Hi Medcoguy.

         Welcome to the AWS weld forum. Have you performed any welding or been around welding. The only way to know for sure is to try it. Find a buddy with a welder, try a demo at a weld supply shop, career fairs, local high or tech schools. I have worked or met with numerous people who have overcome all sorts of health issues and work in the welding field.

Hi Whatever. I feel your pain. Learning to understand the AWS codes and standards can be stressful.
   We use time to time the D1.2 2008 copy. Table 3.8 states that groove welds on plate also qualify fillet welds. Under nominal plate thickness qualified, note c is indicated. Note c states that fillet welds are qualified to unlimited thickness. Unlimited thickness to me is no minimum and no maximum.
   Hope this helps.

Welcome Pops. You have never welded? Maybe ,before making a purchase, see if you could use someone's welder to see if you would like it. You might be able to use a demo at a welding supply store or check out a community college, or high school program.

Al, thank you for getting me straight on the skewed T-joint. I have always appreciated the time and effort that you and so many others spend volunteering information to the forum.

Good morning Al. Thank you for replying.
D1.1 is the applying code. Your thoughts are that the joint is a skewed T-joint?
        I appreciate everyone's comments.

Good morning everyone. Best I could do this morning.

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Hi Everyone. Does anyone think that a skewed fillet weld is involved in this joint? My thinking is the portion of the weld sized as a fillet is correct and skewed would have no part in the joint design or weld size.

Hi aevald. Thank you for responding. Your drawing is close. The obtuse angle off the pipe is straight at 120 degrees, with a inside acute angle creating the bevel groove. Welding is performed only at the left side of your drawing.

Good day to everyone. I have a question regarding a formed pipe flange. The forming creates a lip over the pipe as the pipe passes thru it. The weld symbol is a PJP single bevel with a fillet weld symbol below it. The weld is completed in one pass, in the horizontal position. The top surface of the formed lip is a obtuse angle of 120 degrees from the pipe.
      Would the fillet part of the weld be considered a skewed fillet weld or a reinforcing weld or something else?
      Because of proprietary reasons I am not allowed to post a pic or drawing.
     
      Thanks for reading.

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Hi Lawrence. Just going to throw some thoughts at you.
          Travel speed change.
          Electrode stickout.
          Correct CFH
          Try another supply of filler material

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Great posts aevald!!! Thank you for sharing!!

Hi Tori. Welcome to the AWS Forum. AWS D1.2 aluminum structural welding code is a great place to start. Your employer may also choose to design their own in house testing program.

Love to learn new methods and techniques. I have never seen a weave bead terminated on each end before.

Looks like stringer beads. Some folks might call these overlay welds.

How is the testing going jsdwelder?

We have used a Triangle for ten years with no major issues. Hundreds of bends a year.

Totally awesome!!!

In our area of the Midwest, M5 is 95% argon and 5% oxygen.

Hi all !!!  My company is planning to perform weld trials on aluminum with Esab Aristo U6 and U8 wirefeeders in the next few days. We use pulse and spray arc transfers in production. Does anyone have experience or currently use this equipment? Looking for comments and suggestions.
 
  Thanks and have a great Friday!!

Hi sriley77. Please provide more info. Type of base material, shielding gas, wire chemistry,etc. Are you following a WPS?

Hi eekpod. If I have to bend 6061 I will heat the material up to 750 F and then immediately immerse into water. The material will be more ductile for bending. You will lose some short term material tensile strength. I believe long term, the material will age and regain most of its orginal tensile strength. Of course you have to be really carefully with the heating as not to marr the material or have discolor. I would also recomend testing before using this method for any critical load bearing structure.

Hi Kozak. How about some pics of what you are working on?

Hi everyone. Happy Monday.
   Has anyone converted a vehicle to lng or propane? These products continue to be way under gasoline prices. I am looking for info on realiable kit conversions. Thanks.

Hi Hillbilly. My favorite method is a Marvel verticle bandsaw. With swivl head or fixtures to angle plates to be beveled. Setup two or three plates, start cutting and go work on something else.

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Great stuff. You guys are cool.

Hi rshanks. Note e would come into play when writting or applying a wps to be used for welder qualifications. Depending on the range of material dimensions in specific joint wps's, more than one welder qualification maybe necessary to perform the welding.

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Thanks for your replies and info!!!

Hi All !!

I have a question on the tip size. Is the hole the same size all the way thru the nozzle? Just curious.Thanks.

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Thanks for replying guys. The whole assembly would be galvanized after welding mild steel parts to the stainless steel. The customer is requiring the galvanizing. We'll start the testing. Thanks again !!!!

Good afternoon to all. Is it possible to galvanize materials consisting of 316L ss welded to mild steel? Filler material used is 309LHsi. Hsi is for high silicon. Has anyone even seen stainless galvanized?

Special project and application. Galvanizing is just one option being looked at.

Manufacturing, weld tech, nde tech, cwi, cwe, inhouse weld program, secondary and post secondary weld training.

Bryon, what do you think of the Turner Gill hire ?

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I was 44. Co-workers passed their tests at 24, 55, and 57.

Good morning everyone. I see the Welding Inspection Technology book also shows a 6F position. The AWS professional welding competition for 2009 is a pipe and plate weld in the 6F position. This competition will be judged to D1.1 criteria. A little confusing. I know the code book takes precedence. but change the drawing for the 5F to reflect the multiply positions.

Thanks guys for answering. Currently we use AWS codes. We file the UT report with the PQR qualification
records. Our engineers, QA dept, all have access to those files. I'm just making sure that is good enough
documentation. Thanks again!

Good afternoon everyone. Have a question on documenting the results of a UT. When you ut a procedure qualification, do you note somewhere on the pqr or wps that the qualification is for a static or cyclically loaded stucture? Thanks in advance for any info.

Hi folks. We have used metal core for almost 20 years. Robotics, automatic equipment, semi-automatic. Our
production welding is flat and horizontal positions. But we have had also qualified many vertical and overhead welds, both fillet and groove to aws D1.1 for repairs and special projects. We weld carbon and HSLA steels.

My company would like to qualify an outside welder to perform repair welds on a piece of equipment too D1.1
We need to qualify this individual 3F, 4F quickly. Our in-house welders are all qualified using groove
welds and we also have numerous fillet weld wps's. My superiors feel that the groove weld qualification would
take too long.
My question is this. Can we qualify this welder on 1/4" material following our wps, or do we have to qualify
on 1/2" material per Figure 4.37, D1.1 2006. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated !!!!!

See Table 4.2 for wps qualifications. Read 4.8.2 on NDT.
Table 4.11 is for welder qualification. Finish your wps first.

Double check section 3 for prequalified conformance. If you end up qualifying your wps you will have too
Rt or Ut.

Take a look at paragraph 3.3 in the D1.1.

What kind of welding have you done ? GMAW, SMAW, GTAW ? Are you interested in welding or fabrication ?
Find used textbooks for info and/or someone needing a helper.

The project has both dissimilar material and 304L to 304L. We are trying to prevent setup and/or have
multiple machines to do the work. I don't know the filler mat. costs. We not ready for bulk buying yet.