🔥 6G Pipe Welding with SMAW: 2' SCH 80 Carbon Steel

We've had lots of requests for pipe demos, ranging from 2" Carbon Steel to 10GA Stainless. Today we will be doing a 2" SCH 80 weld in the 6G position.
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[bertyadventures]

Thanks I’m taking this test now I was running 1/8 6010 at about 85-90 amps very hard to control today I’ll try 3/32 at about 65-70 amps hopefully that will work with 3/32 cap at about 70-80 amps

[kodyc]

You may have already done a video like this, but can you do a 6g where you weld both sides of the pipe start to finish without moving the pipe off the stand?

[greasydot]

Bob, you remember when we were the new kids on the block burning rods against them crusty old welders? Now I'm a crusty old welder and these new kids have all these great tools machines and are talented. Newest machine I have is a 1973 Miller portable, everything else is from the 40'S and 50'S.

[SuperPoonSlayer]

Nice video, Bob. I think the lady that requested the video was limited to 1/8" 6010. I wish they let me use 3/32" on my tests bc it'd be a lot easier. It did however force me to use 1/8" and now it's just gravy welding.

[sixstringslaya]

I like your style there Mr. Moffatt. I would take welding instruction from you any day. I also like the path the channel has been going down with a broader scope of the welding world. Thank you for your wonderful teachings.

[donovanayers]

I just busted a 6G 2” sch 80 cause I had some sick back.. never had issues with my root till doing this test. 1/8 6010 is too hot I needed to make a bigger land and go down to 3/32 for root and cap. Ya live ya learn! Still sucks to fail a test though

[davidtwumasi]

Great to learn from Old n well experience men 💞🤞🙏

[haroldwatkins]

Thank you sir for all your great instruction. Greatly appreciated.

[zrghmby]

What was the gap and the land ? Also would be great to write down the wall thickness of the pipe ( for the metric friends ). Thanks for the demonstration and also thank you for the feedback in the comments section . I appreciate it very much.P.S. How is it going with the 7018 root on pipe? I'm waiting for it like a kid wait's for Santa.

[markfryer]

Hi Bob, I have an interesting one for you. Ever heard of doing a Gas Main in 6010 all the way?
Well we have a new Gas Main being run up the middle of the road outside of the school maintenance workshop where I work, and out of interest I said hello to the welder. I asked him what rods he was using and he said Cellulose all the way! I asked what rod number and he replied 6010 all the way. Needless to say I was somewhat surprised after watching numerous US based You Tube welders, I was expecting 6010 root, 6010 hot pass, then fill with Low Hydrogen 7018, so the 6010 all the way really threw me. I have also heard that people also use 6013, particularly in the UK and 6013 is a very commonly available rod here.
Here are the pipe details; 219.1 mm X 6.4 mm X 11.8 m API 5L X 42 PSL 1, then there are details for the coating and the heat number, and pipe number. I am very interested to hear your thoughts and comments about this.
I have posted a photo of the pipe details to my Google+, for those of you wishing to read the details direct.
Mark Fryer, Melbourne, Australia.

[gastonmatbrai]

Thank you for sharing all your knowledge. Best regards.

[rachelbenzema]

thanks sir. am from indonesia like your videos.

[laan]

Can you do some stainless pipe? About 50 mm diameter

[melvinmariott]

I was welding up some 3" pipe with a 1/8" rod an i was having a hard time keeping it in there. I thought I had the shanks for a minute. But seeing this video now it was just the size of the rod i was using.

[reddragon]

I was wondering if you could do a video of a pipe weld of.6G pipe welding SMAW 2" SCH 40 carbon steel. I had to weld one of these to get a job to be a welder. IIt was a bend test. I had problem with the heat and the how much to push in on the root pass since it was a bend test. I'm going back to school during the summer for welding and I will try to get another welding test. Any help you can give me will help.

[boricuaarecibo]

I tried this test with 2" schedule 40 but all I had was 1/8" 6011 rod I have a miller multimatic 215 which I believe doesn't have a arc force setting. I started out ok but my fit up was not good since all I have is a bandsaw and a grinder.

[jeffbedard]

Bob can you do a video regarding Metalcore We use
this in our shop but no one covers it

[ifell]

Not criticism, but when a Jedi master does something i like to know why. When restarting on your second electrode why did you not clean of the slag from your first electrode run? It must be a great privilege to be on your course!!

[BMWDCK]

Bob is welding with 6011 about the same as welding with 6010?

[jasonnichols]

Do you ever run any 7016 Kobe rod? Can you make a video of that please. Thank you!