/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1057489
if it's too light is not going to roast your eyes right away. I've done it many times. going from tigging at 95 amps with a shade ten. then 180 amps with a shade ten, I'd see spots (nothing serious, just like looking at a ceiling light when you start to see spots) them I'd jump up to a 12 or 13

>>1057472
depending on lighting / your amperage you may need to go lighter yet. sometimes I'll run a fixed shade 12 and others I'll run a 9. just don't go too light, my rule of thumb is light enough to see but not so light when I'm done welding I still see the arc.

>>746132
Its so weird stick welding on an electric machine, every time I stick weld is with my engine driven. Just weird that is so quiet. Hah

>>745963
Yea, you can mig stainless. But if your going to to stainless exhaust, I would tig them.

>>745305
Oh sorry didn't read your whole post. Hah.
No it wouldn't be quicker or cheaper. Less wire used, less weld = less time. Also, if it were thin material a continuous bead could warp it.

>>745305
I think it was just a trash dumpster for on awell pad, I can't remember correctly though.

>>745219
I'll get a picture of mine tomorrow, supposed to be nice out

>>745215
Nah, It was a good shot. Bastards always had me doing the xray work. It's hard to get a good picture of roots

Rig on the right was the one I used to run

Here's a free hand root, 4" Sch 40 on a rotator

Haha yall got it made! Yea, when I did shop work I was one of the "experienced guys"

When I tig root I have my wire fit through my gap, no land or very little. So im feeding my wire from the bottom of the pipe as I weld it but the wire is onside the pipe.

One or two? Holy! Haha. That's crazy.
oh no, postioners! I despise them! I always pick on people that rely on them. Tell them you can't flip an aircraft carrier over to weld that bottom. Though positioners are awesome for those lazy days!

>>745190
I free hand like a boss, I need to start taking pictures of my work

>>745164
I work for mainly the drilling rigs over here in pa. Little bit of pipe work alot of it is easy repair work. The companies I work for don't have their own welders.

>>745149
I knew a few guys from my previous job, I ran a rig for another company for awhile. Me personally, I go to the companies I want to work for and send up accounts with them to be a vendor. When something breaks, they call me to go out and fix it. Then from there, they find out how you act, how you work, they learn you. From there you can meet people while you're out in the field working.
Some other welders I know have their own trucks, insurance, and all the jazz that I have but they have no contracts like me. They rely on other guys going out and finding them work, he then calls the welders to do the work he finds. But say he takes ~15% of what they make that job.
As far as the pay goes. Sometimes if your welding exotic metals you charge more and what not. Myself I just charge a flat rate to keep out confusion and to try to be fair with my customers. Around here its 85$ an hour for me, my truck, and my consumables.
Right now I'm just a one truck, one man show. If it goes well next year I will buy myself a new diesel set up and possibly put someone in my truck that I have right now.
On my way home from my 22 hour shift I got another phone call of someone looking for a welder, 5 hours from where I was at. Told him if he can't find anyone else I'll go but I was on the opposite side of the state. Luckily he found someone else.

>>745090
Hahahahaha. They say "you own your own comapny? You drive a lifted welding rig? Oooh gas patch work? Let me take my panties off while I get in your truck"

>>745109
Definitely not the case

>>744935
Hey thanks, I was broswing on there before but never posted. I'll sign up!

Damn 22 Hour Day. I just got home, took the check to the bank! Woop!

>>744559
There's a possibility of charging milage? Can also claim taxes on it.

>>That's where I'm lucky. I get paid from the minute my truck leaves my driveway until it pulls back in.

>>744488
Just some water treatment. You know, marcellus shale shit.

Just got a call for some work. Tigging some stainless Sch 10 6". About 30 joints, 3 hours from home.

When I get called I drop what I'm doing and go to work

>>744240
Ah that's right its Huntington Ingalls. My bad. I was in the detail pipe shop / nuke shop.

>>744236
Norfolk? They're hiring 1500 civilians now.