Basic MIG Welder Setup to Get you Started Welding Aluminum
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2022
- Basic MIG Welder Setup to Get you Started Welding Aluminum. If you are interested in MIG Welding Aluminum than this episode is a great resource to get you started using some basic settings and setup. For this example i'm using my YesWelder MIG250 Pro but this will apply to basically all wire feed welders. I also use my evolution table saw to cut some wood for a quick project then go right into cutting aluminum with the same blade to make some welding coupons. DIY Do it yourself How To welding. Instruction guide.
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Part 2 MIG Welding Aluminum • Aluminum MIG Settings ...
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Next time your looking at them you'll notice there's a version of most common variation with an AL on the end of the code, they will last a considerable amount longer spraying aluminium 👍 your videos are good coming from someone that knows and has watched nearly all the people who do welding videos. There was not one bit of misinformation, spoken clearly aswell, im sure there will be plenty of young people learn from you 👨🏭👌
I love your interaction with your grandson, My granddaughter just had a baby girl, my first Great-Grandchild.
I'm stealing your tip about cleaning your fingers inside your pocket.
Great video.
Even better! grandbabies having babies. Congratuilations! They are God's gift to us for sure!
You 2 are the coolest grand parents.
Thank you very much!😁👍😎
Always good when the kids help out in the shop. Priceless moments. Keep up the great videos 👍
Thanks @Guy Anderson I really enjoy these times
Great job with your explanations and getting your Grandson in the learning new things mode. Also giving him an out when he tells Mom that PapPaw said it was okay to do things that will get him in the dog house stuff like carrying worms and snakes in his pockets. lol Thanks for sharing with us, Fred..
Hahahahaha 😁 he sure brightens our lives for sure. I appreciate it Fred! Thank you 🙏
Thks for this video I’m glad to see you don’t need a spool gun. Can’t wait to try aluminum with mine. It stick weld’s pretty good. Thks
You are going to love it! @danny krueger it took a little practice but this video should get you up and running pretty quickly.
Hands down the best welding instruction on RUclips, thanks Brandon!
You made my day brother! Thank you!
@@BrandonLund I've been trying to figure out how to weld aluminum with my YesWelder 250 Pro for awhile with no luck, after watching your video I was able to dial it in and weld 6061 like butter with my machine.
@@xuv5607 Thanks awesome man! It can be really frustrating I'm glad you got it! Nicke job!
Great video Brandon!
Thank you so much! @ Earl Cavenaugh
@@BrandonLund you are welcome!
You're such a down to earth and overall nice guy, can't help but to admire. Great role model for your beautiful grandson too. However, my friend get yourself a papr system, anything is better than nothing when messing with aluminum. I work for one of the biggest sheet metal fabrication companies in the world and I've heard and seen horror stories about aluminum fume effects on the workers health. You can tape a diy one up yourself for pennies too.
Awesome work buddy and good luck!
I appreciate your support and kind words @Leelo Tungal. That is actually one of the things on my list that I'm looking to purchase soon. Thanks angain brother!
Great to see Grandpa with Grandson learning future skills ,I recently bought my Grandson some overalls which upset his sister because she wants some tonight I asked them both if they would like a go at welding to which my Grandson said I won’t get welders eye will I ,where that’s come from I don’t know 😂 great vid Brandon thanks 👍👨🏻🏭🇬🇧
Oh thats awesome Paul! Isnt having grandkids the best! Kids come up with the darndest things! I tell my daughter all the time if we could have just skipped having kids and went straight to grandkids we could have avoided a lot of sleepless nights lol. She knows I'm just kidding though. Our grandson will be 4 in March and he is having a baby sister that will be born in March also so needless to say, we are all pretty excited. Your comment put a smile on my face @Paul Paleschi
Brilliant man love watching and learning thank you ❤️👀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks brother I appreciate it!!! 🙏 👊
Great tutorial, wish I had this video back when I started welding aluminum. Mine was trial and error (a lot of error). I converted my Lincoln Mig Pak 15 with the liner and feed roller; and like you said practice, practice, practice. Keep them coming.
Thanks man I appreciate it! 🙏
Thank you Brandon 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Safety 1st 🥇
You bet @Max Gallegos I appreciate it!
great review on set up, thanks
Thanks for watching!
Very informative.
You are great on detail in your video.
I'm new in mig welding.
Thanks,
Jerry in Post Falls Idaho
Thanks Jerry I appreciate it! @Note Guy
thanks for the video it helps me a lot
@Manuel Machuca Manuel Machuca thank you for your support!
You always give us good information and techniques. I so appreciate how you show what it is supposed to look like. And, what temps and wire speed have the most effects. Even with the most sophisticated machiery, it is still a "guess and by God" scenerio. Blessings and stay safe and warm with that bad weather!!!
Thank you so much @Jim MacSuga I always look forward to your uplifting comments! We are having ANOTHER storm tonight! I'm really looking forward to summer :)
What a great helper you have! And he provides entertainment as well! How fun was this episode?
Thanks @Steven watkins! He always makes it more fun. I had a blast!
👍Great role model.
Thank you so much @Pae Dahe! We really enjoy having our grandson around. He helps keep us feeling young (and tired) so we sleep well when he goes back home to mom and dad lol
Nice welds with that aluminum. I'd like to get half that good.
Thank you very much!
Good one Brandon. Teaching your Grandson well 😂😂
Another informative video. Keep them coming.
I'm using a Kemppi Mig welder. Contact tips are expensives but if you look around there are generic tips that fit just fine for half the price.
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Thanks Basil I appreciate it! I'm not sure how much the tips cost through YesWelder but i was glad to be able to find them locally. Kemppi is nice welder!
Hey Brandon, Great job on these videos. You've got that grandson going in all the right directions. I can tell he really likes doing things with PapPaw in his shop. He pays close attention for one so young.
I have a question for you. Is there 'the' definitive book on welding? I'd like to know about the latest advances in welders what each is good for. You're doing a great job but it will take you a long time and cost a lot of money to get to them all. That YesWelder intrigues me. I'm an old man (80) who's never welded anything and probably never will. but I'm really interested in the topic. I keep watching craigslist and the marketplace hoping to snag a cheap MIG that I can afford and learn with.
@RH Hutchins Thank you so much for your great comment! Our grandson is such a blessing for us. We have him a couple days a week and we keep him busy as much as he keeps us busy lol. As far as a definitive book, i'm sure there is one but i get most of my current info from online tech articles. There are so many books out there that cover so many different topics that it would be hard to point you in one direction. I was actually pleasantly surprised to hear you say you have never welded but are very interrested in it. I have never been a machinist and will probably never own a machine but i watch a lot of videos and articles. I know where you are coming from and I commend you for keeping up with technology! A lot of folks much younger than you refuse to learn the internet lol. A great source of ENDLESS information is Weldingweb.com
Thx Brandon, good video regarding settings. Were those last settings still for 1/8 or did you use thicker material?
Why did you use 0.45 wire rather than 0.35? Could you not get spray transfer using thinner wire with slightly less volts?
Those last welds certainly looked good!
I think the 045 really works well on the thinner metal. If If I messed with the 035 more im sure I could find the sweet spot but it would take me a little practice. I try to keep a journal of settings with my machines when I find a good one. That helps too
Nice , is that a 120 volt welder or 220
220 only
Thx Brandon. Those last welds certainly looked good. Were the settings you used still on 1/8 or was it thicker material? Also, why did you prefer 0.45 wire rather than 0.35? Would 0.35 wire allow you to use less voltage to obtain spray transfer? Thx again
The machine was still set for 1/8" but mig aluminum tends to run VERY hot so by using the thicker wire, it was in a way reducing its penetration.
Love the finger in pocket thing ! Has he learnd the finger pull yet ? Ha Ha ! All good stuff Brandon ! I just started mig 030 gas making junk metal art ? Made a cat for my wife birthday . But haveing a hard time getting my mig to weld ? Some parts ok but most of the time pops leaves long wire with drip on end ! Have to cut off before i start agine . Is it the different metals ? Like to add a pic of the cat but dont know how ! Thanks Straigth Ahead !✌😎
Thanks man I appreciate it! @Mike Love. Some of the things could be caused by the following, You want the polarity to to be on electrode positive. Flux core wire is run on electrode negative. If your drive tension is not set up properly it will cause the wire to not feed evenly, make sure your contact to work distance is around 3/8", make sure your settings are set according to the machine based on your material thickness. Unfortunately RUclips wont let you post pictures but you can on my Facebook if you have FB. The links are in the video description. People post lots of stuff in the community tab
@Mike Love and yes he learned the finger pull 💨early on 🤣🤣🤣 Papa (me) has to teach that boy right. This here gave me a good chuckle. I hope you have a great weekend and thank you for your uplifting comment 👍🙏
Nice video Brandon, I have a Yeswelder 250-PRO and I set it up for aluminium, I try the settings you put in, and I burn trough, the difference is I am using 4043 wire at .035 size, I am trying to weld 6061-T6 aluminum 1/8 thick, I tried all sorts of settings, up to now my best beads are at 18.2 volts and wire speed at 8.2, but the bead is very flat and if I try to join 2 pieces I don't seem to be able to lay enough material to fill the voids.... I can't seem to be able to find the sweet spot, is there a method to find the sweet spot, fiddling with both wire speed and volts sends me from almost not too bad to catastrophic, is there a pro welder here that could tell me a method to set up my machine right? Is it true that the wire speed modification, changes the amperage too?
Hey Tony, it's been a LONG time since I used that machine but I remember it took me quite a while to get it dialed in because the directions werent great. I had to experiment quite a bit to get it to work right. Are you using the card that came with the machine to get you close to the correct settings? What I do is set the machine to what the card says then adjust from there. Your in the right range for the wire size and material. I weld at 17.9 volts and 102 amps for your setup. I don't know if you can get your machine to read in amps but if so, this setting should work.
Was this 1/8” aluminum? What were the synergic recommended settings for comparison?
I think so if I remember correctly but I don't remember the synergic settings.
Hi Brandon, I have an everlast lighting 3 and 1, I was wondering how to change the teflon liner to weld aluminum.
It might be in this video but im not positive
@@BrandonLund
Thank you Brandon
We're you able to figure it out? If not and you can wait, im doing a liner replacement in next week's video.
Hey Brandon, I'm thinking about videoing the assembly of a plasma table I've ordered for my own review if there are problems and also to share on the companies forum. I have never videoed or edited anything before and I have done some research on software to assist with this process but you know how everybody thinks their product is the best. So I have decided to ask the people who do this every day to see what they recommend. I have no equipment or software at this point. That being said, if you don't mind my asking, what do you use to record and clean up your videos? I don't plan on putting stuff on RUclips unless something I run into may help others who are working on this same type of machine. I appreciate any help you can offer if you have the time.
@David Haywood i know a lot of RUclipsrs that shoot video with their phone and it's what I did for quite a while. Probably my first 25 or so videos were on an android. The image stabilizers and video quality of the phones now are going to be just as good as any mid-range cameras and most all film in 1080 resolution @60 frames per second which will give you a smooth slow motion shot if you need to slow down the action when editing. I then switched to a panasonic handycam that was my daughters for a school project. That camera got ruined when a welding spark burned the lens so I replaced it with the same model that I found used on EBay for 10 dollars. I did a hundred or so videos with that one until recently I've upgraded to a panasonic handycam that can shoot 4k but it's not necessary for what I do. I've settled on shooting video at 1920x1080 at 30 FPS and I can’t tell the difference between any of the cameras I've used on my channel when filed at the same frame rate. Pretty much anything will work if you have good lighting. As far as editing software, that’s varied by user and everyone has their preference. I like Davinci Resolve for my RUclips videos which I edit on a laptop. If you go the phone route (which is what I did starting out) just record video on your phone. To edit them, just download the Filmora Go App on your phone and you are all set. Filmora Go is a really simple video editing app with all kinds of features. I recommend the paid lifetime version which is what I have. I use the Filmora App for whenever I'm editing videos that I shot with my phone. Good luck my friend!
hi your Fronius TranSteel 2200 what max thickness weld or Max number? thick adjust of synergic mode
You can multi-pass with this so you aren't limited to any specific thickness. It's also good at MIG aluminum
Thanks for the info . But take a meter to your welder and check the actual amperage output to see if it matches what is on the display . I have a few yeswelder machines . And they tend to be lower than diplayed.
Thank you for the tip. I'll look into it. 👍
Silky me bought a clamp on meter and was trying to get a reading on my welder, but the numbers made no sense.
Found out you need a clamp meter that reads AC amps.
Are you welding aluminum or just using an AC welder?
I know this is an old video but have to ask. how does mig aluminum compare to using a spool gun.
I welds the same. There just isnt any possibility of bird nesting.
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Thank you :)