DIY Hydroforming Tutorial 

Great idea. You mentioned minimizing trapped air, but it would be good to emphasize how this reduces the chance of a dangerous explosive weld failure

Very awesome tutorial, I agree the possibilities for this technique are immense. definitely going to dedicate some time to this eventually, keep it up!

Wow something I never thought of! I like how you calmly do the impossible!

Super brilliant idea.

Fascinating process. I just found a new use for my PW. Excellent tutorial.

What a fantastic video. Thanks for making this.

Good demo!

Thank you, that was a very good run through.

Wow this is pure art.

thats some fine metalwork

Great VIDEO!! SEE YOU IN THE FUTURE

very good idea and demo

Very good video, this opened my understanding to a whole new idea of art.

Cool. The first time I heard about hydroforming metal was when the C5 Corvette debuted. Its frame rails were hydroformed and I always wondered how the process worked.

Using the ground clamp as a clamp, I luv it

Very useful tutorial video! Thanks. I need to try it in my projects too...

You are such an artist Connor. There`s something very satisfying in decorative hydroforming. Thank you for your videos and persistence. I always wonder what you gonna come up with next. :) Bless you.

this is amazing! i've done some fab work and love Ron Covell, for instance, but i've just never seen anything like this ever. wow. subscribed.

Thanks for an informative and well put together video. About 4 years ago I was quoting a similar type of job where 2 pieces of 1.5mm thick sheets were seam welded and a valve welded in on one of the edges. This was used as an expandable pillow that, in the flat, was slid into a sawn section of quarry rock. It was inflated under high pressure causing the cut to expand and separate the rock into a manageable size to handle. I'd love to see more of the shapes you have made👍

Awesome video! Thank you for the instruction!

Great video well done!xx

I love your presenting style and your explanations. Absolutely perfect explanation and demonstration. Subscribed!

Thank you for doing this tutorial,,subscribed.

Please keep up your awesome work mate! I'm impressed how cool this technique is and how many things you can virtually do! Actually you inspired me a lot, I make furniture with wood and metal but I'm always been intrigued by stainless steel... I was just thinking these days what can I do (since I'm a novice tig welder too) and you have been the inspiration, that little spark that i needed. I thought that for the hydroforming procedure was required a much higher pressure, and apparently is easier then I thought... at least in terms of tools that are needed. I'm happy! Please, keep it up. 😊🤙🏼✌️

Well this is quite groovy I must say. Impressive creativity

Very useful, thank you.

You taught me something. Thanks.

Excellent! Thank you!

Cool stuff, thanks for sharing.

Beautiful ingenuity.😎very cool

I will be making some Hydroformed fuel tanks for my boat . It seems easy enough . Thanks for the informative vid

Talented young man

Incredible.

My Corvette's frame was hydroformed. Super cool!

Great idea

Brilliant video mate. New subscriber ✌🏻

Awesome vid! More would be appreciated.

Idk why but you were in my recommendations today. Very cool video, never heard of this before.

Well done, keep it up, thanks for sharing it with us :)

Great video! Perfect timing too, since I recently showed your videos to a friend and he wanted to try it out and I told him you’d probably release a tutorial sometime soon… haha That was a great welding tip too… I struggle with perfectly straight lines and I’m still learning, so that angle iron guide trick looks like a great way to rest your hand/wrist. I’m definitely going to try that out!

i learned to Tig weld on aluminum with a thumb trigger. but i have Tig welded with a foot feed. i don't care for it. man thank you for your time making this video, i truly appreciate it, i know how long they take to film and edit. u gave me an idea how to make my own fenders and door panels for my 33 Ford Tuck. again, thank you..!

Great video!!

I worked at a place that made pressure tanks. You had to certify the welders for pressure, because it's much harder to have zero leaks under pressures much greater than a pressure washer can generate. Amazing video.

Nice job Thanks for taking the time to make the video and share it.

Wow niiice. So now all we need is a CAD/FEA program that can predict the stretch and then produce the templates, then pump them up for a perfect part.

haha what a great video, It's interesting to know how easy this can be and your explanations throughout were clear and to the point it was awesome you just let it break as i really wanted to see that when you mentioned it, not as powerful as expected. Loved the little warp out!

Great video thanks!

Hola que gran trabajo, muchas Gracias por compartir, saludos

pretty cool stuff....

That's pretty cool

Very cool video, what a nice skill to have. I'd love to try & make fenders and/or gas tanks for motorcycles with this method. Someday!

Talent!!!!

And thank you great work it's very interesting.

wow man awesome !

Great awesome good job i always wanted to do that

noticed the motorcycle helmets behind you, hydroforming exhaust systems for bikes, moto-x & trials is a very lucrative business to be in, the plans for exhaust systems are free PDF online if you search for them, £1000 isn't a lot for an exhaust nowadays, worth thinking about if you wondering where this hobby could go in the future, good video and good work, excellent welding skills for self-taught using cheap equipment,

Nice welding!

Amazing

Hey ! Super vidéo merci à toi !

Muito criativo nunca imaginaria fazer dessa maneira

Dobrze przedstawione dzieki

Can you draw annealed lines on the sheet metal with a blowtorch to guide crease formation in situations where the geometry allows for more than one outcome and you don't want it to be random?

the channel is great

Awesome work:) Your TIG weld looks great! Would you like to share your settings for your welding machine? Especially the plus frequency and range is something I unfortunately never worked with:( Greetings from Germany and thanks a lot.

Nice work! I watched your videos with enthusiasm. May I ask you what is the sheet thickness you use and what is the material specification? Is that standard DC01 sheet or some deep-drawing material ?? Last question.. I am thinking about copper or brass sheet with soldered joints instead of welded . Did you happen to try as well ? thx

Great idea! You should try welding some Platonic solids and try to inflate them to see how spherical it gets

I was surprised by your statement suggesting those concerned about rust could use stainless. Have you tried this? I have messed around with DIY hydroforming, both pressure washer and grease gun techniques. I have never had a successful expansion in stainless, I have tried several different grades and thicknesses. I think it is because it work hardens so quickly. May I ask, what stainless have you tried? Did you find some trick to negate the work hardening?

Your videos are really enlightening. Have you ever worked with aluminum sheet? Specifically 6061-T6 about 1.5mm thickness? Or is aluminum just too brittle? I have a project wih aluminum tubing that requires a minimal amount of expansion.

Can you do it with a circular piece so you can create two shallow domes?

Lovely! You really are bringing this technique to "the common man" so to speak. It's dangerous, yes, but all metalworking is.

Awsome video Master. Thanks for sharing What are the safety concerns with hydroforming that one should be aware besides using eye protection gear?

Nice tutorial. Mighty fine batttle meat axe/sledgehammer, its important to be prepared :)

05:40 you could place a small tube up the hole to speed up the draining significantly. No need for a blowtorch for draining. Not too expensive for you to try it. 👍

Bravo:)

When i saw that before you cut the tube off i thought that could be a mini boiler tank,. Have you tried making a lasgana style. Like to sealed tanks right beside each other. It could be a apparatus for electrochemical expirements. Oh jolly

Collin Furze did this some years ago when he made a jet. Your TIG welding looks quite good. One can also use MIG for that but turn down the wire to an absolute minimum. Everything else would just be a waste of wire and make the result look bad.

Interesting, liked to see how you made the round balls 🤔

How did you let out the air? By filling without preassure and a not tight fitting?

Nice

It's great thank U🎉😅

Hey there, great video ❤, question can you determine the shape you create by scribing a pattern onto the flat sheet?

That is really interesting. Call it a failure of imagination, but i can't yhink of anything i could use it for right now.

Try soldering steel with silver based solder faster to seal and recovery and low cost...

Any idea what pressure roughly stainless steel takes to hydroform completely?

Do you need to use gas (e.g. Argon) while TIG welding the sheets together without filler? Or also no gas is ok?

Does this work with aluminum, and how does the pressure scale with the vol of the part (linear?)

Would have been nice to also talk about the plug you insert to test the piece.

Thank you very much! Did you use galvanised sheet metal for the project? Cheers from Indonesia

Hi nice work I have a question How much pressure I need to forming sheetmetal size D 2000mm 4mm of thickness

I built an expansion chamber like this to save doing loads of pie cuts . It leaked like a sprinkler showing my faulty welds in the seams.

C.H. You R the "Cost Effective Hydroforming Wisperer"... Just saying. Thank you for this video. I shall will use this new skill to save hundred$ on a Dry Sump Oil Tank. Who needs a 6-axis mill? Cheers.

Very nice. I wonder if the wire fed laser welders would do any sort of a reasonable job at welding for hydroforming.

I wish you demonstrated more.

Test your welds under water and look for bubbles or use soapy water in a spray bottle it will also produce bubbles if leaks are present

How come you don’t need a separate valve to allow the air to go? A lot of research I have done say that it’s dangerous.

He disappeared at the end. This is a clear sign that the fifth dimension exists! I knew it!

Это лучшее о методе, что есть на Ютубе.

I have a Zero electric motorcycle whose chassis is made this way and it’s very light !

Do you think I will be able to make 3 meters ball with the same equipment?

cool