The best advice I’ve ever seen on RU-vid. The solid basics to get you started…. None of the other technical babble that only confuses beginners. Puddle control is where it’s at and you can’t get there without comfort, position, and steady consistent movement. I’m self taught through trial and error (mostly error for a long time) and wish I had this advice to focus on these four things when I started. Great tutorial. Thanks.
@@tom-rz4zgyup. And I’m a beginner TiG welder but ~30 years mostly Mig occasionally rarely stick. But I can’t take a guy seriously who says “heat effect zone” instead of “heat affected zone” and then talks about ‘discoloration.’ Basic ignorance of and misunderstanding of the essential properties of metal. He might be a fine welder but how can you be sure when he doesn’t know an essential basic.
Used a Tig welder for the first time in my life a few days ago. Accidentally made the tungsten touch the filler rod while pressing the pedal and shocked myself 😅🤣 Don’t make that mistake, folks. Very helpful video 👍
Lol. Yeah, everyone touches the tungsten to their work or filler rod at some time. Shouldn’t have gotten a shock though. Make sure your work clamp is in solid contact with your work, wear welding gloves and keep your skin covered.
Nickel filler rods come with an electric shock warning. It’s definitely normal to get shocked. I’ve done it plenty of times. Just pay attention to your rod
Awesome!!! it's rare for me to comment but This deserves Praise!!! Your Detailed instructions are a Huge Help to me!!! Every beginner tig welder should see this video!!! You are a Good Teacher!!
Just try tig welding 35 mins ago. I had to add an aluminum rod to it. Never welded before, they said i did a good job?😅. Thanks for your advice. I definitely made those mistakes, you said.
Very good info, but when I was learning I was taught the puddle control on aluminum. It’s so much more defined on aluminum than it is steel. I thought it was hard to see the puddle and dipping your filler wire on the video. But I think aluminum would show through much better. Plus explaining the contaminates would be shown easier with alum also. They always said learn on steel then do aluminum but I did it backwards.
Same for me, I thought that aluminum was so much easier to learn on. My steel beads looked like birdsht for a while and my aluminum ones were nice-ish!
If you welding small elements, ok, but if you filling a pipe line with inert gases and need to walk the cup in maximum one pass with adding welding rod in it, how can you be in ABC mode? You must dance limbo Fu*king dance arround a pipe line whole day. And after 80 welded joints on 2" pipe, you end talking with some guy who sit on the chair and try to teach you how to weld 😳 Really? 🤨
@@attilahun77 So true! I am new to TIG and got good at aluminum in a very short amount of time. I was laying down nice strong stacks and thought I was a welding genius. lol That was at my table sitting in a chair... The first time I had to attach the trigger to my torch and get out of my "ABC" zone I felt like a monkey f-ing a football!
It really helped me to learn to hold the tig torch in both hands. Especially helped with all the weird positions I get in welding patch panels on a car.
Nice we're happy to hear that! Please share your experience and leave us a review on the product page: www.eastwood.com/eastwood-tig-200-ac-dc-welder.html?+tig+tips+tig+200+acdc
What amperage, glass cup size, an tip out would you recommend for fusion weld thin sheet metal on a butt joint ( ie replacing sheet metal in a bed of a truck or body panel)?
Well I can say this is okay, but I have been Tig welding for 38 years., I’m us navy qualified, but our WPS requires a 3/8” tungsten stick out from cup for RN625 and RN 60 Tig wire, SS wire is 1/4” , just so know.
Sometimes when I'm dipping the filler rod into the puddle, it sticks a little bit when I try to pull it back out, does it sound like there is something specific I'm doing incorrectly ?
I have this problem learning. I believe the filter rod is too large, as you ad the rod it cools the pool then the rod sticks a little bit. Ive only got 2.5mm rods but I'm going to order some 1.5 rods too see if that helps.
Sure, you will be uncomfortable at some point. But when you are learning the basics getting comfortable allows you to focus on the mechanics of TIG welding.
We're sorry you're not a fan of the beats. Every video we put out is going to have music - just as every documentary, tv show, or commercial you've ever watched has.
In Europe you can't buy 100%argon, only argon "5" or 99.999%, but in America where one single bullet can hit an elected president 3 to 4 times, I don't know 🤔
That’s dumb lol… first off we probably just call 99.99% …100% lol secondly yes obviously that event happened as it was planned and an inside job because he has going to expose secret societies…. Such as the rothchilds in Europe, the goldsacks, the CIA, the builderburger group, illuminate ECT… but that’s world wide
Simple Hack: Donut TIG Weld.... ;-) I really cannot understand why all People are so hooked on TIG Welding. Mig/Mag is way better than fiddling around with both Hands. Stupid.
We love MIG but TIG has some really great control features that can't be duplicated on a MIG machine. Welding up stainless steel exhaust lends itself to TIG for example.
@@eastwoodco might be - I'm just too dumb to fiddle around with this. Seems to me like an Ancient Technology. Why is there no "Automatic Feeding System" for the Material like for MIG ? No one seems to be interested to invent this... why? It even looks stupid... NO Exhaust Systems in Big Factory are TIG welded, only People who have endless time to fiddle around on their Muscle Car or HotRod use TIG. NOWHERE in any Industrial & Automated Environment is TIG used. I work there... are any Cars on any Assembly Line TIG welded? Are any bridges TIG Welded? Are any Oil Rigs TIG welded ? NOPE... Please explain why? - I can tell you... cases is more Show than anything else. Looks nice but technically useless and far too much work. Also "learning" it takes way too long for serious Productions ... I gave up on it. It's more for Hobbyists with a playful Mentality...
There are automatic feeding and automated tig machines used in manufacturing. The benefits to tig are seen on less common materials like titanium and thin materials. There are even many pipeline welds that need to be done with tig. Heat exchangers for boilers and nuclear facilities, well that's a tig job. It might be less common in automated factories, but tig is often the required method for welding in many industries with critical, low tolerance welds. I'm a fabricator and use mig and tig a lot. The tig is definitely slower if you're sticking two pieces of 1/4" together, but thin stainless parts that need a back purge, or even just thin mild steel parts are much easier to weld with tig, especially when it comes to cleanup after the weld. Mig is a great choice in many situations, and its much cheaper and easier to automate. The reason automated tig feeding systems are not common is because the tig machines are meeting a different need
@@UnProj like I mentioned - I have NEVER seen any automated TIG Machine in my entire Worklife - and I´m no GEN Z Kid.... I´m an old fart ;-) Yes - I agree that TIG is way cleaner, just awesome. Actually no cleaning after welding needed. BUT why diddle around with this outdated working Tools and a stick in your hand - prone for failure and tolerances... one shake of your hand.. the weld is ruined. There should be a Material Feeding systems based on MIG for TIG... you be must simpler to handle and use. Yes sure - its for "special" Stuff... but how many Titanium Constructions are there nowadays... or atomic Facilities ? AND - even THE are made of several Inches thick material where TIG won't work anymore. Also Pipelines are NOT TIG Welded... I´ve been on a Construction Site. It´sd all heavy dusty Machinery, not Guy sitting there with a Glass Cup and a thin rod in his hand fiddling it to a "weld".... nope Sir. ;-) Combining the clean welds of TIG with the usability of MIG would be the BEST Welding you could get. An absolute dream. Well, I´m just to stupid and not able to coordinate both of my hand at the same time ;-) And I get easy frustrated and start questioning why... that's where I spotted the flaw of TIG - feeding the Material by hand. That's just stupid / outdated / not precise / cannot be standardised / can´t be defined in any certification process, cause every welder does is different / it must be reputable and doable of anyone by pushing a button and nit a "giant Secret only for Masters"... Company cannot work like this - that's why you don't see Andy TIG in Industrial Mass Production !
@@FRITZI999 " it must be reputable and doable of anyone by pushing a button" No... that's why it's called SKILLED LABOR. There's a reason a good tig welder can make well over $60/hr vs someone whose qualification is "I can push a button" additionally there are many automated tig machines making parts in factories every day. just because you've never seen one doesn't mean it's not common. and yes, tig is used in many pipeline applications
Mark est le responsable R&D ici chez Eastwood et soude non seulement depuis des années, mais conçoit et teste également les machines que nous produisons. Mark's the R&D Manager here at Eastwood and has been not only welding for years but also designing and testing the machines we produce.
Sorry you didn't like it. Background music is used by everyone creating content from every show you watch, commercial, movie, to Instagram, facebook, and tik-tok. It is an industry standard way to keep pacing and fill moments lacking natural sound.
