i just got the aluminum pro kit the other week. awesome kit and i really appreciate it. garrett's customer service was great. the quality of the accessories is very very nice. 100% recommend.
Great video, Jody! All this time of working from MIG to TIG skills and running beads on 1/4" thick metal, I'm finally going from beads that look like loose change and pocket lint to dimes and a few pennies thrown in. Biggest problem? Trying to keep my hand from cramping up while feeding filler wire through a claw. Then I see, in one of your closeups, that you're really not even gripping the back part of the wire to push it! It's just your thumb pushing it along as the front of the wire just lays between your fingers. I didn't believe I could get a purchase on the wire to push it along but it works! Thank you!
@@floridabeardedwoodworker I'm getting a Everlast powertig 185 a friend and RU-vidr just got a new on and I'm buying his old one. Tom over at Hilltop machine works. If you go over to his channel it is his latest video he has done. Never have tig welded before so very fun learning coming
I’m 46 and I wish I would have learned to tig when I had 20 year old eyes. You make it look so easy to keep that short arc length. A cheater lens has helped a lot but I still dunk the electrode too often.
I'm 27 I butt weld 1mm steel on cars everyday I've been doing it since I was 22 it's still difficult for me too just need alot of practice somedays are worse than others to I will go all day without dipping some days the next day i dunk it 5 times lol
Hello Jodi, I’m Andrew from NYC. Thank you very much for yet another one of your awesome videos to the welding society folks. Thank you very much for making me a better welder with your advice and technique.
Great tips, only bad thing is many of them require you to plan ahead on the job to make it all work, its hard for those of us that like to just jump in and go. LOL Planning usually makes most jobs come out better though. :-)
Would love to see some tips for doing this in automotive application, specifically on sheet metal replaced during body restoration. In that area I can’t see a way to use a chill block to hold down edges like you have in this video. Would love your thoughts.
Another great video! 👍 I do mobile welding mostly on pontoon boats. Have picked up a ton of great tips from you. Along with a tig finger in my trailer and in my shop. Can't have too many! 😁
Thanks for so many consistently helpful videos Jody. I have learned so much from this series. Definitely time to buy a Tig Finger or two now that I've got a new TIG setup. Already loaded up with Gas Lenses and FUPA cups.
love your videos, so happy you finally did 18ga, can you please do some more sheet metal videos, especially butt welding like you would do restoring sheet metal on a car. Thanks !
New to tig welding and new to stainless. My dad has a toolbox thats been with him since he was a kid and theirs a small latch on it that hed like reafixed to it, it would be very similar to this 18 guage lap weld except it would be stainless to mild. My queation is why you use a 3/32 tungsten as opposed to a 1/16th or even a .040, I would of thought the smaller the material the smaller the electrode, im also wondering if the use of some pulse settings might assist an amateur like me whose new to this thin material.
Jody - thanks for another great video! Somebody else already asked about this, but I'm interested in the articulated torch holder - it looks pretty cool! I don't see these listed on your website - can you tell us where they are available?
Hello Ron, its called a TIG Talon. I dont sell them but here is a link but it shows sold out right now madstad.com/products/tig-talon-magnetic-multi-position-torch-holder?variant=30770348163185
Jodie can you have a go at simulating welding in a patch panel repair in 18ga.(edges confined on at least 3 sides) Proshaper here on YT has some good usefull info on this kind of thing.
I'm finding that steel maybe more forgiving compared to aluminum but for me in my 1st month it's harder to get a nice puddle & adding filler, I'm probably to far away with my filler
Any porosity problems with the CR mild steel ? Seems like when I'm welding clean CR material I get a boiler rolling out of the puddle on occasion. I mostly weld 4130 in aviation but build a lot of sub assemblies in mild steel. I take a lot of time to make sure everything is clean. Thanks for the video.
The only times I've ever had porosity problems on CR mild steel that weren't gas related were when I accidentally grabbed gas welding filler rod or trying to finish weld an airtight assembly.
You should never have porosity with colled rolled steel its about the most forgiving steel there is check filler and make sure u got no gas leaks i have also bought filler that bubbles randomly before make sure it always er70 series rod
But do you also clean your filler rod with acetone? Try 70S-2 instead of 70S-6 if you're using that, also. 6 is runnier and tends to do some stranger stuff, dragging up impurities and sucking odd things to the surface. Otherwise agree with Kieren on gas, potentially too little or too much despite what the gauge is showing.
am a beginner, I want to learn how to weld tig on stainless steel, the materials I would weld are thin, the sole plate is maximum 1/8 or 3/16, which video of yours would you recommend to start
if you are just beginning, practicing padding beads on aluminum will be some of the best practice you can get for stainless. sounds weird but it works. welding beads on aluminum will get your feed hand up to speed quicker than anything. then you can transition to steel easily. I have a video called the "aluminum drill" that explains it all ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xYgatSQ2Ldk.html
Great video Jody. Can I ask why you change to a smaller diameter cup for the blast tacking? I started using the blast tacking technique years ago but don't change my cups or gas pressures. Can you explain why? Thank you. Mike
weldingtipsandtricks thank you. For multiple tacks that makes sense. For one or two it probably isn’t worth the time or gas. Thanks for the quick reply Jody and I enjoy the videos. Mike
Getting into welding and have just been stick welding with an old Lincoln 250 tombstone. I’m looking at buying a multiprocess welder and really getting into aluminum tig welding and small mig projects. Is there a certain welder you would recommend? The ESAB 205ic seems to be the best for the money and I’ve been strongly considering it
ok - i really like the information - but i have come to realize that most of the video is useless to a beginner and maybe even an intermediate - one of the most difficult things i found when starting out was how to get into position to weld - in tig welding almost anything complicated is all positions and both hands - and a wider video shot angle ( i have nor clue what a director would call it - wide out? - wider frame? ) showing how your body and hands are would be much more informational - caveat - all jobs are different but this is how I do it....? for example - make a simple door handle - pipe - 3/4" sch 40. 12 inches long - with 2 - 2.5" supports on 2 - 2in square plates - - tig is all - with wide shots on how you tack it and themn move it around the work table to access... small but very challenging project for a beginner - just a suggestion - i think i just got tired of seeing puddles - when hand and body are so much equal in importance for good welding
Wanted order some stuff from your store but wasn’t sure if you are still shipping , considering latest public health concerns. I have emailed and DM’d but didn’t get a response. Let me know. Thanks
weldingtipsandtricks roger that, just going through an order right now. Are you able to ship to Canada currently? I’m not sure about border restrictions for e-commerce
for welding steel, it could have been most any tig welder. I just happened to have the Dynasty hooked up for this one. I have a CK worldwide mt200 ac/dc that works great at around 2000 dollars.
