Outboard guard got crunched at a shipyard assist job, whipped up a new one.
December 08
• Edited (Dec 08, 2024)
4043 practice beads on 3/16 6061. It's what I have to practice on. Miller #17 torch 2% lanthanated tungsten, furick pro cup #8 balled tip from letting the tungsten do it's thing, 3/8 stick out, 165amps. Feeling pretty happy since this is my first go at this. Thanks to Jody for about 25 hours of watching his videos over and over every night here trying to learn. Any feed back would be welcome.
October 28
Just got an Optrel Crystal 2.0 hood. First time I looked through it, thought "holy shit, this is amazing!" I thought my 10+ year old Lincoln was awesome, but this thing is in an entirely different universe. Comfortable, and weighs next to nothing. The blue tint while darkened is a little weird, and will take getting used to. The optical clarity is super sharp, and the color....wow. Photo was taken through the hood. The downside is, it'll be one less excuse for why my welds suck!😀
October 24
• Edited (Oct 24, 2024)
Real-time application. Fillet weld welded with freehand technique only, diameter of the pipe was around 70 mm. Sometimes you cannot weld with cup walking. I am quite surprised, that people are "obsessed' with cup walking. It's often common to see in WPS's that too big weaving pattern like this one is quite often forbidden and stinger beads are forced to be used, i.e., max width of stringer bead is 3x diameter of filler rod etc.
This particular joint was made using just 2 mm diameter of filler rod. My own "rapid dab of filler rod using freehand technique" was used here and it never failed me. I often try to point out my students, "when you lock yourself to cup walking, there will come troubles with materials like aluminium and so on, not to mention tight spaces...".
Oh, by the way, in my current company here in Norway, they use these standard gas lens bodies on the welding torch. Not even shortened variants. I miss my furick cups, but it is how it is, hard to turn around in circumference, plenty of stops and restarts, but it can be done up to the perfection, where restarts are barerly visible.