Hi Jodi, you're the most versatile welding instructor on welding techniques .I'm a licensed structural welder. Im now getting started with tig welding. All your videos are awesomely great. Thanks for sharing your time and experience with the welding society. I'm Andrew.
Jody - I’ve been welding for 28 years but I learn so much from your videos. Thank you 🙏🏼. I try and give back by buying from your shop, but it’s not enough !
I have learned so much from you. I was never super comfortable with TIG, but now I watch one of your videos and then go practice and every day I get a bit less apprehensive. My biggest hurdles are keeping a steady hand and maintaining torch/tungsten distance and feeding filler. Today's video, right about when you showed it, was like you heard me ask, "but how do you feed filler?" Thank you Jody!
Thank you AGAIN Jody!👍 Bought a lot of your gas lens kits, that Fantastic Square and the always COOL TIG FINGER. You’ve improved my welding, and my profits! Again I say THANKS!!!😇
@@weldingtipsandtricks Howdy Mr Jody. I have a question about a possible product but wasn't sure how to directly contact you. I use your tig finger but i wonder would it be possible to make a glove out of the same material? Kind of like a liner glove.
Watched many of your videos, but don't recall you circling the arch, waiting for the cleaning action to take effect. I've been rushing it, and you just " turned the light on"! Can't wait to try that technique. Thanks Jodi
I appreciate you equipping me with your knowledge and experience. All the little things you demonstrate really motivate me to practice and do better. Long time viewer, learning something new every time. Thanks again and again.
Thanks Jody, always love learning something from you and your videos! It is really neat to see the cleaning action at work prior to starting your bead! Be blessed my friend!!!
Always thankful for your shared knowledge. Wanted to see if you can test the limits of 6010 rod on this machine? Like running a 5/32 6010 to see how it performs...thank you.
I've done this exercise with small coupons, nam near used a whole 200cu/ft bottle of Argon. I haven't had the opportunity to exercise my skills yet though!
Jody, yours is the best welding instruction on the tube! I have a ? about cleanliness. How do you manage to keep your gloves clean? Mine get dirty within a few days, just picking up a piece of steel, leaning on my welding table, etc. I can't seem to remember to take them off when I need to pick something up. I clean my filler material and than handle it with dirty gloves, seems kinda ridiculous.
Excellent video as always. I have a question though. What are your thoughts on peaning the welds with either a hammer, or hammer and punch or an air hammer. I work in the auto racing industry so the blocks and heads that need repaired are oil soaked at temp but they started as 6013 forged parts. Does that peaning of the weld repair help to I guess up the density of of the area that was replaced with weld. Essentially hand forgoing the weld repair to match the base material
Wraping the tig finger around the torch handle 😂. Did you hope to melt the torch in your hand? Tig Finger is awsome! Thanks for the videos Jody. Greetings from Germany
Jodi I have a question. Bought a $4000 dollar welder Oxford Tigmaker 330 and was doing lots of beginner short 1 inch test welds for 2 hours using a Clarke auto darkening helmet. I found the next day my eyes hurt really bad and then my head ached all over. Intense. I then waited 2 weeks and tried a brand new ESAB Sentinel helmet. Damn if the very same thing did not happen the day after. So and after checking the shade was 13 for the auto darkening which it should have been at 200 amps, I then went to my garage and whilst using my old Clarke mig to weld up a classic car, next day again the same rubbish. From the mig I have used for years with the new helmet from ESAB. Blurred vision the works. So I have gone out and bought ski goggle design gas welding goggles with the intent of wearing inside my shade 5 sunnies. That would be the sunnies, then the gas tint glass and then the sentinel auto darkening on shade 13. Some serious tinting. So have you ever suffered from similar symptoms? if not ever heard anyone else having done so? Im furious because I have mig welded for years and it seems that even the mig welding on low amps is causing the sickness too.
if you mig tack any type of steel for speed and then tig weld your assembley, when you go over the mig tacks with tig you sometimes get porosity in the weld, does any one have a clue why this happens, great channel I am restoring an old Daimler v8 and I have a lot of welding to carry out
You mentioned 4047 wets out better, with less porosity, so why not use it all the time in place of 4043, at least for home around the garage type stuff?
Your right about the build ups, ya think you have enough and I say to myself ahh I better weld one more layer so it cleans up. I do a lot of heavy build ups at my day job and always put extra on cause when it comes back from the machine shop and its needs more weld a guy feels bad lol..
Nice video. Looked at the price of the machine. I thought it was just an Mp210 with AC. If you get porosity can you just grind it out and go over same spot on aluminum?
Thank you for the vid I just got a job in Aerospace and I damage or mess up’s from CNC machines. And I really need help of info like this and at the shop we have an old transformer machine miller syncro wave 351.
Could you walk the arc across the whole part to allow the cleaning action to cook the junk from the whole part before starting? Sound strange but I wondered if it would move it out of the path of the bead.
Hey bud.. can you set is up to purchase a durable standard sized dishwasher safe weld monger coffee cup?....i sure want you in my collection...thanks for another great video.
I tig weld aluminum, but Im interested in the latest non-flux, low temp aluminum "welding" with a propane torch...and no it's not flux brazing or soldering. No one seems to be honest or clear about what makes these non flux aluminum rods able to melt at low temp (730°F). They're showing this stuff to be crazy strong considering it just looks like solder.
Again another great video. Ordered another stubby lens kit for a few replacement items and i agree fully wedge collets are the only way to go. I'm running an old Miller Syncrowave 500 and the Flexloc 250 water cooled torch and love it. I still have to let the water cool down several times a day but it's hands down the best torch for me. I build and restore steam locomotives and traction engines of all sizes and have melted the end off of several air cooled torches. In the middle of a scale locomotive boiler for a hobbyist and really enjoy the effort and quality you give. Ever get a chance to do a video about using the older transformer machines come to Texas and show me how to get the best results from my dinosaur. I keep saying when it quits I'll get a newer inverter machine but it looks like it will outlast me.
I think he does this to show you do not need a industrial welder to do this kind off job. I own a 200 Amp everlast because here in Belgium it cost a lot to get a industrial electrical power connection.
@@tomwagemans1872 really? He was holding the torch with the tig finger... He was cooking that torch; not to mention the fact that with the miller he could avoid to preheat and get the job done faster. I can see your point, if you dont have an industrial machine you use what you have, but if you have, why not use it?😅🤷🏻♂️
