I have been using your videos for my base training. I am probably well older than you, & had to force a change in jobs due to the economy. My area has a huge dairy industry & many processing plants. I am working to get certified for sanitary SS pipe. I watch your info backwards & forward & absorb everything you comment on. A plug for you: The Tig Finger is the greatest thing since sliced cheese singles. I am in school, but you beat the pants off my school instruction. I couldn't do without you!

I knew that was going to be hard to watch. But all the effort was done for a bike welding video....not just a bike.

I was thinking to myself what a great looking frame, then you took it outside and beat the shit out of it. My jaw dropped.. Great video, thanks.

@piotrleroy1263

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good idea for a first bike frame.

DAMN! Caught me off guard when you started smashing that beautiful new frame you so carefully jigged up and welded! Lol

@johnt9810

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I was thinking "Jody, you're going to have a nice bike....we...OUCH!" LoL

thanks for your support and kind words and congrats on your progress in tig welding. As far as your question about the ball not dropping goes, that usually means either an internal leak, the connection to the machine is loose, or the solenoid valve not completely shutting. check the connection to the machine first to make sure its tight. Also, if the incoming pressure is too high, that can cause problems so make sure its regulated to low pressure like probly around 35 psi... check the manual

i just got a steel dirtjump frame today...really nice love how tiny and yet uniform the welds are(it is tig welded,not brazed or stuff like that).obviously aluminium looks cool with those big well arranged welds,but i do have a special place for steel and how it looks and behaves.

It was hard to watch but you can physically see the quality of the welds. Jody, just have to say, you are incredible. I bought a welding table from BuildPro along with a lot of tooling. If anyone has not seen or used one of these tables should! They are GREAT. Also, I have purchased several of your tig fingers. I love them. I have given several to welder friends of mine. Keep up the GREAT work!

holy cow that feller has some impeccable fit ups on those coped joints! I would love to weld one of his frames!

Last part of video, destructive testing was surprisingly fun. Thanks for the video.

I got a Lincoln Power Mig 350mp recently. Its still in the box but I have an aluminum mig job coming up.. Stay tuned.

Brings back memories. I welded frames for JMC racing made out of 4130 chromoly using the same filler rod. These frames were for BMX racing.

Another outstanding video! Quite a shock to see the sledge go to work. BTW, I'm still loving my Tig Fingers! Just used them yesterday welding some suspension components for the kids go-kart. Best welding accessory I've ever purchased - bar none!

the 164 piece fixture is what i got but a few more ball lock bolts would help

I know it seems wasteful but this bike frame was never intended to be used for anything but a video. I figured we might all learn something if I beat the snot out of it. lots of effort but it was actually pretty fun and I dont regret the work.

great vid. totally new to tig framing, but shows how critical the fit is first. cheers

I want to see you do some sanitary stainless steel tube. 2inch x 0.065. I think sanitary welding is a good exercise to demonstrate.

My machine doesn't have pulse, but under the hood it looks the same as what you see in the video. I set my machine to around 60 amps, because I like having a little extra heat available if I need it, and use the pedal. I do not pulse with my foot. I just keep nice steady movements. The key for me is keeping the puddle satisfied with filler. I dab often and that helps control the heat and prevent blowing holes. Hope that helps!

Great info on almost everything. There is one thing that doesn't sit well with me though (which really surprises me, because it is the first time I've seen something like this in any of your videos). Keeping the frame in the jig for welding does not decrease distortion, retraining the frame while welding actively increases distortion. This is true for bike frames but it applies to other fabrications with thin wall tubing.. Jigs should be used to align and tack, but in most situations a frame should not be restrained during welding. While a spring restrained piece may allow for less distortion in fabrications that don't involve thin wall tubing, the same is not the case when you are using thin wall tubing. Also, typically bike frame tubes are either welded in a single all-the-way-around pass, or in opposing sections, i.e. welding the first 6th, then the fourth 6th, then the second sixth, then the fifth 6th...and so on, to balance around the central axis. . In a previous career I was a frame welder and made custom frames for people as well. I don't know anyone who does this professionally that welds restrained in a jig. The oft sighted logic is that it increases stress and distortion too much.

Hi from NZ Jody. Nice bit of destruction testing. I read the comments. If they were doing welding on a farm they'd find that everything gets tested like this haha. Things only break when you're using them etc. The hole saw is a great idea. Thanx for that.

man you are sharp!thx for sharing your knowledge! incredible that it needs to be destroyed to really proof a great weld job. i enjoy your videos.thx again!

I cried a little when he smashed it

@OtesOtesOtes

9 жыл бұрын

yeah, man what the fuck

@krusher74

9 жыл бұрын

might have well just welded up some scrap tubes, waste of a frame kit.

@lolouro2266

5 жыл бұрын

@aronS:') handmade always better than mass production!! Wtf r u talkin bout!

no problem bro, you deserve the traffic. your coping calculator is a good tool

Bike frame builders do some amazing welding.

@moonte7933

9 жыл бұрын

Only on the more expensive ones....the cheap ones are still practically good,but they look very untidy.

this really helps me with my college work :) thanks lots! I'm studying to be a welder my first year

Cool video, wish I could make welds that nice in that type of stock. I'm on an FSAE team and we build a car chassis out of .035, .049 and .065 steel tubing and it's way too easy to knock a hole. I'm running 35 amps for .035 stock with ER-70, and I can never seem to get a decent weld. Always either not enough filler, or the filler isn't melted in enough. Beautiful welds though

wow all that worked just smashed it in the end but anyway i just found out how you guys weld this frame stuff i really enjoy watching building a frame

Joe, love the videos thank you for sharing your wisdom. Any chance you would do a video about go kart frames or crome moly tubing?

If you have any leftovers of this kind of material, could you show how you would do this with just DC (no pulse). At least I happen to have an DC only unit, it would be interesting to see what to take into account with that kind of combo. Thanks for interesting videos!

ordered...thank you Jody, you're the best

its very expensive compared to a table that you would make yourself but actually very affordable compared to other precision welding tables like bluco. you can check out pricing or stronghand buildpro tables at summit racing or northern tool (dot) com.

so sad seeing you smash the frame at the end of the video. great vids and you now have a new sub.

Great video. Is there any chance you could demo fillet brazing a bicycle frame. To my knowledge there is no video showing puddle control on the web. Your videos give the best look at what the welder should be looking at. It would be nice to have similar clarity for laying down the bronze. Thanks, Jodi.

So much for riding the bike. You broke out a can of whoop ass at the end.

Great video as usual, man! I watch your videos every week!

beautiful job very pristine

I know it's necessary, but dang - all that beautiful work just to beat the bejesus out of it. Love your videos and my tig finger!

my machine don´t have foot pedal option. I will add it anyway conecting it where the front pot are. but I will have in the foot always the complete amp range of my welder. will it make trouble to have all range all the time?

Best info I found on youtube for bicycle building/ welding

Thanks for the link to my coping calculator! Now I know why my traffic went crazy.

Can you have a bigger bead on the tubes so that I could have a much larger radius on the tubing? I would like to grind down later of course. How would you set it up for that?

Hi. Love your Vids. I have been wondering about a combination of a few Vids. Basically this bike frame with your tig Brazing and the scratch start tig set up. What do ya think? Is it do able?

Hi, i was wonder how you suggest to learn to weld custom bike frames, i have already taken alot of welding courses and am looking into doing bike frames as a side job. Love your videos - Mike

Great video (they're all great btw) keep 'em coming. While we all know that you did this just as an exercise, did you check the alignment of the frame after you welded it up? One can get old-head frame builders into a lather pretty quickly by suggesting that clamp-it-all-into-the-jig and weld is the best way to build a frame.

did you ever end up using that lincoln machine? we tested a few pulse wave mig machines at a job i had a few years back. i was never satisfied with the lincoln, it had hundreds of presets you had to dial in to get you weld looking right, and if you were jumping between position or material thickness like we were, you needed several preset configurations. the miller version and cobramatic machine did a much better job of thinking for themselves.

thanks for theses videos and i know this one is dated - the closeup shots of filling and feeding are great but on this type of welding - a wide out to show or demonstrate your position would be oh so much more helpful - in learning to tig. - i was instructed to support the arm practice the placing and then proceed - but on tubing - the electrode is moving in an arc - and i can not tell if you are going up hill down hill and how your hand arm is moving - - how much stick out do you have and what size cup, what cfh on tank - - my guess would be that you have a longer than normal stick out so you can see better, therefore more gas and using something like a furric so the flow is better - i have tried to tig tubing and i suck - - i find i can only weld the top flat basically and therefore my stacks are start n stop looking and not at all near as pretty as yours- - i am using a glass cup no 10 or 12 i don't know 30 on gas, and 50 amps on everlast 205

That table is really great for jigging up projects to weld or assemble pretty much any thing that will fit on it. Is it expensive ?

Dang all that nice work taken to the sledgehammer! Would’ve made a nice gravel bike! Enjoyed the video, learned a few lessons and sub’d.

Who makes that gigantic combination square? It's got a really wide head on it, that'd be a big help working with large square tubing when the little squares barely make it over the rounded corners.

you make it look so easy

do you only have the 164 piece fixture kit or have you added to your collection? Looking into buying this year for the shop. Anything you wish you had more of? Thanks for all the great videos.

He smashed it because it doesn't count if you don't cut your own copes. cheers! (and because it wasn't titanium)

Wow, US made too. Definitely going to have to pick one up.

Jody, you, your videos, and tig finger are the bomb! I bought a tig finger for my welding class and after the first day of using it my teacher was very impressed and said he would of put my weld on the welds of honor board if he had one for the tig process. Keep in mind I never tig welded before and this was only my 3rd week of class! Quick question. What could be the causes of the ball in the flow meter not dropping after your done welding? Thanks in advance. Keep up the awesome work!

awesome video!........i may try my hand at building a custom 4130 long tail cargo bike frame just not yet!..... i need more skills.......

Its great, it's tough, I enjoy watching, i do carbon tubes and carbon plates adhesive together w/9340. But l love watching! I have a factory jig fixture too l built with 8020 from ebay. My friend danny machines my stations that go on 8020. Thanks!

sweet welding there.....i noticed your wearing a ring....be careful it an accident waiting to happen...ive seen a ring nearly cut off a finger off from crushing...and another short on a starter live to earth... ring melted ........both made a mess...i don't wear ring now regard Luke

thanks for the video, now sorry if this is stating the obvious but have you tried using a roughing cutter in the mill for your tube mitering? I personally have had poor results from hole saws like in the video. Much better results again with a hole saw that's one piece with the arbor but still not as good as the milling cutter.

Jody, thanks for another great video...btw, the square at 9:54, who makes it and where can you get one...?

This is why we can't have nice things

Hey, Jody. I have a request, but first I wanted to tell you how much I like your videos. I look forward to each weeks video. So my request is could you take a pic of your camera setup when you record your closeups of the arc? Thanks Bro!

Hey Jody... I was just wondering if you used any lincoln machines.. and what you think about them? Cause that's all we use at my work

Hey we have a Miller Syncrowave 250 DX tig welder in our school shop. and with mild steel the tungsten always gets oxidation and eventually rounds the tungsten and slightly contaminates it. is there anyway to prevent this?? or use better settings

very interesting test facility....

Hi, Where did you purchase the bicycle frame jig from shown in this video?

Its a shame you destroyed it, it would have been better to see you ride into the sunset with what you had fabricated, with welding tips and tricks stenciled on the centre post! Nicely welded!

okay guys, and Jody, i have a question. in a performance engine you often have issues with melted/deformed pistons or the head(s) will bend, is it possible/reasonable to lay a layer with inconell on the pistons/head(s) before machining? is should make them hard as s##t?

Hi jody, have you ever welded with Esab or Kemppi welder? if what do you think of them? :) we have them in school and I think they are great!

I am not expecting that one in the end. Lol!!!

Have you done any tig brazing with bronze on any frames?

OMG, where did you get that mighty largest combination square head @ 4:22 on the right of your table ??? Is it custom made ? never saw before!

Nice welds!...but his are marginally PRETTIER, is back purge the reason? reynolds 931 or similar parent material?

Hey nice vid! Argon purge? Is that when you let argon inside the tube to stop oxidation? Don't know anything about welding just putting my chemistry hat on!

@stevepineirov20

8 жыл бұрын

You got it!

Hey Jody, What clamps are you using to hold down the frame onto the bench ?

Wow Jody did you look around to see anyone was looking so they don't think its crazy person smashing a nice bike frame and call the cops? LOL.

Hi Boss, where can you get this fixture?

Is it still a good table?

lagesseproducts (dot) com sells the square and it is very handy for marking round tubing and such

Nice video, but why would you break it?

Brutal ending

sir do you have the drawing of the bycycle

Every bike anyone here has ever ridin started life this very way. Build it then test to point of failure. No matter your skill level & setup I would not ride a bike anyone built unless I knew it was properly tested & was not going to fail/break while I am doing 30mph down a hill. Hope that helps explain why he smashed the crap out of it when he was done fabricating it.

I was aghast when you beat that thing up, why go through the effort? Your buddy did all of that fine fitup and it was just scrap in the end!

Awesome! Keep the vids coming jody!

Size head tube ?? for seat tube 56cm

freekin outstanding as usual! BUY THE TIG FINGER & SUPPORT JODY! AND ALL YOU GUYS OUT THERE- BE A MAN- QUITE YOUR VIDEO GAMES & LEARN HOW TO WELD!

I think the holes are for expansion of the air to prevent blowouts rather than purging. Remind me to keep my bike away from your parking lot.

Very interesting 😊👍

Wouldn't it have been easier if the guy lent you a bike specific jig ??? Lots of messing around with shims and clamps etc etc But as always flawless welds

@mathewnaake4351

10 жыл бұрын

what a great vid, were can i get that bench from,great for jig work

yep....its anvilbikes

That seems like more effort than a gym membership... I guess its a good way to validate your weld quality though... :)

I got the square from lagesseproducts (dot) com

Cool

if the joints didnt fail why destroy the frame

It's a good point, when I get married I am getting a "ring" tattoed on

Or post-flow.

resistant weld!

yes...

NICEEEEEE

Porque lo destruyes acuérdate de los pobres...jaja .y después de esa madrina claro que se rompe ...pero quedo perfecto .....😁😁

Looks like an anvilbikes fixture