I Screwed Up, so here is a Q&A Video 

To paraphrase a saying from the dog training world, "The only thing two welders can agree on is that the third one is doing it wrong."

9 Tanks....I remember a video (probably the cup size one) of you saying you're not worried about the flow rate so much, because you are flush with argon.....and here we are. Thanks keep em coming.

Hey. It's anti theft pink.

Well, technically you could keep the oxide layer on aluminum away if you were working the part in a vacuum or cabinet filled with argon or some other inert gas, but that is so not worth the effort it's hilarious.

YOU SIR !! Gave me the push to start welding at the age of 61. That’s when I started on the journey. Now at 63 it’s tougher to hold my hands from shaking when tig welding. Yeah they ain’t pretty, but that’s when I become a metal grinder 😁🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

Support your daughters. Be men and show them how they can be welders too. Wear pink gloves.

Your voice does have a good tone, and you also speak with an accent similar to the formerly popular transatlantic accent used in a lot of media. People have told me the same and commented on my voice, but it's just how I talk. Especially when I'm on camera or teaching something. Wonder if it has to do with schooling or where parents are from or media consumed or what. Love the pink gloves rationale as well. I don't have time for needless negativity in my comments.

I think you made a very smart career path.!

Thank you! I appreciate what you do.

We are still getting the round tubes video later, right? 👉👈

That's too funny, I wear the same pink gloves and its almost for the same reasons. But I have always liked to dress a little flashy too. Thanks for all the videos you've made, they have honestly helped me learn a lot and progress more quickly.

Go garb a a cold something to drink.....you are the greatest Justin......Paul

Ha Justin I cannot believe that there is so much rubbish about your gloves they are just gloves after all and who cares what couour they are. I have several different colours just depends where I got them from they don't make me weld any better they just protect your hands as they are supposed to do. I like the new channel but I also like TFS so what ever keep them coming.

Top notch information as always, Thank-you for sharing your expertise and time. I have learned so much from you.

Thanks man. Excellent content as usual.

RU-vid welding goat! Looking forward for the pipe welding video.

Imagine being scared of a color.

Little over 20 years??? Newbie! LOL. Seriously, been welding TIG, stick, and oxy-acetylene for a little over 50 years, taught welding on aircraft for 5/6 years and yes, like you Justin, I always learn something new, yes have picked up great info on both your channels. Keep up the good work 👍👍. Am one of the few…..enjoy welding and fabrication. And as someone else mentioned…..pink is just a color, nothing more, nothing less. Ramble on………good info can come out of rambling.

Hey Justin, IMO nothing wrong with pink gloves, I would have no problem wearing them, its all about the welder's performance that counts. I bet they are excellent quality which is what I care about. Great content, looking forward to more!

I ordered some TIG art supplies before watching this and now I had to go and order some pretty pink gloves as well, thanks 🥳 🤌

Do you have any courses for stainless pipe(or I think its technically tubing, I'm trying to build some headers and an exhaust for a couple trucks)?

Justin, I love how animated you are. Thank you good sir. Edit: What is your degree in?

Welding physics, time is heat, junk, clean, gas, frequency, arc focus, etc. Between you and Mr. Collier, I've managed to fix cast iron gears in a vintage planer, a vise, restore a classic car, repair parts for profit. Nothing to complain about here.

I love this videos. I bought a welder and supplies from weldmetals specifically because of all the great video content and how much you have improved my skills. I could have bought anywhere and was going to buy somewhere else but they have offered me none of the expertise or valuable teaching that you do. Thank you

I Still have my Defiant Gloves I won from a Drawing at your booth at PRI 2021. Great gloves!

Always very informative, even if you have a lot experience

My aluminum only gloves are pink. My ss/chromo gloves are black.

Justin, I have always been curious about your time in the Navy, you mentioned at one time you left the Navy due to an injury..... I feel my life would have been much different if I had joined the service when I was of age, especially the Navy.....hindsight is 20/20... but at the same time, would it have caused me to stray away from a career in machining.....who knows... Best Wishes, Paul

On the gloves, fit and feal matter not the color. Just an aside I do not look good in pink but if I needed gloves and the only color was pink I would wear them, I prefer black or natural (tan).

You actually can use spot technique on Al with AC but you need more time. Typically 80 to 250 ms at 50..70 Hz and about 35% cleaning. Current should be 2..3 times higher than for continuous technique.

Justin, why didn’t you address my question what if you put acid flux between the aluminum plates while spot welding so the acid heat up and eat up the oxide layer while welding spot welding in this case and create a good aluminum welded bond?

good to cut through the bs and get the rite info.

Hey justin could you use solar flux on titainum for back purging

Really appreciate the treatment of the oxide layer on aluminum. That's gold - thank you.

I always figured the pink gloves so you could tell if ppl were reposting parts of your content as their own, kinda like a watermark _Or_ to keep the camera from having washed out effect on closeups. 👍👍

Your business method is one that I much prefer. If someone is pushing something on to me I usually go elsewhere. Love the channels, the most helpful practical advice I've found.

but what if you argon purged the entire room, then did the aluminum spot weld!? 0.o

When are you going to teach Kandy man how to gmaw "mig" weld properly, lol

Pink is very efficient in protecting against UV and infra-red radiation. The british SAS painted their land rovers in Pink for better carmoflage in the desert (read: to better reflect the intense sun). I own welding gloves in several colours, I found that black/dark coloured gloves heat up quite rapidly whereas bright reds or white remains cool for longer (read: reflect instead of absorb radiation)

Nice voice, nice gloves and nice content!

Priceless story Justin Good for you

Do you know how to weld brass ?

don't get in more trouble

Justin : You rock !!

Do you know in medieval times pink or light red was the color for boys and blue was for girls 😊

Holy crap, if anyone has seen Adam Savage's (from Mythbusters) youtube channel, his mannerisms, hand motions, and just general speaking style is IDENTICAL to Justin's here. Like, they could absolutely be twins.

HAHAHAHAHAH!!! Awesome story of the pink gloves. Weird about the analytic s though.

Sounds like I need to figure out how to fabricate without welding? Ya know for the algorithm. 😁 Hey!! Someone stole my pink gloves!?!?

I use the exact same pink gloves in a medium size so they are very snug...

What a nice surprise to see my comment asking to tell about the pink gloves. Right there in the top left corner. Thanks Jason, all the way from South Africa. Edit, keep those pink gloves. At least they are prettier than you... 😂

Ah Ha - You answered my Question on the wire brush of Aluminium. thanks. for bonding aluminium thin panels there is a glue bond method used in the car making industry and this works equally as good as riveting or tig welding without surface distortion. Honda used it on the NSX sports car. The Aerospace industry use it also in plane manufacture.

I suppose keeping it covered with argon while you brush an aluminum coupon would prevent an oxide layer from forming. Doing it in space would also work. Both are impractical and expensive. (btw. thanks for the q&a.. happy to hear TFS will be doing (more) fabrication stuff)

You do have a great radio voice - both you and ManKandy! I especially love that you continue to wear the gloves to piss off the homophobic gronks 😜 PS smooooooothest sign-off ever 😍

Watching these videos has given me the confidence to start learning on my own. I am second year apprentice Millwright but most of the journeymen at work don't have much Tig experience. I work in pharma and everything has to be sanitary welded and certified. Having these resources is amazing, I can immediately see my mistakes and how to avoid them. I recently went through a tank of argon on my own. A real man takes the ribbing for co-workers about pink gloves and keeps wearing them because they fit good are comfortable and get the job done. And also a little because it pisses them off.

The pink Defiant gloves are softer than the black Defiant gloves……….seriously, I have both

Thanks for the informative video, Justin. I like your no-BS approach to your businesses. Too many "fake it till you make it" personalities out there if you ask me... Not that I think people shouldn't put in the effort, but there is something special about someone who has put in the time and is humble enough to say they are still learning.

What we learned from this Q&A: Pink gloves make you weld GOOD. 👍👍👍

Bravo Justin...the Pink Glove explanation is spot on....... Hats off to a great weldor and great person ..... and here I thought you had just run short in inventory and picked the Pink ones...... Or were trying to intimidate Dusty up in Canada..... Best Wishes from Orlando ...Paulie Brown

Nice story on the pink gloves... I drive a Raspberry Beretta for nearly the same reason. Someone found me a local rust free car that was probably not what I wanted, aka Raspberry otherwise seen as Pink. I opted to just rock it and have it re-sprayed the same color when building it up. I'm now ripping 11's in the 1/4 with a FWD V6 Pink Beretta. Only one to do Drag Week, 3 times, to this day. ;)

Thanks for the video 1st off I figured breast awareness for that is why I have a few items that are pink plus I have only girls that live with me but I’m teaching combat and working skills so if they want to have pink rifles gloves ear plugs muffs knives you bet I’ll buy and show them how to use properly and with that being said you better bet I’ll teach them to weld and work on their car so Rock on brother I really appreciate your videos since I got hurt in the military I can’t afford them high prices and need to do allot myself and your teaching me allot thank you and I wonder will you do another welding live this year iv watched the last one five times already and would like to do it for real I live too far too just swing by and do an eight hour class anyway hope all is well thanks again

I think its weird that some don't prefer welding and fabrication both! I thank you for not being an ad. I personally do not mind plugging your company from time to time. Makes sense really. Fireball tool has become a complete tool. I found his products from watching his cool build videos. Then he got mad at RU-vid and posts only stuff that is really just an ad for his company and shuts off comments to be a bigger jerk. I bought his tools before. Sure as hell wont anymore. Lol I'm one of those "pink is not for dudes" people but I don't get tore up about it. I would probably never were them but who cares if you do! I did think it was same gloves I saw at PRI! And it was. Cant wait to see more fab work. Race On Brother

Retired Marine, served in Iraq, Grunt Units, drink beer, shoot guns, reload, ride motorcycles. And I wanted those pink gloves, just because. Lol. They were out of stock at the time though so I got the black ones. I have to say I do love those Defiant Metal Tig Gloves though. Highly recommended.

I love the pink gloves!

The pink gloves are like the pink extension cords that my buddy special orders. Nobody ever steals them on the job site!

I remember the day you made the post about your pink gloves. Can't believe it has been that long. I thought it was hilarious. Glad to hear the real background story of them.

Thankyou so much for your videos, I've learnt so much from you and tig welding. 25 years as a boiler maker and love to learn something new every day. Keep up the good work.

You have my respect good sir for hearing you talk / say this. 🤝🏽 9:18

I adopted the sacrificial aluminum plate after taking your TFS class. It's an absolute necessity for me at this point. It's just one of the many valuable things I learned in that 8 hours. If anyone has the opportunity to take the class, fucking do it.

💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

Great video Justin, a lot of good information from you for a lot of us, thank you for that. I like your videos a lot so have a great day and greetings from the Netherlands.

Your neighbor will steal a pair of pink gloves, maybe he can get one with your signature on it. Lol 🤣

pink on, buddy. I'll get me a pair when my whites wear out

Love the pink glove story - there is not enough pink in the world :)

8:23 thoughts on grinding down welds (say when c notching on a chassis)?

Slappnig your hands down on the table every 5 seconds got to be very annoying, otherwise excellent video!

"Shake babies and kiss hands" 😂 perfect

Love the pink glove explanation

Cool story on the gloves!

Thanks Justin

hey buddy i love your channel but i would like your honest review or a how you would do a brass bore @ 2"wide x 6" deep with 2 gouges 3" deep and 1.5" deep. im rather new but managed and it passed high pressure @ 5000. you can Check out my short but couldnt film the action.

Oh yeah anything interfering with the current current of the house or the place will destroy electronics😊

1st

HomoPhobic, they have every right to feel the way they do. Right or wrong, they have their right. Whether you like it or not. Were you wearing colored fingernails on one of your videos? Explain that!

The f*** what they think until they put the gloves on and then make them think about the gloves they put on

Internet regurgitation is such a bad problem. The problem is you don't know if the source is credible. And worse is the joke videos that are presented as fact.

All right I'm 11:30 into the video now I'm wondering if I can like attach a welder wand if you will to the side of an angle grinder if and brush and be like almost like all at the same time and then kind of like make it wait a little bit you know as long as speech to text takes forever to get it right

You have exactly the same career path as me. Mechanic, then Cummins as an engine machinist/engine builder, then heavy maintenance mechanic, then, race car fabricator/mechanic. Now working in V8 Supercar at 57 years old.🫵👍

Real men ware pink, the rest are closet &$#*&# nuff said