% ferro-mischmetal rare earths alloy mixture, 1% carbon, .25% boron, 3% zirconium, 2% cobalt, and 29.75% iron. We use them to weld military grade alloys for various vehicles and equipments. And that also includes nuclear reactor components not exposed to radiation after the 2sd heat exchanger engineering section using inert beryllium fluoride salts.

I want to see root pass inside. Can i ?

Why do you use 90 amp for the root and 175 for fillers?

How long did it take you???

wy add the material by hand?

I'm just learning how to TIG weld and I believe you just showed me why my verticals have been looking like trash.

I'm wondering what it looks like on the inside. What kind of material flows would flow through the pipe and what kind of inclusions or protuberances if any are on the inside of the pipe. Longevity of the pipe depends on how the weld turned out inside.

95 amps on the bead! 150 for the hot pass! Runnin a little cold huh ? Don't be afraid of that little round knob. Heat is your friend. 1/8" of hi/lo holy cow man how did you manage that ? 3/16" gap,what a gash! If that's your idea of bad you ain't lived. Let me know when you can get four fingers on one. With a glove on. 3/16 is my preferred gap for a field weld.

This might be a dumb question, but I want to know, what happens if you dont do it right? Does it have that much pressure inside that pipe line or with time it will break ? Can anyone explain it please, thank you

If only I had some Custom Metal Fab guys that could Weld even just a lil like that, run a press, run a Bridgeport/Mill, a lathe, and a watertable like me and my pops man sky's the limit where I'm at I just need people that wanna learn or know what they're doing down In white house TN lol awesome video my man 💪

Excellent demonstration and explanation. I had never considered how helpful it would be for penetration to feather down the edges of a tack-weld - it makes perfect sense and I'll add it to my list of processes to try. One question, what's the thickness of the wall on the pipes being welded please?

That cap is weld candy

That was a beautiful job you did there I have a nice welding machine but it wouldn’t be big enough I have a dynasty to 10 DX when you start getting up at 175 amp area the duty cycle wouldn’t be enough to do a job like that but I use it for little things anyhow this is a Jim mungai from Kennerdell Pennsylvania

So what was actually done differently for this weld? I know F/A so to me it just looked like a standard welding process but the pipes are misaligned, how/why does that affect how you weld it? How did you deviate from a "normal" weld here?

I remember welding a pretty worse fit where one side had a gap of 2mm and the other side was more than 15mm All was welded with 6mm elektrods with a smaw welder The man who was doing the cutting did a terrible job using an astilin* torch on 8insh round tubes

Super 🔥🔥🔥

hoping next video its done using stick welding, same situation bad fit & all, just curious if its doable using stick, 😁

“Best I can getcha is a half inch”

Looks beautiful I don't see what the problem was LOL

I’m still in school for welding, my instructor tells me not to change the temp from root to hot, is that just something to do when your learning?

buen trabajo nene

Thats a bad fit up? That honestly looks better than every fit I've had in the past 2 weeks...