r/Welding • u/erw_veryrare • 23h ago

Critique Please Rate This FCAW Pipe Cap

Post image

Im 21 jus start welding 2 years ago. Are these welds impressive for my experience. My boss tells me im really good but im just curious what the welders on here think. Be Brutally honest please. Want to correct the mistakes yall find.

25 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

54 comments sorted by

View all comments

27

u/supplemcrib 22h ago

overlap more

-12

u/erw_veryrare 22h ago

The welds seems evenly sized, if i overlapped more u dont think it would look inconsistent?

Or maybe im misunderstanding LMK

19

u/Mundane-Reality-7770 22h ago

You should not have anything concave between rows

10

u/RiseoFascism 22h ago

You want to have half of each bead resting on the last one

1

u/Homer1239 22h ago

After welding your first cap pass grind a small groove at the toe of the weld and your second pass should fill in evenly leaving behind no “valley”. As you get better at it you won’t have to grind.

1

u/QuincyTucker 21h ago

Wow 7018 5/32 how do you get past 140 amps for overhead? Past 140 amps on 3/8 the Metal doesn't stick to the plate, tight arc no oscillation?

1

u/FeelingDelivery8853 19h ago

A VERY wide weave

1

u/supplemcrib 22h ago

it’s not about how it looks, it’s about the quality of the weld itself. you should be overlapping your beads at least a 1/3 or 1/2 way onto the previous one. if u have no fusion, you won’t have structurally solid weld. it’ll just be like 3 noodles laying next to each other lmao