3 MIG Welding Tips From A Welding Instructor

Our Fab School instructor Miguel shares 3 MIG welding tips for beginners.

[gasNmudtv]

With slag you drag and gas you push. Thanks for the tip

[MiaArms]

Miss you Miguel. Your a legend. Just broke off my 4-3:30 and went full free lance. The fab school is the way to go. Hope you been well brother

[seantbr]

Everyone going to this school really needs to listen to everything that comes out of this dudes mouth he has welded helicopters and boeing airplanes he is full of knowledge and in my opinion has more welding experience than all the instructors at that school

[BrandonG]

Totally agree with everything. Just remember that the gas push rule is not applied 100% across the board. For example, I mig weld sheet metal for my work, so pushing really isn't as viable as pulling because pushing would cause you to burn through much more easily. He's definitely not wrong, it's just a rule that shouldn't be applied to every kind of metal.

[Bobtheforkcful]

I like this explanation, thank you <3

[ugomerlongi]

The absolute best explanation I’ve seen on YouTube shorts I’m subscribed

[paisaconstructiondavid]

Gracias, excellent advice, it's been a while since I have welded and I appreciate it, now I am going to play. 😇

[NoName-beir]

Appreciate your time with some tips. I’m a sign maker and I’m learning to weld up our sign base that bolts to concrete. I use a 1/4 inch metal plate 10x12 with a 2x2
Metal tube 10 inches tall. Set it in the middle of the plate and weld all 4 sides.
Lucky I have access to a Miller machine along with some other high quality equipment. I wanted to learn how to weld these up so I’m not dependent on someone else.
A few times as I started to weld I felt stuck and had to jerk it to get going. That from starting out to close?
But when I backed off and started I had some wire jumping around. So the 1/2 off the material then the wire also needs to be 1/2 out of the nozzle? Then I was at the 90 and circulating up on the tub and back down to the plate.

[fadedtv]

you actually get more pen when dragging mig. the reason were taught to push is for more gas coverage and the weld covers more surface area. its been tested and proven dragging creates a deeper, more pen weld

[tylercorbeil]

What a lot of people don’t realize it’s what your working with “material” and the settings you use you can drag or pull and get pretty much same results just have to tweak and find what you do I know bunch of old guys that do stick would rather drag because of tight spaces

[gregoryjames]

Great basic tips. Simple to the point.

[melyisrael]

CTWD is actually Contact-Tip (or Tube)to-Work Distance, and Nozzle-To-Work-Distance is abbreviated as NTWD.

[scottsay]

I’ve been dragging my mig gun for 30 years with no problems

[citrusblast]

Do u push still if ur doing overhead? Idk how i’d be able to do that

[briankissel]

Next video you do, put this on your cheat sheet card. 90-35=55 degrees. Doing street math while the camera is running can be tough.

[blackbeard]

These are Fundamentals... Depends on joint design. Everytime

[ajrnb]

just started my job MiG welding fittings into sprinkler system pipe, any tips ?

[Thelegendking-yjbm]

Beginner welder. Looking to weld a truck cab to a new frame what welding shoud i be doing ? And which machine is best ?

[christopherbonilla]

Thanks for the tips. But how come my instructor wont let me use push method because “it messes up the nozzle”

[levihassinger]

I never knew that dragging it had less penetration, good to know