6G Welding - How To Pass Your Test

6G welding with Dr. Weldz! Austin is here to give us some tips and insight on how to pass a 6G weld test...

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[ZaneBonham]

I gotta say I’ve been watching 6g videos for months now and I’ve never came across this. This is single handedly the best 6g video I’ve ever seen. Perfect timing with my union test coming up soon

[massimommm]

best video on 6g i’ve ever seen. champion edition teacher

[SuperUncleRyan]

This guy doesn't look old enough to have the experience/knowledge he seems to have. Darn good job with the delivery of the lesson too. God bless you brother for helping folks out. I'm just a hobby welder but I love watching these videos for general knowledge. I wish I had gone the welding route in my construction career.
God bless y'all

[kidlo]

I recently went take a 2in heavy wall 6g pipe last Friday 19th and Saturday 20th. I just finished school that week too and I only have 2 months of pipe welding experience on 6in schedule 80 actually knowing what I'm doing. Well, I never welded 2in heavy wall and my root was a lil heavy but acceptable. Tig root, hot, fill, and stick cap. My biggest problem was time. I took my 9:30am - 3:30pm just to finish it because I never welded heavy wall and filled it with tig. The guy who was testing me came at me and said, "You still didn't finish that lil bitty pipe, I thought you were a Combo welder." He just kept trying to rush me and I told him respectfully "I said just got out of school yesterday" and he walked off. I just turned 20 last month and he thinks I'm an experience pipe welder. Then they told me they were gone call me Monday last week and didn't, so I knew they wasn't going to hire me, so I applied somewhere else. I am going take another test this Wednesday and It's on a rollout wheel witch I tried recently.

Is there any advice from anyone for someone as young as me to watch out for when going take a pipe welding test?

I spent 3 to 4 years learning different process on structural and I decided to move on to pipe welding and It's like no one wants to hire me, not even for a tacking position.

[brianbeaubien]

❤ I've been teaching welding for many years and you are doing an excellent job my friend thank you! I even share it with my daughter who's starting welding.❤

[ypaulbrown]

Austin, looking fantastic on this Sunday evening, all great information here, thanks so much for sharing with us old guys out Paulie B

[mddenis]

Very good welding tutorial, I watched thousands of welding videos and this one is really among best

[wildnfree]

From one instructor to another, good job man, deadly demonstration. Much love from cold ass alberta Canada 🇨🇦

[Goldwingrider]

This is a Kwel video!! Body position what I always faced.. great lessons for newbies!!

[tommyobrien]

Fantastic video thanks for sharing your ideas and knowledge, you have a great way with words and very easy to listen to.

[jeepwk.L]

I’ve taken this test a thousand times, and in the test procedure you can’t go over a 1/8” root gap. Some QCs hold you to this standard.

[darrellroeters]

Being a QC weld inspector, the best welders came from Texas during the refueling outages.

[romanianmoto]

Omg this is Gold !
Love the Podcast, came to YouTube check this fantastic info homies

[veljkosimic]

I have exactly the same grinder at work... very good quality...

[andyb]

Good and informative video. One thing, when teaching from the "white" board try and do something with the overhead lights (video umbrella or shade) because the reflection/glare off of you glasses lens is very annoying and distracting. Thank you for the video.

[davidquirk]

Brilliant video. It's all very well to be able to strike and run an arc but few people major on body position. I was lucky enough, on one occasion, whilst welding a car body, to have the the customer, a Yoga instructor, watch me. She told me ''you're doing it wrong, you're posture is shit' she wasn't a welder but she had a point. I try to make sure that I can run the arc from start to end without getting 'jerky' as I transition from a comfortable start to the end of the weld.

[williamstormoen]

Question here, after each layer do you wait for pipe to cool down? Or do you just keep stepping?

[joshw]

Root looks good but cap is trash in my honest opinion not saying it wont hold just that it def dont look great and yes i have worked on pipe in union for years

[mikeraftis]

If you wanna pass the test get someone who welds tube instead of pipe. Plus if you wear your welding cap backwards instead of gangster style that helps also.

[phineasporter]

Can run with 3 tacks on a 6” schedule 80, 6010/7018? Would you recommend it?