Hey mate was just wondering if you practice right hand because I often have to use left in those hard to reach spots and it's a different ball game. Might be a good video? Keep those clean welds coming 👍
@@jamiewilkinson1958 I have trained to weld ambidextrous and it makes situations like these a non issue. It does take a lot of practice, but when welding "switch" many times your welds look better. I think you may just pay a little more attention non dominant.
Set up is everything when it comes to Tig welding, work holding and torch access make for comfortable hand position and accurate arc length, flame direction and wire feed. I'm no expert just something I've learned from Aaron and weld monger.
I highly recommend the tig button for those that are welding out of position where you can't pump the pedal. It really came in handy under the dash welding in a roll cage👍🏻
Aaron, I bought your educational program. It has made all the difference in the world in my hobby fab shop. Watching your ideas on how to solve a fabrication project has given me a different view point on how to solve my fabrication obstacles. Thank you so much for expanding your educational program as time has elapsed since I purchased your tutorial videos. It has made all the difference from choosing equipment to how to actually TIG weld aluminum and stainless. Stetting up my shop was easy after seeing your setup. Ladies and Gents, I promise that if you want to learn the right way to TIG weld, invest in your future. Aaron’s program is worth every penny.
I bought a TigButton 2.5 years ago, I absolutely love it. You can weld any where any position. It's worked flawlessly from day one. So ladies and gentlemen if your a tig welder.... BUY ONE!
I'm not a pro welder, but luckily I can weld with left or righ hand. I know it's not a big thing, but handy in awkward places.. One of the best channel!!!
I enjoy watching your videos and actually use them for tutorial with my students. You do some amazing work. When I or my students come to an obstacle like this, I show them that its possible to switch hands, weld lefty or righty it just takes practice. keep putting out these awesome vids!!
I’ve had a tig button for 5 years now. Great product. I’ve spent a lot of time practicing to weld ambidextrous so difficult positions are a little easier. 👌 love your work.
I am not a tig welder but this technique definitely applies to MIG welding as well. Pivot whenever you can the more "planted" your pivot point is the more steady you will be.
I love the work smarter not harder term. Now that I'm an old man it makes all kinds of sense. I'm going to have to order me one of them finger controls. I can't stand that foot pedal. The hardest part I catch myself doing is differentiate from mig to tig. I'm slowly getting it. Practice Practice Practice. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This is a concept in everything in life. Hard way vs easy way. I know sometimes I over complicate simple tasks and hind sight if I would have spent a minute to think big picture it could be simplified
I enjoy all of your video’s and have learned a lot since subscribing but I was looking forward to seeing how it’s done with the filler neck in the way.
Great tips man I always find myself in that awkward bind it seems like, lol gotta get comfortable! I'd burn the crap out of myself relentlessly welding aluminum all the time, that plate has got to be piping hot and yet shows nothing to warn ya!
Already do my radius's like that based on ergonomics, but a big takeaway was watching you use an omt to cut your tacks off the plate at the end. Why have I not been doing that!?!
Great content…just a note though on the tank welds. I knew where those are made add by who. They are built as fast as possible with zero regard for aesthetics or quality. There is a stack of tanks that need to get done in a set time. Also, these people run the leak test and don’t have time to get it all done unless corners are cut.
@Mike G It's not a matter of "cutting corners", it's a matter of getting comfortable when you are welding. I think you missed the point of this video. It doesn't take any longer to make a weld look good (to a certain extent), you just have to get comfortable and pay more attention.
There's also the option of holding the torch like a shower head and pressing the trigger with the index finger. The angle is much better, but handling is worse because the hand is more extended so more movement for the same wrist twist.
I know mig and Tig are different I'm proficient in both but even when I was mig welding I would start in my most awkward position when welding an 8inch or 10inch fitting in one shot and it helped and when I say one shot I mean no stopping
Hello my good sir and fellow lefty, I'm interested in your TIG button. Unfortunately, I do not own a fancy, famous welding post , only some consumer grade "Stahlwerk " thingus (stahlwerk TIG 200 ac/dc) . It works well for my needs . It has two connectors for a variable amperage foot pedal : one 2 pins and the other 3 pins. Is there a way to know if your button can be adapted to it?
TIG welding can get awkward really quick ! I'm right handed, sometimes I have to weld with the left hand, MIG works fine, and even TIG works pretty OK, with the left hand only. But feeding the filler wire, with the right hand is damn near impossible. 😂
Weld the tube on last, then for the tube weld (on this short of a tube), I'd probably prop on the top of the tube and work around the same way (clockwise for a lefty)
Green is the worst. It liquefies at the tip more, which makes the arc unstable. It constantly needs to be reshaped. I explain everything I use and do in detail at www.6061.com
I love my Tig button. Question: I'd like the ability to weld stuff in the field. For a 200amp inverter type welder, what would be the minimum output generator you'd recommend? My guess is 40-45 amps @240v.
Hi John, No idea, sorry. All I know is that I needed more than 16kw for my 350a tig to weld over about 250 amps or it would eventually trip the breaker. My truck runs a 26kw pto generator for everything 220v/240v when I'm not plugged into a building. I also tried a 200a tig welder on a little 2000w Honda, and I could only weld at about 80a (120v). I wish I could be of more help, but that's all the "welder running on generator" experience I have.
Depending on the model and the generator. I have a 200 DX Dynasty that I run off a generator. The service cord is a 3 conductor 12 AWG SOOW and can use up to 480 VAC 3 phase (delta) which means 20 amp physical limit. And it has a duty cycle limit based on this cord on 120 VAC single phase. I run it on 208 3 phase Y which is a code violation as the ground now becomes the neutral. But my generator is a 12 kW PTO 3 phase and I bond neutral to ground at the unit which is code. Yes, this is way more generator than needed. I also have a 3 phase 5 kW generator which swings the load fine on 208 Volt. But when switched over to 240 single phase (12 lead reconnectable generator), the engine hits max load when at 200 amps SMAW. My generators are industrial, 1800 RPM units (former military) with 80% power factor and very heavy. I would look for at least 7.5 kW 240 volt to swing a 200 amp GTAW machine. Not all inverter machines have high power factors. Power Factor is the ratio of real to real+apparent power. Electric motors have current lagging voltage, inverters can have current leading voltage. Either way loads the generator more than rated device power, the rest heats the supply cord. 200 amps at arc voltage of 12 is only 2.4 kW.
John, I have an older Miller Bobcat 200 amp gas job mounted on the truck that puts out 8K, all day. I run a Lincoln 200 Square wave inverter with the 6061 tig button on the 8K Bobcat no problems. The duty cycle on the Lincoln is a bummer, but it works good. I would guess a newer 10k or better generator would keep up . Most of the newer generators nowadays kinda overstate their capabilities. Hope that helps.
@@6061 Do you have any videos of your PTO setup? I picked up a Harbor Freight Predator 8750 and everyone says NOOOOO don't use dirty power but these welders don't really seem to care! It does 240v / 30 amps. They sell the inverter version now for $1400 which would be a much better option for cleaner power.
@gnarlock Sorry, I don't. The only two TIG welders I've ran off my PTO generator setup are my Miller Dynasty 350 and ESAB 205, and the generator output voltage and HZ has swung a LOT higher and lower than 220v/60hz several times (on accident until I got the engine rpm's steady and figured out), and both welders are still fine. I don't know if the higher $$ units have some sort of surge protection built in that the cheaper units don't have, so be careful...
@@6061 yea well I'm not great but had a career where I was soldering a lot and Tig does have a bit in common. Find myself just swaping hands to get in a difficult position and propping to get the offhand more steady. Practice right?
oh whaaa you guys have the cheeseburger birds there too haha! We had a cabin on the lake that we went to all the time in the summer and one day we were all hungover recovering around the campfire the next morning and one of the girls says that exact same thing to me, im like wtf you talking about cheeseburger birds? she then tells me, "since i was little i always thought those birds were calling out cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssseee buuuuuurrrrrggggg----errrrrrrrrr!" lmao, ever since that morning now when i hear whatever damn bird that is that makes that call but it always makes me kinda laugh and now that ive heard it i cant hear anything else. obviously they are more around then just up in the mountains in Northern California. Next time you hear one of those birds i hope you laugh to yourself and think of me like i do with that chick lmao
Wait a moment, no cleaning? One reason I hate tigging (?) Is that I feel like a sander grinder more than a welder. It is like " live and stick "! Well done , a lot better than mine, happy you are doing it , not i
@@6061 Sure, let’s say you are welding inside a fixture , or doing an overhead / vertical weld position , where the location you are welding cannot be adjusted or changed . Is it only up to creativity to figure out a way to position yourself ? I’ve had a weld instructor mention that in some cases in the field you will be forced to used a different hand or have awkward positioning based on what you are welding, whatever the scenario may be, so that is where this question comes from .
@@navykennedy1 Just get as comfortable as you can and go for it. There's a video on the website showing a cube being welded in the fixed position. Uphill, downhill, overhead, underhead...
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Don't weld the tube on first or it will be in the way. This was just a quick demonstration.
Thanks for watching
www.6061.com
Hey mate was just wondering if you practice right hand because I often have to use left in those hard to reach spots and it's a different ball game. Might be a good video? Keep those clean welds coming 👍
@@jamiewilkinson1958 I have trained to weld ambidextrous and it makes situations like these a non issue. It does take a lot of practice, but when welding "switch" many times your welds look better. I think you may just pay a little more attention non dominant.
How do you weld around tubing? Say 3 or 4" aluminum. After 30+ years of welding I still struggle with consistentcy on those welds.
Aaron - great tutorial! Sometimes the way you set up a job makes all the difference in the world!
Set up is everything when it comes to Tig welding, work holding and torch access make for comfortable hand position and accurate arc length, flame direction and wire feed. I'm no expert just something I've learned from Aaron and weld monger.
Your TIG button saved my life while
I welded my roll cage. Thanks for that, Aaron. Glad to see you’re living the dream!
Thanks for the public positive feedback!
Hopefully you never have to use it...
(the roll cage)
I highly recommend the tig button for those that are welding out of position where you can't pump the pedal. It really came in handy under the dash welding in a roll cage👍🏻
Since following this channel I have improved 10 fold !! To all you welders, GET THE TIG BUTTON !! the thing is amazing !!
Aaron, I bought your educational program. It has made all the difference in the world in my hobby fab shop. Watching your ideas on how to solve a fabrication project has given me a different view point on how to solve my fabrication obstacles.
Thank you so much for expanding your educational program as time has elapsed since I purchased your tutorial videos. It has made all the difference from choosing equipment to how to actually TIG weld aluminum and stainless. Stetting up my shop was easy after seeing your setup.
Ladies and Gents, I promise that if you want to learn the right way to TIG weld, invest in your future. Aaron’s program is worth every penny.
Thanks Joseph!
I always like it when I get public positive feedback like yours.
I'm glad the website has helped you.
Nice! Another Pivotal Moment in my tig education! Thanks Aaron!
I bought a TigButton 2.5 years ago, I absolutely love it. You can weld any where any position. It's worked flawlessly from day one. So ladies and gentlemen if your a tig welder.... BUY ONE!
I'm not a pro welder, but luckily I can weld with left or righ hand. I know it's not a big thing, but handy in awkward places..
One of the best channel!!!
pure craftsmanship - never get bored of watching your skills
I enjoy watching your videos and actually use them for tutorial with my students. You do some amazing work. When I or my students come to an obstacle like this, I show them that its possible to switch hands, weld lefty or righty it just takes practice. keep putting out these awesome vids!!
I’ve had a tig button for 5 years now. Great product.
I’ve spent a lot of time practicing to weld ambidextrous so difficult positions are a little easier. 👌 love your work.
One of the best Tig Welding videos I have ever seen. Keep it up
As a lefty my complements on your penmanship and your welding.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. They teach me a lot personally….thanks my friend 👍🙂
I love these videos ! Thanks for the great content, with no talking still better videos than ones with talking audio lol
Awesome tutorial! Yes, I have the Tig Button, best upgrade on my Dynasty since 90% of the work I do is away from the table.
Hi Keith,
I'm glad you like it.
Thank you for the public positive feedback, I really appreciate it.
I am not a tig welder but this technique definitely applies to MIG welding as well. Pivot whenever you can the more "planted" your pivot point is the more steady you will be.
Legend has it that he got his first tungsten when he was 2 years old and he still use it to this day. It has never been dipped.
You make it look easy! Impressive stuff!
Brilliant video. Thank you!
Thanks mate.. i always learn something when i watch your upload's.
My motto,think twice weld once,thanks for another informative video🤗😎🤗😎
Beautiful welding ✨💫💎
So simple, and makes so much sense... but I can honestly say I never thought about that before. Shame on me, or I should say, thank you!
I just love your channel !
Even the awkward position looks 10 times better than my best try😂✌🇩🇪
That's what I was thinking.
I love the work smarter not harder term. Now that I'm an old man it makes all kinds of sense. I'm going to have to order me one of them finger controls. I can't stand that foot pedal. The hardest part I catch myself doing is differentiate from mig to tig. I'm slowly getting it. Practice Practice Practice. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the laughs and great content! Cheers!
You have pride in your workmanship others don’t
Great explanation 🙏🙏
Love this channel!
Thanks for the tip ☺️
More aluminum scraps gave their life to educate. Thanks.
This is a concept in everything in life. Hard way vs easy way. I know sometimes I over complicate simple tasks and hind sight if I would have spent a minute to think big picture it could be simplified
Great, as usual!!!
I enjoy all of your video’s and have learned a lot since subscribing but I was looking forward to seeing how it’s done with the filler neck in the way.
Great tips man I always find myself in that awkward bind it seems like, lol gotta get comfortable!
I'd burn the crap out of myself relentlessly welding aluminum all the time, that plate has got to be piping hot and yet shows nothing to warn ya!
Hi Frank,well done🤙
Very good sample👍
Aaron very informative...ps You make it look so easy you could most probably do a great weld hanging upside down in a tree.
Awesomeness
Awe man! I was watching intensely and then come to find out that you did the wrong side. What a bummer. That was just practice for the right glove. 👍🏽
nice video
Already do my radius's like that based on ergonomics, but a big takeaway was watching you use an omt to cut your tacks off the plate at the end. Why have I not been doing that!?!
واقعا حرفه ای هستی 🔥
I'm glad to see I'm not the only left handed welder here!
Hello fellow all caps writer. I too write all caps. Cleaned up my writing big time
Great content…just a note though on the tank welds. I knew where those are made add by who. They are built as fast as possible with zero regard for aesthetics or quality. There is a stack of tanks that need to get done in a set time. Also, these people run the leak test and don’t have time to get it all done unless corners are cut.
@Mike G
It's not a matter of "cutting corners", it's a matter of getting comfortable when you are welding. I think you missed the point of this video. It doesn't take any longer to make a weld look good (to a certain extent), you just have to get comfortable and pay more attention.
As a left-hander I do alot of things right..... But being ambidextrous is best
I wish I could use the Tig button on my welder, but it's the esab 2200i, which uses a can bus style foot pedal.
That was really cool at the end... like a movie plot twist.. you know when you walked out of a semi trailer.
Wow nice information thanks sir keep uploading great videos.
Nice 👍
Good 👍
There's also the option of holding the torch like a shower head and pressing the trigger with the index finger. The angle is much better, but handling is worse because the hand is more extended so more movement for the same wrist twist.
Nice video! My hand is still healing from the burns while patching a diesel tank..
After all these years of videos, I didn’t realize you were also a south paw!
c'est beau!
Good
Thanks!
Been watching you for a while... appreciate your videos. 6061 T-shirt holds up well.
Thanks Ken!
You should carbide burr that one out and reweld it 👍🏻👍🏻 TIG button is great.. better than Miller wireless foot pedal
Stacking dimes looks good.
I am glad you said it was awkward. I would have been proud of that sevond weld :-)
Beautiful welds. I should have watched this a year ago.
Both sides of that weld looked better than mine ever do....LOL
I know mig and Tig are different I'm proficient in both but even when I was mig welding I would start in my most awkward position when welding an 8inch or 10inch fitting in one shot and it helped and when I say one shot I mean no stopping
could you use other hand to weld opposite side
The awkward way is still not bad. Dude, you're bad ass. Nice way to use both halves of the brain :)
I worked at Bruder Tank for a little bit look them up
How do you power your mobile shop?
So you drive round in your semi & park up somewhere when you get the urge to weld ? 👍🙂
how are you getting power in the truck if you dont mind me asking?
Great video bud. I'm a lefty as well. 🤦🏾♂️. I want one of those tig buttons. Wish i knew if it would work on my machine. Unimig viper 180 ac/dc. 🙄
Hi Ben,
Sorry, it isn't compatible with your machine.
The list of compatible machines is on the website
(bottom of page)
www.6061.com/tigbutton.htm
@@6061 i can only hope one day it will be. Lol. It could change welding in Australia. We have clunky pedals.
Hello my good sir and fellow lefty,
I'm interested in your TIG button. Unfortunately, I do not own a fancy, famous welding post , only some consumer grade "Stahlwerk " thingus (stahlwerk TIG 200 ac/dc) . It works well for my needs .
It has two connectors for a variable amperage foot pedal : one 2 pins and the other 3 pins.
Is there a way to know if your button can be adapted to it?
Cool 😎😎😎
Hello! What TPI is your bandsaw and what RPM do you run at?
You da man
TIG welding can get awkward really quick !
I'm right handed, sometimes I have to weld with the left hand, MIG works fine, and even TIG works pretty OK, with the left hand only.
But feeding the filler wire, with the right hand is damn near impossible. 😂
Learning is occurring...
What about when the tube is sticking up where your hand would be? I guess you would approach from the back if possible, but what if its not?
Weld the tube on last, then for the tube weld (on this short of a tube), I'd probably prop on the top of the tube and work around the same way (clockwise for a lefty)
I'm a lefty too. Makes for strange situations sometimes....
Can I weld 276 Amps with my 180 machine?
Hi there may i ask what kind of tungsten you use for aluminium.
The green color or a other color tungsten is the best for aluminium
Green is the worst. It liquefies at the tip more, which makes the arc unstable. It constantly needs to be reshaped.
I explain everything I use and do in detail at www.6061.com
I love my Tig button. Question: I'd like the ability to weld stuff in the field. For a 200amp inverter type welder, what would be the minimum output generator you'd recommend? My guess is 40-45 amps @240v.
Hi John,
No idea, sorry. All I know is that I needed more than 16kw for my 350a tig to weld over about 250 amps or it would eventually trip the breaker. My truck runs a 26kw pto generator for everything 220v/240v when I'm not plugged into a building.
I also tried a 200a tig welder on a little 2000w Honda, and I could only weld at about 80a (120v).
I wish I could be of more help, but that's all the "welder running on generator" experience I have.
Depending on the model and the generator. I have a 200 DX Dynasty that I run off a generator. The service cord is a 3 conductor 12 AWG SOOW and can use up to 480 VAC 3 phase (delta) which means 20 amp physical limit. And it has a duty cycle limit based on this cord on 120 VAC single phase.
I run it on 208 3 phase Y which is a code violation as the ground now becomes the neutral. But my generator is a 12 kW PTO 3 phase and I bond neutral to ground at the unit which is code. Yes, this is way more generator than needed.
I also have a 3 phase 5 kW generator which swings the load fine on 208 Volt. But when switched over to 240 single phase (12 lead reconnectable generator), the engine hits max load when at 200 amps SMAW.
My generators are industrial, 1800 RPM units (former military) with 80% power factor and very heavy.
I would look for at least 7.5 kW 240 volt to swing a 200 amp GTAW machine.
Not all inverter machines have high power factors. Power Factor is the ratio of real to real+apparent power. Electric motors have current lagging voltage, inverters can have current leading voltage. Either way loads the generator more than rated device power, the rest heats the supply cord. 200 amps at arc voltage of 12 is only 2.4 kW.
John, I have an older Miller Bobcat 200 amp gas job mounted on the truck that puts out 8K, all day. I run a Lincoln 200 Square wave inverter with the 6061 tig button on the 8K Bobcat no problems. The duty cycle on the Lincoln is a bummer, but it works good. I would guess a newer 10k or better generator would keep up . Most of the newer generators nowadays kinda overstate their capabilities. Hope that helps.
@@6061 Do you have any videos of your PTO setup?
I picked up a Harbor Freight Predator 8750 and everyone says NOOOOO don't use dirty power but these welders don't really seem to care! It does 240v / 30 amps. They sell the inverter version now for $1400 which would be a much better option for cleaner power.
@gnarlock
Sorry, I don't.
The only two TIG welders I've ran off my PTO generator setup are my Miller Dynasty 350 and ESAB 205, and the generator output voltage and HZ has swung a LOT higher and lower than 220v/60hz several times (on accident until I got the engine rpm's steady and figured out), and both welders are still fine. I don't know if the higher $$ units have some sort of surge protection built in that the cheaper units don't have, so be careful...
really thought for a second you were gonna re weld the actual tank ahah
This looks like 1/8th wire, is it 3/23 or 1/8th?
Old surehand 6061. Wish I could stop my tremor.
tig button is de way.
I’m proud of mine when they look like your”crappy” welds, but I promise to get better😂
Weld on the tank is going the same direction all around at least as far as I can see
So would it be more or less awkward to swap hands and go right handed for the other side of the arc?
Depends on how ambidextrous you are
@@6061 yea well I'm not great but had a career where I was soldering a lot and Tig does have a bit in common. Find myself just swaping hands to get in a difficult position and propping to get the offhand more steady.
Practice right?
oh whaaa you guys have the cheeseburger birds there too haha!
We had a cabin on the lake that we went to all the time in the summer and one day we were all hungover recovering around the campfire the next morning and one of the girls says that exact same thing to me, im like wtf you talking about cheeseburger birds? she then tells me, "since i was little i always thought those birds were calling out cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssseee buuuuuurrrrrggggg----errrrrrrrrr!"
lmao, ever since that morning now when i hear whatever damn bird that is that makes that call but it always makes me kinda laugh and now that ive heard it i cant hear anything else. obviously they are more around then just up in the mountains in Northern California. Next time you hear one of those birds i hope you laugh to yourself and think of me like i do with that chick lmao
she's not original bruh sorry to tell you she got it from trailer park Boys lol
Wait a moment, no cleaning?
One reason I hate tigging (?) Is that I feel like a sander grinder more than a welder. It is like " live and stick "!
Well done , a lot better than mine, happy you are doing it , not i
It's funny I'm left handed and write in all caps as well sir.
Way beter than walking. The cup ithink
Well done ❤ i actually live in iran and I can't pay mony online. Can you help me please?
Why do you use a tig button instead of a pedal?
I enjoy the pantomime
Okay, I see your point in this video, positioning is everything, but what about the scenario where you are forced to be in an awkward position?
Please give an example
@@6061 Sure, let’s say you are welding inside a fixture , or doing an overhead / vertical weld position , where the location you are welding cannot be adjusted or changed . Is it only up to creativity to figure out a way to position yourself ?
I’ve had a weld instructor mention that in some cases in the field you will be forced to used a different hand or have awkward positioning based on what you are welding, whatever the scenario may be, so that is where this question comes from .
@@navykennedy1 Just get as comfortable as you can and go for it.
There's a video on the website showing a cube being welded in the fixed position. Uphill, downhill, overhead, underhead...