Master Overhead Stick Welding In 20 Minutes

Stop struggling with your overhead stick welding by sticking to these simple welding techniques.

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Question - What is the most important variable when stick welding overhead with 7018?


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Time Codes
00:00 Introduction
00:44 Materials
01:04 Prep and Fit Up
02:56 4G Root Pass
05:43 Root Pass Tie In
08:41 First Filler Layer
12:19 How Many Filler Passes Do You Need?
13:42 Second Filler Layer
14:45 Capping A 4G Plate
15:55 First Cap Bead
17:27 Second Cap Bead
18:42 Final Cap Bead
19:55 4G Results

#stickwelding #7018 #4G #overheadwelding #smaw

[andrewdollinger]

Great video! So smooth. Love the Bob Ross vibe- even in the mist of a molten metal shower 😅

[jimboinsa]

Awesome! Feel like I've just had a weld class given by Mr. Rogers. In all seriousness though, I have this weld coming up next week in school and I was a little nervous about it. This video definitrly clarified things. Thanks.

[hamtrucker]

Okay if nobody's realized he is like the Bob Ross of welding videos! The soft music, soft tone a voice as he gently guides us on his daily welding adventures. Actually really enjoyed this video...

[ClassMobilerepair-ii]

Your the Bob Ross of welding. I love it.

[rhd]

As many others have said, the Bob Ross vibe was very well done. Also, all the other instructions and tips and tricks were incredibly helpful.

[gregcampbell]

I am really enjoying this National Panhandler's Radio interlude here with culturally correct background music to stimulate the art of overhead welding.

[CalSparks]

This was the perfect video for my students, well done and well explained!

[robertblackshear]

Man I just love that slag peel. Perfect weld, great job bro.

[BobWolford-qb]

Excellent video for what I think is a difficult procedure- I have a busted rotator cuff on my right shoulder, and while I could lay in a very good root and fill passes, by the time I got to cap my shoulder and so fatigued that I couldn't hold the stinger steady enough to maintain arc length and travel speed, so my caps were the week point. Besides that, I had a hell of time with restarts in this position- just had a hard time seeing where to tie-in for some reason. Didn't have that issue with vertical, but overhead was a problem for some reason.

[bojack]

Very well explained. As long as you guys are clear and consice, the style is of not much relevance. Thanks again.

[dennishill]

Having run a test booth for a number of years which included testing and training for those hands already on the project I can say that I personally made sure that a welder finished a pass to avoid tie-ins in the body of the weld.
It is a harder test really with an added skill of having to make an X-ray with tie-ins on top of all else that a welder has to get right.
My method of training was to get a practice coupon at 8 or 9" to get used to going the distance and then when testing you're using a standard 7" coupon and it makes it easy to go the distance.
Also, we should think about the Overhead weld and the first and foremost issue being that uniform beads are critical as a pass where I slowed down or got out of position in the slightest way leads to the bead building up behind the rod and gravity being straight down means each successive pass goes over that bump and adds to the overall mess and it's going to look like Damian's finished product ( which I should mention was brave of him to show us and I admire him for doing so) and that's about it... just thinking here as long as I'm going long, take Damian for example,

1. have him run 2 more coupons to handle the issues above and then practice
2. Do this practice on an 8" plate to finish off the week and then he would test out and pass, he'd do both a Vert and OH plate we send it out for x-ray and he'd pass.
3. He would then be sent out to the jobsite and work with a fitter and he'd do tacking and hangers, etc. for about 6 mos. and would get comfortable welding 8 hours a day. Tie-in's would improve during that time significantly and
4. he'd be sent to the plate crew where he would be doing production welding and might do that for 6 mos. and
5. he could graduate up to the shell plate crew and do x-ray work all day and if he passes muster on that he goes to
6. the top crews working on the heavy shell plate (this is on ships) and includes 5 chrome steel and other exotics with pre-heat and post heat treat.

What you would have in about 2 years would be a very good all round welder that could do any x-ray work and work as a boilermaker or maybe an ironworker, (that's a bit animalistic) and make a very good career out of it. And make some good wages too.
This is just one guys opinion.

[maciejtrybilo]

A glitch in the matrix removed heavy guitar riffs from a welding video.

[chaz]

My schools test makes us put the plates together with no gap weld it then gouge out the back and weld it using 7018 on overhead. Is that normal

[swift__]

Where’d you pick up that 3m flapper n abrasive? Is it better than a normal flap disk?

[DanielBisagni]

😆cracking me up with the bob ross in the hiphop club commentary...

[Lizardking]

Trying to get my d1.1. 3g but I need to slow down on the root I use almost the whole rod for just the root. This video is the best and will help me become a certified welder. thank you this guy is the best hahahahahaha

[mixpick]

Great teaching and just gotta' love the dead pan humor. 🙂 I think I'll remember the taco analogy for the rest of my life. Lol

[tinkering]

Good instructions. This is my funnest hobby.

[JonDingle]

Great instructional video with the right amount of detail!

[DarylGilbo-cixb]

So I’m Doing This But It’s Open Root 1/8 6010, 3/32 7018 Hot Pass Fill And Cap. Im Struggling With Root pass Should I Drag it or whip n pause??