Safety & Welding Foundations
🦺 Welding Safety
Understand PPE, helmet shade, gloves, UV exposure, fumes, ventilation, burns, fire watch, cylinders, and safe work habits.
🔥 Arc Welding Fundamentals
Learn current, polarity, arc length, heat input, puddle control, bead shape, penetration, slag, and weld defects.
🧪 Metals & Material Testing
Understand strength, hardness, bending, fracture, heat effects, and why metal behavior matters in welding.
Oxy-Acetylene & Cutting
🔥 Intro to Oxy-Acetylene
Set up regulators, tanks, hoses, torch, flame control, safe lighting, shutdown, and basic fusion welding.
🧯 Oxy-Acetylene Setup
Gas welding setup, torch tips, flame adjustment, filler rod use, and old-school gas welding techniques.
✂️ Oxy-Fuel Cutting
Preheat, oxygen jet, pierce starts, cutting speed, torch angle, kerf, slag control, and clean cutting practice.
Stick / SMAW Welding
⚡ Stick Welding Basics
Beginner SMAW practice using 6010 and 7018: arc starts, rod angle, travel speed, root, fill, and cap.
📘 Stick Welding Tutorial
Full tutorial on stick welding process, electrode handling, arc length, amperage, slag, and basic bead control.
🔩 Electrodes 6013 / 6010 / 7018
Compare common stick electrodes, penetration, polarity, rod choice, field welding, and beginner mistakes.
MIG / GMAW Welding
🌀 MIG Welding Basics
Set voltage, wire feed speed, shielding gas, stickout, polarity, travel angle, and beginner bead technique.
🧵 MIG Technique
Practice travel speed, push vs pull, lap joints, T-joints, fillets, penetration, undercut, and spatter control.
⚙️ MIG Setup for Beginners
Dial in wire speed, voltage, material thickness, torch angle, technique, and common setup problems.
TIG / GTAW Welding
🔮 TIG Welding Basics
Learn TIG process, torch control, tungsten, argon, filler rod, foot pedal, puddle control, and beginner setup.
✨ TIG for Beginners
Basic TIG equipment, torch setup, tungsten prep, steel welding, filler coordination, and clean weld habits.
🧠 TIG Tips & Tricks
Simple TIG tips for getting started with steel: clean metal, tungsten angle, arc length, and filler timing.
Fabrication, Inspection & Technology
🔨 Practice Beads
Run repeatable padding beads to develop hand control, arc consistency, puddle recognition, and bead uniformity.
🛠️ Oxy-Fuel Playlist
More oxy-fuel cutting and welding lessons covering torch installation, lighting, cutting, and gas welding.
🏗️ MIG Practice Playlist
Follow a MIG practice path with voltage, wire speed, bead control, joint preparation, and defect correction.
🔬 TIG Practice Playlist
A TIG basics playlist for torch setup, filler control, puddle management, aluminum/stainless topics, and practice.