Welding is NOT Soldering!!! Plumber Welds Steel Pipe with Oxyacetylene Gas!

Do plumbers weld on the job? The truth is: Not really, as welding is a legitimate bona fide certified trade in its own right, and licensed welders deserve their proper respect for the important skills they provide. However, you may be surprised to learn that part of a plumber's FORMAL College Apprenticeship training here in Ontario INCLUDED WELDING! Although we plumbers may not be firing up the oxyacetylene to lace up 8-inch steel gas mains any time soon, having some knowledge in the art of welding certainly does come in quite handy from time to time - not only for fabrication and repairs, but dare I say perhaps even for the connecting of actual steel socket-weld pipe and fittings! This video will take you through an in-depth tutorial for SAFELY handling oxyacetylene gas and equipment, as well as how to gas weld steel pipe (or any other steel material for that matter!) using an oxyacetylene torch and filler rod. Hope you enjoy it as much as I had fun making it! ____________________________ CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO: 00:00 - Intro 00:23 - Do Plumbers Weld? Welding vs. Soldering 02:05 - Equipment and Materials Required for Gas Welding 03:37 - Safety and Oxyacetylene Welding 05:54 - Inspecting, Identifying, and Maintaining Your Gas Welding Equipment 06:45 - Setting Up Your Regulators and Lighting Your Torch 14:03 - Identifying a Neutral Flame 14:40 - Tacking and Aligning Your Pipe & Fitting 17:55 - Welding and Building Your Seam 20:56 - Depressurizing Your Equipment and Shutting Down Your Tanks 22:34 - Outro ____________________________ If you do like this video, please do "plunge" that LIKE button to a healthy shade of blue. Please also be sure to subscribe to this channel to keep up with a wide variety upcoming videos. I plan to cover topics suitable to the entire spectrum of the Plumbing field - from Newbie Do-it-yourselfer, to the ever-critical hardened Journeyperson. As always, please do be sure to leave your comments below if there's anything you'd like to see in the future! INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/plumbingsco... TWITTER:   / excel_plumbing   TIKTOK:   / plumbingscool   #weldingplumber #gaswelding #weldingpipe ____________________________ A BIG THANK YOU to these wonderful, selfless and talented artists who have allowed me to use their work in the making of this video: MUSIC: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Eric Matyas, Future Funk, www.soundimage.org