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Alligator-chewed edges and dross: Weld.com's cutting torch lesson finds its crowd

The sixteen-day-old oxy-acetylene breakdown has passed 300,000 views, on a week with no new uploads.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

This Is Why You SUCK With A Cutting Torch

Sixteen days old and still the busiest thing on the channel: "This Is Why You SUCK With A Cutting Torch" is Weld.com's answer to a complaint every beginner with a gas axe knows. Cuts come out rough, crusted with dross, or looking, in the description's own words, as if an alligator chewed the edge of the plate.

The video's argument is that the hands may not be the problem. It walks from the regulator to the tip: working pressure, hose grades, a neutral flame, preheat, torch angle, standoff distance and travel speed, plus how to restart a cut you have lost. It also explains why the torch oxidizes steel rather than simply melting it, which is the part of oxy-fuel cutting that surprises most newcomers.

Nothing new went up this week, and the channel hardly needed it. Daily views ran well above its usual pace. Behind the torch video sits a nine-day-old experiment: Austin went to the Handheld Laser Institute in Washington State, where laser application engineer Buddy Holbrook took on a 3/8-inch groove weld that had first been done the familiar way, with a MIG root and flux core fill. The catch, as the description tells it, was how many passes the laser needed once deposition rate became the limit. A TIG tricks video from June, built on fifteen years of pipe welding, keeps ticking along too.

Among DIY and building channels of its size, Weld.com has the most subscribers, at about 1.15 million. BAS Renovations had the loudest week of that group by far, while Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek and Workshop Companion ran quieter than usual.

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The facts

Channel: Weld.com
Subscribers: 1,150,000
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how Weld.com's week looks in figures.

subscribers

1,150,000

total views

335,529,364

views per day

144,828

typical day: 104,778

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Weld.com

1,150,000

weldingtipsandtricks

1,130,000

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Gen…

1,120,000

Woodworking Craftsman

1,120,000

1,120,000

1,090,000

1,080,000

1,080,000

1,080,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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