Excellent video!! I’m a 40 year building contractor, concrete & masonry guy I’m a very new welder, never thought steel absorbed steel…. I did figure the low winter temperature… here in WNY…. I guess there’s no welding in my cold ass garage. It’s delicate fender patches, I don’t want any errors or faults. I’ll try March 31st….

Best explanation I've seen after watching many videos thank you 💪👍

What if I can only get to one side?

Interesting. Im setting up to run some copper welding trials very soon. I want to weld 65mm Kembla copper pipe at a 'T' joint for a homebrew beer font. I dont want crappy looking braze joint ... instead ill try a (possibly/likely) crappy weld joint!

7014 has to be easiest rod to strike an arc and weld but sure has ugliest slag.7018 is hard to start but best looking weld and ez scorpian slag

6011 is a all purpose AC/DC burn through paint and rust

Not good cutting.

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This is a big help, thanks

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Great video, thank you! One question, if the weld is being done on two pieces of metal being attached through a hole on one metal, spot welding basically , do I heat the metals while they're pressed together or heat them each separately?

Thank you! These are the steps that are missing in other peoples set up videos 😊

why didnt u grind both sides and weld it whole seemse harder

What wire speed did you use??

What type of flame arrester can be installed on a domestic gas cylinder when used with an oxygen cylinder for cutting in some workshops?

Ya you really should have shown the "how to set up" part instead of skipping it. Definitely the most important part.

Nice video. What size tanks are you running?

Obviously, it's not that way.

I dont guess ive seen a prettier torch

Back in mid 1980s,after I got out of 2 years diesel mechanic school,my first job was building demolition and excavation company. Almost all bigger buildings had steel I beams and H beams. They used the 80 gallon propane tanks and the big Dewar oxygen bottles. Torches were about 3.5 feet long,with as many as 3 people cutting on one set of tanks.

Point the heat into the cylinder and it gets trapped longer and would work

That helped. Very clear, and I'm glad you showed how to test the tank and what it looked like if there was a leak.

I'm going to try this, and I'm planning to create a tiny hollow at center, on the side I'll be hitting. Gonna use a center-punch, and possibly drill a small hole (1/16 inch, 1.6 mm deep). I think that may help the metal spread out more easily with less effort. Note: Will probably need to grind or file the top FLAT before making the dimple.

Nice to the point!

Is this machine good enough for .25 thick steel to weld with

Did you have it plugged into 110 or 220? I’m looking at this machine presently and everything you said definitely help make a decision on this will probably suit my needs just right. It’s just for helping some neighbors that have different types of trailers that seem to break the simplest things on them. Also did you happen to try and weld any stainless steel ? By the way I liked how thorough and detailed you explained each and every part of the machine that you would use.

All electrodes come in different sizes lol

I'm just wondering why you didn't go with an open butt joint which would have given better penetration.

@0:19 that is a 1/8" rod. No way that is a 1/4" rod.

Thanks for the info

Melt 50 quarters into one giant coin

Love the helmet

Why you not show how to replace batteries

I bought semi-automatic, gasless, one knob (material thickness), 200 amps welder. Its wire feeder start slowly and then accelerate. Not used yet.

Another video showing a Lincoln welder shows that the leads are wired wrong with negative ground . Is the Harbor Freight also wired negative ground and should it be reversed to pos grd and neg to the wire?

6013 need more manipulation for better results opposed of 7018

No wonder why I weld terribly in cold weather, blotches, slag inclusion, overall shitty welds. Thanks for the info, you are very helpful

I would love to know the melting point of that alloy.

awsome video was looking to see if i could melt copper with a torch for spincaster you saved me bro. 90 percent copper 10 percent aluminum told looks like gold . thankyou for video

Going to try this with Al roofing nails for my leather belt. The string that holds the clip at the end came apart.

Inverter machines suck for MMA wont keep lit worth a crap

Dude, you used 80 amps on the rods that recommend 40-60 amps. It's was OBVIOUSLY burning WAY too hot for the 6013s. Which also makes the slag much harder to chip off. You can't be serious with this video...

Should I pay 150 for my flex pipe from my car exhaust to be cut off and weld a new one or should I buy a 125 flex welder and learn myself and do it myself. They both about the same price

Hi, i have a question if we perform the butt welding on steel plates 10cm wide and 5 mm thick. Can we use this sheet to produce the coil by hot rolling? Will the joint sustain the hot rolling process?

Yes and before putting on gauges always turn tank on for sec to blow out anything in you bottle do that stuff don’t get in your regulator.

What you are attempting is in fact an autogenous weld. Your filler material will be as close to identical to the tube material. That is the definition of autogenous. TIG welding these two parts would be your best option.

That copper tube does not contain any steel. It's almost pure copper just like your filler wire. The extra strength you are talking about comes from the cold forming process in the manufacturing of the tube itself. When you heat it to weld it you will anneal it locally and soften that area.

Such a great video, thanks! I’m a beginner and have been worried about doing this! My instructor recommended flashback arrestors; curious why those weren’t used here?

Great straight forward review. I just ordered this welder yesterday thinking it had tig ability according to their add. Now I will have to return it because of the lack of the tig feature. Thank you for the review.

You've got a real good voice and this looks of good production value video, but then you're comparing different diameter rods. Please do another comparing the rods but with the same diameter. You were the first result in a '6011 vs 6013' search; please use that youtube algorithm advantage to make a fair comparison.