I love this stuff dude!

I will end with this. There are just some folks who where trained one way. And they where never challnged on the “hows and whys” they do their practices.

And some folks when they are respectfully Challenged they take the time to really contemplate that. They will sit and try to see if there is validity to the Challenge they are getting.

But again some folks will take these questions and challenges as an insult. They’ll take it as an insult to their Mentor and to themselves. So at that point the question of “why” does not matter anymore.

You’re now dealing with their ego and some folks lash out to that. Not everyone but It happens. Especially if it’s someone in a place of authority for a long time.

Rad videos dudes, keep crushing it!

Its a bummer when folks make you do extra bits with your work even when they are code compliant. I have had to reshoot x rays after a LIII did not like my use of wire pennys. They where so use to seeing hole pennys. And they made us reshoot the bits at our cost, due to their lack of comincation. I hated using hole pennys but if thats what was used, I wont just kick back film because of it.

There are a lot of EGOs( speaking to the bad perception of ego) in the code welding world.

Code is code, it can be more stringent. And companies and plants just like what they like. Sometimes thats because they have had a bunch of failures in the past, and they want to mitigate that, they dont know what they dont know, and there are folks that this is their arnea where everyone kisses their ass and they love it. There are other postive Applications as well.

Whenever I have an open root thats vertical with stick or short circuit mig, I weld it down hill but I do repair work that is not code work

Charles Rush most of the time its your stick out dude. You need to be Further away with your stickout than say hardwire. The flux needs time to heat up and if you are to close you will trap surface porosity. You just need to go off the recommended stick out from the manufacturer. This can also happen if you are to far away as well.

Here is a youtube link with Jason Becker talking in more detail about this .

https://youtu.be/hz1gBjRqgqk?si=eUubH5PvjDA2Cjsr

JD Brewer I could not get a video to post on here. So I took some screen shots. Thats the gun angle I run on my 2F root passes with dual sheild. And If I do a multi pass 2F I run like a more normal gun angle. And again, I am not sure this is the main factor. I think going faster, staying on the leading edge , and making a smaller weld is whats helping with the .045 wire to fuse in a 2F weld.

JD Brewer This has been the gun angle ish that I been trying to use , along with everything else I have typed out.

this is how I explained my gun angle to someone else as well my dude. I used what I had at the time. I am not sure if this is the “main thing” , as I think just having .045 wire was the real ticket. And going faster while staying on the leading edge .

JD Brewer This is an x ray that I did with some .035 2F and you can see the lack of fusion at the root . Its in the middle of the orange lines. Its the dark line in the middle.

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