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February 2, 2015 at 6:20 PM
Jody
Have you done any videos of tig welding 18 gage mild steel exhaust tubing? I am building a set of headers for my race car and sure could use some tips on welding this thin stuff.
I find your videos very informative and gain a lot from watching them. Keep up the good work.
Gary Hill
January 21, 2015 at 4:44 PM
Hey Jody
I read a good article “Aluminum Welding Made Easier in “Assembly” magazine (January 2015) written by Mike Vandenberg Product Manager for Miller. He talks about MIG welding Aluminum and all the ways to feed the wire and spray transfer and pulsed spray transfer methods.
My question. Does the spray transfer method of MIG negate the need for the cleaning action of an AC TIG machine for most simple aluminum welding jobs?
I’m looking to buy a Lincoln Multi-process machine that does MIG, Stick, and TIG but it is only a DC machine. I just want it to do back yard project fabrication. If I can get the wire to feed w/o bird nesting or not get contaminated by using a nylon liner, will MIG produce half way decent welds? Recently retired and now on a fixed income with a kid still in college, I am trying to avoid buying a spool gun or a separate AC TIG machine.
I use to weld aluminum with an Oxy-Acetylene torch by look and feel of the puddle. That usually took super metal prep, pre-heat, trial and error and lots of practice until all the parameters were correct.
Your arc shots and descriptions are great! It is an easy way to get under the hood time to understand what’s going on with each welding situation and save all that time making mistakes and figuring out what is wrong and how to correct it. Don’t get me wrong, time in the chair under the hood is still the only way to become proficient but you have helped immensely.
Please help promote affordable training courses that are just for the back yard hobbyist fabricators. Not everyone aspires to be a professional, certified welder for nuclear submarines.
My son is studying to be a mechanical engineer but the only welding courses locally are geared to becoming a professional full time welder and cost as much as a years college tuition. So I’m buying a welder and exposing him to the processes by making a few things and restoring an old car.
Many Thanks. Your videos are a great help. The USA needs many more welders and machinist for the future. Robots and CNC can’t do it all and need to be set up by someone with knowledge and experience.
Willy
January 21, 2015 at 10:27 AM
Another good video. The long arc stack looks similar to my tig work.
Jody can weld anything, except a broken heart?
January 21, 2015 at 8:36 AM
Jody, Can you actually see the weld as well as we see it in your videos. I ask because I have never been able to see my weld puddle near as well as it shows in the video and would really like to see better. I use a good quality helmet (Jackson W70 BH3) but have never been able to see the weld that well (I use a 2.0 cheater lens). Is there a better helmet that will let me see my welds as well as they show through the camera on video?
Thanks,
Bruce
January 20, 2015 at 11:22 PM
like to see more on 4130 tubing for experimental aircraft. Looking at building a tailwind aircraft. thanks
January 20, 2015 at 6:13 PM
No selfless TIG finger plug? The welding ninja-Jedi-master is slacking. Love my TIG finger(s)!
January 20, 2015 at 12:39 PM
Thank you Thank you for showing me what I am doing wrong! With one eye, and 75 year old shakes, I am determined to learn this welding without the Fido butt look.
January 20, 2015 at 10:17 PM
Got some of the same problems; 61, left eye is useless for welding, and I drink too much coffee. Not having much trouble with stick welding or squirting wire, but TIG is making me use words my wife doesn’t approve of. Any wisdom you can pass on?
January 20, 2015 at 12:36 PM
The stuff hanging on the pegboard caused me a bit of headscratching; I just figured out that a roll of duct tape is on the same peg as your bolt cutters and that is not an interesting new tool up there.