Another Caterpillar excavator bucket

well here the last couple days last two days I uh I noticed that since I cleaned up the super duty service truck and waxed it that uh the truck rack looked horrible I made the truck rack look really bad by by cleaning up the the cab and the bed and there's no amount of cleaning that was going to make the truck rack look okay I had to do dabbing some dosing with some paint to improve that situation so here's what I ended up doing you can see all my gears gone out of the truck rack and I've put some paint did A little dab here and inside the bed and I got my gear scattered you know all over the place and that that was going pretty good but then I had to push the pause button on the Super Duty pause and here's the reason why all right local outfit got a hold of me got another caterpillar hoe bucket in here that they uh they need it fixed and it they need it pretty quick if they can get it uh first of the week so I'm Gonna Keep I'm Gonna Keep Going boring down on on it trying to get it fixed up for them throughout the weekend so let's take a look at it real quick before I go gouging on it this is another caterpillar bucket this is a three-footer this is just a smidgeonation smaller than that that last one I did foreign but I don't think you need a PhD in wearology to understand that you can just look at this thing and say man that thing's wore out it just needs a little work done on it um and and I'll tell you something that I was really glad to see about this bucket is this bucket hasn't been goofed with before uh not that I can tell if anybody's worked on it before I can't tell this this bucket looks to me like it came from Caterpillar and went to work got wore out and now it's here now I have seen where somebody's put these bars here that's that's good that ain't hurt nothing uh not the prettiest job how they got that on there but that's fine um at least we don't have a bunch of weird layers of things you know to try to figure out what's what when sometimes when especially if people plate on the inside of a bucket um whenever somebody does that and then they dig with it and they wear it um you you have the two layers of of something there plus a wear bar in the back and once it's been dug with you know after that it's hard to tell what's what and you're trying to cut holes and stuff and see the Watson who's he Whizzinator and you just don't know but in the case with this you know I can just look right at it see boom just like that and I can tell you uh best thing to do right here is go up to about here and cut this thing do a Judy Chop like this right here and ninjination and a little Kung Fu down through there uh you know you take the little Taekwondo across that and what's your car cut her out and uh real quick I'll flip this over and we'll take a look at the inside [Music] thank you foreign there wasn't any complaint on this bucket about the about the shanks uh looks like the pins are all in there and could be removed and new teeth put on that wouldn't be uh wouldn't be a bad idea when this is done and of course they can do that if they uh if they want to they could probably run these teeth a little bit depends on what they're doing but everything inside of here is sort of just like I was speculating uh when I was doing my original speculations you know we got this is this is one of them bulgulators that you know you don't want that it's not good just about where I said on the other side zipper zipper out of there burn it let's do it I cut a piece of pipe I'm going to tack in there kind of hold help hold that bucket in the shape it's in while I cut it apart I think just that one piece of pipe will work if I needed more than that to hold it or if it moves on me uh you know I can always jacket or press it somehow back into shape but when I cut this piece of pipe I cut it a quarter of an inch shorter than the measurement that saves me from trying to beat the damn thing in there it's going to make it easier to tack it in there and it's going to make it a lot easier to get it cut out of there when I'm done with it but the one thing that people have trouble with with a piece like this is holding it in place when they attack it since it's shorter we want to get this pretty well centered since it's a quarter inch shorter I want to tack it in there with an eighth inch gap on each side I'm going to show you how I do that if I put this up there in place pretty much where I want it and then I hinge it I'm going to push this back side away from me until I've got a 1 8 inch gap on this side then I'm going to attack it [Music] now put that 1 8 Gap I got the tack now I'm just gonna pull this towards me I pushed it away put the tag that tack allows me to pull this side towards me and when I'm all squared up inside of here now I've got an eighth inch Gap over here foreign so by putting this pipe in there make it contact with the side of the bucket and then pressing this that direction until I had an eighth inch Gap here and make an attack while this was contacting this back here it was holding this nice and steady for me I make the tack hinge at this direction where it's squared up and make the tack there nothing to it [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] I've got this bucket set up and in position now where I want to uh cut my plates out to to replace the plates that I removed I did some grinding got things cleaned up you know as far as that part of it um I'm gonna be doing this section here that I'm replacing in two pieces and uh it could be three pieces but like I said before the customer they did express some interest in having this bucket back as soon as they could so I'm not going to do I'm not going to try to do anything I'm not going to be like trying to half-ass anything but uh I am going to try to hurry I'm going to try to get it to him uh as quickly as I can if you have a rolled section of a bucket like this and you don't have time to you know get a hold of a steel supplier with a massive roller and and have an actual radius rolled uh plate for it uh you can do it in straight pieces and the more pieces you splice together the more of a roll you're gonna get on a really big bucket that could change your your volume you know if you make it too straight you're gonna you're gonna uh make a considerable difference on a huge bucket you're going to make a considerable difference on the volume of of Earth or or whatever that the the bucket can hold on a three foot bucket like this you're not gonna make much difference uh like I say this these this this roll in the bucket could on this one could be done in two pieces spliced together it could also be done in three I'm gonna go with two pieces because I'm gonna try to get this thing back to them as soon as I can so let's take a look at what I got going on this is how I've got it set up uh and I did I showed you about putting the pipe in there before I cut this apart I did actually stick an angle iron in there too and you know if we look at it it's it's maintaining its shape real well don't see any problem with that at all I've taken some some measurements and looked at where I was going to run from here to there and from there to there to cut my metal and obviously uh if you see the the track torch tracks here uh I'm going to be cutting the hard Ox half inch hard Ox plate I'm going to be cutting that out with the track machine and a few things uh to make note of is uh if you look at this last wear bar right here the smallest one I don't think that wear bar is in good enough shape to leave it there I'm going to replace that wear bar but that's not a part that I would want to have cut off at this point because if you look at how nice and straight uh that part of the bucket is a big reason why that section right there is not warped is because of that wear bar so if I cut the pieces I'm making right now and get them welded in and then cut that wear bar out later that's probably a way better uh a better way of going about doing it that way this wear bar that you know what's left of it there's not a hell of a lot but what's left of it is helping to keep that thing straight when you cut out a sheet like this you know with a track machine you do want to I'll take a little time usually to to figure out what is uh most efficient way that I can cut the material um not too you know it's not that big a deal but one of the things I'm doing on this is some of my wear bars I have a uh I have a big piece coming out right here that's going to go in right there I've got a smaller piece coming out right here that I'm going to cut that's going to go in right there then that leaves a section from here to there that I'm going to cut wear bars out of and the reason I would want to cut those wear bars out from that area is because when I measured from here to here which would represent the length from here to here that's the same as these wear bars so if I'm going to make that cut down through there now this section in here is the right length and to make wear bars out of it it would only require making Cuts Like This so I've divided that part up into a number of different size wear bars that I want to to put on here and another thing I'm going to mention just as a note some of these wear bars might not be as big as the original Factory wear bars uh does that mean I'm doing a terrible thing because some of my wear bars might not be as big as the factory look the rest of this bucket has some wear on it okay um and you see the the part I'm replacing brand new with half inch hardox is the part that they wore out the most so odds are we're going to have when you're looking at where that you're going to get from digging there's going to be another section of this bucket that's probably going to need attention before the part that I'm working on right now so for me to go into wasting time or extra material trying to make this part of it uh last forever when we know that other parts of this bucket you know are going to need dealt with uh prior I'm not gonna I'm not going to worry about that if something if I can do something with efficiency right now that that I know is is going to be more than adequate for you know the the life of this bucket and obviously when I'm making Cuts in this direction uh one of the things we can we can note on that my track machines got an arm that can move like this without moving the machine so if I set it up to make this cut I don't have to move the machine to make this cut I can just crank that arm back cut it and another thing that's efficient is when you've got parallel Cuts like this when I set the machine when I set the track up on one of these lines it's lined up for these cuts and it's going to be parallel for several Cuts so you know that's an efficient thing I'm trying to save time and uh do things in a manner that's efficient and another thing that I'll mention on this uh I can remember back when I very first got my track machine or very first started using the track machine very first started working with guys that would do a job like this with a track machine I would see people make their marks and then they would take a straight edge you know a regular a straight edge like this and they would draw their marks uh on on the plate with that straight edge so they could see where they were cutting and then the next thing they would do is they would set the track machine up there and take a tape measure and measure from the track to the mark right like they would measure right here from the track to the mark and measure right there from the track to the mark to get the track parallel with that Mark that's a terribly inefficient way to do this if you consider how these track torch tracks are made right here I'm this I'm not going to cut any straighter than that track okay so the track is a straight edge and if I put this up as a straight edge on those marks and I draw a line right here and that line is my cut line and then I reach over to the inside of this and I make a little Mark like that just a little right here come down here and I might even Circle those marks well what I've just done is I've made a mark that's perfectly parallel with my cut line so if I take this track and I slide it over and I put this Edge on that Mark then I'm already parallel with that and I've just eliminated some unnecessary work and unnecessary marking and unnecessary measuring by doing that uh and one funny thing I'll mention real quick uh if you see this other track I've got a piece of track up there and a piece of flat bar I jammed that up there to put my to put my phone up there to make it so you could see what I was doing when I'm messing with this and I remember my mom's boyfriend one time he said he said do you have a tripod or something that you put your phone on when you're filming that I don't have anything like that I don't have anything like that at all when I'm filming this stuff I'm grabbing stuff around the shop flat bars track torch tracks hammers whatever and just jamming my phone up there and really it's amazing how easy it is to set it up you think like oh it's going to take you an extra 10 minutes every time you do something it doesn't it really doesn't it you just grab something and you slam it up there and hey is that part is it in in the picture yeah it's in the picture okay let's go so uh next thing's going to be marking and cutting this and and that's uh that's what we're gonna do foreign that very last one that I marked right there uh that's gonna be what I'm going to use for side wear bars and I'm just cutting me a strip at that width that I know I want and then I'll probably just take a hand torch or something and cut them up in the little squares for the sidewear bars but you'll see that later if you stick in there [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] got my plates cleaned up there a little bit with a grinder knocked the slag off I put a piece of angle iron a bottle jack and a block in here and I spread that open just a little bit uh there's not a really an issue with my Dimensions but like I always say I I don't want to come over here and have to beat this thing in there with a hammer if I've got it open a little more than I need and I can get attack and then let off on that Jack and and Let It Come Together uh without you know having a struggle to to get it in there if you take a piece that's 31 and a quarter inches and you put it in a gap that's 31 and a quarter inches you know a lot of times you're gonna have to beat and tap and thump and and some certain situations that's not a problem but uh for me I would rather things to just go together easily and if all I got to do stick a bottle jack in there to make that happen then then I will um one thing to remember though when you're putting metal together and you use a bottle jack like I do a lot make sure that it's pointing in a direction where you can access it see it now if I was to take that bottle jack and put it in there facing this direction and then put my plate up there then I can't get my handle in here to release that I've made that goof before so I thought I would just I thought I would just mention that um on these plates everything looks really good that one narrow one does have a little bit of a bow in it I worked on it a little bit on the Anvil and got some of it out and we got to remember it's a wear bar you know if if a wear bar is not perfectly straight it it's not going to change the price of tea in China One yen I'm not going to lose any sleep over that but what I did do I brought it over to the Anvil and uh uh set it up there and and pounded on it a few times and I probably got uh about half of the half of the bow out it was a lot worse than that I think it's within my acceptable specifications now but it made me uh I'm gonna make a note real quick on this Anvil um this is a Peter Wright Anvil that was made in England between 1852 and 1860. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see that that says Peter Wright patented one zero fifteen and if you're into old stuff and you're into anvils uh I do have a video on my channel from years ago where I tell the story about that Peter Wright Anvil and how I know how old it is and how I got it and some of the history within that that I think is pretty cool so uh if you want to look that up whatever that's an old video uh anyways it's time to put this thing together so here we go then wear bars tacked on there I like how everything's looking uh did quite a bit attacking uh there was a lot of this where I used the hot Tech method um I discussed the hot Tech method on the video I did when I was repairing those loading docks if you want to go back and check that out if you haven't already it's a really good method to pull gaps together one thing I've changed my mind on with this I was gonna I was gonna cut this old wear bar off because of the amount of wear that was on this side of it it you could see there's plenty of weld holding the back side here and when I realized that the small wear bar that I cut to replace it would fit between my splice and it and I could fill this up with well that makes me think there's no reason to remove this I'm going to be filling that up with Weld and and you know just make a wider wear make a wide wear bar out of a narrow one and uh so we'll get some more use out of that old thing and it saves me the time cutting it off I can weld that I can weld that full even though it's a lot of weld I can weld that full in probably you know less time than it would take me to cut that off so the next thing is probably going to be I think I'll change the position of this thing and do some of the pl preliminary uh welding on it to get her sealed up stuff I would do with the Meg and then we'll go from there put this in the position I want to get started on this Weld and then it's going to be the part of the welding that I would do with the Millermatic with the solid Mig solid wire Mig with a with a mixed gas I use a mixed gas at argon combination argon CO2 and you'll notice in places like on a bucket on and a lot of what I do in places like this I don't bevel and I don't I don't bother using the time to Bevel I'm going to weld a bevel on this with that wire and it's pretty much you know it's the same situation in these in these really tight V's like I've got right here it's a v-shape uh really tight you couldn't get a very pure stick weld into this but you can with that with that tiny wire you can you can reach down in there and you can make a weld that's really really pure and solid and in a case like this with a lot of 90 degree turns if you were to stick weld in this you would trap your slag in here so bad uh even with a needle gun it'd be hard to get that slag removed to make your next pass now with the solid wire Mig and massive heat uh very very high voltage I can get in there and and I can make it happen and that's what I'm going to be doing is these areas that that need that solid wire mig weld and done that's what I'm going to be doing right now and nothing's perfect in anything and especially with welding uh if you try to do a lot of your your really big heavy duty welds in areas like this on this hard metal on this hard Ox with your solid wire Mig what you're going to find is that the edges of your weld uh you you'll have a poor quality weld at the edges of your weld because that Shield gas at the edges of the weld where you're making this you know this big weld out here it won't be a good quality it won't be a good quality Fusion at the edges of your weld with a solid wire Mig your stick is far better for that the way that a stick welder Shields itself or a dual Shield wire uh or a flux core wire those you know out here in an area where you're not down in a V and you're not making a skinny Weld and you're not uh gaining by using the the wire that's that's an area where you know stick is going to outperform and I use a combination of both for that reason and uh so the the MIG welding part of this we'll take a look at after I get some of that in so I'm going to do that now so with a Millermatic on 26 volts and uh I'm about 470 inches a minute with the o35 solid wire I'm going to do some of this spray transfer now I have a lot of people make comments saying hey can we get some Arc shots meaning you know they want to see me weld uh I haven't had I always I keep telling people I haven't had any luck filming well I just don't have the technology but I'll try to show you what I'm doing here just uh maybe you can get get a feel for the sound watch my gun angle when I do this spray transfer with large voltage like this I run a lot of push angle a lot of push angle digging into that material and and this and the it's a it's a little bit between a spray transfer and a short circuit uh and I was talking about before how this works so well down in a place like this with solid wire and how nothing's perfect this is a great place for solid wire it's a terrible place for stick because when you get uh do a bunch of stick welding down in a spot like that you'll have a hell of a time ever getting the Slag out uh the the reason that your Mig welds down in a spot like this are great I think is because your gas is trapped in there your gas works just as well at the edge of your weld to Shield your puddle as it does the center because you're blowing that gas down into that that Valley and and you're getting awesome shielding which you know if you're out in a flat position or even on a Phillips weld your your gas cup and your gas is going to struggle to Shield that weld as good as as this is being shielded down in this Valley I don't know if you just heard that but this metal is moving around uh probably some tax popping maybe even uh but you'll have that on on stuff like this so uh I I'll run this and see how it turns out on the video I don't know if it'll be any good for your help you any but let's try thank you foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] all right foreign and get the fusion between this deep end plate and and this Cutting Edge and uh the Millermatic does a great job of that this isn't something that you'd be able to do with your Harbor Freight welder you know this takes some power 26 volts is is a lot if this Millermatic was plugged into your 30 amp dryer outlet and I was running that it would trip the blur it would trip your breaker you know you're going to have to have a uh to run something like this you're going to have to have a a 200 uh 220 outlet you know on at least a 50 amp breaker you know to be able to do that so uh I want to do some more on this and keep going now with one pass fuse in that back plate to The Cutting Edge and another pass fuse in that back plate to this wear bar it's time to fuse all that together and we want to try to make something that's either flat or concave in shape that way it's it's ready to accept uh the rest of the welding without trapping slag and trash in there the the slag and trash is the reason we don't want a bead we don't want something uh convex because then on each side of that hump you you would trap a lot of stuff so now with the Millermatic on 29.5 that's wide open I'm at 540 inches a minute of wire [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] so we used the Millermatic to make that concave fuse all that together we're uh that to me that's that's ready to to do the stick welding on now you heard those tax break during the time I was doing that and that that'll show you right there you know just that little bit of movement is enough to break those tacks and some may argue that I should have had more weld on that before I did that um either way it's not going to make any difference as far as I'm concerned it's not going to make any difference no more than that moved I I wouldn't even grind those tacks out for the amount of welding that I'm going to end up doing back here I'm going to burn right through all that and and pay no mind [Laughter] thank you [Music] so after I got all these spots uh that I was going to use the Meg on megged up I switched to stick and uh I used some 3 16. 70 14s and ran a couple passes on on those areas and then I went with the quarter inch jet rod uh and welded everything out you know on the caps I'm not going to talk a whole lot about the quarter inch jet Rod because I did a video on a four foot bucket just like this this is a three footer but about four months ago I did a video where I rebuilt a four foot bucket uh like this and I talked a lot about the quarter inch jet Rod so if you want to go back and check those videos out you can um but the quarter inch jet Rod the big high deposit jet Rod they they really lay it down they really get work done and um so next on this I'm going to flip it over and weld up weld up the inside of this while it's still hot which is something I might make note of talk about for just a second uh you know a lot of times with this something like this 450 hardox and and hard material uh abrasive resistant material like these buckets are made out of if you talk to a lot of people they'll they'll they'll talk about preheat uh and they want you to preheat that material because of its hardness uh they want you to preheat that material to avoid cracking I don't do a lot of preheat I really don't but I'm well different than a lot of people um and it's also a situation with me being here by myself working when I'm welding on something like this uh uh I I basically I got that tacked up and I ran my Mig and I switched a stick and I ran my stick and I did not stop uh and and that makes a difference because in a lot of cases what people are talking about when they're talking about preheat on something like this the way that the preheat really comes into play on the job it comes down to the fact that what happens to this material uh when you weld on it you heat it up and it expands it cools down and it contracts and if you're going to have issues with cracking that's when it's going to happen when it's cooling down the reason that generally people will mention preheat or want you to preheat on on these applications is because they don't want the material to cool down too quickly so the preheat actually comes into play when you stop welding not so much while you're actually welding um now if you put a tremendous amount of heat into that material like I do when I just steadily stay on it you know get on it stay on it and stay with it and keep welding and keep welding and keep welding and don't stop like I do see I think that makes the preheat very much unnecessary um I'm jumping on something like that and I'm skipping around and I'm pouring it to it and I'm the only one here there's nobody that's going to walk up and say hey let's go to lunch or whatever you know when I'm doing this I'm staying right on it so I think you know people might argue that I'm doing the wrong thing because I don't preheat but I don't have issues with cracking on stuff like this I just I don't and um and so I thought I would just mention about that and uh like I always say when people see me or I talk about running the quarter inch jet rods the monster rods I get a lot of people saying uh you know they want Arc shots like they want me they want to watch me run that rod and I'm going to say again I just I guess I don't have the technology to do that because I've tried to put a lens over my phone before and film it and it's nothing worth even uploading it just looks like a blob it doesn't look like it does to me and it and there are uh the guys like welding tips and tricks.com uh those guys uh others also that have that have they have the equipment and they can film it and you can see what they're doing um so check that out uh talking about the the quarter inch jet rod I said I wouldn't go into it too much but like you know that's a that's an eight these are eighth inch 78 teams right here and that's a quarter inch jet rod and there's iron powder within this flux that becomes weld metal and that makes these a really high deposit rod so and there's probably uh more more videos and shots and stuff of me running them in that other excavator bucket video there's an excavator bucket repair part one and and a part two and uh so if you want to check that out that'll be cool I'm going to flip this over and do some welding on the inside I've been running a fan and I do that a lot and that's one of the reasons I like stick welding when I'm doing a lot of heavy welding like this because if I run the fan on there it's no problem uh if you're doing any kind of gas welding if you're doing solid wire Mig or even dual Shield Ultra core or whatever like that something that relies on a gas you can't blow the fan and there's a certain amount of that you can probably get away with as far as uh some air movement but when you do a lot of heavy welding on something like this if if you're not moving a fair amount of air you should probably be wearing a papper and uh I have a paper unit I don't like to wear it but when I weld the inside of this I'm probably going to wear the pepper unit and the reason I'll be wearing it is because I'm not going to move a bunch of air because it's getting cold the temperatures went down a bunch we had some rain and I'm I'm probably going to turn that heater on and and and wear the pap or while I'm welding the inside of that so let's get to that [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I cleaned up a little bit after I got that inside welded flipped that thing back over and I was taking a look at pretty much the way I was going by the sidewear bars is uh I have that slip or that that slit that I made with the track torch um you know it's four feet pretty much you know that that was what I was cutting out of was four feet and I said when I started just total for side wear bars I'm going to use four feet um just something you know to be efficient some of these wear bars will come out a little shorter than the wear bar right here you know they won't be as big and like I say you know you could easily add 12 hours to a job like this based on little decisions that you make if I said well that's not enough I'm going to get out the track machine and burn another burn another piece or I'm going to do this or that is it you know is it is that what you would call the right way to do it uh I don't know it's a case where I don't want to add a an extra amount of time on this there like I said there was some interest by the customer to to get this back in use as soon as possible they were actually considering at one point that uh they were not going to bring me this bucket because they found one they were going to go ahead and buy one just so they could get it on the job so you know to sit here and say well oh a two inch bar is not enough we've got to have a three and a half inch bar you know screw that cut the bars up let's get it on here let's go foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign 252 here that I was using and this one has a 15 foot gun on it I just mentioned real quick uh part of the process of changing the wire the way I do I'll lay this gun out nice and straight I'll remove the gas Cup and the contact tip I've never really been able to get wired to start through the gun with the contact tip in place so I always take that out it's not a bad time to go ahead and change your contact tip the reason I'm going to put the old contact tip back in this gun at this time is I'm actually switching types of wire and I'm trying a couple different ones and when I do that I want to keep everything the same that I can so I can tell you know if I like this other wire this is a Lincoln sure Arc S6 I'm putting in here um it's about a dollar a pound less than the than the l56 the the Lincoln uh super Arc l56 is undoubtedly it's guaranteed usually to be pretty much the best wire I've only had one 10 pound spool of l56 that I've had a problem with and other than that the l56 has been great but this is a this is a a sure Arc S6 uh that I'm going to try in here now and one of the things another thing I'll mention about uh changing the changing the spool replacing the spool one of the the very first welding shop that I worked in we Mig welded a lot and we did it with an old Regency 350 power source and it had a uh I think a 52 what they called a 52 wire feed on top of it and we used to when we run out of wire we would leave the wire that was in the gun in the gun and then push the new wire against it and the new wire would push the Old Wire out the gun and we would weld with it and we did that and it never caused a problem now in my case with one of my guns on a uh Lincoln ln25 I had set up for for Meg I was doing that and I did it a few times and it worked out and I didn't have a trouble but one at one time the wire that I had put in and pushed against the wire that was in the gun bypassed the wire that was in the gun and that happened inside of my gas in inside of my gas gun inside of my gas hose there and these are a pretty complicated apparatus you know you got to imagine not only is your wire being fed through this gun but this is also your welding cable and your uh your gas hose you know your Shield gas is coming through here these things ain't cheap is what I'm getting at well when that happened when I left the wire in the gun and I used my new wire to push the Old Wire out um and and and the new wire bypass the Old Wire in the gun it got so stuck I couldn't even pull the liner out of that gun and by the time I got the liner out of that gun I destroyed the gun the cable hose was leaking it was a mess so I don't do that anymore you know this is a 15-footer I got on here there's 15 foot of wire this is going in the trash uh if you want to get some use out of that you know you can wrap stuff up with it you can use it like a fence wire or something but uh I don't I don't try to weld with it anymore I have gotten away with that a bunch of times but it's not worth risking the gun to me another thing I do when I switch these let me flip you around here foreign I've got this laid out flat like I showed you and I'm actually going to push this wire through that gun I'm doing that by hand right now I'm pushing that wire through that gun by hand it seems kind of silly to do that but when I do this um it really doesn't take much time I'm not uh I'm getting a feel for that liner if if there was any problem right there I'm at the gun I could feel it and it just went right through if there was any issue with my with my rig here when I push that through by hand I get a feel for knowing if everything's okay inside of there and these mig welders the wire welder is a fabulous thing but it is quite a gizmo when you have trouble with one of these you can fight that thing all day um so to me it's worth trying to stay in tune whether you know do I need a new gun do I need a new liner do I have any problem uh am I using a wire that I don't like am I using a you know if I have an issue what's the issue it's not like that stick where you basically if you got a good machine a good set of cables a good stinger and a good ground anything else is either you or the or the or the or the rods there's nothing left with this MIG welding you know you need to stay in tune with what's going on because you've got voltage wire speed contact tip gun angle uh cable hose uh gas flow type of gas I could go on and on and on about all the variables that'll cause you a lot of trouble with this wire welding and you know by me pushing that through there by hand I've just verified that it takes virtually no effort to push that through there I've just verified that my liner and gun is good and uh now I'm going to get back to it now here we go [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music]

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Id: D4h_TKx8gB0

Length: 70min 59sec (4259 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 14 2022