As a career welder/fabricator who has welded more alloys than most people have seen or heard about. Why am I watching this..? Oh right, Matt

@jeremyhanna3852

Жыл бұрын

Same here I got welds in outerspace

@erikdude666

Жыл бұрын

@@jeremyhanna3852 Samesies!

@jeremyhanna3852

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I got 200 yards of welds on the tituaim base of the hubble took over a month tituaim and nititaim suck

@jeremyhanna3852

Жыл бұрын

@erikdude666 I think I also sign a non disclosure to not talk about nitituaim It's a mix of nickel and tituaim that nasa says don't exist when I worked on parts with it there was armed security there

@MissingData_

Жыл бұрын

at this point i just watch whatever he puts out, did i learn anything? nope, did i have a great time anyway? Yup! I dont got any welds in space tho... hahah

I did a welding course and for some reason ended up talking to three different teachers there . Each one of them told me to do thing totally differently from each other , which was a bit confusing at the beginning. The coolest thing was watching them weld in completely different ways but always having amazing results.

@edwardfletcher7790

Жыл бұрын

The one thing they all agree is, stop/start is VERY limited quality welding !

@ImBarryScottCSS

Жыл бұрын

This is the sign of an artform. Welding is a craft like cooking is a craft. Yes there is science behind it but the act of doing it comes down to the artistry of the person.

@FurryWrecker911

Жыл бұрын

This sounds like art school, but more blue collar than white collar. I once derailed our finals class for 15 minutes because I asked the simple question "can I put a drop shadow behind my 3D model when doing a beauty shot?" and all 4 instructors went to war on whether drop shadows were tacky or tasteful. Eventually one of the teachers said "I'm overriding this. I will grade it. Keep the shadow. Next student."

@soncero7398

Жыл бұрын

@@ImBarryScottCSS it reminds me more of Chinese alchemy

@johnsykes706

Жыл бұрын

As an adequate approaching proficient welder (mostly aluminium) there are five core things I know: 1. If you can't see you can't weld. 2. Don't chase the weld, if you feel that you can't keep up you're running too hot, stop, and start again with less amps. 3. Be patient setting up your weld pool whilst ensuring adequate penetration. Otherwise you will end up referring to point two. 4. There is art in the science, results are what matters, once the basics are met your personal "style" counts. 5. Use your skills or practice often, TIG welding requires skills up keep, if you don't use it you lose it and there is always a better weld out there to show off.😊

wasn't in a class but was welding some stainless on a jobsite and this oldtimer (not even working just having a look at his friend's future office) walks up, stops me, twists my wrist to a different angle and says "now weld properly" 30% improvement to my welds. thanks, wise old timer.

@oShadowkun

2 ай бұрын

Wow, sounds like a guy that knows his shit but never learned how to properly interact with people. Glad you got something out of it!

@snorttroll4379

2 ай бұрын

Depends

@Verethill18

Ай бұрын

Hope you had a proper air fed mask for that

@seanyounk1

3 күн бұрын

@@oShadowkun Agreed. Hilarious!

@jerbear7952

2 күн бұрын

​@@oShadowkun more than one person "rough teaching" has experience my "rough learning". Oops I dropped it, oooooh did that soldering iron get you. Oh im so sorry Clumsy me

“Like any good welder, I blame the equipment”. Classic line and this guy is great. Laid back and self-effacing during his video which covered a lot of great info for the laymen.

Excellent video, Matt. I love your low-key and (sometimes) self-deprecating humor - mixed with, good, solid technical information. You clearly hit the points that most beginning welders struggle with.

@xelaxander

Жыл бұрын

Eyyyy, you certainly doesn’t have any welding issues. Also Matt would be great in motorizing your creations!

@SuperfastMatt

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ron!

@wookieecantina

Жыл бұрын

When Ron Covell watches your video, well, you've made it! Ron is amazing.

@rickmellor

Жыл бұрын

Anytime I see Ron pop up in the comments of a channel I follow I feel a deep sense of validation that my tastes are on point. 😎

@jonathangehman4005

Жыл бұрын

​@@rickmellorUnfortunately he's usually correcting some dumb shit I wrote in the comments. Whenever I see his name I grit my teeth and brace myself. Ron's the real deal

Okay frenchman speaking, Chartreuse is the name of a mountain range in southeastern France. It is more famous as the name is used by a French herbal liqueur made by monks since 1737. The liquor is green as your electrodes. If you are curious, you can find some importers in the US, it's 55%ABV and already quite pricy in France where I live next to the factory.

@zorktxandnand3774

Жыл бұрын

-Have you seen God? No -Here have our 55% herbal liquor and try again please.

@allareasindex7984

Жыл бұрын

Is it related to Chartre?

@ShotGunner5609

Жыл бұрын

Very informative. Thank you Monsieur!

@GingerTwiglet

Жыл бұрын

Drink enough and you get to see through time.

@Misterfairweather

Жыл бұрын

In my misspent youth I used to mix it with hot chocolate and serve it at parties..

Matt, As a gearhead and fabricator I've been enjoying your exploits for some time now. A comment about the laser cut steel parts. As a part of my 30 years as a certified aerospace welder, I"ve worked directly with the engineers in the material engineering depts. We've found that what appears to be a clean cut at the edge of laser cut parts there is a thin oxidized layer left over from the laser. If welded as cut, there is a narrow band of a porous and brittle weld left behind. Verified via x rays of finished welds. There are some SAE studies verifying the same under high powered electronic microscopes. Up close, that narrow band looks like a sponge!!! Just a few moments dressing those laser cut edges results in a uniform solidly fused weldments. Just a light pass with an abrasive. Doing this you'll see some the grinding 'dust' is hard and crunchy, evidence of the oxidation and porosity. When terminating a weld, chopping the current all at once leaves the dreaded dimple or divot caused by the rapid cooling, shrinking of the weld puddle. Close microscopic inspection shows there are numerous spider web stress cracks radiating from the middle of the 'dimple/divot'. The technique to eliminate this is...at the end of the weld, slowly back off (pedal) the current but while the puddle is still molten, add just a tiny droplet of filler to cap the shrinking puddle then slowly back down the current while moving the torch in small circular motions. Don't forget to keep the inert gas flowing until the weld has totally cooled. I've seen top notch chrome moly tube race cars (top fuel dragsters) with every single weld terminated with the dimpled puddle, a disaster in the making. Even pre welded kit plane frames I've seen exhibiting the same. Everyone knows that 'big cracks' emanate from 'little cracks'. Why take the chance?? I'm surprised this issue isn't covered better in most all welding tutorials. Go figure???

@sibalogh

9 ай бұрын

I'm glad I read your comment coz I noticed when I was practicing with TIG that "dimple" is a common appearance unless you know how to get rid of it. Even with conventional welding methods to make sure the end cracks are eliminated using runout plates on both ends if possible. In pipe welding, they always recommended using a grinder before restarting. In your line of work, I guess those methods are out of the question, eh?

@pogchampgameng7763

8 ай бұрын

bro wrote a book

@thewoodsarecalling8382

8 ай бұрын

@danlearned6199 This type of comment makes youtube better. Inviting thought and curiosity.

@filipemorais4708

8 ай бұрын

Nice explanation! But, What if the machine has no pedal? What's the procedure to end the weld?

@creepygangster

7 ай бұрын

There are welding machines that have an adjustable shutdown ramp, where you can choose what your arc and gas do once you let go of the button. So the gas continues for a set time and the current decreases in its set time. If your machine doesn't have these settings you should get yourself a pedal.

Hi Matt (and whoever might be watching the tungsten preparation part)! Just one important remark on grinding tungsten. Those expensive tools are not expensive because they're fancy but because they insulate you from the tungsten particles getting grinded off the rod. Those are super harmful to your health. I remember when I studied mechanical engineering and we had welding classes the prof. was super insistent on "Guys for the love of life never grind those on a bench grinder, it's about your own health!" and it stuck with me.

It's been said that practice makes perfect, when in reality it's practicing with good technique that makes perfect. Big props for taking a class and increasing your knowledge base.

@everolomus

Жыл бұрын

Somebody once told me that perfect practise is what makes perfect

@Allazander

Жыл бұрын

Personal instruction from an experienced welder is much better than just watching videos to learn from. Having someone there to point out your mistakes or poor technique is invaluable and can save you from ingraining a bad technique.

@michaelbradley7529

Жыл бұрын

@@Allazander Absolutely right.

@rickwoud4319

11 ай бұрын

and increasing OUR knowledge base

@thecheetahman22

11 ай бұрын

I had an old teacher that preferred the saying "Practice makes permanent" and I tend to agree

"A bad tattoo that someone traded meth for" I'm always at a loss to describe that sort of art, that's a beautiful description.

I was an industrial welder for years and your information should be very useful to many people but what made me hit like was the humorous delivery. Well done.

The before and after on the welds is impressive ,I took a 2 year welding course along with a welding job, learnt everything under the moon about welding and id say that you summarized the most important parts very well.

My favorite comment was about the 240v outlet. "In that case, this was already here". Nice.

Never thought Welding Class would be this entertaining

"A good pilot is always learning" -I'm proud to see another Matt making the world a better place. So much good info here. I've only ever done arc welding so far, but this makes me more excited about trying these fancier welding methods and materials.

@nicks3037

11 ай бұрын

Appreciating all the great Matt's over here

Your honest failures are more helpful to society than you might know - whether they are something you have made and since regret or something you have bought/adapted and wish you had done it differently.

The cooled torch will be really helpful in AC welding, too, even at relatively low current and/or duty cycle the torch will heat up much quicker in AC. It's worth the money.

@richharr

Жыл бұрын

I second this! Definitely the best money spent in my shop was a water cooler. Not to mention using a smaller torch for the same amperage.

@helplmchoking

Жыл бұрын

Yep you think it's a fancy luxury right up until you get one and realize just how much better it is

@dennisyoung4631

Жыл бұрын

True. I’ve yet try aluminum with mine, but this tells me I *need* to get one. 100 amps DC in a gas-cooled torch is uncomfortable enough…

@embersaffron5522

Жыл бұрын

Aluminum also reflects/releases a lot more UV and thermal radation leading to you and your torch heating up faster as well

Started welding last year and it is like programming. Only very few get perfect on it, for the most of us it is about becoming less worse.

@75blackviking

Жыл бұрын

Amen.

@MrJuxton99

Жыл бұрын

I've never seen a perfect welder. Been in the industry near on 30 years.

@75blackviking

Жыл бұрын

@@MrJuxton99 Yeah, one of my fabricators was in aerospace welding and fab for 45+ years, and despite being the best welder I've ever seen by a long shot on all kinds of bizarro alloys, his weld quality had good days and bad days.

@et3213

Жыл бұрын

Is called a robot?

@BrooksMoses

4 ай бұрын

I welded with a robot once, in my undergrad days. You haven't seen awful welds until you've seen what a robot can do when it's set up wrong!

I have been a welder for 18 years and everything you said is spot-on. It's something you have to learn by doing. Any good welder has gone through the same frustrations you went through.

Love for the algorithm. Good to see you putting in the time to master the craft and can already see the improvement in those control arms. I did a speciality metal fabrication apprenticeship a few years back (before going back to engineering), mostly TIGing stainless for food and wine processing equipment. Was lucky to learn under some very skilled guys and eventually got Cert 7 qualified for high pressure stainless pipe work. It’s a rabbit hole for sure, but messing around with pulse settings can wield wonders for dialling in a consistent weld, getting the penetration without heat soaking the part.

Don't spend 10 minutes grinding that ball of steel off your tungsten. Clip it off with side cutters then chuck the tungsten in your drill. You'll get a more symmetric cone at the end of you electrode with a drill spinning it. Don't run the drill too fast, you want the scratches on the end of the electrode to be pointed towards the tip.

@Agouti

Жыл бұрын

I'm a serial dipper. It takes at most 10s to grind a good tip with a bench grinder, half that if you are doing it a lot. A drill is totally unnecessary.

@LordHolley

Жыл бұрын

I agree, take several tungstens, get your drill out, get ten to twenty of them ready, and get to work.

@davidfarmer

Жыл бұрын

Youll fracture your tungsten kid

@patricksawesomeprobarly3331

Жыл бұрын

Yeah don’t do that just grind it away but I don’t know shit

@lavre8045

Жыл бұрын

I have made some amazing "rivets" from bolts, to be used in my steel projects this way. It works very well.

This Old Tony enters the chat

One item I rarely hear addressed in welding videos is the use of magnifying lenses. I lived in a state of denial or ignorance until I used a magnifying lens to aid my aged eyes. The difference in my welding quality was profound. Give it a try.

I taught myself to TIG weld aluminum via YT and it's hilarious to watch you make the exact same mistakes I did. Dipping your tungsten and having to stop and grind it each time is a very humbling experience. Oddly, I can't wait to do more. Great video! You earned a new subscriber.

We should all do refresher courses every now again just to keep this on toes

@petergamache5368

Жыл бұрын

Tip: Do not weld on your toes. Superglue works better for bonding flesh.

@willjones2954

Жыл бұрын

@@petergamache5368having you ever welded your mates steel cap boots to the bench

@questioner1596

Жыл бұрын

I think we need refresher courses on driving too - our insurance rates would probably lower by more than the cost of the course by removing bad habits from our roads.

@willjones2954

Жыл бұрын

@@petergamache5368 I do like that 🤣🤣😂

@CenPapi

Жыл бұрын

@@questioner1596 doubtful, insurance companies would just pocket the extra savings rather than passing it down.

Re: grinding your tungsten electrode. A good college friend and roommate is a proper Welding Engineer at SpaceX working on starship. During the pandemic i worked there as an integrator. We didn't cross paths too much, but would text and such. At one point I mentioned welders using angle grinders with no guard or handle to sharpen their tungsten and he was... heated. Apparently SpaceX DOES buy those expensive sharpeners and if you use a grinding wheel on something *going to space* it will apparently matter.

@NBSV1

Жыл бұрын

The biggest thing is the grinding wheel can get different bits of metal embedded in it that can then embed into the tungsten and contaminate the weld. Ideally you either have a grinder just for the electrodes, or the special tool.

@vinceabbott5438

Жыл бұрын

For something as sensitive and expensive as space equipment, I'd say that's a warranted response. For most anything less snooty and precise, fancy tungsten sharpeners aren't generally needed.

@vech400

Жыл бұрын

I’ve welded everything from carbon steels, 1 1/4 Crome to 9 Crome, to different stainless steel’s to Inconel to nickel and copper nickel, aluminum and copper alloys. I’ve had welds gone through “non destructive testing” with X ray, Ultrasonic, Phased Array and never had a weld fail due to using a grinder to sharpen my tungsten. But I guess if you’re spending billions of dollars to go into outer space you can afford a 2-3-$400 tungsten sharpener. The main thing is grind your tungsten the right way. Don’t have you tungsten at 90 degrees to the wheel spinning it. Hold it straight on to the wheel so the grind marks run along the length of the tungsten. The arc will be a lot more stable. Having a perfectly sharpened tip does help control the arc in tight awkward spots where you only get 1 chance at getting it right. In critical welds the angle ground on your tungsten, heat input (amps vs travel speed), inter pass temperatures, proper gas coverage are more important.

@mytuberforyou

Жыл бұрын

yeah, radioactive tungsten contamination everywhewre and then having to pay out millions when an employee gets cancer is probably a lot more expensive than a sharpener.

@Hansengineering

Жыл бұрын

@@mytuberforyou lol it's openly wondered at how no one has died at "Starbase" yet.

Boilermaker here. 30 years experience welding pressure vessels. Good video. Having your welds x-rayd is great incentive to get it right.

Man, I can relate to this video on many levels. I do many things in life self taught. It is when I am working with someone with core skill sets that I watch carefully and ask questions from that always highlights my faults or bad habits. I can attribute most of my skills to the selfless and patient conveyance from experts out there that pass on what they know.

I been welding for about 6 months, I realized that the most important thing is running on the hot side without melting holes in your work.

@Jonathan_Doe_

Жыл бұрын

On the flat maybe.. Not so much when you’re doing uphill or overhead butt welds with root gaps.

@Nairod2

Жыл бұрын

@@Jonathan_Doe_ my first welds were awful because I was too afraid of melting things, until I realized welding is about melting 2 pieces of metal together. I think most people start shy, and the beads are awful because they lay in the surface and don't penetrate far enough. Or at least that was my issue

You forgot the best weld method known to man, JBWeld.

@lungshenli

Ай бұрын

JustRolledIn taught me thet sprayfoam also totally works

Thanks a lot for sharing the experience - I just started tig welding after many years of mig/mag and this really helped.

Thanks. This is one of the most comprehensive tutorials on tig welding. I can't wait to practice all of your suggestions!

The amount and variety of stuff you have "laying around" is always impressive.

Tig welding is like juggling and playing the harmonica at the same time while reading a book.

I'm sending my son to train in basic TIG welding, and I have just ordered a TIG welding unit. The very first thing I did was have him watch your video. I love the way you presented this and your humility was a great example for my son. Thank you very much for this video. KZread could use more content like this.

Thanks Matt for improving your welding skills. Your new grasp of basic welding skills will as well significantly help thousands of new technicians. Your excellent projects will now not expose viewers to unfortunate welding errors. Regarding grinding Tungsten; As a toxic heavy metal, all grinding dust should be captured and a personal respirator used. The same caution applies to grinding Tungsten Carbide tools as well. Matt, your humor is priceless. You are very funny. Your potential to influence budding Hot Rodders is significant. Keep up the good work. Our society needs your specific influence.

My buddy, Walrus (you my know him if you're into Chrysler Hemis) had me TIG welding in 10 minutes. There's nothing like having a good instructor. (I had never welded anything in my life before that and have since forgotten everything he told me because I don't weld, but it was fun to do it.) Excellent video.

"like any good welder, I blame the equipment" lol, thats the truest thing said in this video.

Great video. I used to be a decent welder back in my 20s but haven’t done any for over 30 years. Your video brought back memories

i am a retired welder and watched and i have to admit you narrated perfectly. i am impressed you did great. LOL let the people also know that practice makes perfect. then have someone grade your weld. and that applies on all different types of metal and thickness.

I've been learning welding at school for a couple years, but I learned some things in this video, thanks

i welded two things last week one of them held so i'm bacisally a pro now

I love your work. Clear, well organized. clevver and accurate. Thanks a lot

Nice TIG crash course! Only thing I would add, which I also learned kind of late, is to relax and breathe. If you use the "grip of death" on the torch, you're going to be too stiff to turn corners and make adjustments. If you hold your breath (like you would when shooting a rifle) your longer welds are going to suffer.

Use a variable speed 1/4 " drill to hold the electrode when you sharpen one.

@scottcarr3264

Жыл бұрын

I have been Tig welding for over 25 Years and have always hand held the Electrodes when grinding.

@vech400

Жыл бұрын

@@scottcarr3264I’ve got 25-30yrs welding experience too. You should try using the drill. Awesome idea, perfectly sharpened tips, no more burnt finger tips. I hand grind when I have to but usually keep a tin of 10-20 sharpened tungsten’s ready and re-sharpen any I’ve damaged at start of shift or after lunch before going back onto the job.

Best of luck mastering welding, from one of the rare people on the internet who are supportive :)

I just tripped over a wiring video you did. I did some production MIG welding 30 years ago and now am picking up TIG for the first time. Great videos! I learned a lot!

I love this. pretty much describes all my mechanical tool knowledge - Start Doing (it wrong) .. either you learn the right way eventually or give up cause you're so horrible until someone shows you what you've been doing wrong all these years. my dad put a soldering iron in my hand as a child and ive been soldering ever since ... 30 years later i watched a louis rossman soldering video and learned... and immediately went and threw away half my tools and replaced them with cheaper better versions of the tools, and far more expensive and reliable consumables. overnight i went from a .. passable thru-hole electronics guy, to an adept surface mount capable solder-monkey.

Loving your work Matt! Being genuinely entertaining while getting useful information into people's heads isn't a commonly encountered combo.

Enjoy all your videos but this has been by far the most useful for me personally. You identified all the worst TIG mistakes I currently make. I suck less now! Thanks.

Always enjoy your videos, your one of the best KZread content providers out there in my mind. Thanks for the lessons and laughs!

I have been tig welding by KZread now for several years and think I’m getting pretty good. This was a great video to help my internet welding. Now it’s about time I actually tried it in real life. Thanks

I have learned on a handheld portable stick welder since I was 11 years old in our garage, and it took me the while to get good at it especially with all that slag it created that was hiding the actual weld. When I later on bought my own MiG welder it become so much easier to weld with it because I could see the actual weld straight away.

@NBSV1

Жыл бұрын

Stick has one of the steepest learning curves. If you learn stick first then mig is easy as it’s basically just a hot glue gun for metal.

@evanbarnes9984

Жыл бұрын

Stick is weirdly fun! It's such an aggro process. Loud, dirty, and can be used absolutely anywhere. I never made what I would call good welds with stick, but it'll put damn near anything together it seems like.

@bradb4421

Жыл бұрын

@@NBSV1 Yea, the welding class I took at a CC years back, stick welding was taught for a bit over half the semester first, before anything else. Made everything else after so much easier to pick up.

@sp33d4l0l

Жыл бұрын

@@evanbarnes9984 It sputters and smokes like crazy, but not many things are as satisfying as laying down a stick weld where the slag just pops off by itself.

@jaredlancaster4137

Жыл бұрын

​@@NBSV1 Gotta say, I've never understood this. I didn't think stick was *that* hard to learn and I'm totally better at stick than anything else.

Bill is great! He set me straight last year on Tig. Great video Matt. It was a good refresher for me haha.

I built my own water cooler for my water cooled tig torch using a 1 gal gas tank as a reservoir, an on demand diaphragm pump that I had laying around and a automatic transmission cooler as the heat exchanger. And the cooling fluid is a 50/50 mix of distilled water and antifreeze, because my garage is unheated, and the antifreeze provides a degree of corrosion protection in the cooling system. I like the water cooled torch because it stays cooler and I can hold the torch a little closer to the tip without getting burned. I'd been mig welding for 30 years before I tried tig. Tig is a different animal, so I watched everything on youtube about tig that I could and got more confused and in my head about tig welding. In this regard a teacher will give you the "on the fly" tutelage that can lessen the learning curve substantially. Then you can spend more time practicing and applying what you learned rather than trouble shooting your issues. But alas, I'm stubborn and continue to teach myself the wrong way of doing things. This video has a ton of useful info in it as to the importance of certain things and the unimportant parts. Being able to see the actual weld puddle is paramount. Clean lenses and blocking out the light from behind you was something I learned on my own and I fabricated a hood for my helmet to keep the light from behind me reflecting into the inside of my lenses, makin it very difficult to see. I also wear prescription glasses which tends to compound the problem. You want the inside of that helmet to be as dark as possible, with no exterior light coming in while your welding area should be well lit. It's a PITA to have to learn this stuff on your own. If I'd taken a class, I would have shortened my learning time and saved myself lots of frustration.

I've been half-ass MIG welding occasionally for 25 years. I took a TIG class at our local Makerspace right before the pandemic shutdown, so had minimal time to practice. I'm looking forward to getting back into it. Recently, I had some trailing arm mods that needed to be done ASAP. I was lucky enough to find a local one man shop that mostly does aerospace and marine contract work, but the owner likes a little variety in his week, so he'll do little side jobs to break up the monotony of doing 200 identical submarine parts. I highly recommend building a relationship with an older, experienced welder as a backup plan for emergencies and a good source for pointers.

I bought one of the first Everlast welders (when they first hit the market) about 20 years ago, a 3-in-1 that does TIG, Plasma, Stick. It still works the same as the day I bought it!

@DrFiero

Жыл бұрын

Oh, and my machine is straight DC - the AC/DC machine back then was (IIRC) 3 times the price. Times... they have changed though! Spend the extra dough up front, and get the AC/DC variety.

Looking forward to Matt rigging up a laser scanner and a robot arm to keep the welds at a consistent distance, speed and angle...

@t3ck3r

Жыл бұрын

😂 I could see Matt doing that 🤣

How refreshing to have an "internet guru" deliver useful information in such a fun, humorous way! Your tips are great, and your delivery style makes me want to stick around for more. Well done!

You took a class in welding. I'm impressed. You're already way ahead of most KZread welders.

I still have that snap-on helmet somewhere, I picked it because that was the largest viewing screen on a helmet, and almost immediately I melted half of the decal off. I recently bought a Miller helmet from the gas supply store intown cost the same as the snap-on did, but definitely a lot better battery life and also a lot better functionality

Nice video. I'm taking welding at Palomar college. Great equipment and instructor and its cheap. I hired a guy at a maker space that got me started. For the same amount of money I'm taking a semester worth of welding. stick, mig, flux core tig, al tig, and metal cutting. Also love send cut send.

I'm with you Matt. I've been welding for approximately 20yrs myself, self taught from a garage sale votech book. Study the book a night, apply what I thought I knew at work. Slow process. Slow but thorough. Subbed

Your welds have improved immensely after taking the course. Ditch the pin vise and buy a cheap cordless drill and use it to spin your tungsten when you're grinding the point. The A arm looks awesome!

im a federally approved welder in germany and i have no probelms with anything you said in this video. but id like to add two things: firstly: i cant stress enough how important the jacket and long sleeves are. they are not to protect you from heat but from the UV rays wich can cause severe burns after only a couple of minutes (seriously!!) secondly: timestamp 18:38 maybe not place your welding helmet glass side down if you want to prevent scratches?

I have the alphatig 201xd. Love that machine. Super affordable and came with everything I needed to get started except for the gas and tungsten/filler. Works really well

I think you communicated a greater amount of pertinent information per minute of viewing time than any presenter I have ever taken the time to view you get 1000 out of 100 from me. You are an incredible communicator. I’m glad I discovered your presentation.

Great Video! The only two things I would have included cause they are cool are 1. Aluminum rusts a hard outer-shell instead of flaky grossness of steel. This shell melts at a significantly higher temperature and is the main reason for a a good pre grind/clean on aluminum. Some welders can modulate the signal to blast away the outer-shell with one portion of the square wave and to weld (input heat) with the other. My welder has a Cleaning/Penetration knob for deeper welds or better shell blasting. 2. Heat spreads in aluminum much faster than in steel. For this reason you need way more juice for the same thickness of material being welded. For the same reason as you approach the edge of the material (especially points and corners) you "push" the heat ahead of the work area and this concentrates as you approach an edge and it all melts away. Thus you need to ease off the throttle before you get there. Great Video! Oh and I guess 3... Aluminum expands/contracts MUCH more than steel and minor warping problems in steel will triple for the same project in aluminum.

This is sick! Going to weld for the first time in a bit, perfect timing!

This was one of your best videos and they all are great. Coming along with you on a self improvement exercise we all can relate to- that was just plain cool. And instantly, I respect and admire Bill. Stay Awesome Brother Matt 🎩😎♠️💙

While tig welding what can help is to move just a bit your torch up when you dip your filer so that the puddle doesn't touch your electrode if you dip too much. It's an additional movement in your rythme to do but with training you don't even think about it anymore. Great video 👍🏻

hands down the BEST welding video for beginners on the internet! i hereby award the video "KZread legend " cheers!

Comfort is one of the first things should think about when starting to weld and I think it’s too often overlooked. You need to be as comfortable as possible when welding. That mean seated with head and arms in a comfortable position. Gloves on so you are not jumping when your hands get hit with molten metal. Proper helmet, cloths and shoes. Trying to weld squatted on the garage floor with arms fully extended while trying to avoid molten sparks will not result in the highest quality welds.

Very clear and concise explanation. Excellent!

I appreciate that you're honest and humble. Thanks for the video, sums up things.

I'm in your old boat and still winging it. This video makes me appreciate the skill career welders develop. Actually my crappy welds make me appreciate the talent of skilled welders too.

As a new welder myself, you have confirmed all of my biases and assumptions 👍

@tommills2097

Жыл бұрын

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A weird tip I picked up from my time TIG Welding: When you have a chunk of steel that's giving you hell because of contamination, hit it with Silver Rustoleum spray paint and then weld it. Something that offgasses from that seems to help. Never did figure out why it worked.

@greeceuranusputin

Жыл бұрын

I'm NOT doing that, thanks anyway.

@kapytanhook

Жыл бұрын

Oxygen is afraid of all the cancer vapors it creates :D

@towhee7472

Жыл бұрын

Stop giving dangerous advice, this way you will poison yourself!

@alaricpaley6865

Жыл бұрын

@@kapytanhook i mean. You should have a breather pack and keep your face out of fumes anyways. Vaporized metal is also pretty bad for you. I worked with Stainless more then 50% of the time, the chromium in that is more likely to give me cancer then the spray paint.

@kapytanhook

Жыл бұрын

@@alaricpaley6865 fair point, zinc makes me pretty creeped out. I got a simple diy suction hose. But it's not enough to be honest. I have gotten bad headaches and such

Yah, pretty much spot on in my experience. I have an early version of that same welder. A couple tips: sharpen a handful of tungsten tips so you can keep welding. Also, get a paper slide rule with the tips-gas-diameter settings for your torch-Miller sells these. If you are nearsighted and can focus within a foot, weld without your glasses to see and aluminum weld puddle better. Also a bright work-light is essential for aluminum.

I'm a big fan of Prime Weld. Nice gear, great support.

Can you make a video about your GD&T considerations for send cut send? Stuff like alignment tab clearance and tolerances for existing parts. That would be great!

You've taught me that welding properly is just as complex as playing an instrument.

Super entertaining and interesting video. I've baked metal to metal a few times, which does give super power feelings. Welding is great skill! Kudos to all welders out there that really know what they're doing.

A Superfast Matt and a This Old Tony video on the same weekend! Life is good.

10:28 -- Matt, they make little thingys about the size of a Bic lighter that hold the filler rod for you. On top of it is a system of wheels (gears?), one of which you rotate with your thumb. Rotating that wheel/gear will move the filler rod forward or back. Supposedly this is easier than sliding the filler rod down your glove with your thumb. Check it out! I'm not a welder but I remember a welder friend telling me about this tool.

@LynxSnowCat

2 ай бұрын

I was going to say this. (Most current 'TIG pen holders'?) Pinch the rod under a finger-driven wheel at its tip while the wire/rod entered the other end of a stick. -I forget which company included it as a 'freebie' with purchases $$ or larger, but eventually people stopped picking it as the reward.- I found the "here, have this _[plastic]_ TIG pen" people kept giving to me in college -years after I shut up about getting mine back- more tiring to use than the one I made in high-school. It must be fairly intuitive for most people, since only ( US PAT D952011 ) is the only commercial variation that doesn't emulate a pencil I could find (today) on Google. My high-school shop 'let' me make one out of flat-stock that bends/curves the rod between three rollers. The weight of the handle rested easily in my palm while guiding the filler with my finger tip, and extending/retracting it with lazy swipes of my thumb. I couldn't manage to set an arc in thicker wire/rod with the dispenser itself, but the offset rollers meant that I had no trouble keeping any arc landing exactly where I wanted it while keeping my knuckles resting on the work surface. (note: am cataleptic / have paralysis ) But.... I did find a 2017 thread on weldingweb forums about a few shop-made from a bit of bent tubing or coiled wire that's the same shape/profile as the one I made was. Only without the extra complexity of hanging bits of an old tape deck on a cam to constrain an arc in the wire/rod. I might have to make one of those if I do try welding again. Would certainly be less work tailor to the shape to my hand than alternating bandsaw+files (on pieces fished from the scrap bin) was.

@W0DAN88

2 ай бұрын

Takes the fun out of TIG

I took a welding course at a local Vo-Tech in 74 and welded for about 43 years. Your video piqued my interest as to how the training has changed over the years. You are learning good habits which will serve you well in the present and future. Multi-pass purged thick-wall steel or aluminum tubing is something backyard novices will probably never address, but it's a hoot to use a scope to see a beautiful bead on the inside of the tubing. If you ever have your welds tested by X-ray you'll soon appreciate welding as an art form and not merely a trade or a craft. BTW, plasma arc and laser welding was pretty much in its infancy in 74 but they're commonplace in some industries today. So, thanks for the video and happy welding as you continue to learn and develop your skills.

@johnvonmartin7501

Жыл бұрын

True the bending and joint of each metals as a whole structure is quite fascinating to dissect. Mixing metals is another skill in welding which is metallurgy which I'm willing to learn since it's pathway to casting or sculpting a statue.

I used to be primarily a stick, inner-shield, and MIG welder but have never been able to get enough practice with TIG. All in all, you`re right, consistency is the key to making a nice uniform weld that requires a lot of practice.

As a self taught welder, who doesn't really know what is doing to this day, I find comfort in the fact that it's not only me that feels lost when welding stuff 😂😂😂. One tip I got from my KZread Course is that, if the puddle takes a minute to form, it's too cold, if it almost immediately explodes, it's too hot (so simple yet so true) 😂 And as always, loved the video. 👏

Hi Matt. Don't poke the filler into the pool. Let it melt in the plasma and it'll jump to the pool on its own. It'll always put the right amount in too. Your filler rod never needs to touch. Makes for a pretty weld as well.

You've been doing incredible work given you're self taught, but I really hope you get a lot more satisfaction out of your welding now you've got a broader skill set👍 A good looking weld is usually a structurally superior weld. Stop/start is a VERY limiting method 😕

One of the only videos to show basic TIG techniques. Well done Matt.

I have been hugely impressed with my Primeweld MIG180. If you every need it, their customer service department is the owner and the QA/testing engineer...in the US, answering the phone almost 7 days a week about 14 hours a day.

Enjoy the videos. Don’t think it will take you long to appreciate the water cooled torch…even if you don’t go much over 120 amps. That said you mentioned the aluminum rod melting if you get the rod too close, which it can do. However what I tend to find is that it melts usually as you are trying to dip, if that happens it’s because the torch angle and the rod angle match if that makes sense. Think of the torch as a laser and the metal as a mirror, that’s how the heat acts in a sense. So if you get in the reflected heat you’ll make the rod turn into that balled up garbage. Only happens with aluminum, but feeding from a different angle will fix it. Not that you need my help I’m sure there’s 900 comments of useless info already haha.

I think I'll stick with my flux core mig. Might not look pretty, but easy to use.

18:47 "My Garage Conveniently already had 240" 👍

I'm 63 and started my welding career around 15 16 years of age and welding something every week. You never learn how to welding and put the electrode, torch etc down and stop learning. You learn something new every day , every time you pick up the tool.

This was a great video! I learned how to "Stick" (Arc) Weld when in Jr. High. We also did aluminum sand casting... Sadly, the public school districts no longer provide these type of shop classes. :-( Would you consider, (I think it would be really fun) to attempt casting some parts for a car as part of your second video in this series? Thanks for all the great videos! (yes, I hit the "Like" button...)

@Chris-ut6eq

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I had the same class in school during the last millennium. We goofed around a lot in that class just trying useful/useless things. I loved shop classes, wood, metal and auto. Sad kids don't get hands on experience like this anymore. These classes are helpful for the rest of your life.

@floorpizza8074

Жыл бұрын

We must be around the same age. The metal shop I took in Junior High did spot welding, metal bending, basic fabricating and metal casting. Then in High School it was welding, first with stick, then with MIG. TIG was its own separate class that you took after basic welding. Unfortunately, I never did take the TIG class, but damn, did I enjoy all the shop classes I took in Junior High and High School. In addition to welding, I took wood shop and auto shop. I ended up being an airline pilot (going to retire in a few more years), but of all the things I learned in the public education system, my shop classes were the ones that have really carried me through life. Such a shame that kids don't have the opportunity to learn these basic life skills anymore. Nowadays, they're too busy teaching the importance of correct pro-nouns and snow flakery to ever be concerned with skills that people actually *need* on a day to day basis.

@charlesfriend9557

Жыл бұрын

So sad that we live in a disposable world!

@mxpants4884

Жыл бұрын

​@@floorpizza8074 Basic question... where is your sample of what today's kids are learning in school coming from? Social media outrage? How much time do you think kids are spending in mandatory gender studies classes that you think that's why shop classes have disappeared? I grew up between your generation and this one, and was around for the beginning of the pressure that put programs like shop classes out of even the best funded public schools. The reason kids these days don't have time for shop class is mostly due to the amount of time schools have to sink into teaching them to pass standardized tests. Welding would definitely be more useful.

matt the uppercontrol arm welder

Your videos of the actual welding were really good, which is quite helpful. Videos of welding seem to almost always blow away all the details in an enormous ball of light from the welding arc.

Great job on the video Matt! Thanks for making it.