MIG Welding: Should You Push or Lead the Puddle? - Kevin Caron

From http://www.kevincaron.com - A viewer of the TIG Welding Technique video said that, when he is MIG welding, he prefers to push the puddle, rather than lead it. Artist Kevin Caron takes on the challenge, showing how each approach works. You'll see some close ups of some pretty welds ....

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Education

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• MIG welding
• welding
• welders
• welding technique
• welding puddle
• Kevin Caron

[etj1085]

I am just beginning to weld and what I mean by that is I was an auto technician for 10 yrs and some how manage to avoid welding. I don't know how that happened? I'm nearly 50 yrs old now and I bought an old Porsche to restore and their are some rust issues. So I bought the nicest Harbor Freight 220 welder they have and began to weld. My first welds were really ugly but I'm trying hard to get better. After seeing your video...dude you're my hero!!! Jesse James ain't got nothing on you. You have

[kevincaron]

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[ap1996usa]

thank you !

[kevincaron]

You are welcome!

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@ap1996usa

[MrThirteen09]

@ap1996usa it is also stronger because of post cooling.pushing should be reserved for when all other options are exausted,what this man says is correct.kudos dude!!!

[blindwit]

New sub to your page (as of today). Your videos are friendly and helpful. Thank you for providing your personal touch to educational videos as it really makes the learning a lot easier. :)

[ken112588]

@christopher81018 When welding in 3g, verticle down is a total plausable action for certian types of welding procedures, If done correctly a verticle down is much faster less heat involved and you can achieve the same penetration.

[ken112588]

Each has its own characteristics, Pushing the puddle has less penetration but may be faster and flatter used for lighter gauge when penetration is not key, Draging the puddle naturally has more penetration and a bit of a convex shape, if your a pro welder you know how to make all welds in all positions in all circumstances and have them flat, no undercut, nice fusion at the toes and a perfect fillet, and if you dont know what your doing you should allways Refer to the WPS .

[wotasod]

sparks diddums

[christopher81018]

When you do vertical welds you start from bottom up you obviously do not hold any CWB or AWB welding tickets if you did you would know you start from bottom up. This is the most stupid thing I have ever heard (let gravity do its role)

[kcl907]

Whenever I do mig I generally like to push than drag, although dragging does have better appearance but not the pen iteration

[kevincaron]

@ApriliaFalcoSlr1000 Interesting. Glad to hear from someone in your line of work. This seems to be the answer to the question. Sure as been fun reading all the different ideas.

Thanks for posting....