Learn to (Mig Weld) in A DAY pt. 3 (MIG Welding Thin Square Tubing)

what's up guys welcome back to AC designs garage and in this series on learning how to mig weld in one day we're going to be doing the square tubing one by one thin wall we're going to show you tons of Tricks so let's get at it all right guys let's go over real quick what material we're working with this is a 1116 inch 1 by one mild Steel Square tube and it's just some uh scrap Mar fact you can see some Rust and stuff down here just some old scrap we have we're going to cut uh several joints here I'm going to do like a T joint and then we're going to cut a a miter joint so we can do that show you a couple different ways and where problem areas are and uh how to fix them so we're going to get this mug chopped up real quick as for some of the other stuff I use every week and stuff and also here's seven steps it's a good thing we've been going by on this series of videos for you guys to do and if you wanted to screenshot this but this is way we uh try to tackle every you know every job that we do on here is your prep tack angle gun motion push push or drag whichever you want to get comfortable and Arc and Spark so you stick to these you'll be doing good uh keep some of this nozzle gel you just dip your uh Mig nozzle down in it keeps the spatter off get you a good uh auto darkening Shield it's what I prefer if you have a fix shade it's just fine too it's just what I prefer cuz I do a lot of body work sheet metal work do a lot of spot welding and it's just a lot easier uh get you said the Mig pliers and also the machine we're using is the same one I've been using for about 68 months or something it's the AR Captain Mig 200 been a great machine so far I love it works good got you a discount code in the description below if you want to scoop one of these up like I said this machine will do a lot it'll do uh TIG weld and stick weld mig weld and it does it all and this thing is very affordable right now so go check you want out I got the links like I said down below save y'all some money help the channel out too yeah I like this machine we got it on a 7525 argon carbon dioxide mix at about 22 cfh all that ready and we're running a 030 wire er70 [Music] [Music] [Music] s-6 [Music] [Music] like I said I'm going link all this stuff in my Amazon AFF Link in the description box below where y'all can scoop all this stuff at one place don't cost you guys any extra I make just a a small percentage off of qualified purchases but it just basically gives y'all a place to go to one place and find everything I'm using but today we're going to be using the air grinder the INR saw Rand that I use every week with the roll locks on it a 60 grit roll lock or you could use these here these dewalts we use these a lot with the 4 and 1/2 inch they work really great get a little heavy on the small stuff so I'm just going to use this but if this all you got that'll work great for you also a good pair of gloves and a welding cap and stuff like that nice to have and these rangler long sleeve shirts I'm not sponsored or anything these things work really good keep the Sparks off of you as long as you're not doing really heavy cutting o settling cutting or something but we're going to get our little practice tube set up we're going to do us a little miter joint we're going to get that where it fits a lot better this is going to be our sacrificial piece here before we set our welder up and get our set and right probably going to be around I'm G to say 17 BTS and probably we'll start at 17 and 5.5 we'll try 5.5 on the wire speed which is I think around 200 200 something inches per minute all right guys we're going to start out on the welder at 17 volts I like to write them on the table so I can keep up with it 17 volts I went through and done just a little conversion CU these offshore machines here in meters per minute I'm used to doing bolts and inches per minute so 5.5 m per minute is 216 in per minute guess it put that in there inches per minute and then the 5.0 if the 5.5 is too much that'll be 196 and if I go any lower that we'll change it around I just have to do the conversion for you clean these up real quick and that's step one on doing this stuff here is the prep and you want this stuff to fit tight we got plenty of uh voltage here on this machine to penetrate so you don't have to to worry about leaving gaps and stuff cuz that's where you'll run into problems if you decide to put a gap in here it's just going to cause it to fall off so we're going to clean these things up to fit as tight as possible and uh get at it and then I'll show you some little tips on where your problem areas are going to be where the easiest part there's like two or three different uh joint configurations here and some of them's easier than others so going to get to it and I'm going to get the grinding if you can see right here I'm not putting a big chamfer or anything on it I'm just kind of rolling The Edge over just a little bit but we don't want to get too thin on it cuz right here if you can see when you start cutting these miters it starts getting this area from here up is like super thin so that's usually your problem child here is going to be on your outside corner with a miter like this so we'll get the those cleaned up and get her to step two tack it together all right guess a little Quick Check fit here that right there is how you want it guys you want probably take a little off this too do [Music] that you want this thing to fit as tight as possible like I said this outside here will be the one that's going to be fun so it looks like we got pretty decent fit up around let's just see how she fits on on here make sure we didn't disturb any of the cut here everything looks good and fit so we ready to figure out what kind of shape we going to do here and get her tacked together let's get our old mchine set up here one thing I like about this AR Captain here it's got this synergic mode like if you're just starting out and uh it help pair your wire feed with your voltage but we're going to go into the manual where we can tune it in that's another neat thing about you just hit the synergic button and you come over here to your your voltage right here we're going to go up to 17 I think that's what we thought might be a little warm but we'll see and go to your amperage which is your wire feed speed is going to go what 5.5 there we go machine's on it's pretty cool thing about this machine right here is it's got the on demand fan it only runs when it needs to I like to always always clip the end off and uh good thing about this if you hav saw my other videos if you look at these Mig pliers I got a hole on this side and then it's got the cutter on this side you just take that thing and put it up against like that and cut it that gives you about 38 of an inch it gives you your pretty close to proper stick out here and uh see how clean the inside is and stuff that's from using that dip I'm gonna go over here and go ahead and dip it real quick just put a new Fresh coat on it just take it stick it down in there it just puts a little fil on it and uh keeps it clean so we got everything ground and clean we going to come in here and I'm going run a couple if you need to practice you can you can run a just put you a couple lines on here I'll do over here I don't want to put too many too much heat in this little section here it'll start getting weird so we'll go over here on this side and we'll do our run here and if we need to adjust we'll run here think we can add some more juice to her I don't think she's quite hot enough you can see our heat input it's not bad it's not burning through or anything we may put just a little more volters I may go up to let's go 175 we'll do this other one on this side [Music] all right guys you can see the heat input here how much bigger the heat input is on that now this may be something that we're going to have to do over on this Edge we might have to cut the voltage down a little bit with us try cuz over here is where you're going to have your problems if you don't have a little shelf for for it to pick up on like this now you can design whatever you're building and it'll make it a little easier on you and a little stronger if you can push it over like that but we're going to show you how to do both we're going to put it right on the edge for this and just in case you can't put it over there and then we're going to leave a shelf over here on this one yeah that looks a little warm so I think I'm going to go let's [Music] see what us do 173 and uh 5.5 I think that'll be good there we'll get started so like I said this is the practice one we're going to rotate her over and uh I'll show you this one without the arc shot that way we can put the arc shots on the other ones on this Edge a lot of times you can get by with trigger welding it where you're pulling a trigger and just keep it hot because this edge here is not going to hold much of anything really so we may trigger weld this over here and that way it'll uh penetrate good but not fall out sorry about this guys my camera cut off for some weird reason and uh didn't get to show you how I done this side here but we done the old trigger weld on this and basically all you do we went around and spotted all four corners and we come here right halfway on this bead here and done a hot Tack and Tack and Tack and Tack as long as you keep it hot now I will say just do this on this side here it's going to fall off if you try to wash over it anyway but if this was a structural piece I wouldn't be doing that but we wouldn't be building stuff out of 11/16th w one one being structural piece so i' say that's pretty acceptable for over here with the heat range like it is cuz you can look in here the heat effed Zone has got a good heat heat in it and also if you look inside there it got that piece good and hot so we're getting penetrated on this one but the rest of them we're just going to to we're just going to weld straight maybe just a little tiny oscillation to it but this is just a practice one to try so I'll show you more in depth on the other piece so we're going to do the inside we're going to do a little loopy loop on it and uh on the fill it only it's like welding three different joints here so you got to do three different things all right turned out to be a nice little little W starting to get our this little mine dialed in pretty good here good heat affected Zone didn't cook it too much these side ones they're just hard to make look good you're going to have to probably get the grinder out but on this one here we're going to do it real world we're going to do it like it's going up cuz it's easy to letay it down weld like that so you're going to have to point up just to have your mid gun point up towards the groove here as you weld across so it don't sag down and this is may take a little practice cuz sometimes they'll droop on you but that's why you cut up scrap real world stuff here see how we can do we're just going to drag this one with very minimal oscillation just a little bit if you notice here I got my same drag angle but I've just taken it and pointed it up towards this and just let it kind of wash down on it like that here we go it's not too bad not the prettiest one in the world but it's not built up really really tall grinder will make that look pretty yeah these outside are hard to get these in here you can make them look really really good I'm just going to slow down on this one in just same way same angle but just kind of slow down and see if it'll melt in a little better yeah that is not too bad grinder will make that look better too I guarantee it won't break off of there now if you want to make them look good and doing stuff like this you can trigger well most of it it's not going to break off but all right guys you got to watch when you're tacking this stuff up is you don't this area here where the inside corner joint is it takes a little more heat you got to stay there a little longer because it's just thicker material right there and to burn both sides in and if you go tacking this first it'll want to start doing this number and opening up a gap so what we're going to do here is we're going to tack both of these and then come in here and Tack this just to where it'll keep that good tight Gap right there and then this will be the last one we weld and it'll help you that you've already got some heat in the the material here so we're going to get that outside tacked up outside corners tacked up real good I'll get this uh that put together nicely all right it's good and tacked up it didn't draw any so that's real good now we'll do our vertical this one here I'm going to leave just a little bit of shelf on it and you can design your project like this and it'll make it a lot easier if you can also we're going to put this one out to the very edge like this like you're going to use in a lot of situations and uh it's better now when you're practicing to kind of challenge yourself and and put yourself in the the harder situations so when you come across it out in the field or working in your shop or anything you can tackle it so get good at the harder stuff the easy stuff comes but we're going to leave a shelf on this one and we're going to not leave one on this one so it'll be a different type welding configure here but that's how we're going to do it so we're going to get all this tacked up and I'm going to start arcing out of sparking ready I like to move around kind of like your tightening lug nuts on a car so it just kind of evens everything out all right guys we got it all tacked together and uh we're going to get the weld I'm going go through and show you how each method that we're going to do is different CU but welding this one here on is going to be a little different than welding this one just because of the area here and I'll explain each one of them as we go and uh probably do the bottom one first we'll do this uh probably going to do the corner one first let's get that one done I'll explain it so we're we're probably going to do just a little slight oscillation on this one and on the bottom too the edge here we're probably going to do a downhill because it'll help melt in and it won't burn it away as fast but you'll probably have to go pretty quick so this one here and this one here is going to be your hardest ones probably because these are going to be the ones that's going to want to melt away but the rest of them you guys should scoop up pretty easy but just keep practice on them and don't get discouraged and you'll get it all right guys here we go all right here's that weld right there now these welds here are going to hold and you're going to be able to grind cuz we got them turned up a little bit but they're never the prettiest whales the prettiest ones you're going to get is going to be on in here but we may try to cut just a little more heat and make this thing sink down in on this one that'll be good we'll have us a kind of a little vertical one and uh put a little more heat to this one see if we can get her to sink on down so let's go just for that joint only we're going to go 178 I'm going put y'all back in the fancy Arc shot device here all right guys we're going to drag uphill on this one and I may just do just a little oscillate not a whole lot just to widen it out so it don't peek up real high so we'll just do a little small oscillation you should be able to see it in the weld there we go on that one we got a little more heat into it as you can tell by the heat affected zone out here but more likely you're going to be grinding most of these welds on this stuff here now I guess we need to just do us a downhill on this one it would be easier to weld it up top like this because it's going to naturally gravity is going to sink but we're trying to make it a little more challenging so we'll prop her up like this and uh do a good downhill on her and all we're going to do is we're going to go straight downhill with this we're going to start on this crack and take her downhill like that and what we'll do on this one here is I'll finish it off we'll grind it real quick and fix it up like you would probably do on your go-karts and stuff but here we go let's do a quick downhill on this one all right we're just going to come up here here and get it good hot and melted in and just slowly come down watch your puddle and just come straight down it and stop and check it out that little happy with that one looks good except for that big old drip we got a little iicle on that one but the weld sunk down really nice cut this light off so you can see it better the Wale laid in really nice we just trim out off with the grinder yeah it it sunk in there good I see I kind of like it heat setting better 7 go back we had it 175 is probably pretty good I should have changed it before I done that outside but I forgot about it so we'll get this cleaned up real quick on this part here now we do got to do the inside maybe we can make one good looking weld here let's see if we can do that guys here we go fil it well now we're going to do a little loop-de-loop stacking dime on this one curse of ease what this one's going to be all right guys there we go on that one that turned out pretty good I had a little much angle but I was trying to get get around all this stuff to be able to wh but getting y'all a good sites where you can see them good but yeah make sure when you go around these Corners that you wrap the corner good you come up like that to tie the corners in and I like to start here and and pull it back around there so all right guys I'm going to get the rest these welded I'm going to show you how I'm going to attack this one right here real quick I'm going to show you the little trigger weld on just this one this is the only one I'd use it on I'm going to show you how I would attack this one with the trigger Weld and just keep it hot and tack tack tack tack tack right there then we'll weld the other ones up all right guys we're going to pull the trigger well just off the one that's sitting here at the end and see how that one does just give you a couple different options all right works pretty good it's uh I believe it's good and penetrated enough on this 16 in then on the other one we'll just do the straight stringers on it so we're just going to trigger this whole one here just see what it [Music] does the inside corner joint here we're still going to do our little uh loop-de-loop on it our cursive [Music] E couldn't get my corner wrapped real good trying to get around this stuff but turned out pretty good I guess we'll keep on with the theme of the trigger weld around there all right we got that and welded up all right guys here we go some of these whales are a little crooked but it's CU I was trying to go around stuff as that's all trigger welded around there it stayed up good and tight and I think like for this thin 16th stuff it's [Music] fine but anyo we'll uh we'll go over here we'll do this one here with the straight stringers the normal the way you probably need to work it too maybe you can use the uh this is just an idea maybe you use a little trigger weld on these here I mean you can see it got plenty of heat into it heat affected Zone really good so I'm going to say it's burnt in if we cut it and etched it it would probably be fine on the thinner stuff but we're going to do the straight stringers with just a little oscillation on these down here and uh we'll do the cursive ease here and here on that and straight Stringer on the outside of that one and uh welder hold up and call it a day so we'll going to start on this one right here on this now that wasn't a bad Stringer there guys they still just don't it's going to be hard I'm sure there's some guys out there can get these look good I just can't get except for the inside corner joints that's the only ones I can make look any good but don't get discouraged if it don't look perfect cuz these are some of the harder ones I think for me anyway to to make aesthetically pleasing but hey they'll hold that's what they're supposed to do going run this other one it's going to be a straight Stringer all right guys get it over here where you can see it this the last one we've done that's the one we done the the curs of fees get you a light over here done the curs of Fe on this one or you can do the straight stringers you don't have to do that I mean these Stringer here are really strong well I just tend on these I like to just do a little loop-de-loop on here just to just to do it it's strong it ain't going to break off yeah guys I can see even on this one I can tell the difference on uh just today welding a little bit from welding from this to this to this my third one you start getting better it's just seat time so I'm going I'm going to clean this one up here in the middle real quick and show you how to finish it out like I said we had the heat enough that it's down in there and we'll look at it good and we'll clean this up here and we'll be done all right guys there she is all finished up I normally don't like on these inside corner joints and stuff I don't really mess with grinding them it's a pain now you can you can get in there and grind it down as like one solid piece of metal but I think that turned out plenty good good and strong for what it is like I said The more I done it today actually the better I got cuz that was some of my first stuff but after after that's ground down it'll look good but anyo and this was my last one here we'll get us a wire brush on it real quick now I will say once we move to the TIG weld I'd like to do a series like this also with the TIG weld and if you guys would like to see that I learn the TIG weld in the day I mean it's basically taking a bunch of little clips and helping you guys out make it look a Teck better it still don't look that good I just don't like doing them Stringer welds on here but that one turned out good all these are just as strong but n you can see down there the the heat marks on the inside where you got good heat all the way around though so yeah it's not going to break off and people's going to say on the the one that I've done on this end the trigger weld one oh that's not you're going to have cold LP but guys it's you got to pay attention to what the application is this is 16th wall one two tubing I mean I can stand on it and bend a tubing so you don't have to worry as much about that now if you was doing structural stuff I probably wouldn't doing the trigger stuff that's her guys looks pretty good got a good neat joint here make you a piece of Arc whatever you want to do out of it all right guys hope youall enjoyed that little video on how to weld Square tube and I think it's the something that y'all use a lot of I why kind of tried to pick it it's always been a little something tough for me to weld I mean these well I'll say tough tough to make look really good and you get disappointed because they don't look perfect the strength is more important than the perfect looking of it you can you know the more you do it the better and more consistent you'll get but I just thought this would be something neat because you can build your welding Parts you can build a Welding Table out of this you can build a whatever you want to build I mean we build tons of stuff out of this one by one square tubing but you got any questions make sure you drop below if you got any ideas for a video you want to see drop below I've made a few for guys already that want to see them so make you one of these little V things whatever it is and remember be kind to one another Jesus loves you so do we God bless we got [Music] oh

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Length: 31min 56sec (1916 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 13 2024