TIG Welding: The Most Important Thing
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- The most important thing that contributes to a successful TIG weld.
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***Additional Description***
Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) also known as Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding can become very complicated, especially for beginners. However, focusing on a few basic fundamentals gets you most of the way there. This video shows my take on the most important one.
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Man sometimes i have to re grind the tungsten and the grinding wheel hasnt even stopped yet lol
I felt that comment. :-)
lol, been there done that. practice,practice,practice
SAME! Eastwood has a great tungsten grinder that I fell in love with the first time I used it.
@@SawyerMotorsports Someone should make that grinder smaller, and battery powered. About the size of a pocket flashlight, so you can grind the electrode without taking it out of the torch.
I've never done any welding it's just interesting to me, so I'm curious what happens if you touch the electrode into the "weld puddle"? ... or the piece you're working on?
This was a really good insight that most don't talk about..and you did not ramble you got right to the subject and made the point without a whole lot of talk about other unrelated stuff....good job
Great video! Arc length is super important when dealing with processes like stick and TIG. Having a good short arc length helps with lowering the heat input into the material and also helps to gain better control over your puddle, which is exactly what the video has showed and pointed out.
When I started out tig welding my welds did not look all that great, some had excessive fill, some parts had bad undercut, and the list of defects goes on and on..but as soon as I learnt to keep a short arc length as well as to have good control the puddle, the welds looked like night and day.
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Thanks so much! I’m so grateful for the support I’ve received from the community asIve made these videos.
The most important thing about learning tig welding is... watching TimWelds on regular basis.
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Thks for your Teaching an Insights of what to do,I used to weld but now I getting into it in more depth, You are vary easy to understand an descriptive.I was vary happy to sit through your lessons Take care an Thank You...
Short and direct thanks Tim, you just confirmed what i was think was my challenge on a new project.
Makes sense, dipping my tip always gets me in trouble.
Wide thrown puddles also add to our woes
*That's what she said.*
U sure af ain’t lyin’, bud. Chooooooo
Love the video but the thing that turned my Tig welding around was even simpler then arc length. I was always told hold the torch in your dominant hand, once I put the torch in my
Off hand and dabbed filler with my dominant hand went from terrible to passable. So I guess the tip is don’t give in to the norms
Great thing to be aware of and practice. Thanks Tim.
Thank you, Tim. I am about to start Tig welding, so videos like this really help! Keep up the great work. 👍🏻
Great advice. I went in the garage immediately and got a little closer with the tungsten. Sure, I dipped a couple of times but when at the right distance the welds came out much better. (Cooler?) It's a fine line but doable with practice I've found out. No more muddy grey welds. Thanks for the tip. ( Dig your logo.)
your welds will actually be cooler because the further away your tungsten is the higher voltage required for the machine to keep the same amperage flowing into the metal, which causes things to heat up quicker (i think this is what you mean by (cooler?))
hello TIM
First of all. THANKs for your time
You make a great teacher.
U don't have a tig.machine yet.
Maybe one day
God bless you
y greatings from Honduras,
Good vid🤙Cheers bro🤙
Thanks so much! Means a lot coming from you. Fill and Chill my man!
Great stuff, thanks so much....cheers from Florida, Paul
What are some tips to ensure proper penetration and weld strength are achieved when TIG welding? It seems many people are more concerned with the weld appearance than the structural integrity of the joint.
Multi layer beads.
The biggest impediment to TIG welding I found when I started was remembering to attach the work clamp. After that, arc length and torch angle.
Don't forget to turn the gas on too! 😜
@@spevakdesigns yeah. I learned early on to turn the gas on before the welder, and to turn it off before I turn the welder off. Saved me some full tanks of gas.
I’m not a welder and I clicked on this cause I figured I’d learn something - which I sure did, but to be clear when you showed the example which one were you saying was the better weld vs the bad weld? The left one or the right one?
i agree, because you gotta be there before you can adjust everything else comes naturally
Thank you.
Blimey!!! Your bad sample still looks better than my best effort.
If possible, could you please make a video of doing a 6g weld test on 2" shd 80 pipe? I'm sure you would have plenty of tips and tricks to share.
Thanks good info, trying to redifine my skills 👍🇺🇸 GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸🗽💪
Hey, im kinda new in Aluminum Tig Welding and your tips are really helpfull. But i never cleaned material before welding like you did, just with a wire brush. So can you please tell me what liquid are you using, is that Acetone? Thank you in advance
Question, I'm a Noob, well, havent used a TIG in 40 yrs, practice is a BIG deal, good tip, thank you, how about heat in my hands, any advice on holding torch and or a particular glove material?
U have any video about how u ”dip” the material etc? I need some teqnique how to use the filler stick
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Tim - I've watched many of your videos and enjoy them. I just ordered my first Tig welder and am waiting for delivery. In one of the video you mentioned places you can buy metal coupons to practice one. I should have written them down when I watched that one but didn't. I know you mentioned one or 2 mail order places as well as one welder manufacturer. Can you reply with the places. Sorry. Thanks. Scott
Can I do the walking cup technique using the Lift Tig system, because it is difficult with this Lift technique?
Yeah, you can walk the cup with lift arc. You just need to touch the tungsten to the work quickly to start the arc. You can also set up and flick the filler metal against the side of the tungsten while it’s also touching the base metal.
I'd add keep the electrode sharp... The charper it is the less the arc length matters
I've been having issues tig wielding copper lately its just not sticking together right and I'm not sure why I haven't been very thoroughly trained in this and I got in trouble at work for messing it up a little and us having to scrap like 120 pounds of copper because of it I think it's in set up maybe but the copper I've been working with is so bent up its hard to get it just right
so true
I have been taking welding classes at my local college for awhile now. I've taken OFW, GMAW, SMAW and I'm about to start GTAW welding and I would like to buy a nice GTAW welding machine for all types of materials (AC/DC). My budget is probably $1,500 to $2,000 Can you recommend a make and model? I also need a GMAW machine. Should I buy a stand alone GMAW machine or should I consider an all-in-one machine?
You should buy a inverter that can run all processes
Why don’t they make an offsetting ceramic cup to always have your arc length constant like a mig offset tip? Not a difficult idea, just like a wheel or two legs.
Start making them and sell them
Thanks a ton for the comment! I think there may be cases where something like that could work. Most of the welding that I do outside of these videos is on really irregular shapes where there wouldn’t be a good guide surface, so I wouldn’t be able to use that very often. Pipe welders do use the standard cup to guide them when welding in beveled grooves, often called ‘walking the cup’.
Something like that would work well for flat welds or maby automated welding but why would a robot need that and us humans would just find that something like that would just get in the way more than it would help... mastery takes practice we ALL started out as shitty welders and hat to learn trucky techniques, time teaches
Hey bud, the easier tig welding gets, the less I can charge for it, let’s keep it a challenge.
@@ernestgary6812 dude watch what you are saying.
I started out as a shitty welder and still am a shitty welder😂
can I use c25 for both mig and tig
welding ?
No, it won’t work well for TIG. TIG really needs straight Argon or Helium.
What kind of Plasma cutter do u recommend
I have 2 Hypertherm plasma cutters. They aren’t the cheapest, but the performance is outstanding.
Thanks Tim
Ho ,tou hear about spartus tig ? I don' t knowto make ajusment
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Though, I was curious if you find yourself putting out many fires? Two extinguishers within reach. Be safe.
Most important thing I can think of is turn the gas on! Things go south real quick otherwise.
The bigger weld has more penetration than the small neat one.
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I couldn't agree more...It sure is my problem...I aint no pro I can stick weld OK and Braze wih Ox/ac OK too but Tig is another animal Seein and keepin that steady close arc length is a Bitch
WRONG! When you are learning, the single most important thing is seat time, starting with very basic stuff like bead on plate, which is overlooked by almost all RUclips videos.
Correct arc length, like torch angle, welding speed, tungsten grind angles, and most important of all heat control, is something which will only become second nature after a good amount of seat time.
The idea on here seems to be that seat time can easily be sidestepped by watching a few videos, and all that's required to produce top class welds, is a shoddy Chinese made welding set, gas, helmet, filler rods................thats a very long way from the truth, and is something that probably leads to many people giving up!
Never said you don’t need to practice, just giving something to focus on to make practice more meaningful. You’ll never control your heat input with a long arc. Also, not sure where the cheap Chinese machine jab came from. This is a high end Italian machine. I’ve run machines from all the top brands around here and can tell you this one is just as good for most people. All the best, Tim
@@TimWelds My point was, is that for a beginner, seat time, is far more important than focussing on any specific point, and claiming that is the most important thing.
Sorry I didn't mean to suggest you were one of those on RUclips, using poor quality Chinese made machines, which have in many cases been provided FOC.
I would agree completely that arc length is important, but probably more so for those who have already had plenty of practice.
The other thing that seems almost as common as Chinese welding sets on here, is the promotion of using a gas lens for aluminium. Other than for a few specialist jobs a standard No5 cup, and collet body, seems to work better, and cost less?
The ugly weld is the stronger one.