35 years experience and I still stuff it up every now and then, hands are not so steady with age. Good tips for beginners. All my filler rods get cut in half to keep consistent weld times.
Some good tips there, good quality material and filler rod was what made the difference for me. I've been amateurt tig welding steel for a while and found it relatively easy to pickup. I could stick weld ok before, and have done a bit of soldering so maybe that helped. But aluminium welding, what a pain in the ass. It's like a whole different discipline compared to steel.
Nice one @Shin! Do you have a project in mind that you want to work towards being able to complete? Hope you enjoy getting stuck into TIG welding 😎 - Taz.
6:00... 👈critical.... I started learning to TIG weld a couple months ago...initially I had bad accessories and my gas flow was less than adequate ...I got a proper Furrick 12 ceramic cup and now I feel like I am just now starting to get the hang of it without burning through everything...lol...👍
Good man! Glad to hear you're seeing some progress and it sounds like you're enjoying it too. Win win in my book! While we focus on the uses for motorsport, welding is such a great skill to have that can apply to so many different avenues. Enjoy 😎 - Taz.
@@hpa101 I am learning to apply to my build..( just finished my 1st downpipe not great but not awful ).....Definitely going to enroll in your motorsport fabrication and tig welding series..👍
show how pipes look inside: i am welding exhaust from 316, 42.4mm OD , 1.5 mm thickness, and 70mm OD and 1.5mm thickness, and using 1mm filling wire, 42A, and in 80% of welds inside are sharp debris that must be sanded off, i think if pipe is fatter, 2mm , maybe it would not be the case
Purging is going to be one of the next topics for a free lesson. If you have the TIG course then you will already have access to that lesson. If I was you I'd just start searching and looking into it right away though, it's critical for pipe/tube 😎 - Taz.
@@hpa101 very well, but it does not affect on debris appearance, it just prevents inner part of hot weld not to oxidize, so i would appreciate it if you could show the welded pipe inside
When you don’t purge the inside of the pipe with argon you get what is called “sugaring” on the inside of the pipe because the back of the weld is open to oxygen and creates a rough sugar type looking contaminated weld. If correctly purged the inside of the pipe will be shielded and give a smooth appearance similar to the appearance of the outside of the welded pipe.
I understand it looks cool, but I hate when videos teaching about welding show huge cups, pyrex or otherwise. The best thing you can do when learning to tig weld is use the smallest cup that will give you complete gas coverage. Unless you need 3 to 4 inches of stick out, you don't need a #30 cup, practice with a #6 to #8 cup with mild steel and stainless so you can actually see the heat affected zone and learn to control the heat input. The huge cups just hide everything so you can't see where you can make improvements.
You are 100% right in saying that you shouldn't just copy what you're looking at without thinking about it and experimenting as you learn, we are behind that for more than just TIG welding when it comes to learning new skills. You touched on an important point there too though when it comes to cup size vs material. Someone using a larger cup can be doing so because that is what will give the best result for their application which might be different to yours. Welding titanium for example - Taz.
The best thing to do is to give the job to a professional who does it all day everyday. If you’re doing it yourself just make sure everything is really clean and that you have really good equipment.
You say that like you think people are just born with a set skill 😅 Everyone starts at 0, and not everyone needs to make a career of something to be competent at it. Conversely, we all don't have to learn skills we don't want to when we can (hopefully) find a capable chosen professional to do it for us instead, but no one should feel threatened by others learning the same skills they have 😎 100% agree that having clean material with a good fit-up is super important though! Great advice. Professional or just cutting your teeth on some practice material that applies too - Taz.
It's going to depend on what it is, how important it is to be done proficiently, how much has to be done, and what equipment one already has. For most people who have little or no equipment and rarely need it, it makes sense to have it done by a 'professional' as it's going to be cheaper, done better, easier, etc. However, for others who have quite a lot of things they will need to weld, who want to be able to "tack up" things to do, or have done, later, who consider the investment in the equipment and gained experience to be worth it, etc, it may be a different perspective. 100% agree on the importance of having good equipment as a beginner - an expert may be able to work around 'chheap' equipment's shortcomings, but someone learning needs all the help they can get and won't know how badly a poor machine may be affecting what they're trying to do.
@Gordo if we all used well-thought-out analysis and logic no one would have projects in general though for the most part, especially cars haha We're all different and value things in life differently. Some people want to spend $1000's on weed and booze throughout a year, some get tools that they don't really 'need', but gain enjoyment from having and using. Or not! Finding out what you don't like is part of finding out what you do like too 😎 - Taz.
