It's exactly one year since I discovered your videos. So, in some aspect I hold you responsable for the inception of my current career. I am now a manufacturing engineer. Many thanks, you are truly inspiring!
Golden ratio of info to humor...makes this a golden video! I just knew it, there is a common formula to videography and equipment design. Thank You Tony.
I'll watch it in 1920 x1200, that should make up for the confirmation bias caused by any quincunx of Mercury, Mars and transiting Neptune..."Extreme Astrological Multitasking", but I'm pretty sure Phidias is rolling over in his grave and hopefully doesn't raise the ire of Zeus. ;-)
I consider it my fatherly duty to always reply to a "guess what?" from my kids with, and only ever with, "Chicken butt". I'm playing the long game here. Glad to see I'm not alone on it!
First thing I built with my first TIG welder... a cart, in aluminium. Pro tip: leave the most visible welds 'til last... they should be the best after the practice : )
First thing I built with my stick welder was a belt sander. All the welds needed grinding, lots of it, except for one, the one that is most visible. I don't know how and I don't know why but it turned out perfect, wasn't even one of the later ones. If you haven't got the skill luck will do.
Hi Tony. I am glad to see this video. It would be even nicer to see it week erlier, when I started my own little project, to learn everything you sumarized in 16 minute video the hard way. Almost two days of trials and errors. On the positive side, I end up with similar results as in your video, so I think my senses are not that bad. Stay safe! Your fan from Slovakia
As someone who wants to buy a TIG, and needs to learn, what a great build this was! Can't wait to see parts stick together! Your explanations are easily understood, thanks! Now to scrape up 2k ish for a good TIG unit! Maybe a go fund me thing.......
Yeh! But does the thing go straight or take off a a tangent every few seconds. Don't ever try that with an English shopping cart. They have 4 wheel steering where no two wheels ever agree in the direction to take.
I'm kinda new to your site, the more I watch the more I enjoy. I have to admit, you make me laugh my a** off and that's what makes it all worth it! thank you.
I love that I get to learn so much from you and laugh my ass off while I’m doing it! With over 30+ years as woodworking hobbyist, I’ve been using the golden ratio for a long time. I use it as a starting point in my design and see which way it goes from there.
I recently started watching your videos and I've just been binge-watching loads of them. I love your silly editing tricks, like hammering the stock into a disc when you spun the metal bowls. And I love how even though I'm not going to be doing any of this stuff myself for a very long time since I don't have a workshop, you go into so much detail that If I started welding, you've given great advice on what current to use and adjusting it for different welds. Such useful stuff that you need that kind of experience to know about. Good stuff :)
This channel is absolute gold! I love your videos that are completely unrelated to my daily life and makes me better at nothing of what I do. Chicken butt!
This is pretty much what I did at the weekend. Using my new tig welder to make a cart for it. Mine was more simplistic but still very nice to have. Good work Tony, and great to see anohter video.
It's actually not uncommon to tack multiple rods together, especially for poorly fit open root welds, filling deep grooves faster, or making extra wide cap/cover passes. Works best with 1/8 or larger diameter, but with practice can be done well with smaller sizes too. The main advantage is you get the extra width of a larger diameter rod without the extra height, so amperage stays about the same.
You know what? Chicken butt was the first Dad joke I taught my daughter. She's 3 now and still loves it, but I fear the day she first rolls her eyes at it. I take comfort knowing I have TOT to come to and share the joy of this joke when that devastating day comes. Thanks Tony!
I can't explain how happy it made me that you timed the placement of the Chicken and the arrow pointing to it's butt when you said "chicken" (*chicken appeared*) "butt" (*arrow pointing to the butt*). Well done!
Dear Old Tony I am not too sure why an old sailor like me loves your superb channel, almost Aussie humor and obvious intellect, but I do and I hope you keep it it coming. Cheers Mate
All my favs...Tony, Jodi, Diresta...now if we can get you all with Matt Cremona, and Eric at SMA... you could be the team to make a walnut race car that doubles as a food truck!
you are one of the best source for Idiots like me, you explain everything really easy so I dont feel ashamed that im clueles about welding or general machining. Thanks for posting and keep up!
I just hope you know how much we appreciate your work and videos. The chicken butt moment absolutely got me and I ended up hurting my neck laughing too much. Thanks for sharing your talent and wit with the world.
I watch most of Jody's videos, but I really like the way you explained this stuff. The way you went about doing a test piece and tried to find the amperage is much like how I do. Get a baseline, start a bit cold and add heat until you get where you want. Wish I could find cold rolled cutoffs around me. Finding steel suppliers is tough.
This Old Tony should do a Podcast or talk-show kind of deal. I'd tune in just to listen while I shop for machines and tools I'll never be able to afford.
I had to come back for another watch. I've been using half inch rod to weld half inch plate for the last six years. I started a new job and the guys were looking at me funny.
I haven't stupidly laughed so hard at a video in a long time... your dumb humor got me every time. Not only super exciting to watch for a beginner, it was very informative! Thanks to Practical Engineering for sending me your way. On to part 2!
So good to finally see this video. The wait was sooooo long didn't think I could hang in there, but alas sweet "tot" back at the mic! Great videos! And I am a carpenter!!
Tony. This is all your fault. My new TIG/PLASMA/STICK welder arrived yesterday. Not a fancy AC job like yours but one I hope to learn how to do half decent welds with. Used to use O/A gas a lot and considered myself quite good at it. Tig will be something new. Thanks for the lessons. I've learned a lot without even turning it on.
Tony, I just discovered you... I know zip about welding but I LOVE your sense of humor and appreciate your talent at what you do. I am subscribed! Who knows I may pick up the craft... um... after I learn to solder.
Tony, you remind me of Chef John if Chef John were in the shop instead of a kitchen. Now you just have to say things like "But you do it however you want, You're the Melissa Joan Hart of your tig welding cart."
Imho this is the best channel on RUclips. I learn more from this channel than all the others I subscribe to put together and I love the way you produce, edit and put your videos together. It's awesome. I just wish there was more videos more frequently but then I didn't say the channel was perfect. It's very darn close though.
For doing aluminum, try ac voltage and use a lanthinated tungsten with a needle tip. Adjust the pulse and frequency, really beautiful welds. Those inverter welders are fun.
I'm not sure whether to take notes on welding or comedy, both are gold. Maybe @jimmydiresta could make a princess castle cart with a braised brass bridge for the trolls to live under.
Nice cart but the casters are a bit .... Just woke up - strange dream about a welding cart. Great description of a cold weld. I always learn something in your videos without the pain I usually get when thinking. Please keep the camera rolling.
Always CR! HR is more expensive time and prep wise in the long run. And my time is worth something. Leave HR for those Harbor Freight flux core 10% duty cycle types lol!
Whoa! Silvers number on the periodic table is 47, while gold's is 79. Which is 1.7!! Which is right about at that ratio 1.6 ratio. Making gold, truly golden!!
WTF, you buy a clear tig cup to watch inside and through, and the manufacturer has to put his logo on a big ass steel ring that covers up 75% ? That's bullshit.
I was laying here watch this thinking This Old Tony should use the golden ratio to make a beautiful cart ... then WOW (or upside down MOM) TOT mentions using the golden ratio to make the cart well proportioned. (Sigh, swoon I'm in love with this cart idea)
Loving your channel, saw the usual 1 amp / .001 rule annnnnnnd for tigging in the sheet metal shop 50% of the machines are set to 150 amps, 20% of the guys are set to 310 amps and the rest 100-120, all for 0.060 crs. Quick tacks are more reliable with higher amps and take less time and have less chance of distortion and burn through, and some of the super fast guys can run a bead much faster at higher settings. Also less time fiddling with the machine :P
3:00 NNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRD!!!!!! I love it. lmao I think this kind of stuff all the time too, it's really nice to see that someone else does the same thing. I wish I knew what your actual real-life job is.
Whoooaaa. I've only ever seen stick and wire-feed welding on steel. It's crazy how much cleaner TIG welding looks without the slag (?) stuff from flux. Also, I just encountered this channel after lurking a bit on the Skookum subreddit. I don't know what language you're speaking in most of these videos, but this is fascinating all the same.
“hide poor design with loud colours”.
So many things made perfect sense after hearing that.
Cough cough Harbor Freight tool carts cough cough....
Dewalt tools?
Me, looking at my living-room-built motorcycle: “Hmmm...”
You could make a 4 hour long video of cleaning your shop floor and I would stick around for the whole thing.
haha, thanks Max!
So true
same
We'd probably find out what happened to that launched band saw guide... I could finally get some sleep.
Well tony did make a video about cleaning his mill while talking
"You'd be surprised at just how easy it is to build an eyesore." -- ToT, 2017. Words to live by!
When I told my wife I was buying a welder, she asked: "what for?"
Me: "Because I need to build a cart for it":
In this context, would the welder be a MacGuffin?
SierraLimaOscar
Makes sense to me, sometimes you gotta put the cart before the........!
Yep, that logic checks out
SierraLimaOscar My wife told me she was buying a welder. When I ask why, she said he was cheap and very useful.
Hammer0f Thor I know a friend he's a welder going cheap!
Don't forget to add Ackerman steering and get the caster angles correct . . . . oh, sorry, wrong Cart video. Carry on.
It's exactly one year since I discovered your videos. So, in some aspect I hold you responsable for the inception of my current career. I am now a manufacturing engineer. Many thanks, you are truly inspiring!
nice! congrats!
I'm a sucker for a good arc shot.
don't you mean.. ARCH shots?
ahem.
sorry.
I watch Both of you. Can you do some collaboration?
Golden ratio of info to humor...makes this a golden video! I just knew it, there is a common formula to videography and equipment design. Thank You Tony.
I'm going to make my cart 16:9.
;)
I'll watch it in 1920 x1200, that should make up for the confirmation bias caused by any quincunx of Mercury, Mars and transiting Neptune..."Extreme Astrological Multitasking", but I'm pretty sure Phidias is rolling over in his grave and hopefully doesn't raise the ire of Zeus. ;-)
I consider it my fatherly duty to always reply to a "guess what?" from my kids with, and only ever with, "Chicken butt". I'm playing the long game here. Glad to see I'm not alone on it!
My dad used to always say "you're mad and I'm not?"
Guess why?
@@ambsquared cow pie
Guess where
First thing I built with my first TIG welder... a cart, in aluminium.
Pro tip: leave the most visible welds 'til last... they should be the best after the practice : )
First thing I built with my stick welder was a belt sander. All the welds needed grinding, lots of it, except for one, the one that is most visible. I don't know how and I don't know why but it turned out perfect, wasn't even one of the later ones. If you haven't got the skill luck will do.
Thats a really good trick
That’s gonna be my first project, a cart. For me 304 11ga. Hope it turns out well. How did the Aluminum work out?
Hi Tony. I am glad to see this video. It would be even nicer to see it week erlier, when I started my own little project, to learn everything you sumarized in 16 minute video the hard way. Almost two days of trials and errors. On the positive side, I end up with similar results as in your video, so I think my senses are not that bad.
Stay safe!
Your fan from Slovakia
"While spacing out during family time last night..."
The finest welding cart I've never seen.
Watchin' any of your tig videos really makes me want to get a tig welder and learn how to use it! So much awesome information you're sharing!
Your cinematography is sublime art and i could listen to you tell stories all day. About anything really. Thanks.
thank you!
As someone who wants to buy a TIG, and needs to learn, what a great build this was! Can't wait to see parts stick together! Your explanations are easily understood, thanks! Now to scrape up 2k ish for a good TIG unit! Maybe a go fund me thing.......
Excellent as always Tony. I actually learned some things that I was doing instinctually, but you verbalized them well.
ATB, Robin
Thanks Robin!
My evening just got better!
I'm as old as your ladder accident. Also, your tig videos have helped my amateur tig welding a lot. Love your content.
He's already got four corners of the cart half built in record time. Way to go Tony! Always enjoy your videos, thanks!!!
I just need to make the middles now.
I used a Petco shopping cart i found. The handle and solid frame and wheels cant be beat.
Pets are good at welding when you train them properly, and when your pets are humans.
Yeh! But does the thing go straight or take off a a tangent every few seconds. Don't ever try that with an English shopping cart. They have 4 wheel steering where no two wheels ever agree in the direction to take.
I'm kinda new to your site, the more I watch the more I enjoy. I have to admit, you make me laugh my a** off and that's what makes it all worth it! thank you.
LOL - Do you meen the onerous task of clicking the link? Yeah I think it's worth it.
wild bill, if you think this is funny, you ought to check out some of the flat earth videos on YT. It's a gass, man.
I love that I get to learn so much from you and laugh my ass off while I’m doing it! With over 30+ years as woodworking hobbyist, I’ve been using the golden ratio for a long time. I use it as a starting point in my design and see which way it goes from there.
I recently started watching your videos and I've just been binge-watching loads of them.
I love your silly editing tricks, like hammering the stock into a disc when you spun the metal bowls.
And I love how even though I'm not going to be doing any of this stuff myself for a very long time since I don't have a workshop, you go into so much detail that If I started welding, you've given great advice on what current to use and adjusting it for different welds. Such useful stuff that you need that kind of experience to know about.
Good stuff :)
When I rewatch TOT videos I usually view it on 50% speed.
Tony just sounds so much funnier that way, and the videos lasts twice as long 😆
FUNNY is good. education is secondary. My most and favorite one is when you repaired the kid's toy gun!
Lol he sounds wasted
This channel is absolute gold! I love your videos that are completely unrelated to my daily life and makes me better at nothing of what I do.
Chicken butt!
Thanks Thomas!
If you don't have my money in 3 days, I will have clickspring, take his time machine parts back, and you won't be allowed to time travel anymore!!!
This is pretty much what I did at the weekend. Using my new tig welder to make a cart for it. Mine was more simplistic but still very nice to have.
Good work Tony, and great to see anohter video.
You said it was getting long, but I couldn't believe it had been 16 mins already..... Can't wait for part 2, the recartening
Cart 2:Electric Boogalo
If you need thicker filler rod, just use blue tape to bundle a few together. Maybe some CA glue.
(To the humor impaired out there - don't do this.)
It's actually not uncommon to tack multiple rods together, especially for poorly fit open root welds, filling deep grooves faster, or making extra wide cap/cover passes. Works best with 1/8 or larger diameter, but with practice can be done well with smaller sizes too. The main advantage is you get the extra width of a larger diameter rod without the extra height, so amperage stays about the same.
You know what? Chicken butt was the first Dad joke I taught my daughter. She's 3 now and still loves it, but I fear the day she first rolls her eyes at it. I take comfort knowing I have TOT to come to and share the joy of this joke when that devastating day comes. Thanks Tony!
I can't explain how happy it made me that you timed the placement of the Chicken and the arrow pointing to it's butt when you said "chicken" (*chicken appeared*) "butt" (*arrow pointing to the butt*). Well done!
Tony's Future Kids: "Hey, the guy who built this cart has like 200k subscribers on RUclips, I'm gonna need at least 3 grand for this thing"
584k subs 6 grand for the cart
840K, must be at least 8 grand now ;)
983k
Outstanding craftsmanship on this weld cart... MUST SEE!
You are the best, I enjoy the humor you’re knowledgeable and a joy to listen to thanks
Dear Old Tony
I am not too sure why an old sailor like me loves your superb channel, almost Aussie humor and obvious intellect, but I do and
I hope you keep it it coming.
Cheers
Mate
All my favs...Tony, Jodi, Diresta...now if we can get you all with Matt Cremona, and Eric at SMA... you could be the team to make a walnut race car that doubles as a food truck!
I wasn't ready for that chicken butt joke, spat tea everywhere. Thanks Mr Tony
you are one of the best source for Idiots like me, you explain everything really easy so I dont feel ashamed that im clueles about welding or general machining.
Thanks for posting and keep up!
That amperage chart it's great
I managed to learn welding really fast with the help of this video
Now I make costume metal gates
I've said it before, you make me want a TIG welder! Looking forward to seeing the cart build. 👍
I took the challenge of making ideal eye sores to heart and have mastered the process with amazing repeatability, making me a master eye sore builder.
I just hope you know how much we appreciate your work and videos. The chicken butt moment absolutely got me and I ended up hurting my neck laughing too much. Thanks for sharing your talent and wit with the world.
Thanks Jose!
I watch most of Jody's videos, but I really like the way you explained this stuff. The way you went about doing a test piece and tried to find the amperage is much like how I do. Get a baseline, start a bit cold and add heat until you get where you want. Wish I could find cold rolled cutoffs around me. Finding steel suppliers is tough.
This Old Tony should do a Podcast or talk-show kind of deal. I'd tune in just to listen while I shop for machines and tools I'll never be able to afford.
This video is golden.
especially when using f.lux (͡• ͜໒ ͡• )
The length is golden times 10
Thats a centigolden.
I stand corrected. Thanks.
Screen ratio
I got really excited when I saw a new video from old Tony, happy to see I’m not alone on this one
"That is what we call, in the industry, "confirmation bias"" -- DYING HERE 😂
Another fantastic video! I'm really liking the tig info/arc shots; & your chart is golden. Thanks!
I had to come back for another watch. I've been using half inch rod to weld half inch plate for the last six years. I started a new job and the guys were looking at me funny.
DAMIT, you had me laughing so hard with that "right hand" joke, my sleeping kid almost woke up :)
Love the cart so far! The chalk outline was fearsome! I can see it....
I haven't stupidly laughed so hard at a video in a long time... your dumb humor got me every time. Not only super exciting to watch for a beginner, it was very informative! Thanks to Practical Engineering for sending me your way. On to part 2!
I thought it was a pretty worthwhile watch despite the lack of actual cart building.
Stay golden, Tony boy
Thanks jiji
I know nothing about tig and can’t mig for toffee but I couldn’t stop watching! Nicely done
thanks MMTV!
If you use a Fupa on aluminum you melt that little screen that diffuses the gas. Don't ask me how I know. 😩
So good to finally see this video. The wait was sooooo long didn't think I could hang in there, but alas sweet "tot" back at the mic! Great videos! And I am a carpenter!!
Carpenter?! Get 'em boys!
;) thanks for watching Sam!
damn its the best channel, i could watch it almost forever(till my beer in fridge ends), but boy how i wish i have this shop and tools
Thank you Toni for my regular dose of good humor! :) Your videos are interesting and so entertaining!
Tony. This is all your fault. My new TIG/PLASMA/STICK welder arrived yesterday. Not a fancy AC job like yours but one I hope to learn how to do half decent welds with. Used to use O/A gas a lot and considered myself quite good at it. Tig will be something new. Thanks for the lessons. I've learned a lot without even turning it on.
Awesome cart 😉
I really appreciate your videos and your sense of humor... Thank you
Thanks J!
Tony, I just discovered you... I know zip about welding but I LOVE your sense of humor and appreciate your talent at what you do. I am subscribed! Who knows I may pick up the craft... um... after I learn to solder.
Oh man, those cups are PRETTY. I didn't know this was a thing.
Tony, you remind me of Chef John if Chef John were in the shop instead of a kitchen. Now you just have to say things like
"But you do it however you want, You're the Melissa Joan Hart of your tig welding cart."
Imho this is the best channel on RUclips. I learn more from this channel than all the others I subscribe to put together and I love the way you produce, edit and put your videos together. It's awesome. I just wish there was more videos more frequently but then I didn't say the channel was perfect. It's very darn close though.
He's right.. This machine is GOLDEN!
For doing aluminum, try ac voltage and use a lanthinated tungsten with a needle tip. Adjust the pulse and frequency, really beautiful welds. Those inverter welders are fun.
Damn i LOVE the tig welding videos that you make! Please keep them up!
I'm not sure whether to take notes on welding or comedy, both are gold. Maybe @jimmydiresta could make a princess castle cart with a braised brass bridge for the trolls to live under.
Perhaps a glazed macguffin. Sam and max did a PSA on this
*Moves left hand*
That rule about 40amps per mm, as a welder i've always been taught that it's 25-30 pr mm :)) just wanted to share, we all weld diffrently ^^
Robots can do anything you can do better
Different mm's
Perfect video to take the edge off a Monday. Thank you.
I know that was intended as dry humor but isolating silicon is pretty easy, educational, and fun. Try it sometime.
Greatest cart design ever.
A Suburbia reference? That's a deep pull my man. Well played.....
Nice cart but the casters are a bit .... Just woke up - strange dream about a welding cart. Great description of a cold weld. I always learn something in your videos without the pain I usually get when thinking. Please keep the camera rolling.
Welding cart? Wha??? I thought we were working on a go cart.
Man, time flies.
I'm going to have fun watching someone build a HEY, COME BACK HERE!
Just found you a couple days ago. I do appreciate your videos. Please keep it up.
That cup looked pretty sick
I'm just amazed that the tig welder even worked without the cart.
I'll admit I was a little nervous in the beginning.
May not have built the cart, but you did cover a lot of current vs. weld characteristics tips. Great Job!
This stuff is so funny, the time flew by.
You are hilarious. Probably my favorite channel.
Always CR! HR is more expensive time and prep wise in the long run. And my time is worth something. Leave HR for those Harbor Freight flux core 10% duty cycle types lol!
you know money is also worth something
Whoa! Silvers number on the periodic table is 47, while gold's is 79. Which is 1.7!! Which is right about at that ratio 1.6 ratio. Making gold, truly golden!!
WTF, you buy a clear tig cup to watch inside and through, and the manufacturer has to put his logo on a big ass steel ring that covers up 75% ? That's bullshit.
That is just the optional guard ring. You can run without it, just be careful not to whack the cup into something.
Still, would make a lot more sense if it was just a ring at the tip with spokes going back to the base of the cup, to buffer sudden impacts.
Looks cool though! Lol
This was too serious. You made me learn stuff. I hate that.
It's a titanium ring that's slip fit onto the cup. Can run without it no problem
I was laying here watch this thinking This Old Tony should use the golden ratio to make a beautiful cart ... then WOW (or upside down MOM) TOT mentions using the golden ratio to make the cart well proportioned. (Sigh, swoon I'm in love with this cart idea)
I laughed so hard at the “golden” joke. Your videos are so funny!
He makes TIG look easy as hell, meanwhile I been welding with a flux core machine and still suck..
Chris Collins Remember difficulties learning how to ride a bicycle?
Keep trying, often amp is too low.. - High speed & finish is the goal
Loving your channel, saw the usual 1 amp / .001 rule annnnnnnd for tigging in the sheet metal shop 50% of the machines are set to 150 amps, 20% of the guys are set to 310 amps and the rest 100-120, all for 0.060 crs. Quick tacks are more reliable with higher amps and take less time and have less chance of distortion and burn through, and some of the super fast guys can run a bead much faster at higher settings. Also less time fiddling with the machine :P
I phi-nd your skepticism refreshing.
3:00 NNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRD!!!!!! I love it. lmao I think this kind of stuff all the time too, it's really nice to see that someone else does the same thing. I wish I knew what your actual real-life job is.
Whoooaaa. I've only ever seen stick and wire-feed welding on steel. It's crazy how much cleaner TIG welding looks without the slag (?) stuff from flux. Also, I just encountered this channel after lurking a bit on the Skookum subreddit. I don't know what language you're speaking in most of these videos, but this is fascinating all the same.
Nice i like it.. its so much fun when you know that you were here before anyone has finished the video
there was a time i was going to buy a tig now after watching your videos on the tig i question my whole existences
are you trying to tell me you don't own a tig welder?!
1.02M subs. The cart goes into a museum at this point, next to the defunct cnc router.
Aside from the sophisticated humor ("chicken butt"), this was a very informative and useful video. Thank you.