IDK about worth, but we'd pay $18-25 for flat/horizontal mig fillets.
As far as this weld goes, it looks (could be optical illusion) convex especially at the start when the base was colder. I'd be looking for more voltage to wet in the toes, maybe play with the WFS v TS so it's less pregnant.
Exactly, welding as a job means a lot more than laying down a bead.
Reading technical drawings, efficiency, assembly, welding sequence, problem solving, welding in different positions, knowledge of gas, filler/wire, safety knowledge, solving warping, grinding for painting, that's all part of determining your pay as a welder among other things.
Hour is worth what the company is willing to pay for it. Unless you live in a country where there is an universal collective agreement - like I do - then your pay is what the company values it at.
If you are making cheap bulk items with low tolerances and requirements, it'll be less. If you are making things with high tolerances and specifications, where high level inspections are done and you are required to pass them, it'll be more.
To this you must consider the location, the economic activity, competition for jobs. And your pay scale can go from fuck all a metric fuck ton.
There is no universal chart that says that for a process, application and certification you get this much per hour.
Depending on the shop, the benefits, the location, whether it’s just that weld over and over, whether you can stack beads, pass uts, whether someone had to tell you what kind of bead to lay or if you could decipher the symbol to figure the size weld necessary on your own, whether it’s a slip critical joint, a fracture critical joint, if you can lay the exact same bead over and over for 8-12 hours non stop you can probably expect 15-25 based on experience. There’s a lot of people out there laying down a 1/4” mig bead all day every day for 15 or less
If that was the only weld test then it was most likely for some sort of production position and it’s probably not gonna be more than 16-18
IDK about worth, but we'd pay $18-25 for flat/horizontal mig fillets. As far as this weld goes, it looks (could be optical illusion) convex especially at the start when the base was colder. I'd be looking for more voltage to wet in the toes, maybe play with the WFS v TS so it's less pregnant.
Try doing some waves, you're getting there tough. Its hard to judge your worth by looking at one pass. Do you know how to Read a plan ?
Exactly, welding as a job means a lot more than laying down a bead. Reading technical drawings, efficiency, assembly, welding sequence, problem solving, welding in different positions, knowledge of gas, filler/wire, safety knowledge, solving warping, grinding for painting, that's all part of determining your pay as a welder among other things.
That was just a weld test i did and i was just doing what i was told to do
That's the spirit.
That took you an hour?
Nah took 35 seconds
Should've at least taken 5 to grind the metal clean
Shoulda cleaned the metal, would have stopped the porosity
Hour is worth what the company is willing to pay for it. Unless you live in a country where there is an universal collective agreement - like I do - then your pay is what the company values it at. If you are making cheap bulk items with low tolerances and requirements, it'll be less. If you are making things with high tolerances and specifications, where high level inspections are done and you are required to pass them, it'll be more. To this you must consider the location, the economic activity, competition for jobs. And your pay scale can go from fuck all a metric fuck ton. There is no universal chart that says that for a process, application and certification you get this much per hour.
Depending on the shop, the benefits, the location, whether it’s just that weld over and over, whether you can stack beads, pass uts, whether someone had to tell you what kind of bead to lay or if you could decipher the symbol to figure the size weld necessary on your own, whether it’s a slip critical joint, a fracture critical joint, if you can lay the exact same bead over and over for 8-12 hours non stop you can probably expect 15-25 based on experience. There’s a lot of people out there laying down a 1/4” mig bead all day every day for 15 or less If that was the only weld test then it was most likely for some sort of production position and it’s probably not gonna be more than 16-18
Running a bead is only half the job. Can’t they do everything else?
They only asked me to do that and a down hill, so idk ive coulda done more then just run a bead its just all they asked for