Flux Core WELDING Basics: #1 Beginner Mistakes W/ HF Titanium

Couple Tips and Tricks to making your Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) or gasless MIG welds looking AWESOME!

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Accessories 0:38
Metal Prep 2:13
Welder Setup 2:39
Technique 5:37

[georgetowers]

Perfect timing. Just bought everything yesterday and my welds look horrible 😂

[stewartmarshall]

Best beginner's tutorial for flux-core that I have seen! Excellent and spot-on advice. Many thanks!

[daveb]

Thank you very much for all your videos; I am just getting back into welding after 35 yrs. I have been using your videos as a refresher until my machine gets here. Have a great day and keep on making videos please.

[TheGoatShowMan]

I bought the HF125 on sale. Maybe $90. Bought a cheap Hobart helmet, some wire, a pair of gloves and came home ready to fix stuff. Couldn’t see a thing out of the helmet and my “welds” looked HORRIBLE.

Now I have always been one of those guys that was pretty good at anything I ever tried. Not great at anything, but always managed to conquer anything I tried. And I SUCKED at welding! It flat pissed me off. If some Pakistani dude wearing his underwear and welding barefoot in the dirt can do weld, why can’t I? It just stuck in my craw.

Either out of stubbornness or stupidity, I refused to give up. One day I was in HF and I grabbed one of their $150 helmets and tossed it on my head. WOW! What a difference! I could see! With that cheap Hobart helmet I couldn’t see anything, not even a starting point. So I see this guy in line who looks like a welder and I swallowed my pride and approached him. “Hey, are you a welder by any chance?” I asked. He says “I might be.” I ask him to look through the HF helmet. “Is this what I am supposed to see when I look through a welding helmet?” I ask. “Yep” he says. Well shit, I’ve been using a bad helmet the whole time! My current helmet is TOTALLY black all the time. “Yeah, you need this helmet” he says to me.

So I call the wife and say “honey, I NEED this helmet!” (just a tip for you recently married fellas, this is how you stay married for 43 years to one woman). I rush home to try the helmet out and it works great, and while my welds were certainly much better, they still weren’t acceptable to me. Then I watched this video and realized I was running gas wire through the welder, went back to HF and bought gas-less wire, tossed it in and voila! It wasn’t me, it was the equipment!

Many thanks for restoring me back into the HeMan Club!

[jimmywilson]

Man I love this channel. I’ve learned a lot from you already. I can’t wait to try my little welder out. It’s gonna weld almost anything i would ever want to weld. Except maybe tig but I’m not ready to attempt that yet…😂 I really like that welding table you made too. Keep up the good work man. I’m sure several people have benefited greatly from watching your videos. 👍🏼✌🏼

[naturaljuicers]

After watching other guys videos yours are the best basic for beginners videos for new welders keeping it simple good job

[LoneStar_yota]

Glad I found this. I’m buying one next week and self teaching myself

[ChasandAmyChasandamy-zwjg]

I hav3nt done any welding since 1996. Man. The game has changed since I prepped metal for ourwelderwhenwebuilta construction barge in Harvey LA. I'm gonna go getthistitanium welderforsomehome diy projects. Ty.

[joeyw]

Awesome video. Very helpful. Think I'm going to pickup the HF Titanium 125 and start getting some experience with it. Then move on to some projects. I appreciate you sharing.

[mrtrippintherift]

Thank you for the quality content you provide. I have been thinking about getting an entry level welder for a while now.
After watching your videos, I’m confident the Titanium Flux 125 will suit my needs around the house.
I look forward to watching your videos to get up to speed with the Flux 125.

Cheers!

[crushrreviews]

I have the same titanium 125 welder that you have, and I’m trying to teach myself how to weld. Your videos are great and I will use them to teach myself welding basics.

[Tifford]

Subscribed. I have a lincoln 135 that I solely use for flux core wire

[chrishouse]

Great video. Just picked up a hobby welder and itching to practice. Going to go cut me some bits of metal and try it out tomorrow. Thanks for the guidance here I am sure its going to help.

[BPBM]

Getting back into welding, this helps a lot!

[Ckeaton]

Great video. The giveaway welder looks like will be great for someone!

[WL-mtmv]

If you get a thickness gauge, make sure you get one for steel and not for non-ferrous metals. 12-gauge steel is 0.1046" and 12-gauge non-ferrous is 0.0808". They look the same but should have which one they are stamped on the side.

[brysonalden]

Thanks for posting this. I've been trying to weld billets together for patterned steel forging, so I don't care what the weld looks like, just that it holds. So far it's been quite frustrating, but I think I picked up some tips from your video; will try them tomorrow.

[paulronn]

Great video, thank you. Not sure i caught when or how to use the nozzle gel or spray. Just bought a titanium 125, starting practice welds this weekend!

[georgetowers]

Could you do a video on respirators? Or just which you’d recommend?

[scottpolenske]

I just got this welder for father's day. Never welded before. Tried it today. Welds look pretty decent for first time. However I have a ton of spatter. What's causing that, or what can I do different to lessen it?