I’m Joey, one of your WelderSkills admins and Jody’s sons. I’ve been learning to MIG weld with dad for a few weeks now and I’m really enjoying it. You’ll hear from me a good bit in the future, but thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself using the new community feature.

I’m looking forward to all the cool stuff our members are going to post once we go live with the new platform. It’s gonna be a lot more fun around here for sure.

I’d also like to give a big thanks to all the members who have stuck with us through all of this, and for bearing with us as we migrate the WelderSkills service to something that will be a lot better!

Using Miller Pipe Worx 400 to practice for a weld test. This is the most expensive machine I have used. 3/8 inch plate with 37.5 angle bevel, 1/8 root opening, 1/16 landing. Mig root downhill. Dual shield flux core up hill. If click the trigger on any of the two guns the machine will automatically switch over with the saved settings. Crazy expensive

Hi all,
Tonight I was given the opportunity to have a tour of a race teams facility.
This is a photo of one of the chassis, they are a controlled component by the racing series and are made from chromoly
I have a question about the “tack” method of mig welding some of the tubes.
When I asked the guide, I was told that they would like to tig everything, but these certain joins are required to be migged, as per the design rules/specifications.
Just wondering if anyone could give any insight as to why these certain joins would need to be migged? As opposed to tig?
And also is the stack of tacks method used due to it being chromoly and needing to control the heat input? Is this a viable technique?
I thought the series of tacks would maybe cause potential failure points, especially with the craters on each?
I will add another zoomed out photo in the comments
Thank you 😁