Clownshoes
Aluminum
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2009
- Location
- NC, USA
I recently got set up with an oxy/acetylene outfit and in the process of educating myself on it I keep coming across conflicting info/opinions on the proper procedures and methods. For a technology that has been around for over 100 years I really don't understand it. The comment section for almost every gas welding video I have found is a cesspool of people going back and forth about what was done right or wrong. At this point, the only information I can rely on is in the manual that came with it but even that's not always clear in places.
For starters there is the whole which gas to shut off first debate, then you have all the people conflating cutting with welding, or brazing with welding, or cutting with brazing (of course they've been doing one for 30+ years they just don't know which), then there is the partial vs. complete opening of the 02 cylinder debate, then do you set the reg pressures with gas flowing, off or to hell with the reg pressure and flow recommendations and control it with torch valves, then you have people insisting you need flux for everything or making all kinds of assertions about what fillers to use with what metals.
Is this a case of the information being old or forgotten, or no consensus among welding schools, or no one giving a crap because everyone is arc welding? Inhaling too many fumes?
For starters there is the whole which gas to shut off first debate, then you have all the people conflating cutting with welding, or brazing with welding, or cutting with brazing (of course they've been doing one for 30+ years they just don't know which), then there is the partial vs. complete opening of the 02 cylinder debate, then do you set the reg pressures with gas flowing, off or to hell with the reg pressure and flow recommendations and control it with torch valves, then you have people insisting you need flux for everything or making all kinds of assertions about what fillers to use with what metals.
Is this a case of the information being old or forgotten, or no consensus among welding schools, or no one giving a crap because everyone is arc welding? Inhaling too many fumes?