Tungsten Tips for 100% TIG welding Control & Consistency #ilovewelding This is the best electrode care I know and practice. The results are 100% consistent and repeatable. Keep that tig welding in your control & weld the best you can!
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Awesome! KaneKid on RU-vid! And you’re in front of the camera AND talking, you’re not a robot after all. Kidding, but awesome to see you teaching, best TIG welder on planet earth. My daughter walks around in your t-shirts, they don’t fit me anymore cuz I got fat! I’ll have to buy more now.
Wow Rush, I have never heard that it absorbs the metal thus contaminating it. That explains why just cleaning doesn't give me a crisp arc after I clean.
It’s not a taught thing in tig welding…. Part of this is what I’ve learned through studying metals and working years in a facility along metallurgists, chemists, and engineering professionals. This should provide that dialed arc-stability and very clean starts in your tig! Miss seeing you brotha! Hope your new spot is working amazing for you!
Never understood why a tungsten sharpener needed to cost $800, considering it's just an angle grinder with an attachment on it. $300? Ok, maybe... But $800 is nuts. Maybe that's why I'm a mediocre welder - I use a bench grinder to sharpen my tungstens. Maybe if I just forked out $800 for a sharpener I'd become god's gift to welding like KK is! Regarding tungsten contamination - when I've dipped into stainless, I can't say I've ever noticed bad arc performance after a good regrind... But a good dip into aluminum totally changes the tungsten all the way back to the collet, just as KK says. I usually slap the tungsten against the bench - which snaps off the whole contaminated section, which has become embrittled by the contamination.
You don’t always need an expensive grinder to get good results, but this is exactly how I get the best results for my tig welding, every time. When the majority of the projects I weld are valued at thousands of dollars, this is a major factor. Even a missed arc strike on a single piece that’s $20k+ can be a catastrophic failure. I’ve used a turbosharp for over 15 years and it’s absolutely worth every bit. I’ve tried $100-300 range grinders & haven’t achieved results consistent enough that I’d trust.
I won't try and Break a tungsten until I have ground a groove around it to weaken it, otherwise you can get a really Bad break, even cracking to the core.
@@scottcarr3264 I know what you mean, in general - but when it's been contaminated with aluminum, the tungsten will reliably snap off at the point where the contaminated zone meets the non-contaminated.
I can put down some pretty clean passes and then they start to fall off ... Looks like my evaluation of the tungsten hasn't been near the right level . lol Going to need to start to go through more tungsten pretty soon . My dip action hasn't got to the level quite yet though . lol Almost . :) Thanks for the tutorial . @@KANEKIDWELDS
Thank you Rush! How about blunting the tip? It is a benefit for having a bigger area for the Electrons to flow out in a practical use? I often tell people not to blunt because they wouldn’t be able to create a perfect flat.
I find the Middle of a full length piece, grind a groove around the tungsten, on the corner of the wheel, to at least 1/2 the diameter, and then you can break it by hand, then square off the broken ends, Then sharpen both as normal.
