Stick Welding 101 and the 7018 rod keep TimWelds busy between uploads
A two-month-old lesson on his favorite electrode has passed 50,000 views, while a sponsored 3D scanner review and a hinge with no moving parts trail behind.
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Stick Welding 101: Running 7018 Electrodes
"Stick Welding 101: Running 7018 Electrodes" is the lesson doing the most work on TimWelds right now, sixty days after it went up. Tim breaks stick welding down to the few variables that matter most, and the description is frank about his bias: 7018 is his favorite rod, for its strength, for a puddle that is easy to read, and for the tidy bead it leaves behind.
It fits the promise on his about page, metalworking with minimal jargon, from someone who learned to weld at twelve in his dad's auto repair shop and went on to engineer critical welds for jet engines and nuclear plants. Behind it sit two newer videos: a look at the EinScan Rigil Lite 3D scanner, which he notes was provided by the maker, and an experiment that asks whether a steel hinge can work without any moving parts.
No new uploads went out over the seven days, and the channel barely noticed. It drew roughly 400,000 views, right at its usual pace, and added about a thousand subscribers on its way past half a million.
Among the DIY and building channels close to its size, TimWelds lands fourth on both subscribers and views added, almost level with donyboy73. HomeTransform is having the big week in the group, while Abom79 and the aluminum welders at 6061 are running quieter than usual.
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The videos drawing views on TimWelds right now
- Channel
- TimWelds
- Subscribers
- 505,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 409,169
- Videos published this week
- 0
The numbers
Here is how TimWelds' channel and videos stood over the seven days.
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Tim earned his master's degree in welding engineering at which university?
His about page lists an MS in Welding Engineering from Ohio State University, one of the few schools in the US with a dedicated welding engineering program.
