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I kept a glove and a filler rod on my coffee table and practiced feeding by finger, while watching tv. It's a good way to do it because you don't stop for q tips or having to turn the work piece. An hour of practice without worrying about the torch really focuses on the process and is better than hours of frustration actually welding. You're working on muscle memory, not welding ability.
it might comfort you to know that your third point is grounded in very well-researched education theory. Specifically, what you are talking about is "Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Learning", which essentially states that a learning exercise should be only difficult enough to challenge a weakness, but never so difficult as to discourage the learner, but also never so easy as to add nothing to the learner's abilities. It's a good approach for sure and one that I wish was applied more in the learning of manual arts and industrial fields in general
I just started tig welding. I've been mig welding since I was 15 and I'm 39. I worked at a machine shop crushing it welding specified stuff. But now I wanna tig weld. I already ran into the worst lol. Hit me up thanks brother!
Yep I’m just learning. Burning holes & fingers sounds like me. My practice heap shows the progress. I’m determined to redo my R53 exhaust to accommodate 330 Hp. Love your help. Thankyou
Starting TIG welding now in trade school and I'm loving your channel mate...can wait to cycle through your archive and learn. Thanks for the excellent quality for your videos.
Hahaha I did this and also would stick the filler rod into the weld and make it stick then pull my hand up the rod. Then one day i noticed I was feeding correctly and it was natural. Pretty awesome!
You making it clear your channel is aimed towards the POSITIVE people out there that want to and are willing to learn is what convinced me to sub. Much respect!
I have started my learning process by doing horizontal flat beads on plate. This is the easiest position to learn. I figure that if I can't do an excellent weld this way, I don't have a chance with vertical and overhead. For some reason, I have found outside corner joints easy to do and have achieved good results. My hardest to do and get good results is fillet welds.
Good tips, Dusty 😊. For the novice practice is key. First you get good, then you get fast 😁. I was literally practicing my tig wire feeding when I found your vid lol. Cheers!
I’m in a class right now and the big eye opening thing for me was figuring out that burning thru material is much more dependent on speed of the torch than amps in the plasma. I was not using enough heat so the puddle would ball up and I would sit there trying to move the puddle heating up that area and I’d burn thru.
Nice Channel bro. Those tips are great. What I teach for fillerrod control, is take one of every diameter we have home. Watch tv and just play with it. It becomes second nature. I tig weld for 20 years now and the first 10 were just figuring it all out. Till it became to make sense. Arc length, travelspeed, amp power, filler technique, torch angle, gas coverage at different joints, amp power, dry runs and overall knowledge of the industry mixed in the soup made do it. Still in stainless food industry machines and chasing rainbow colours everyday.
I have a few kits that will make metal dice, tried one at home before i started a tig class this spring, and it was junk looking. Found out my tungsten was all messed up, among other things. Working on larger plate scraps before i try and work on these thin things again, like to make them look nice. Even if a metal dice is useless it could still be a cool thing for my desk at work, etc. Then i can say yeah i welded that... and not be embarased hopefully. I kind of struggle still with the filler part, the other part I still have to force myself to do is slow down one way i can see a slow back and forth makes a nice weld and it seems should be more relaxing. I'm used to stick or flux core though where you have to move a lot more, and i need more paitance. Sometimes i make like a 6 inch weld and it feels like i'm sitting there like 10 minutes on weld though probably more like 3-5 minutes.I have heared others say they don't like TIG because how slow it is. TIG is neat though it can do so many metals, things others would just burn through and can do autogonous welds also a lot of control and can get some neat looking results if you know how.
I'm trying to learn also but nobody ever shows you how to set up the cup with the o-rings initially tried to weld my inner door piece for a truck I noticed I was losing a lot of fuel Alice birney through quite a bit and I realized it's really tough to weld outside any information would be great thank you so much have a great day
I've been watching you for awhile. Absolutely love your work and the advice you give. I'm not a beginner but also not as proficient as id like to be, and oftenly overthink things so I like watching videos like this to refocus sometimes. The rusty spoons picture made this for me. This is all great advise for beginners. keep it up, your killing it!
My dad taught me to hold it kinda like a cigarette with the filler sought of resting between my finger and thumb while slowly feeding with thumb and sort of guiding with fingers .
Hey Dusty Can you talk about Argon? Where to buy How to buy How long will it last in a bottle. Do you have to rent the bottle or can you bring a bottle you bought on Amazon and have it filled up? How to shop for metals. What condition you should be looking for? Some rust, scaling? I know you still have to clean it. At what point would you consider too far gone to be usable.
Thanks. Still trying to learn the basics (not enough time, I can only work on days when it's not too windy - and during daylight due to not having much in the way of lights - I'm fixing the latter, and I'm planning to build a shield around by welding table - something for the Christmas projects!) Would love a basic "here's what you do wrong when your welds look like this" type video - is it "too hot", "not hot enough", "too much Argon", "not enough Argon".
Here is something that you should also teach your students. BAD WELDS! Yup! Set up the torch correctly then have them slowly burn thru the material a couple of times. After that then have them do the same exercise of burn through, but then carefully watch what is actually happening as it happens. That is the key point also. It isn't just making perfect welds with the perfect setup after the perfect practice. They should also make the "bad stuff" so they can actually see what happens when they do it wrong, so they actually have a reference. Then they can determine what is happening when they are doing it - they have a reference. Flat - Tee - Corners - (good AND bad welds) Try it yourself then see just what I mean before teaching it to a live person, then have a live person do it.
Lol can relate to the outside corner one but I was always the opposite I was always afraid of not getting enough penitration and could never get it neat would always start to hot then have to really speed up to avoid ending up with a huge sunken in bead and had no controll .... then one day I just got it hadn't been practiceing it or anything I was always trying to avoid doin them but a job came up and I had no choice I was stress out about it but I started and I just had it ... it just worked ... havnt really had a issue since
Love when something you've been struggling with just suddenly clicks. It always happens to me after a particularly hard set of attempts on something I'm not used to. Then it's like your body absorbs the data of every fuck up, rewires your muscle memory over night and boom, it's like you're on auto pilot the next day.
If you have trouble feeding with your hand let it stick to the metal pull the cup away and let it stick to the metal pull your hand back and then start over
When i started TIG welding my flat stringers were awful. I started to try lap joints and butt joints then when i went back to stringers i was much better. Just do something more challenging then go back to something easier and you will continue to get better. With anything tho, practice makes perfect. Gotta stay in them booths💯
Your tip about being scared of blowing through certainly is familiar to me! I retired a year and a half ago after a 41 career as a certified welder. My certifications were to the AWS D15.1 standard, and I was certified in SMAW (7018), flux cored/gas shielded wire, and GMAW (aluminum only on this), unlimited thickness-all position. Since retiring, I’ve spent a lot of time practicing with a Lincoln TIG/Stick machine I’ve had for years, and only recently have I figured out that you have to throw the heat to it! Now if I could only figure out how to stop getting crater holes at the end of my welds, I’d be doing good! Thanks for the vid, and Merry Christmas!
If you can extinguish the arc slowly and taper out gently it should prevent that crater, I think the crater gets formed when you terminate the arc suddenly. That’s what seemed to work for me :)
@@tomt9543 totally agree with Carson,if you set ur machine to slowly diminish the arc until somewhat 20% power of the working arc on about 1 or 1.5 second/s while walk away the tip of the tungsten from the place of the puddle you initiated the slope down the amps,not too far away of the puddle center,more like to the outer edge before you complete the amps slope down,guarantee 100% no crater will form,this is a real issue with stainless steel,since is a far more maleable material regarding melting point/heat deformation,on carbon steel is a different thing, yet somewhat around that playfield as setup range,its metal,you own it and you do whatever you want to be,never stop learning and keep melt the rods,best regards from Romania !
I like the way you present the material and how completely thorough you are with the explanations and accompanying videos.......just subscribed...........Oh, by-the-way, I have burned through many thin-walled tube joints while stick welding....just bought a stick / tig welder and your videos will help me tremendously while fumbling through the basics.........
I’m surprised at how many people have gotten that one…! Welcome to the club of people who were brought up on disturbing cartoons…😂🙏 thank you for watching!
Never had an issue with burning my fingers on filler hand starting out. In learning anything , I make it a habit to find someone who I believe knows their shit and watch/study what they do intently. No matter what the subject is, that I want to get good at. Copy what they do and make it yours. I teach my kids to do the same. Also if your unsure , never be scared to ask questions.
Hi there, thank you so much for your advice. In New Zealand (Christchurch) we do not have short welding courses. I work full time and have bought my first TIG but cant afford to spend 8 hours, 5 days a week on a course while still working. I had hoped to find somewhere I could get an introduction course to, at least, get me started, no such luck. Any help on line is very valuable so, again, thank you.
I first learned [with the aid of RU-vid] how to weld razor blades together. Not joking. Impractical, but that's how I started. Now I suffer from all the things mentioned in this video! LOL. Really my main weakness is not doing enough prep work now. Prep is king above technique.
Aluminum can be tricky for beginners. I've always had a knack for TIG welding, even owned my own contracting business centered around matal working and hard to repair items, rare metals, onsite welding etc. Did a lot of aluminum tig. I used to work for AlumaCraft tig welding basically cosmetic on the exterior of the "all weld" boats. I hear they have since gotten rid of their "all weld" boat line. Unfortunate becuase I feel a welded boat is much better than a riveted one. + the work of a skilled craftsman welding vs some high-school kid riveting all day. I bet the welder take more pride in his work than anyone on the shop floor. I bet managment didn't take that into account. With welding instead of riveting the options are 10x more. The work is less and the final product is much better. Uses less gasketing than riveting as rivets are not water tight like a weld is. So it's less impactful on the environment with less chemicals and material used the making. I can go on if you'd like. Lol 😆
Thank you Man, i‘m just starting with Tigwelding and your Videos are very helpfull! It looks so easy how you‘re doing , but it will be a long way. I hope you keep doing these nice Videos. I‘m so sad about the Loss of your Dogs , they are part of the Family. Kind Regards from Europe.
Bro i go to a voc school and have an interview at a tig company in 4 days and ive never done tig welding they are supposed to teach me but im so worried im gonna screw it up. Im not even in a metal shop im in hvac metal is just what im good at and enjoy
Great points. Hey, what would be great is a vid showing overhead TIG. It’s something you often have to do in autobody and I just can’t get the hang of it. But my vertical up isn’t the best either.
I was 16 when i learned how to TIG weld, it was the first time i tried welding, now i do some under the table work by welding custom Exhaust for friends and family, and i HATE mig welding have tried it alot but it's never the same and the quality is garbage IMO it could be because im not good at it, but i will stick to tig welding because i feel like i have more control over it and the quality is way better, i mainly weld Aluminium and stainless steel, i work at a food factory so we use SS for everything and it's the best to learn on because you have to be very bad to fuck up stainless
I must admit I cheat on my TIG welds. I find (or set up) an edge to slide my filler on and advance it like a violin bow. I also bought a TIG rod advancer aid thingy that I have yet to try.
Hi love your video, I'm just starting out with tig as I'm into rc models. Iv seen many tutorials about how to and technics but not about what hand does what. I'm right handed so which hand holds the torch and which holds the filler rod. Many thanks Steve.
Yep do a 5 year apprenticeship then another 20 years in real world then still never learn faster Huge respect to anyone who gets to earn a living welding I have and I know many others but there is also thousands of chancers that will never be any good because they don’t love what they do they just turn up and expect results Merry Xmas
Hi Dusty, was scrolling through RU-vid and this video caught my interest as I’m wanting to get into TIG welding. I’ve been using O/A & stick for many years and recently got into MIG, but want to do SS and generally like the looks of TIG. First question: in your opinion what is the best machine to get? I plan on doing some thin stuff ~1/16” up to maybe 3/8-1/2” mild & SS. Also have eyed doing so Al projects. So looking for suggestions on a once buy machine (learned that getting an almost good enough beginner system and stepping up to an intermediate system, then stepping up again to what you really want is more costly in the long one than just getting the final system to begin with). Thanks in advance. Cheers, Tom. BTW, where do I find info on this online course you mentioned?
Im new at TIG....How do you know which hand holds the torch and which hand feeds the rod? Im normally right handed....but not sure which way to TIG?? I MIG right handed.
Last one is a big deal. Any process I've learned, MIG, stick, FCAW (S or G) and TIG. I always started just running basic beads to get the hang of it. Running bead after bead until they're consistent, then tacking plates together, practicing it flat, then practicing it horizontal and so on. Some processes and materials take longer, but that's the best way to start. Practicing the basics, *a lot.*
Have a Merry Christmas my friend! Sorry, RU-vid been hiding you from me for days on end here recently 🤔 not sure why. I mean, you my dawg! You hear that RU-vid?! 😆 be blessed, have a great holiday, hope Santa gives your stocking the ol' fill n chill!
I'm completely new to welding but I noticed when practicing on coupons, my welds would get progressively worse (flatter and wider). I would move at a consistent speed throughout the passes. I read on another forum that you need to let the coupon cool down because it was getting too hot with multiple passes. I just wanted to get a lot of practice in! It made sense to me and that really fixed things up. I was also wondering if it was possible to use less amps with a heat soaked part or is it better just to let the whole thing cool off? Most videos don't show if they are letting the coupons cool down between welds. It might be less of an issue on bigger parts and not coupons.
Yep exactly the problem i run into still when practicing on flat, small pieces. Beginning looks good, but then it feels like the heat soaking gets soo large after like 1 inch of welding, that i almost can't keep up with the puddle, so it starts to get wider and ultimately burns through. So far tried to reduce amperage a bit, but i guess the ideal case is really to use a foot pedal when welding aluminium, as you can reduce the amperage on the fly to keep control of the puddle. Also trying to weld the T-Joints, but man is it difficult to hit the right spots. I really only now start to realize how difficult it is
Honestly all those fake arrows and highlights on the thumbnails make me cringe and not even click on the video, I did this time just to leave this comment. Learn from Jody, almost a million subscribers and not one clickbait BS thumbnail or video, pure knowledge.
I noticed that you where using a Everlast welder in another video. I Have been mig welding exhaust for years in the automotive trade but I have never used a tig welder before. I have been looking at getting a entry level tig welder for a while and when I look online I only see a Everlast dealer in Hamilton Ontario. I only know of the Praxair on Devonshire but I think they only sell Miller. Is there anyone in or around the Victoria area that sells Everlast?
Would it be beneficial to get a scrap piece of metal the same thickness and focus on the length of time it takes while feeding filler to actually burn though then back off the amps from that point? Just thinking out loud. Newbie thoughts
Hey dusty, love your videos. Hey was curious you had mentioned you teach online? Is there anyway to get some more of that info. Been wanting to get into the weld world. Thx
Does the waiting a little bit at the beginning of the weld to not burn through and establish a good puddle work with MIG as well ? Or is everything to do with TIG different than MIG
You learn real quick when you're welding stainless to keep your hands away from the material you walk the cup and you feed the wire with your fingers ever so slightly 40 years in industry
