Stop doing this to yourself tig welding! Follow this tip!
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- Опубликовано: 5 мар 2023
- #shorts #tigwelding This is something a lot of people do while tig welding, and don't even realize they do it. (Myself included) Check out this quick tip to help get you cleaner starts!
My teacher would have murdered me if he saw that tip.
You weld with a balled tip for aluminum
@@nolansmith7541 huh.. interesting. Didn’t know that cuz im just getting into welding but that’s good to know. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
@@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
@@edward4033 also you’re welcome lol
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.
underrated comment bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭🌝🌚
Make sure you use argon protection though, nine months later you'll have a catastrophe.
@@marcuspeters5855 That's perfect!.. Ask my kids!..
@@100GTAGUY I’m nearly 40, so I have plenty of gas flowing all the time. No worries here.
Great reminder!! Thanks
Well said, pre and post flow protection is important
Always maintain a shield pre and post flow, or you'll spew contaminants all over the place
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@@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!!
Same dude. I’m self/ you tube taught and I never realized I (and many tubers I have watched) were doing this.
@@The_Bobby_Jay share the knowledge and comment on these videos 💪🏽
same!
“How you finish a pass is how you start the next one.” 🏆
I'll remember this while either welding in real life or playing farming simulator
Great quote.
finally a workshop related yt short that doesnt say the equivalent of “use this screwdriver on this nail”
"Hurry, sharpen it before the teacher sees!"
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
@@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
I’d probably lose my shit if someone handed me a tungsten like that
Snowflake
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!
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.
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.
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begginer here, I thought that the gas pouring out from the gas lens was enough to keep the electrode clean.
‘’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.
@@Knight805 awesome! thank you. ESL here. haha.
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.
☝️ DrCranberry nailed it
@@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.
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:👁️👄👁️
Thank you so much. You are blessing dude.
I hadn't realized how much I do that on accident. This is a really good habit to remember, keep your rods clean!!
My teacher woulda made me read fucking metallurgy textbooks if he caught me with a tungsten with a tip like that
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.
@@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.
This guy knows his shit!
He should be teaching to wear a respirator.
Ok I've got it don't pull out too soon 👌🏼👍🏼
why do i feel your not talking about welding 😂😂😂😂
Way to go man. This full video taught me more than all the videos ive watched on tig welding. Very well explained and executed.
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 !
You should also teach respirator safety as well it save you from cancer if you wear one.
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
The content on your channel is legit. Keep it up bro! Just got my typhoon 230 set up today 😬
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.
It's an aluminum filler rod, you don't need to keep aluminum rod in the gas shield. But good try
@@DustinBoden Spoken like a true internet warrior...
@@GroovesAndLands and your "brilliant" remark was different in what way? Lol it's a glass house my friend
@@DustinBoden touche'; I suppose we're all just keyboard commandos.
That said, I know it's common lore on RUclips 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.
@@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.
This guy is such a good teacher.
My post flow must be spot on cause I've never had this issue. I didn't even know it was an issue.
I use the burned one as a toe scratcher 👍
Thanks for this advice..it's helping me tremendously by making me aware I was doing that..
Leave the post flow Malone
Appreciate your shorts/videos -- good tips/reminders, thanks!
Excellent advice for new aluminum welders
Well any tig welding actually. But this is aluminum here.
You're a good teacher
Always great advice coming from you and your channel. Thank you.
😅😅 BAM! You're ready to weld aluminum
Thanks was never taught that little trick might explain the bit of difficulty I had with tig starting
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!
Was never taught that in welding school, smh. Thanks man!
As a novice tig welder, never had this problem working for Trek bicycle.
"Bluuuuh" perfect description. Aerospace parts galore for pre & post.
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
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.
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 😂
Great advice
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 !
Thanks, that was helpful
Thanks!
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.
First welding video that had me legit laughing out loud. Also, because I suck at welding I totally identify with it.
I have that necklace. One of my favorites
Always circle back over the end of the run, and do a few circles under the gas shield. It'll also stop blow outs
Great tip
Nice 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.
This was cool thanks for this
Extremely useful tip, great explanation
Thanks bro that’s helped me alot
Haha😂 no wonder! 🙄🫣😒😖hhaha Thank you for sharing your wisdom...! 🫶🏼👌🏽👍🏽🙏🏽. 🤞🏽
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.
welding handles on frying pans 😂
@Eweun Kettles Nah I do stelite on augers, compressor rotors, basically anything that needs to be welded
@@mc1023 yes but can you weld to RAF
This is great advice cheers
Good job Man. Keep on truckin
Thank you
Can set your post flow to accommodate this action not contaminating your tungsten just a little bit waist full of you shielding gas
Great short
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I just got me a pair of those pink defiant metal gloves. I love them
Never realized that was a thing. Thanks!
Interesting
.. i ordered a welder from amazon
Thanks for the tip...
Um how do u "yank the torch" out of the gas shield when the gas shield comes from the defuser/ lens which houses the tungsten which is protected by post flow which all parts are part of the torch?
u teach u say?
I also leave the end of the filler under the post flow.
Good idea 👍🏾
The slow pull out game is on point
Newbie here. I always thought it was for the weld beads. To prevent oxidation.
Good tip. Not a welder just a mechanic
Thanks man
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.
This is some good advice.
Multiply this issue by 10 and you will be a titanium welder
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.
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.
That tungsten would have my boss furious with me if he saw that 😂😂😂
Guy: How to TIG weld
Me: Sticking sticks in stick welding
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
I did not understand a thing he said but still enjoyed it
What if you have a lift start? In order to stop the arc I have to lift it away fast.
Ah so that’s why it was doing that, thank you sir!
I never ever thought of this and always wondered why my tungsten kept getting fucked up
i haven't touched a welder in more than a decade, and i never once thought of it.
We are currently working on tig in my class
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.
There's some truth to it.
@@sickwilly1171 explain it.
@@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.
@@sickwilly1171 Good explanation.
@@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.
When you finish the pass keep the filler rod under the shielding gas aswell. So its clean for the next pass too.
Just learning at school here with scratch start. Can you keep your tungsten from getting contaminated when you finish your weld and “pop” up the torch to end the weld? Or, since we are just learning on steel, does it really make much of a difference?
good question
Contamination is still contamination. However that quick pop up to break the arc usual isn’t enough movement to cause contamination. Unless you are waving it around right after you break the arc. I’ve welded plenty of stainless on lift arc, and my tungsten never got contaminated by lifting off.
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!😂
Starts and stops are the most crucial
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
Hey how do you like those everlast lighting machines? Been thinking about picking one up
After finishing a pass, I tend to keep the torch low and run it back and forth over the weld until the post flow finishes, is this the correct thing to do?
You never want to move away from the gash shield. You always want to be deep in the gash...
He's right 👍
Damn I wondered why I had to sharpen my tungsten each pass when no one else in my class did
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
I've I've never had that problem 😮