Working in a safe and flexible environment is essential for learning to weld. As it’s quite a hard and rather stressing job to do. Since it’s dangerous, we must counter all the heat and molten metal for this job. Safety precautions must be assured before starting because we have no room of error in this job.
So here we have a few tips for those who want to start welding.
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Play with the Puddle
One of the prime ways for welding is to melt metals to create a proper, adequate puddle. You must make sure that you don’t let the both metals join or touch each other in the filler. Waiting too long in one place can start to burn a hole through your base metal or get your welder stuck. The precise and required amount of time when you maintain the rods is very crucial. If you keep them too close, the rod will stick, but if kept too far, will surely splatter or disconnect the arc.
Wear the right gear.
Wearing the right gear and being equipped by the right tools is crucial for the assurance of the safety of what you weld. Make sure your hands and wrist are covered with cotton. Try to wear a non-flammable cotton shirt for extra precautions and protect yourself from any type of rays coming of the gun. Make sure you are wearing a high-quality helmet with adjusting lenses to protect your eyes from any sort of damage.
Use the best available wire.
Find yourself a wire of correct length and thickness and quality for the metal which you are welding. It’s advisable to use a thin wire but for thick metals, use a large wire. Make sure you are using a wire of the same type for instant if you are welding aluminum, make sure you are using an aluminum wire.
Find a welding mentor.
If you have much time and money, then it is better to hire a mentor or just watch someone weld. A better suggestion that I would give you is to buy a trainer set of DVDs starting out stick welding process are the Steve Bleile Arc Welding videos part one and two.
Practice a good technique.
While welding, make sure you don’t adopt a habit of going on a straight line. Instead, make tiny connecting loops with your welding gun. You basically push the puddle and sweep it in circular motion. This technique will make your welding stronger. Using this method, you will have a nice weld without any gaps in between which might weaken the bond.
Conclusion
Being able to weld at home or on a workplace is a passion and only talented and passionate people can do so. It is no doubt a dangerous job and a pretty heated one, but if you do it like a pro you might achieve excellence in this regard.