Dam near spit out my coffee when he tasted the rod. Made me think of the old Rudolph cartoon when the miner licked his pick ax. Gotta love it. Very nice welds
I'm not impressed. Based on the thumbnail, this was supposed to show how to create a lot of color in the welds. Lots of talk about personal technique, but nothing much related to causing color, and no actual demonstration of techniques to cause color.
Dub reggae, like King Tubby or Scientist. On the other hand, the 6061.com guy uses a metronome but I don't see how he can hear it over the noise of the machine
@@vr6swp I'm pretty sure that guy has some super high dollar gear, in fact I believe I've seen so in some of his videos. Probably like a $5000-$6000 Miller custom machine with a very quiet intermitant fan/cooling system.
Reggae, 90’s hip hop, up beat blues, gets me going. Love watching these videos, it truly has made a huge impact on my welding, just being able to see the arc shots. As well as awesome mentors, in the trade for just over s year and I’m able to dab and make rainbows!🌈
Bob, ive gotta say bud, you make welding so incredibly entertaining (more than it already is on its own anyways) you are just an absolute joy to watch.. I love your shows after work when I'm sitting around unwinding..I think it's hilarious how your first instinct is to put everything in your mouth to test it..
I seen zero color in any of those welds minus the ends, good coverage nonetheless but don’t title the video with “rainbow” emoji and have the finish product with near perfect gas coverage. Set post flow to 10 seconds wait 5-7 and slowly move the cup out the HAZ and that’s how you get color.
@@joemann4973 Bob was messing with the guy a lot off camera as you can see in the last few clips. Some people like that and others makes em uncomfortable.
Dam. welding is music. You have officially blown me away. I gotta try that with 2/4 3/4 and 4/4 timing. Then there is the range of whole, half and quarter notes. 16th? Triplets?
I don't know if you weld with pulse or not but I weld with a Miller Dynasty 300DX & the pulse is amazing I like to set up my pulse with about 70% on full & about 45 to 50% background once dialed in & going my foot goes to the floor & control my filler & keep a close eye on the weld puddle I work on foot equipment & we have to have perfect welds . Pulse will help make the welds look great & the more pulse's per second the deeper the penetration ( Right from the Miller web site) It's been working for me for 15 plus years at General Mills . I like how you are helping more get going & into the trade ! Well Done
Hey Bob, question...first off for the viewers reading this...I'm not a welder by trade , but I do weld to get things to stick together. So comments on my abilities would be redundant. My question is regarding the "beads" or the "stacked dimes look" - and torch angle - and most relevant...gas flow. Does the gas flow actually "shape" the liquid weld pool? Does the gas push on the pool and stack it higher? Or is the gas flow so slight that it couldn't push the puddle and stack it higher ..or possibly to the side? Love everything about your videos.
i was just going to say that too but they do keep saying its for stainless art. i weld Titanium, inconell and stainless. all day every day for aircraft and if they see a thread of color under a jewelers loop its rework time. we use a 12 cup, back purge, trailing cups and what ever we need to eliminate all color even the optimal gold color.
its not a continuous fusion of the metal. think of it as a lot of tacks, you dont want color either. im a stick man myself so im not sure what the color has to do with it though
you can get continuous fusion this way too, and he did.. my only gripe here was the lap joint generally speaking -- colours are a sign of oxidation, and thusly - for all critical applications, you want no colours at all. bright straw and no haz showing -- which sometimes is impossible unless you go with trailing shield and whatnot. it all depends on the code or ISO you got specced on your drawings.
The critics and closet weld experts here gotta relax😂😂😂. Welding in a way that adds varying color is great for artistic welding. Whether it’s good for industry structural or piping weld codes and compliance is beside the point if he’s just doing it for his art work. I’m sure the company he works for sets the standard for what’s an acceptable weld in his conveyor build/ repair work industry.🤦♂️
It should look like gold to hay color that is the best strength color. If you type in stainless steel temperature colors in the image search you can see what temp you need to get the colors desired. The purple and blues need a higher heat to the point you will burn the chrome moly out turning your weld black like a burnt marshmallow if you push it 2 far.
i’m not sure if i wasn’t paying attention or what. but I didn’t see any colors other than silver and gold. great interview, the guy has an interesting story, but i was hoping to see more about riding the fine line of darker colors rather than food quality welds.
I usually listen to music when TIG welding aluminum so that I can get my dime space right. I have noticed in the beginning that when the tempo of the song I'm listening to changes from one song to the next my bead spacing would change as well. You'd have a slow song with lots of widely spaced dabs and then a fast-paced heavy metal song and it have a bunch of really close dabs it was kind of funny. Now I've got it all evened out. Music is a great technique for newer welders to get their beads facing right.
Not rocket science. Coloration is due to the phenomenon of thin film interference between the differing refractive indexes of the carbides and oxides formed during welding. More color equals more oxidation. Want more color? Less gas coverage. Significant coloration is actually unacceptable in some industries. It's also worth mentioning that the chemical changes that occur in the heat affected zone have a very significant effect on the corrosion resistance of nickel chromium stainless steels due to carbide precipitation to varying degrees.
I am so glad I watched your video about getting beautiful colors in stainless, I just love all the silver you were able to show us and the valuable lessons we all learned about getting silver in our welds. I was afraid I was doing doing something wrong because in my mig and stick the only color I could get was silver. Turns out I have been doing it right all along. Amazing all the silver I can now do, and was doing, but now I know I'm doing lots O' color. WOW #rainbowtig
The color is due to heat and method. Rainbow isn't what you're going for. An amber color is something you're looking for. It shows consistent heat along the entirety of the weld. Simple manipulation, but "rainbow" doesn't mean a good weld. It means your heat isn't a constant. Possible due to arc distance and welder pre and post settings due to arc length.
I’m teaching myself tig at the machine we have at work we barely use. We weld a lot of different stuff mostly just repairs for the machines at work and since I’m the student in the maintenance dept I weld EVERYTHING at 260 A and I hate it but my pedal control is on point
I came across this bc I noticed i only use my e308 sticks because i dont like the 6011 and 6013. i noticed with stainless filler metal once it gets too hot it stops working. So it requires super light wattage whatever. and also it is veru very very pixky about the metal its arcing on. if its too thin or whatever. grinded too muxh. POP it goes right through.
Color control techniques were not disclosed. That is not like you to tease like that.Shame for the click bait.... Still I enjoy your vids and have improved my craft because of you and your guests. Thx.
So what's the importance of color in stainless steel welding? Which BTW, there wasn't any color in this demonstration which I actually find better for what I'm interested in. I have a complicated piece of stainless steel for a marine application on a boat that needs to be polished to a mirror finish and I don't think the color is needed for that since you have to get rid of it to get that polished finish. So back to the original question, why the color? Better without color for polish but not necessarily a strong weld?
I was just thinking to myself about why they're actually even wearing welding caps while tig welding? It doesn't produce any sparks that may burn your scalp or neck. That's what caps are for. I weld all processes between where I work and tig in my home shop and I would never bother wearing a cap running tig. Maybe it's just a habitual thing with them?.
So many "Welders" saying having color is a bad thing. It depends on the application of the weld. Is it structural? Is it Food Service? Is it decorative? The last one would be the only acceptable place for multi colored welds as they occur with a varying of weld temperature. In a structural application a constant temperature is required. In food service they want to only see the parent material color. My 2 mites worth.
Not exactly the same. Features that exist, circuit design and efficiency, flash upgrades/expansions, etc. I found a firmware bug and Miller issued an update including it in 4 months.
Arc wander is usually from contaminated or poorly ground tungsten. There’s a myth about only grinding radially....it doesn’t matter as long as the grit is very fine, and blunt the end slightly
decent welds, but come on...hardly a video about manipulating weld color. need to focus on the subject in the title, or else that's what we call "clickbait"
These guys are full of it. Years ago I was getting this effect from stick welding. You know howI did it,,,,I stood back and watched it happen all by itself! Im clever arent I!! Just the right amount OF PRE HEAT does wonders!!!!
