Stick Welding Techniques 6010 Downhill

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Welding open root practice plates is a good way to prepare for a 5g pipe test.
As long as thickness, bevel angle, root opening, and land are the same, the same settings and techniques that work on plate will work on pipe.
With pipe, you will still need to practice body positioning and transitions to different rod angles but other than that, the techniques used on practice plates will work on pipe.

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Pipe welding is hard! especially when your 57 year old eyes don't focus as well as they used to and your not anywhere near as flexible as you were when you were 25 : ) I sure enjoy your videos Jody, especially the Tig welding. I suck at Tig welding, but thanks to your tutelage over the years I am much better at it. Cheers

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One of the most difficult things I've ever done was my 6g pipe welding test. I was brand new to welding, I spent hours and hours staying after work to practice. It felt so good when I passed. I put my heart and soul into the pipe fitter apprenticeship. Then one year in, the company shut down the apprenticeship.

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Soldering technique is too good. thanks for sharing.

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THIS VIDEO is a very good teaching tool and pipe is where the money is at for a welder !!!!

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[edfrancis]

Just started college with pipe welding and this has really given me helpful information with how I should be running 6010 electrodes. Was having issues with the root and think the plate gap and how I was running the rod was the issue but watching this has given me a better understanding

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[RC-Heli]

The greatest blessing in all my life was to buy my first box of 6010 rods for welding bore casing. I started out with 7014's because that's what my dad liked and they do make a nice pretty flat weld but very difficult if not impossible on any kind of vertical welding or overhead situation.

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some really great information and very clear picture and description you Jody and from Orlando, Paul

[patdexter]

That 6010 might work on frames to for a root. This is crack repairs on heavy equipment, loaders, shovels. Then fill with 7018. Most of the time I fit a backer plate/ 1/8" strap then do the root with 3/32 7018 all uphill welds. This has worked well for me. The 6010 would save time for sure. I don't like using wire to much because its easy to over heat the work piece if your not watching the temp. Before temp guns I always did the spit test.

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Love downhill on 6010 red rod. You can step in and out of the puddle and just stack dimes. 5p+ works great also just have love for some red rod. Being a union steamfitter I wish they would train more apprentices to master both up and downhill.