Welding Tips and Tricks

I failed. Nerves or something like that.

I like posting my not so good work to encourage others to post up too. No one is perfect and we can all learn from each other.



I took it a week later and passed.

I speak for my self but I hold no cert in welding at all but I love to weld and hope one I will pass all my cert on the first try ...( Sorry I am 6th gen welder so I hold my self to a higher lvl than most people) ... But my main practice in welding is to weld something and then destroy it to see what happens and then try improve on what I am doing wrong and why it was happening ..


Congrats
Jason SR

Grats on the cert. odd our teacher made us polish ours with flapper style wheels till we had silver bars.

I had no grinder or flap wheel. The Company I went to in order to get qualified had the coupons made up and only allowed me to use a wire wheel. I cleaned the coupon with the wire wheel the best I could before I started. I know how to prep metal when I put it together at work. I guess it is time to practice my horizontal and do that next.

I do mostly TIG at work and rarely stick. Only if the material is thicker than 3/8" or if it is rusty and covered with ink and mill scale will I break out the rods.