Busting Fake Internet Welds

in the social media welding system the channels are represented by two separate but equally important groups the channels that create the content and the professionals who know what they are doing these are their welds this isn't cold mig welding or is it now you might have seen a few of those silly metal crafting videos once or twice showing the so-called technique before and maybe you thought it was something special now if you haven't seen one of these types of videos before consider yourself lucky and i'll just try to sum it up here craft videos basically show the viewers how to create something with ease like no skill required now some of the crafty solutions are pretty absurd like making a hammer out of a hammer so you can remove a pesky screw from a board i mean it it kind of works right but common sense seems to not apply like using an adjustable wrench and a screwdriver to remove a bolt okay maybe i stretched that last one just a little bit there right but the only reason i'm bringing this up here is that there has been an uptick of welding and metal working videos which show a clever looking mig process that is kind of reminiscent of that bs cold welding tig machine i busted a while back now those of you who follow this channel know that i take welding education seriously since that is my profession so when my inbox blows up about this fake process here well of course i gotta make a video about it but why is talking about this fake technique all so important well it's because mig welding is kind of like hot glue for metal but what we're holding together isn't craft paper whatever you stick together has got to do more than just stick together whether it's a four thousand pound art installation that was knocked off its pedestal by an suv or it's a hacked hammer mod it's got a hold now mig is an acronym for anyone can weld the first letters of each word are silent okay okay it stands for metal inert gas how it works is this little piece of wire is electrified when you pull the trigger which creates an arc of electricity that melts the base metal at the same time the wire that is being pushed or driven through the lead melts up and blobs which falls into the molten weld pool which basically sticks it all together the gas keeps the molten metal protected from the atmosphere until it cools down the crazy part on this is how many times it does this in one second that buzzing sound you hear is every single time that process happens just take a look at this really really short clip here that little bit of a buzz there which was less than one second was 64 times that the wire spit out of the machine made contact with metal and burned back and deposited the blob 64 times in less than one second but to truly appreciate the magic of what's actually happening here you gotta watch it in slow motion it's kind of a beautiful thing [Applause] [Applause] now before we get into showing you why this cold welding thing is totally fake we kind of have to first understand the different techniques to mig welding which are pretty much as follows the first is pulling the trigger and controlling the pool from point a to point b this is generally the fastest way to do it and it's the way that i normally do it some people call it robotic mig welding you hold it at a nice steady height keep it a very good pace in out hello goodbye this is about what it looks like nothing really spectacular but it's definitely going to hold the second method is to kind of dress it up a little bit you pull the trigger you whip it you stack it you swirl it triangle it zigzag it cursive ease whatever the case is most people kind of do this to make it look nice and uniform but there's other reasons to do it like puddle control manipulation having to actually move the wheel pool or the bead one side of the other but i don't typically do this so it doesn't look all that pretty here it's not normally my style but you get the general gist of it the third method is to drop the wire feed speed way down which actually makes you go really really friggin slow but it gives you the time to actually physically stack up a giant glob of metal which kind of puts it into this little row of dimes or whatever and they call this process mig-like tig because it's supposed to kind of mimic a tig or what a tig looks like with the fancy stacks and rows yeah i get it i know why people do it but truthfully it's a waste of time it takes forever and if you wanted to make it look like a tig then you should just grab a tig and tig weld it but i digress a little bit i get why people do it i'm not saying it's bad i'm not saying it's good either but this is kind of what that looks like i'm not the greatest at it the fourth and final method is called the stitch now this is achieved by pulling the trigger letting it blast tack for just a couple seconds here letting off the trigger advancing forward and then repeating pull the trigger stop pull the trigger stop pull the trigger stop you can usually spot these things by the big old dimple that's sitting on top of each and every bead something we call a fisheye which is usually done by the people in the industry that we say have the biggest commitment issues it is a total joke of welding but there is a useful and technical process for stitching on thin metal things like body panels for cars but it's not for making pretty welds because stitch welds on body panels get ground back down and covered with filler and paint the bad stitch welds done by those with commitment issues are the ones that are done on things like chassis roll cages suspension parts and stuff like that literally they just need to learn how to weld because at the end of the day the parts end up being too cold and this is exactly where we get into this new cold mig welding technique i'm sorry to bust your bubble but this is just stitching with clever editing now i'll show you how that's done in just a moment but first we need to understand what a cold weld is now a cold weld in industry terms is a weld that lacks strength because it lacks fusion in order for a mig weld to hold successfully it needs to have enough time to heat up and liquefy the base metal and then fuse all the pieces together with the wire holding it this piece of metal here shows full penetration as you can see what looks like a weld on both sides this piece on the other hand shows about half of that meaning that the weld time was cut way too short here's the both proper and improper stitch welds side by side with those cute little tiki tacky commitment issue blasts we don't have enough time to fully penetrate and what does that mean to the part well simple it just doesn't hold when it doesn't hold that means the weld is cold the rising popularity of these little metal hack videos or whatever you want to call them cleverly disguises the actual process and the skill by showing you something clever that was made by skipping over some of the important stuff like having a skill and knowing how to use it in other words this cold mig welding is not a new solution to not knowing how to weld it's just funny editing so in order to make this edit look really good or convincing you'll first need to set your camera up in manual mode all of your adjustments should be locked in one position with a high f-stop so that you don't lose focus which also has to be set in manual you should have sufficient lighting to make the shot appear natural and without any changes to your weld next get yourself into position to really sell this as a legitimate technique you must be still embraced the only time you should move is before or after you release the trigger if you move too much or you're too jumpy the final edit will look twitchy it may take a few tries to get just the perfect take now make yourself some quick tacks remember to move only before and after the tack itself do not move while you are welding you also shouldn't pause for too long after each tack try moving consistently once you're finished take it into your favorite editor and import your video clip along with the audio the audio really helps sell it and makes the editing a little bit easier now scrub through clip until you get to the first attack now track either forward or backward frame by frame until you see the first bit of light from the weld and cut the track at the first frame before you see the arc light now scrub to the end of the weld and cut the track right when the arc light disappears i personally like to keep a couple of remaining sparks in the shot as they settle it really helps to make it look like it's an actual process when you do that once you have cut out every section containing the arc light delete them and merge the remaining clips to play continuously i like to nest all the individual clips together so that way they play as one clip i can color grade it speed it up crop it change the audio whatever it is that i need now all you gotta do is send it to the internet and i'm gonna forewarn you on this one that you might get some uh hate comments because uh a lot of people for one despise this style of welding like the spot welding and stuff like that and other people just flat out don't realize if you do a really good edit they don't realize that what they hate doesn't exist it's completely fake so you know fair warning i was kind of surprised on some of the comments i i saw on my site but hey it's all good hope you guys enjoyed the video good luck to you and no this is not really cold big welding like it's fake see you all in the next round so foreign

Channel: The Fabrication Series

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Length: 10min 6sec (606 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 15 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/palysatoin]

Jesus. I gotta watch out for fake welding videos now?

[u/Quasimdo]

I teach welding. Mig Welding is an easy process in that it's semi automatic, meaning that you pull a trigger and the machine feeds the material for you, you just control where it goes. But that cold Welding stuff sounds really dumb. Glad my students don't ask about doing it.

[u/FeistySound]

That start-stop tack-after-tack "cold welding" is a great way to introduce impurities into your weld. You'll never pass an x-ray quality weld doing that. Like he said, about all it's good for is cosmetic sheet metal work.

[u/eugene20]

Why go to all of that post production effort? surely just doing a proper weld takes less time anyway?

[u/elmokun182]

i came across this video about 2 weeks ago, dont know shit about welding never been interested in welding but damn did i binge watch his videos for 4 hours

[u/CantIgnoreMyGirth]

I don't know why I watched this video, I have no interest in welding..

But the video was so well done I watched the whole thing and learned a bit about welding.

[u/elenabooudoir]

Conclusion: Your weld should always be stronger and outlast the parent material 100% of the time.

[u/benelo]

I would love to try it out

[u/TangoDeltaFoxtrot]

That "mig like tig" weld example he did was actually painful to listen to. I can't imagine running that low a wire feed speed. I like my welds to sounds like a steady "hiss" or "shhhhhh" sound, none of this harsh static sound.