Why is Welding TikTok SO WEIRD?

Welcome back dear viewers! This week we're taking another deep dive into the wacky world of online fabrication content. On the internet there's a lot of incredible information, but there's also a healthy dose of nonsense...
Join us as we dive into some of the stranger trends in the online welding world! And if you're from WWA, we appreciate you guys drawing in more people to the trades! You guys just make some weird videos
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[@7alfatech860]

I am going to strongly second community colleges. They have standardized courses on everything from Oxy-fuel to Tig. And they are everywhere, Many will have certification classes as well. And the cost is unbeatable. You are not going to come out an expert, but that is true of any skill... it takes time.

[@thomaslaible3748]

Agreed, especially if you have instructors who respect the field and care about their students, you’ll be set up for success

[@LonTierney]

Your discussion on ego in welding… I took a course on welding - a half day course local where I live. The instructor easily spent half the time talking about how amazing they were. I said I was interested in learning TIG, and the instructor told me flat out “You can’t TIG until you’ve MIG’d for 1000 hours”. Yah, right…

[@jerrymartinez2160]

He’s not entirely wrong. Starting with tig is not the best way. If you can learn to control a puddle with stick or mig, you can translate that into to tig.

[@hockwald]

i started with tig welding stainless steel pipe, helped learning how to mig so much. IN MY OPINION.

[@michaelanderson3771]

Tay- Your comments re the old guys unwilling to share their skill comes from the old days when knowledge was power and Those guys only kept your job because they were difficult to replace. Guys like you that are prepared to share their skill for the betterment of the craft are so refreshing and will make such a huge difference. I have learned so much for YT over the past 2 years because we were in Lockdown and guys like yourself were prepared to share your skills, with a level of humility , humour and general decency. You are right - you will always have a job and paying forward is so much better than demoralising those willing to learn. I'm just about to turn 60 and want to start doing some custom car and rat rod fab and I only wish I had You tube in my late 20's and 30's as I would have been so much more capable long ago.

[@gmacka6333]

26:00 Thermite is a mixture of Iron oxide and Amuminum powder. Extremely hard to light, but once lite burns at approx 2200°C or 3990°F. You were on the right track.

[@htownblue11]

Fun stuff Tay. The “I’m a doctor” with the welding truck at a hockey game had me chuckling.

[@cae2487]

The old guy talking about the neck tie is bringing up the proper brass piece so that it can stay in position to provide protection because if its to tight you might not be able to hold it where it needs to be and if its too big it wont stay snug enough to stay in place. Him "kneeing" someone in the face is basically saying this is a cheaper and less painful lesson than getting it caught in machinery or something and choking you or mangling your face or killing you

[@twocoolnerds4628]

Hi Tay. (15:28) This Lincoln Idealarc 250 is AC/DC...the older Lincolns were all rounded on top, the chopped corners were later. This is the pro version of tombstones. No one will be hanging this on their wall...300lbs! Most 250s were copper wound...later smaller ones were aluminum (I've had a couple). Some guys swear these are the smoothest welding transformer welders made. Thanks for the fun videos!

[@xback40verland38]

This is awesome I’m a Christian and his is accurate more than the Catholic celebration of his suffering. Jesus died for all of mankind’s since day one to end if time! Then he rose from the dead. Trinity Father Son And the Holy Spirit. He defeated that cross and jumped off it. Celebrate His Rise and Love for us as he fulfilled prophecy. Look into it the time is near for His return. Seem like a decent dude so I hate to see you down in the real hot puddle with evil and ignorance and those that chose to not accept His gift to us.

[@xback40verland38]

22:20 laugh it up idiots 😊

[@Ron_EZ]

Yes, I just completed "Inert Gas" Cert & "Structural/Pipe" Cert with St Philip's College in San Antonio, TX Now I'm enrolled in Machinist Classes

[@jasondoolin55]

I could be wrong but I am pretty sure there isn’t a community collage in the country that teaches pipe welding !!! Very specialized trade … and 20,000 is a drop in the bucket to make 100,000+ a year as a pipe welder !!!

[@Comm0ut]

Many do. For example Central Carolina Technical College where I was a student, volunteer and employee. Their workforce training program had students passing 6G tests after 19 weeks steady welding. It was nearly all booth time. They have a structural and pipe degree program now and a pretty decent facility.

[@dangroce82]

The community college route is a terrific way to get an education, but it will take a lot longer than a trade school. Some community colleges are starting to get better about offering certification routes rather than the longer degree route.

[@Comm0ut]

The degree route is a better start for those wanting to move up to CWI and importantly Pell grants and other degree money funds degree programs for no cost to low income students.

[@wargamingsupernoob]

How has this one just now popped up in my feed?! 4 months late! Quick education Tay on the Idealarc 250. It's an AC/DC welder. 300 amps of AC and 250 amps of DC. Smoothest welder I've ever used. That one, like mine, was probably from the 70s/80s and should still run. The term tombstone does apply to that machine. You were getting this one mixed up with the BuzzBox. Those are the ones you can still get at Home Depot that does AC and 125 amp DC. (Lincoln still makes both by the way... Go get the Idealarc... You won't regret it...) I'm heehawing at the welder at the hockey game! It's what we live for. The conversation with Sydney made me think of something a guy asked me at work. "If I got two chicks and two poles in here, would you watch them?" I told him, my supervisor, and the guy who was with him that I definitely wouldn't be getting any work done... (Everyone I work with has been around or had something to do with hookers and drugs. Great bunch of guys though.)

[@stephenschuld2863]

Thermite welding uses metal for the fuel and a different metal for the oxidizer. Yes it is hot between 3k-4.5k F. Many different combinations of fuel/oxidizers exist, depending on the application.

[@jimysk8er]

I could see there being any kind of filler mixed in to be the alloy but isn't thermite, at it's base, just aluminum and iron oxide powders?

[@melgross]

This was actually a very interesting video, a lot of it is spot on.

[@dangroce82]

That old Lincoln “tombstone” was an ac/dc, that’s what the switch in the upper right corner is. It’s actually a very useable arc welder.

[@Comm0ut]

They came in both AC and AC/DC versions. Sweet arc too and just enough OCV for 7018. I have much more advance industrial machines and still use my Lincoln. The first ones given the tombstone nickname were the round top (popular farm welder, the top shed condensation) then the angled tops followed.

[@dangroce82]

​@@Comm0utbut "that" tombstone was AC/DC

[@vballout8613]

I damn glad I found this channel!!!!!!!!!!!!! You do great work and you response to the bunjesus well I blew my beer out of my nose lol should have renamed it lord velcro man, lol

[@richo220665]

The moulds for thermite welding are made from graphite. I used to work for a company that made them here in Australia

[@danielarney9729]

Reference to the dangers of loose clothes you can't walk or roll out of while getting pulled into or hung up on shit that will kill you in the field.

[@erikslagter3231]

The Spanish bridge railing: probably a repair on the spot... People don't have time to do a decent job.

[@Comm0ut]

Traditional forums like Weldingweb are outstanding. They were the ideal format for technical discussion but the internet is about social media more than information so places like WW and the Miller forums are underused. Tiktok is intended to be a silly venue so it is.

[@markkrick8602]

a mud box from a boiler... I spent some time in the Baltimore Coast Guard yard on ships boilers. Sucked on ice.

[@kylematteson3038]

Watching your videos pushed me to get my welder out. It's just a cheap Harbor Freight one that's been in the box a couple years. Brand new out of the box and the wire liner was bad.

[@bigjarn]

second was a steam recovery drum.

[@EyebrowsMahoney]

13:04 Hobart Cyber-Tig (100 series? - Control panel looks like a 100 series?) It's an AC/DC TIG/Stick box (Left hand control switches between AC, DCEP ("Straight DC") and DCEN ("Negative DC"))

[@roberta4989]

Geez, I thought having a ice cold beer at 1 o'clock on a Saturday was good, then I watched this episode. I was laughing with an ice cold beer in my hand. Wow, it's not even 2 o/clock and I am having a hell of a day. But, I am paying attention to my tie, I don't want a knee in the forehead. Thanks Tay!

[@mikecurtis2585]

Nice these are always fun 👍👍👍

[@nahboh1897]

That necktie one is probably about so you dont get stuck and hang yourself. he just overplays it with kneeing you in the face.

[@e.scottdaugherty8291]

I'm an electrician & when I'm working I'll leave my ANSI scrip side shields on all the time, Home work, bar, all good gotta be squinted up. I'm an electrician by trade [in Union] I can weld [and have for 30 some odd years] but I'm NOT a welder [not certified]. Hats off to those who do.

[@dennisshort4015]

Guys love the video got some laughs. Thanks

[@Goldpug]

When thermite reacts it consumes the Aluminum powder and it creates molten iron as the product

[@cferguson3368]

Walker, someone you know needs to make you a mic stand!

[@DanielMurphy-kq2ri]

Overhead welding is a breeze with a well calibrated pulse mig

[@daveboatman4024]

Thermite as I understand it is Aluminum and iron oxide (rust) in specific proportions and like you said generates its own heat and the iron is released from the oxide and flows into the joint. Probably other stuff in it depending on the situation.

[@MrClickbang357]

When it comes to welding upside down, i thought it was like the old sailor's adage "Gentlemen don't sail to leeward but the I remembered we're tlaking about welderw!!!

[@TheWhittleGreenVanUK]

I ca remember the days of it just being ARC welding 🤣 as when I learned you only had ARC ad GAS, and a few MIG welders in industrial processes 🤣

[@warrenjones744]

I would take a nickel for every Lincoln tombstone ever made. Hockey rink weld rig is priceless. My granddaughter has a friend named Sydney ...It could be the same person! 🤣 And finally, I am now that old guy, and It is time for me pay it forward and to share my knowledge and do it freely. We need tradesman of all kinds. So all you grumpy old guys that think it all a secret, you are so wrong, help a kid out. Good stuff Boys, very amusing.

[@Metalcrafter]

Good job, fellas. BTW Tay, Get me a bucket of emery sparks and stop asking so damned many questions.

[@richo220665]

😂

[@ahbushnell1]

Palomar college in Sand Diego has an excellent program. There is also grants for tuition. Nice equipment. AWS provides grants.

[@josephtalevich6407]

I couldn't get past the ego strokes, good luck Tay...

[@392BS]

The first welding machine looks like a Hobart Cybertig.

[@lizardkeeper100]

midget and dwarf aren't bad words to use to describe people if used correctly a midget is proportional and dwarfs aren't. I know this because a midget once yelled "I'm not a dwarfs, I'm a midget" when I called them a dwarf

[@brianneftalicontrerassanti3091]

"Why is welding content so weird?" Me: you wouldn't get it 😎

[@bigjarn]

yup sanding and paint will make you the welder you ain't

[@hobbiesrus]

There is Cadweld for running ground wires. Same idea as the thermite welding.

[@richo220665]

they 're also used for stud welding where the stud is machined and has cad ball in the end and a weld machine provides the current to start the weld and the machined part of the stud melts to piece your welding it to

[@bruceinoz8002]

#2? Hard-face? Not your basic mild or stainless rod? Standard work on things like excavator "buckets".

[@ryanedwards5666]

Actually, gas welding came first

[@scottresch9912]

Thermite It's aluminum and ferric oxide powders I believe. don't know I just make horseshoes lol😂.

[@davidkelly9218]

There is probably over 250 passes in that large weld close to 300 maybe?

[@schotzfired]

It’s very annoying when every welding content creator does pipe and preaches walking the cup on every possible joint. Stringers are better. Weave looks fancy.

[@squirrelgray945]

Ok only 2 min in but i just ordered a bulk pack of p100 filters from amazon and now I'm questioning the better price.

[@james10739]

Ya thermite is iron oxide and aluminum

[@hanswichmann5047]

The 1st one looks like common ship yard stuff. I used to work on subs with 8in or thicker double V hull joints. You could be on the same joint for MONTHS... Love your stuff...

[@nodriveknowitall702]

That sounds terribly boring.

[@MrClickbang357]

From what little I understand about thermite, it's Aluminum Oxide - creates the heat to melt steel (at the pace show in the video !!!). It does not stop until all the thermite is used up. COOL STUFF!!! Chemistry is FUN!!! Until you set some of this shit off in your dad's beloved workshop an have to explain to him why there is a 3 foot hole in his painfully hand laid concrete floor. Not that I know from experience, but if someone did, uhhh does this they may learn some VERY colorful language they never heard dad use before. WOW - so that's what they mean by sailor's vernacular!!!! 50 years later and it still makes "someone' CRINGE!!!

[@wannabejeeper]

Yup, that's a boiler drum. I run them for a living.

[@bigjarn]

overhead hence the rotisserie.

[@ahbushnell1]

Thermite is rust(iron oxide) and aluminium.

[@jax3032]

@9:44 im betting wind blew gas away and they tried to cover it up plus a bad fit up. too lazy to grind and fix properly

[@james10739]

I don't think normal people use reddit

[@xback40verland38]

35:25 he is saying you can catch hot shit and burn

[@gregorygiddings4676]

👍🏻

[@mikerow358]

You were half right... Thermite is iron oxide and aluminium oxide

[@randyharris8669]

Hahahaha awesome.

[@SchysCraftCo.]

😂😂😂

[@paulb3095]

you laugh at these comments of these less educated people applying for this school. I've watched several of your videos and you are constantly screwing up on simple things that you should know better if you were actually as good as you profess.

[@ProfessorDickweedMD]

Get back to work!

[@scottlamberson1046]

Unsubscribed today...

[@squirrelgray945]

Wait you don't care about Christianity?!?!? Unsubscribed... just kidding. I went full fanboy. About to sell my house and work for you for free.

[@xback40verland38]

@Squirrel Gray another pt of hot puddle member… why are you all so ignorant and uneducated in such times it is so simple to see His Love and accept is gift of Grace and eternal life. What do you lose by doing this nothing but gain everything. Your stance is a lose lose either way