Stainless Steel Tig Welding Tutorial (Going to the next level with the Arccaptain P200 Pulse) 

Mate thanks for takking the time to explain things in plain language that most of us can understand. Really like your video and it is definitely by far the best tig vid I have seen!!!!

Thanks for sharing this educational video and explaining the welding process. There is far more physics and mathematics involved in this skill. Kudos to your video editor for all of the special effects. Quite nice. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings with your family. Peace brother

Excellent video explanation of the process mate.

This video was really interesting, I watched it despite my TIG welder not even having a pulse mode. I have built a 1.5kg combat robot that uses a TIG welded stainless steel chassis tub, and I've been finding the TIG really fun. My welds aren't pretty but I've been prioritising even penetration and heating over a neat bead because I'm grinding it down and polishing it anyway.

My favorite style of torch actually doesn't have a back cap, and the tungsten goes straight up the barrel. I hold it just like a pencil. I also usually use the smaller style torch because I like working with thinner material.

Great stuff Stevo. You're an inspiration as usual. I've used pulse a lot in the beginning, particularly on the sub 1mm ss. I haven't had a workshop for a year, so hardly ever tig. I did manage to get a fresh Argon and a commission for some repair welding on sum fg bins recently. It was tricky, and I'd forgotten the setip of pulse, didn't have scrap to practise on. I managed to get myself comfortable enough to ht the job done neatly, in a working factory by using (a bit too much) gas flow. When i came to finish it was less busy and I was able to tirn thd flow right down. As you know, the problem with repairs is being able to clean up everything before starting. Packaging tape on machinery is the bain of my life, and we don't love acetone either. My cheapo Toolshed dc only $1k Tigger box got the customer happy and me paid😊

Fantastic tutorial, the best i have ever seen! Thanks heaps.

Love your videos man.

Ever TIG weld copper? Heat dissipation is extreme. My son TIG welded some thick copper for a pot still.

for the non-metric folks (american), 1 mm = 0.040" , so the rule is 1 amp/0.001"! you just need to know your fraction-to-decimal equivalents of course if you don't have any decimal measuring tools...

Is arcaptain shipping to Aus now? Looked up their machines when you did your review and they weren’t shipping our way

Ah - but can you use pulse welding on the carrots :)

The comment at the end about getting a good welder is the gotcha tho - for instance I was almost tempted - ALMOST - by a Xcelarc Viper 200P DC. It has pulse and HF start! for about $NZ1000! OK, it doesn't have AC for aluminium, but HF! Pulse! Remote! an 8m torch/hose! Except I checked the manual. The pulse mode is kneecapped, it has no control except frequency, and the base current is set to a fixed 40% of the peak current, and the pulse with is set to a fixed 60% of the cycle. So it simply cannot do a 15% base current with 25% on time. Your comment about above 40% pulse width - 'you may as well be welding DC'? Yeah, that's this welder's only option. DC, or "basically DC". The starting point for 'good welder' seems to be $NZ1900...