What’s The Best Advice You Have Received?
Formal welding education at a trade or technical school can be worth every penny and is usually a requirement for anyone interested in entering welding as a career. But, it’s often those little on-the-job tips and tricks they don’t always teach in school that can prove invaluable.
It might be a simple time saving tip like using a pneumatic hammer to chip away slag or a creative way to overcome bad fit up. Sometimes they’re even suggestions that contradict the conventional wisdom, but work well in specific environments and applications.
We invite you to share with us the best piece of welding advice you have received. It can be advice related to a specific application, such as MIG welding aluminum or pre-heating chrome-moly steel, but it can also be advice related to other topics, such as pursuing a career in welding or buying a new welder.
Whatever it is, share your best tidbit of welding advice by posting a comment below. And if there is a issue you would like to read about in a future blog posting, click here to suggest a topic.
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September 26th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
use a 4 inch electric grinder with a 4 and 1/2 twisted wire brush to clean weld slag and polish welds at the same time. It saves time and labor.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Turn your heat down. Most newer welder persons run too much amperage to compensate for inexperience. You will learn that you have much more control over the arc and puddle with lower “heat”.
October 13th, 2007 at 5:18 am
when welding a triple pass weld, allow the welds to cool between passes and your welds will not flatten out
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
My old man always says “If you want a pretty weld…you have to start pretty.” Clean and prep the area throughly.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:27 am
i have help 8 display.can anybody help me how can i solve it.my welder is maxstar 200str i already change the pc2 board and pc10 boast control board together with pm1 power module..thanks roland
November 1st, 2007 at 9:01 pm
MOST BEGINNERS DONT KNOW YOU CAN DO OR USE ANYTHING ON A WELDING TEST YOU WOULD NORMALLY USE IN THE COURSE OF WELDING IE ELEC GRNDR W/ BEAD BRUSH OR GRIND WELD CLEAN TO PREVENT SLAG INCLUSION, ALSO ON MULTI PASS WELDS FIND OUT WHAT UR MAX INTERPASS TEMP IS & LET IT COOL BELOW THAT BEFORE UR NEXT PASS BUT DONT GO BELOW UR PREHEAT
November 18th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
I think the best advice I have ever received is whenever you want to make the best weld possible, make sure you are comfortable enough to relax while welding. And breathe!!
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 pm
weld like you are a machine smoothh
January 4th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
shoulder to the holder train your arms ,tune your ears ,an stay fit for those tigt places
January 27th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Most of the testing that I have done in the power industry as per boiler certification was done in a shop with the instructor saying you can only use a file or a wire brush. Believe me it has paid for in respect to getting the right amps and travel speed down perfect. The main thing was to be in a relax condition and don’t let your nerves take control.
January 28th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Read, read and then read some more, A monkey can lay a bead but to know and understand what you are actually doing is where you’ll excel
June 13th, 2008 at 7:59 am
get an education in whatever you want to do.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Does anyone know of some brush up coarses or teaching for these new welders?Most of all is there an online site for help?
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
turn your cap sideways to protect your up-hand ear, and don’t walk from joint to joint, RUN LIKE HELL!!