Welding Tips and Tricks

Posted: **Sun Oct 11, 2026 2:36 pm**

Hello all,

The name is Igor and online I go by MosinVirus.

I love working with my hands and have always been good at removing material. Being limited by fasteners to add material I always wanted to learn to weld.

Well, having been recently laid off from work and getting a call from a local college about a spot being available in their Fabrication and Manufacturing Welding track (I was on a waiting list for a few years) I decided to jump on the chance. It is a 6 month program and I attend in the evenings.

Started on August 17th.
Have done a bit of Oxy/Acetylene welding on 1/16"-ish mild steel.
Butt, lap, T joints. All flat position.

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Have been transferred to MIG and have done some welds on 1/8" mild steel using 0.035" wire.
Butt, lap, T, open corner in flat, vertical, horizontal and overhead positions.

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Have now been transferred over to TIG.
On 1/16" mild steel again, 3/32 tungsten, using 0.063" S2 filler.
So far have done beads on plate, lap joints and currently on Ts.

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I am fascinated and can't wait to get to know and do more

Posted: **Sun Oct 11, 2026 11:48 pm**

good move jumping on the training.
looking like a good start there.

Posted: **Mon Oct 12, 2026 10:53 am**

Thank you.

It is truly an awesome trade and like any trade, practice, practice, practice!
Hopefully my pics don't make anyone throw up.

By the way, wanted to let others know here that emails from this forum are being Junked as unverified sender by Outlook. And when I tried registering with a Gmail account (MosinVirus) no emails were being received at all. I am guessing Gmail just rejects them. Just FYI

Posted: **Tue Oct 13, 2026 12:00 am**

MosinVirus2 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2026 10:53 am
By the way, wanted to let others know here that emails from this forum are being Junked as unverified sender by Outlook. And when I tried registering with a Gmail account (MosinVirus) no emails were being received at all. I am guessing Gmail just rejects them. Just FYI

thank you for that.
that explains a few things. i' have been seeing what looks like people signing up (99% of signups are spammers), but not completing the email part. i shall see if admin can sort that.

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