TIG Welding 101 – Walking the Cup

what's going on my wealthy family andwelcome back today's lesson is gonna beTIG welding 101 walking the cup let'sget to it all right guys before we starton the plate I want you to get a conceptof how to walk the cup okay now righthere I have a 12-inch pipe scheduled fortea but I'm imagining myself that it's a300-pound barrel or a 200-pound barrelokay there's no way for me to move itacross the floor except rolling it Ican't carry it I can't slide it there'sjust no way so the only way to move itforward is to move it side to side okaywalking the cup is not as hard as itseems okay you're moving it side to sideit's walking on its own imagine yourselfyou have to have an imagination when itcomes to this it will help you out allright all righty guys now let's try iton some plate so now we have a flatpiece of plate here okayI drew me some guidelines so we can makesure we have a straight consistent beadall the way around when we walk the cupthe tungsten the tungsten that we'reusing is a 2% lanta native tungstenalways have a sharp tongue stand whenyou're walking the cup okay your puddlecomes out way way better also you wantyour tungsten to be about a quarter ofinch quarter of an inch out okay it canbe from an eighth to a quarter in aquarter of an inch it's all personalpreference okay but I like it stickingout that much now when we walk the clubwe walk the cup from here a lot ofpeople get weirded out they think it'sfrom right here but no it's from hereokay put the cup right here now imagineyourself as a mini you holding thebarrel that we did on the clip andyou're moving it across the floor okayyou're moving it across the floor sideto side taking your time your wrist italways stays light Ohno tension on your wrist at all if youhave tension on there this is whathappens you slip you don't want that sowhat you do is you keep it light on thewrist it's all on the wrist it's not onyour shoulder or your elbow it's all inthe wrist but like I said you have tohave an imagination when you're doingthis it helps you out like right now I'mthinking of myself as the mini-me movingthis barrel across the floor okay justlike that pausing on each line justgoing like thisall right now what we're gonna do iswe're gonna add it with an ER 70s to 1/8fillerokay and when I do that I'm gonna leavethe filler wire right in the middle ofthe puddle and I'm gonna burn it stillwalking the cup I'm gonna burn it thewhole way I'm not moving the rod backI'm keeping it there leaving it thereand just burning that rod from corner tocorner but leaving the rod in the middleof the puddle okay watching that puddlehit each line all right now let's try itoutall righty guys so I'm running at 175amps for walking the cup okay we'reusing a Miller xmt 304 for our machinemake sure you always have a sharp tonguestand okay you see how my filler rod isright in the middle it might look likeI'm pushing it back every time that I'mwalking it but I'm not it's just layingon there okay it's just melting it awaylike I said guys walking a cup is not ashard as it seems you know when you firsttry your hand gets uncomfortable likeyou can see it in your head how to do itbut when it when your hand actuallytries to do it it's it doesn't want tofeels like it's numb you know Iunderstand that so a good habit fory'all to do as well as get you a ticktorch a flux head tick torch just thetorch and so and walk it around anythingthat you see that's flat horizontalvertical overhead that will help you outa lot as well so you might have abarbecue pit in the backyard okay andit's round so you can practice walk in acup on that you might have ayou know just having them I guess justhave an imagination guys you know justanything that you see it can be a fillit well you know it can be pipe it canbe whatever you think that's gonna helpy'all out just walk it around anythingthat you see walking on the floorwalking on the walls you know on thewalls is good if you do that about 35minutes a day just walking it and whenyou actually start welding then it'sgonna become muscle memory in your handand it's not gonna be hard for youanymore okayyou're not gonna overthink it so muchcuz that's the main thing that's why ourstruggle especially for the beginningstarting to walk the cup that's why youshow because you overthink so muchbecause it's doing like a loop it'sturning it's walking and you don'treally know what to do y'all force itforward when really walking the cup ismoving on its own okay that's somethingy'all keeping in consideration just gety'all to take torch and walk it onanything that you see that's flathorizontal vertical or overhead and itwill help you all out tons okay at least35 minutes a day at least that's whatthat's what I did when I first startedstart it off keep your fill the water toabout a 10 degree angle 20 degree angleas well don't keep it flat like thatalways at an angle okay there that's thefirst bead I think it came out and cameup pretty slick so that's allconsistencies the guideline right thereis to make sure I'm consistent you knowI always have a guideline for yourselfalright guys now that I got the firstbead it's very important to know how tostack your beads as well okay especiallywhen you get to pipe or plate stackingyour beads is important you always wantit 50/50 so on the next arc shot we'regonna get it's 50/50 so my rod is goingto be right here right on this linewhere the weld ends and I'mgo from here to the middle of the wellhere to the middle of the well the rideis still in the middle of the puddle thewhole time all right guys just like thatright to the middle right to the middleokay right to the middle very consistentthe whole way don't overlap it too muchright in the middle okay let's try itout guys all right this is importantvery important all right so now now whatwe're doing is we're making the welds50/50 okayvery very important to know how to stackyour beads when it comes to Haley ourcore stick or whatever that you dobecause when it comes to pipe and youactually have to do a two to three B capyou want to be able to stack it nicelyokay so I always remember thatand then also there's different types ofwalk in the cup - I mean you can walkthe cup like I did it right now justhaving it flat right there and walkingit or you can walk it and having to taketowards upside down or you can have itsideways there's different types of waysto walk the cup but you got to findwhat's more comfortable for you okayfine what's more comfortable I'll seethe angle of my rod about a thirtytwenty degree angle on it I'll see howI'm not pushing the ride I'm not movingit back or anything I'm just leaving itthere just laying it thereon my gauge for the argon I have itaround 35 psi yeah around 35 psi between3035 is good okay on the gauge some goodargon flow one thing about me is that Ialways like to keep a sharp tungstenokay any of my students that if you askand you ever join our facility ourschool our Academy I'm very strict withcoming with sharp Tungsten's becausethat can make you or break you as far asmaking your beads consistently andmaking that puddle form consistently ifI hit my tungsten one time just stick iton there I sharpen it again a lot of alot of guys like to hit the tungsten andkeep going and keep going and I don'tlike that I like to keep always keep asharp tungstentake God's time okay there's no rush towalk in a cup take your timewatch that puddle these are very goodart shots right here so y'all can seeexactly what I'm doing and just flowwhat they know get it man just keeppracticing every single day all rightyguys now I showed y'all you know the thewalk-in the cupnow there's three different types ofweaves you're gonna see in the field andalso it's going to be your personalpreference as far as your style onwalking the cup here's number one whichis kind of like a butterfly effect youknow a lot of new students they startoff like this and then don't change itthat's just the way they like it theylike this style you know we're like bigbig side-to-side motions right here okayit makes that butterfly effect andthere's no problem with that at all youknow it's all your style that's all itis okay and then there's also the tightweaves what we did here on the on thewalking the cup one this one use evenseen the fill - this one's just a littlebit more tighter than the butterflyeffect just like this a little bit moretighter it's all about style guys youknow it's all about style and thenthere's three which is super tight nowthis is my personal favorite this islike I said my personal okay super tightyou know when you're just doing thislike this just going side to side realreal tight you're still walking the cupand everything but it but you just goingsuper tight side to side Tungsten'sgoing side to side real tight real tightreal tight just like that you knowlike I said it's all personal preferenceguys so there's the butterfly effecttight and then they're super tightyou're gonna pick a favorite that's justwhat it is you know I started off withthese then I like doing these and therewas one day I liked the tie you knowsuper tight so it's all personalpreference but once you start workingout there and and walking the cup andseeing your style you know stick to onebut you can also play with all three tooas well so alrighty guys that's it takewelding 101 walking the cup I reallyhope this helped you out and if it didgive us a thumbs up and subscribe to ourChannel down low all right burn learnand eventually y'all gonna earn y'allhave a good one