Looking at my Old Welds

all right guys it's the month of October which means the dream weld shop grand prize giveaway is in action where every five bucks spent at weld medals online.com gets you entered to win like two welders a plasma cutter a fixture table a bunch of gear and all kinds of stuff right but in the meantime I am choosing random orders and I'm going to call them and they can choose whatever of the prizes I got left what do I got I got a the uh 50 aamp plasma cutter and the fixture table so today's winner let's see if he answers his phone I don't know what I would do if somebody didn't answer their phone what what do you think I should do getting nervous hello hey is this Jake yes it is hey this is Justin with TFS how you doing hey not too bad yourself oh pretty good you know average Monday I'd say right so you have been randomly chosen to pick between two of the awesome random prizes I have left which is a plasma cutter or the fixture table oh let's see I think I'll take take the fixture table that's a good choice I love that thing in fact I've got a video coming up on it on the W coach Channel pretty soon I'm actually working on it right now oh sweet sneak peek so anyway well I will have that on its way along with your order probably today awesome thank you you got it man thanks for watching yeah thanks all right have a good one just that easy I get to do buy something I might pick you this is an intake manifold I built this with my bare hands no Machinery no expensive tools no computers just simple basic hand tools yes it looks like absolute doodoo butter compared to what you've seen me do in recent years I built this 12 years ago and in that time since I have built it it did go set and break every single existing record for the world's fastest naturally aspirated 4G 93 engines found in fifth generation Mitsubishi mirages but obviously that has been since smashed and broken and whatever the case is several hundred times over if anybody even builds those things anymore but the reason I bring this up the number one question I read on the internet today by new be welders and people are getting into this industry after doing their research is what am I doing wrong well the truthful answer to that is you just need to do your time this is an acquired skill there's literally no way around that so when this piece of super outdated technology that I built 12 years before this video popped up for sale after sitting for several years I knew that this would be the perfect opportunity for me to show you guys what I did wrong on this piece and how I would change a lot about this based on what I know today the first thing that we're going to call out here elephants in the room if you will is these welds I mean these are kind of horrific looking okay I'll I'll say it areas along this seam right here you can look at my consistency of it it's a much fatter profile here than it is down here this is a more narrow Prof profile of course my spacing is extremely inconsistent right the the amount of dabs I put in and the certain amount of space I have like here it's a little bit tighter than here where it's really wide and there's even some instances where I have like a whole bunch of just random craters like I did a stop start or something like that or I didn't weld in the same direction it's like maybe I welded some here and then I moved over here and then welded that and then I moved back here and then welded that and then here and then welded that or something you know it's like instead of going in one same consistent straight Direction I basically welded kind of backwards if you will right so that inconsistency and then having these craters here where my stops and starts are when I stop it's overlapping another Weld and obviously that's not good so this area around here again more of that inconsistency that nasty looking you know tight blob or tight stack or small blob or whatever this area right here like these are a whole bunch of little craters little dimples or whatever it looks like I did the fake welding cold weld thing or something like that I'm not really sure how I achieved that design or that look on there and of course rounding the corner over here same story it's just inconsistencies you know some of it looks really cold and ropey like I didn't have enough you know power to get into it or I just maybe I was afraid to commit to burning into it or something like that I don't really know this flange over here this this plenum right here is actually 8 in and then the flange itself is 3/8 so you can see some sections on here you know I burn it all right into it or whatever the case is so obviously all of my welds here are extremely inconsistent they very ropey appearance very globby kind of you know some of them very cold some of them pretty hot but they're just atrocious looking we'll just we'll just throw it out there right there's no consistency to them whatsoever how would we have fixed that how do I fix that what am I doing wrong here how do I fix this wrong practice that's the only thing I could have done right at that time instead of just jumping into this being like Oh I got this you know thinking I'm good at this or whatever the case is I should have laid down a bunch of beads I should have practiced these joints in this similar situation like if only wild Metals online was around at that time I would have had some coupons to set up and you know set these joints up with and stuff like that that's basically that's the only way that it's going to go there is one thing I do want to point out though if you do look at it I'll give myself a lot of credit for this pretty much all of my welds on every seam run in the same direction as in I was always welding in this way or in this case I was welding this way then up and see they all go in the same direction I didn't weld halfway this way and then turn around and go halfway that way and then meet in the middle that's one of those things like big no no to me don't ever do that but if you look carefully I didn't really pay attention to that rule when it comes to the tubes themselves now these tubes are 16 gauge or basically a 16th of an inch and I believe this flange plate or the plenum plate right here with the velocity Stacks are on the inside I'm pretty sure that's 8 in and then definitely down here at the flange of it this flange is 38 and of course these tubes are uh 11/16 right so welding thick to thin very difficult to do how would we have uh gotten more consistency out of that one practice right welding around something that's you know you're working in tight spaces and stuff like that I should have actually paid attention to where I'm welding and how I'm welding and etc etc or had more like better practice more better herb practice with welding thick to thin stuff like that you know here's a gem right there hopefully you can see that that's a Q-tip right I did another one right up here too can see it bright as day what is a Q-tip you might ask now that's where you send the filler straight into the tungsten right it makes this big nasty disgusting mess all over your freaking part it turns black it's a lot of deposits go in there whatever the case is right but I ignored it obviously I was like oh well I'll just change the tungsten out and then we'll just weld right over the top of that or whatever the case is but all of these little particles and stuff are still floating inside of there you can feel it they're they're rough they're gritty I probably did it a few other times on here too right maybe on the back side you can see some junk floating in there yeah in order to properly treat a Q-tip when you do that one change the tungsten out absolutely but when you go up to your part afterwards you got to clean all that crap back out going in there with like a carbide bur or a file or something that will actually cut and scrape all that out and then fill it and Patch it back in and then weld right over the top of it that's how you get rid of a Q-tip that contaminated spot or actually right there I think I dipped my tungsten well actually in a lot of these spots you can see I dipped my tungsten pretty bad right I'm not really saying that my welding is wrong or anything like that it just it's atrocious and you know I didn't think I was doing anything wrong at the time but if I would have paid a little bit of extra attention into the layout and the consistency of everything and how I weld it and the Order of which I welded it it probably would have been a lot better I mean I'm pretty sure even though the welds look kind of crappy it would have had a much better appearance to it and appearance is one of those things like you you need to pay attention to it right the little details in something like if you're going to sell a product and you put it out there like this or whatever the case is with no thought into it somebody may not buy it just because it looks funny like they may not know the reason why it looks bad or it looks funny or silly or whatever the case is but they're seeing it and if it's just slightly offputting nobody's going to buy it and those little details you could you could have worked out that's something I could have learned a long time ago but it took a little longer obviously the second part of this is fit up right these welds could be a lot smoother looking or this overall appearance could be a lot smoother looking if I had better fit up I don't know if I was in a rush or whatever the case is or maybe it was just because I was using hand tools but things like the velocity stack plate there was terrible fit up on this part instead of it being you know slid into the upper plenum being the same width as the slot that I cut on there it was overlapped and the result of it obviously is this overlap joint or just basically like a lap joint so instead of it being nice and smooth and flush with that plenum and getting myself like a butt weld to work which which would look a lot smoother I have basically this big fat nasty lap joint which it looks atrocious right same thing happens with the end cap here on the end of the plenum you notice it's almost kind of smooth butted up against here and then it turns into the big nasty lip or this big old fat gnarly lap on here if I would have cut this properly and kind of recessed it into the end of the plenum or giving myself like a more like the like an outside corner setup if you will it' be like a butt weld but the groove that's in there was also it would have been like an outside corner so it would have flowed a lot smoother throughout that joint and you know probably would have looked a little bit smoother a little bit better appearance on it which is something that you know I would have really liked it might have even made the welding job go just that much much smoother same thing with the injector bungs these are pretty horrific there's a lot of weld inside of there right when I cut these bungs out there was a wedge shape to the end of them and I'm taking that wedge shape which there's no surface area it's going to blow and Melt Away really fast trying to weld it to a 3/8 thick plate and a 1/16 inch tube all of varying thicknesses and different tolerances of heat they can handle so I'm not going to lie I remember when the fit up was on there I could see like straight through it I'm just like oh I'll fill it up with weld and the result of it is these big old globby bits that are around these injector ports it's it it looks terrible right there's virtually no consistency with it because I I was just it was blowing apart and all I was thinking about doing was just stuffing a bunch of filler in there and that's basically what I did and even on the inside here I knew I was going to smooth it and you know file it down and make the transition smooth and those welds were going to go away so I didn't really care but if I had much better fit up with it and I would have paid attention to it and actually given a crap about it then you know hey it probably would have come out a lot smoother so what did I do wrong I just didn't pay attention to my FIT up I just threw it together maybe I was in a rush that's a pretty rookie move now the third thing that I did wrong with this overall project here is basically no prep or virtually no prep the metal did get brushed a little bit beforehand but I mean look at this you can see on the velocity stack plate how dirty everything is generally speaking around the outside of it we got some contamination Rings like black rings and stuff like that it's either my tungsten was you know wasted at the time or maybe it was just oils from my hands and stuff these things were often overlooked back in the day that's just you know you never really paid attention to grabbing like a good cleaner or something like that to get the surface on there and that result of that if I would have left these welds like raw looking or whatever the case is they they uh they would have looked pretty crusty if you will right so there's a lot of those little things like that that especially in the appearance of this you know even after I did brush it and everything else like that you can see some you know like burn marks or you know dirty deposits contaminated spots whatever the case is you know just things that kind of collect inside of there and it's it's just it's pretty nasty so preparation is key to making sure that you get like one a good fit up and then two if you have uh you know uh clean material or whatever the case is there won't be anything that's burned into it they won't have this crusty look or whatever the case is to them and you know it's it's little stuff like that I mean I used to tell every body that welding is the easy part it's the prep and the fit up and everything else like that that takes the most time or at least welding is the quickest part but either way old adage I guess you could say now I'm sure down in the comments there's going to be a whole lot of other people saying oh you did this wrong and you did this wrong and you did this wrong and that's going to be the same with you know no matter who you are no matter where you're at you're always going to find those people that just want to tear everything down so I'll be down in my comments you know looking at everybody and seeing what they say but at the end of the day I I kind of want this piece to inspire okay uh it's it's it's like it used to set records right World Records it was the fastest of its time you know it was it was the piece to have even though it looks like absolute crap it still did its job right so I hope that this kind of helps you guys out a little bit and uh you know inspires you to just stick with it and know that at the end of the day you know you're going to get better I I don't do work like this anymore you know I have a lot more more uh consideration going into my part a lot more skill that I've acquired out of this one so even though you may be doing stuff like this now and that's what it looks like it's not going to be forever just keep your head in there and practice and if you guys want to read you know cuz I used to be a pretty good writer if you guys want to read uh and see the pictures of everything that I did on this build I'll have a link over to the fabrication series website where the build blogs are where I wrote all of this stuff you know I wasn't on YouTube back you know 12 years ago so either way uh that's all I've got for now bye

Channel: The Fabrication Series

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Length: 14min 3sec (843 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 23 2023