How strong is strong enough, how much is too much?

[gilly]

I love this. I am learning more here than I knew I needed to know. I would rather read about mistakes (so I can avoid them) than make them any day.

Thurmond

I agree with you 100%.Sometimes I feel like a young kid,whose mind is like a sponge soaking up all this information.I am self taught and was thinking about taking a welding course,but just about every question I have has been answered on this forum,but I am still thinking about a class for hands on experience.I learn better by doing than reading about it.

[tigqk]

I quess something that is not talked about to much is overwelding and properly making fillet welds with the right size throat dimensions, proper convex shape, and electrodes.Don't know how many times I have seen welds fail and the part failed right near a big honking weld.As a rule the weld dimension as thick as the thinest base metal used, or a weld as strong as the weakest base metal used and if their is any thickness to steel being used I always bevel the material out.Gets complicated real quick, and because it has been so long since trade school I try to bone up on different joint types and connections and how placing a weld can lever for strength.

[WookieWelding]

also too much weld build up can be as bad as not enough creating stress risers

[mountain eagle]

Sigh. One of these years I'm just going to have to make time for the welding class that my local makes available. Unfortunately it's only offered on Friday nights for 12 weeks running....... I've always been hard pressed to commit to that.

[SICFabrications]

lmao! i wasnt asked about weld bead size and shape, just metal shapes and stitch welds is all.... it takes years and years of study, practice and learning in this field and just about the time you think youve gotten it all figured out, a new process or theory or practice is introduced and you get to start all over with the learning process.....

[mountain eagle]

Wow, now this is turning into the kind of info I was thinking about. While I don't think I'll be doing any of the welding where a failure means death and dismemberment, I'll be keeping this stuff in mind when I get a chance to practice. Maybe I should see about signing up for the fall semester classes..........

[Tritium]

I dearly wish there were classes ANYWHERE near me but there are not. Too rural. Not even the local high school ag department. (they concentrate on contest rather than vocational skills). So Stan and everybody else here and other forums ARE my teachers.

Thurmond