My teacher would have murdered me if he saw that tip.

@nolansmith7541

Жыл бұрын

You weld with a balled tip for aluminum

@edward4033

Жыл бұрын

@@nolansmith7541 huh.. interesting. Didn’t know that cuz im just getting into welding but that’s good to know. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

@nolansmith7541

Жыл бұрын

@@edward4033 in welding you’ll never stop learning. There’s always something to learn. Stick to it you’ll get good and have a fulfilling career

@nolansmith7541

Жыл бұрын

@@edward4033 also you’re welcome lol

@sickwilly1171

Жыл бұрын

Yes you will have a fulfilling career. Union welder/sheetmetal worker of 39yrs, getting ready to retire at 57. Pretty good pension, will make more retired than when working. Had the opportunity to work on "lots" of pretty cool projects. Structural, pharmaceutical, architectural, pipe, pressure vessels, high tolerance, all the different alloys and on and on. Very grateful, great career. Feels weird that it's ending. Apologies for the life story. On thin aluminum I will keep my tungsten pointed, seems to be more controllable for me.

Keep your tip clean boys, don’t pull out too soon.

@sandasturner9529

Жыл бұрын

underrated comment bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭🌝🌚

@100GTAGUY

Жыл бұрын

Make sure you use argon protection though, nine months later you'll have a catastrophe.

@lockunknown5719

Жыл бұрын

@@marcuspeters5855 That's perfect!.. Ask my kids!..

@davidswanson5669

Жыл бұрын

@@100GTAGUY I’m nearly 40, so I have plenty of gas flowing all the time. No worries here.

@cockasorrus7475

Жыл бұрын

Great reminder!! Thanks

Well said, pre and post flow protection is important

@jasong4460

Жыл бұрын

Always maintain a shield pre and post flow, or you'll spew contaminants all over the place

@Fit4C

Жыл бұрын

Jesus loves you alot trust in His death 4 salvation and be saved from eternal hell

@cat-astrophe808

Жыл бұрын

​@@Fit4C you really think jesus cared about some random ass dude on the internet?

Oh damn.....I didn't realize I was doing this and I was wondering why my tungsten was always cooked. Thanks!!

@The_Bobby_Jay

Жыл бұрын

Same dude. I’m self/ you tube taught and I never realized I (and many tubers I have watched) were doing this.

@i3lackflo

Жыл бұрын

​@@The_Bobby_Jay share the knowledge and comment on these videos 💪🏽

@dvelez811

5 ай бұрын

same!

“How you finish a pass is how you start the next one.” 🏆

@T_EDWARDBANKS

Жыл бұрын

I'll remember this while either welding in real life or playing farming simulator

@TrumpisImmortal

11 ай бұрын

Great quote.

"Hurry, sharpen it before the teacher sees!"

@BobSmith-kd6lq

4 ай бұрын

When tigging aluminum, the tip will ball up. Youll just be wasting time try8ng to keep it pointy. Unless you are welding on super thin stuff, it doesnt matter

@Fisheiyy

2 ай бұрын

​@@BobSmith-kd6lqNot when you AC balance is set correctly and/or your using an inverter machine. Yes on transformer machines it will ball up and that's actually more desirable for those

finally a workshop related yt short that doesnt say the equivalent of “use this screwdriver on this nail”

I’d probably lose my shit if someone handed me a tungsten like that

@dougaltolan3017

Жыл бұрын

Snowflake

@wrenchbender66

9 ай бұрын

Someone used my machine while I was on break and when I came back I was ticked. It looked like hell to the point that I broke off the tip and resharpened it. Don't mess up another welder's tungsten!

begginer here, I thought that the gas pouring out from the gas lens was enough to keep the electrode clean.

@Knight805

Жыл бұрын

‘’When you yank the tungsten out of the argon shield” if you move the torch too fast while the tungsten is still red hot it introduces oxygen to the tungsten and causes carbon to immediately develop on the tungsten. Stop and wait until your argon stops flowing before you move the torch. That’s what he’s saying.

@ortega_computacion

Жыл бұрын

@@Knight805 awesome! thank you. ESL here. haha.

@DrCranberry

Жыл бұрын

Argon is heavier than air, but it's still a gas that can be displaced. It doesnt matter if it's 5 PSI or 50 PSI coming out, if you have a fan blowing on it, you'll still get porosity because the argon is being blown away. Same reason why when TIG welding pipe outside you cover the entire area in wind screens and make sure no wind can get to the puddle.

@SolarMillUSA

Жыл бұрын

☝️ DrCranberry nailed it

@davecrupel2817

Жыл бұрын

​@@DrCranberry perfect explanation of it! 👌

Yes. Also Make sure you clean (wire wheel or wire brushing) your stopping points before Arcing back up to continue the bead.

I just watched your video with this tip last night. Your aluminum tips helped me out at work today too. Thanks bro, my canuck QA was happy af here in philly.

@jazzilady

Жыл бұрын

Hi, I’m from Philly too and a new graduate. I am currently working with my job placement counselor. Is your job hiring or do you know of any leads here? I am certified in all processes except tig but am practicing now to obtain them. Any help is truly appreciated in advance.

@mattaomartinez.9817

Жыл бұрын

@@jazzilady shipyard is hiring right now. check out amuneal too they always looking for talent.

This is one of things that the moment you realize it and start doing it the whole process just kinda starts to fall in line. This will literally make or break you as a newcomer. You get this, you move on to the next level. You struggle with this… and well, you get the point. Grrrrreat tip man! Thanks for sharing your experience.

Been following you for a while, your vids keep getting better and better - your art vids inspired me to buy my own TIG machine. Aerospace welder that still had to figure this trick out the hard way haha, pays to stay humble in this industry 😂 wish you the best

“How you end your first pass is how you start the second” Stick welders:👁️👄👁️

I hadn't realized how much I do that on accident. This is a really good habit to remember, keep your rods clean!!

Ok I've got it don't pull out too soon 👌🏼👍🏼

@juanleal8418

Жыл бұрын

why do i feel your not talking about welding 😂😂😂😂

Thank you so much. You are blessing dude.

This guy knows his shit!

@mom_im_losing_it

Жыл бұрын

He should be teaching to wear a respirator.

You should also teach respirator safety as well it save you from cancer if you wear one.

Way to go man. This full video taught me more than all the videos ive watched on tig welding. Very well explained and executed.

My teacher woulda made me read fucking metallurgy textbooks if he caught me with a tungsten with a tip like that

@Firefuzz11

Жыл бұрын

You do realize that’s how you tig aluminum. Steel and stainless require a sharp point, whereas aluminum uses a completely different tungsten and you need to ball it. Running hot enough on aluminum will ball the end anyway especially with pure tungsten.

@littlejackalo5326

7 ай бұрын

​​@@Firefuzz11I'm sure he means when the tip gets contaminated. He said "my teacher," and assuming he went to school, he'd know you are supposed to ball the tip.

I have absolutely no knowledge on the matter and got randomly recommended that but it's always nice watching people talk about specific stuff that are not in my field !

The content on your channel is legit. Keep it up bro! Just got my typhoon 230 set up today 😬

Leave the post flow Malone

I know this and still so bad at it! 😂 you can tell me how to get my tungsten out without it going back into the handle. I unscrew then have a heck of a time trying to get that out. And picking up a filler rod off the floor with gloves on? I'm a boot put a magnet on my glove lol but that won't help with aluminum 😂 my vent for this morning

I use the burned one as a toe scratcher 👍

I love how, at the end of this short, dude holds his torch steady during post flow while lifting his hood - and pulling the hot end of the filler rod away from the post flow. Brilliant.

@DustinBoden

2 ай бұрын

It's an aluminum filler rod, you don't need to keep aluminum rod in the gas shield. But good try

@GroovesAndLands

2 ай бұрын

@@DustinBoden Spoken like a true internet warrior...

@DustinBoden

2 ай бұрын

@@GroovesAndLands and your "brilliant" remark was different in what way? Lol it's a glass house my friend

@GroovesAndLands

2 ай бұрын

@@DustinBoden touche'; I suppose we're all just keyboard commandos. That said, I know it's common lore on KZread that gas lenses, big gas cups, and careful attention to semi-molten tips of welding rods just don't matter with aluminum... But having TIG welded all alloys for 25 years at this point, my personal, practical experience says different. Furthermore, this short was not *specific* to aluminum. Dude was trying to make the point that keeping hot metal from oxidizing is important, after you've lifted off the pedal. Which it is - but he skips how important it is to do the same for the workpiece AND the filler. Good luck out there.

@DustinBoden

2 ай бұрын

@@GroovesAndLands I only figured that it's aluminum by the finish of the rod, the fact that he knows what he's doing and would only do that with an aluminum rod, and the balled tungsten. If you put those things together it's likely to be aluminum. I still could be wrong, but that would be my assumption.

My post flow must be spot on cause I've never had this issue. I didn't even know it was an issue.

Excellent advice for new aluminum welders Well any tig welding actually. But this is aluminum here.

This guy is such a good teacher.

😅😅 BAM! You're ready to weld aluminum

Well you have to remember that a lot of us budget welders use direct tig(stick/tig) and yanking it is the only way to stop the arc!

Appreciate your shorts/videos -- good tips/reminders, thanks!

Thanks was never taught that little trick might explain the bit of difficulty I had with tig starting

Thanks for this advice..it's helping me tremendously by making me aware I was doing that..

Always great advice coming from you and your channel. Thank you.

"Bluuuuh" perfect description. Aerospace parts galore for pre & post.

As a novice tig welder, never had this problem working for Trek bicycle.

I was always told to slowly bring the tip away to stop the arc and hold it there so that the end of your weld can be in the gas shield while it's cooling. Never thought about the tungsten tip. So there is two reasons you don't pull away

@sickwilly1171

Жыл бұрын

Are you using a scratch start machine? If so, pull away quickly or you will have a sporadic arc. If using a foot pedal or a finger rheostat slowly back off until arc subsides and let purge for a few seconds.

Always circle back over the end of the run, and do a few circles under the gas shield. It'll also stop blow outs

Was never taught that in welding school, smh. Thanks man!

You're a good teacher

Nicely done man! I’m so sick of seeing videos where they dip their wick and keep going, preparing tungsten is just as important and cleaning and prepping your work. Keep it up !

That's not true. The gas that is shielding the tungsten is coming out of the torch. However if you do rip away you are not shielding the weld with the gas.

@sickwilly1171

Жыл бұрын

There's some truth to it.

@nodriveknowitall702

Жыл бұрын

​@@sickwilly1171 explain it.

@sickwilly1171

Жыл бұрын

@@nodriveknowitall702 If the turbulence of air cause by pulling away quickly and the rotation of your hand, say to move to the next weld, set the torch down, is greater than the gas flow exiting the torch, then yes the tungsten can be contaminated. I'm a fast welder. If the job is critical I will stay and purge the weld and so purging the tungsten. If it's a quick and dirty job, nothing critical I just keep moving. To high of a gas setting can also contaminate the weld/tungsten by pulling in oxygen like a siphon.

@nodriveknowitall702

Жыл бұрын

@@sickwilly1171 Good explanation.

@SolarMillUSA

Жыл бұрын

@@sickwilly1171 nailed it. Some of these knuckleheads don’t wanna hear it. You gave the best explanation of how sometimes it’s critical for a *perfect* and other times less so, but either way he’s right.

It's so weird seeing welding videos from someone who runs his shop like a tech studio. Everything is so clean and has mood lighting and shit haha. I love it 😂

First welding video that had me legit laughing out loud. Also, because I suck at welding I totally identify with it.

protip if you have to move it away, move it in a straight line upwards so the protective gas isnt sucked away as if its moved sideways away from the weld

Yeah not yanking away is preferred. But having high frequency start is also preferred. If you have to scratch start like I do quite frequently good luck getting you arc terminated without yanking the torch away. Post flow is your friend. Use it.

Good tip. Not a welder just a mechanic

I definitely had struggles with that learning how to weld on aluminum, but I learned that for myself, getting a very fine point in allowing the heat to blunt the very tip helped quite a bit just pump. The amperage up slightly lay the foot pedal down for an initial burst of speed. Naturally, the tip will blunt itself from the heat just a little, and you’ll get a very good wide puddle path with very little contamination so long as you’re careful to keep the gas held down when you pull away slowly.

Your post flow should continue running past arc elimination. If it is not shielding the tungsten you dont have enough gas flow. Trying a gas lens helps too if that is an issue.

Great advice

We made an Argon chamber to avoid contamination. We used one inch plexiglass, sealant , and structural bolts. We also used media blasting gloves at different locations to weld just about anything, that required an argon atmosphere like titanium and stainless.

I have that necklace. One of my favorites

The slow pull out game is on point

Multiply this issue by 10 and you will be a titanium welder

Newbie here. I always thought it was for the weld beads. To prevent oxidation.

It should be considered with Tig soldering using tungsten with torus alloy for light work and for heavy work use higher voltages. Higher voltages and amperes rarely burn tungsten tips. Thin tungsten rods for soldering at lower loads burn the ends at high loads. Then you have to put a bigger tungsten rod 0.3mm 0.5mm more. Thicker metal titanium cast iron aluminum It should be remembered that very thin tungsten rods are intended for spot soldering. Large rods Tig welded evenly welding. Rarely use the pulsar's welding functions.

Extremely useful tip, great explanation

Haha😂 no wonder! 🙄🫣😒😖hhaha Thank you for sharing your wisdom...! 🫶🏼👌🏽👍🏽🙏🏽. 🤞🏽

Thanks, that was helpful

Never realized that was a thing. Thanks!

Huh, I never went to welding school, but I'm the main welder at my shop. Thanks for the tip. I do this a lot.

@eweunkettles8207

Жыл бұрын

welding handles on frying pans 😂

@mc1023

Жыл бұрын

@Eweun Kettles Nah I do stelite on augers, compressor rotors, basically anything that needs to be welded

@eweunkettles8207

Жыл бұрын

@@mc1023 yes but can you weld to RAF

I did not understand a thing he said but still enjoyed it

I also leave the end of the filler under the post flow.

@7thNoteOfficial

11 ай бұрын

Good idea 👍🏾

Good job Man. Keep on truckin

I just got me a pair of those pink defiant metal gloves. I love them

Great tip

That tungsten would have my boss furious with me if he saw that 😂😂😂

Thanks bro that’s helped me alot

This is great advice cheers

This was cool thanks for this

I never ever thought of this and always wondered why my tungsten kept getting fucked up

This is some good advice.

Can set your post flow to accommodate this action not contaminating your tungsten just a little bit waist full of you shielding gas

Guy: How to TIG weld Me: Sticking sticks in stick welding

Interesting .. i ordered a welder from amazon Thanks for the tip...

Nice advice... 👍🏻👍🏻 😊

When you finish the pass keep the filler rod under the shielding gas aswell. So its clean for the next pass too.

Omg I been welding for a while now and Ive never been told this! I was thinking about this today because Im tired of sharpening my damn tungstens!😂

The tungsten was cooked because you were running to many amps through it. Never had this problem on ac welding aluminum even if If there's no post flow. Stainless is the only weld process where post flow is actually important.

My crafts teacher taught me that removing the tig when the after gas flow is on is bad for the weld

i haven't touched a welder in more than a decade, and i never once thought of it.

Starts and stops are the most crucial

Great short

I do it out of fear from the countless times I dropped the hot end on my leg. I switched to a thin glove for the torch

Damn I wondered why I had to sharpen my tungsten each pass when no one else in my class did

Дасти ты молодец!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Thanks!

My lincoln tig 200 square wave is thinking it has a air cooled torch and has argon flow for 10ish seconds after you stop welding to help cool the torch and keep the tungsten pure while it cools

When not welding you should pull out fast as possible or that poor little tungsten will cost you more than you ever planned for💀

Tungsten quality is the least important reason for not pulling your torch away. Leaving your weld unshielded is the real problem

You never want to move away from the gash shield. You always want to be deep in the gash...

Funny story... my old boss that legit taught me how to tig weld and got me certified use to tell everyone in the shop to basicly whip out when finishing a pass. Lol wtf, his logic was that it would throw the contaminants out and seal the weld. Makes no sense, right. So I always did it my own way and never had an issue. Unless I dipped my tungsten by accident lol.

Ah so that’s why it was doing that, thank you sir!

This probably took me the longest to always do right with Tig. I always was so ready to look at my weld that I’d tear it right away from the weld and cook my tungsten

I generally pull out of the weld an inch or so and never do it at 30 mph. Less energy drinks might help.

Keep your filler rod close to the cup at the end. It will also stay clean !

We are currently working on tig in my class

Good habit not to wave any electrodes of any welding device in case you bump something you shouldn't have.