Welding Aluminum...Top 10 Mistakes Noobs make TIG welding Aluminum

AppId is over the quota video page on aluminum welding training "Hobart and Lincoln both offer 1-2 week Tig Welding Classes...just do it! " "Hobart and Lincoln both offer 1-2 week Tig Welding Classes...just do it! "1. Forgetting to set high frequency to continuous when tig welding aluminum ….. this will result in the machine stuttering at low amperage because the alternating current will loose...

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TIG welding High Strength Steel parts

This weekly video is about tig welding high strength steel parts and so about using a big tig cup to limit weld discoloration.I had a comment on youtube last week about how I went way overboard with fabricating the Chinese up bars. He said I should have just laid some pipe and fittings on the floor, squared them up and arc welded them up.  He also said I should "get real"I guess the guy didnt understand that all that overkill was intentional.I am always looking...

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flux core welding tip

by Ryan P.(Meridian, MS)When flux core welding especially for newbies like myself, do yourself a favor and buy a flux core nozzle so you can actually see the puddle or you can just take the nozzle off completely, but the flux core nozzle actually keeps your tips a little more free from later than without a nozzle. And dip in nozzle gel so, even though it's made from different materials than gas nozzle usually it works fi...

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TIG welding tips and tricks worth copying

Click here for Tig welding tips # 1Click here for TIG tips # 8--11Click here for TIG tips # 12-17Click here for TIG tips # 18-23Click here for basic Tig welding info Do you enjoy getting shocked? Me neither. necessary welding aluminum with your high-frequency switched to continuous means that the high freq is always looking for a path to follow. So even resting your forearm on the metal table...

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TIG welding tips and tricks worth trying

READ ABOUT THIS NEW TIP FOR PRACTICING TIG WELDING ALUMINUMClick here for Tig welding tips # 1Click here for TIG tips # 8--11Click here for TIG tips # 18-23Click here for TIG tips # 24-28Click here for basic Tig welding tipscertain alloys like inconel, hastelloy X, haynes 188 and others will crater crack if you let off the amperage too quickly. do want this too 4130 chromoly. Its a good habit...

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6011 Welding rods - tips for vertical uphill

6011 welding rods are very much like 6010 rod.The 6011 rod was designed with some stabilizers in the flux to allow welding on AC without the arc snuffing out.6011 rods will run on AC, DC straight, or DC reverse (so called DC positive and neg DC)Whereas 6010 rods typically only run ok on DC.Trouble watching this video on 6011 rods?  Try watching on my other site welding-tv.com6011 rods and...

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What i think of Tungsten Sharpeners?

AppId is over the quota by Rob (Bromsgrove, England) I'd love to have one, but my company wouldn't spend the money.So, i carry on using my £2.50 pin drill holder on the belt sander instead.I initially got it to stop me from burning my fingers when sharpening my short tungstens. Yes, my company rations tungstens as well... View the original article h...

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TIG welding videos

welding a bike frame using er70s-2 and weldmold 880 rod welding the bike frame. M.t.p on the strong hand tools build pro precision welding table.TIG welding tubing...thin stuff tig welding thin wall tubing used for custom bike frames using high speed pulse settings...the rule of 33, and a tungsten grinder. so comparison between er70s-2 and weldmold 880 tig welding filler rods.TIG welding high...

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TIG welding tubing...Thin wall steel tubing

This weekly video is on tig welding tubing... thin wall steel tubing.What kind of steel is this tubing made from?  I dont really know except that it seems to weld a lot like a plain carbon steel and that it is used for custom bicycle frames.According to Mike Zanconato of Zanconato Cutom cycles (thanks for all the help Mike!)    "Compared to 4130 steel, this alloy has about half...

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Mug for cleaning mig welding wire

by Duane Campbell(Calgary AB)Whelp we all know that it's good to keep our wire clean, so I like to take a but from a cigarette and put it on wire just after the rolls before it goes through liner...This will help keep your wire clean for welding.------------Thanks for the post.This is jody and i want to add my two cents...There are actually pads for sale along with cleaning solution used to soak the pads that is supposed to clean and lubricate the wire to make the liner...

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Cigar Ashtray...

AppId is over the quota by Don (Belleville, Michigan, USA) I took a welding and fabrication course at my local community college. For the final project, we had to think of something to make for ourselves. I couldn't really think of what I wanted, so I thought I would make something for someone else. I would visit my brother in law in New York City, and he would always offer me a cigar after...

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Tig Welding Tips and Tricks

"pay attention...tig welding tips given here are worth more than pay for them...oh snap what you!" Click here for Tig welding tips # 1Click here for TIG tips # 12-17Click here for TIG tips # 18-23Click here for TIG tips # 24-28"stop reading and weld!.."more tig welding tips...TIG welding filler wire and MIG welding wire from a spool are essentially the same composition except that mig welding...

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Virtually

AppId is over the quota by Charles (Mayfield, KY) Like you I'm old school I believe you need to feel and hear the process as well as see it. You use more of your senses in welding than just your eyesI would ask if virtual welder training might virtually lead to a person getting a virtual welding job? And if so would that person get paid with virtual dollars? :-) View the original article h...

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Ricrkp

by Ric(Monessen, PA)I recently bought a MITTLER BROS 36 "bead roller for doing embossed panels and car interiors. The machine is FABULOUS but the stand that they offered fell short of what what needed. The scooter rocked back and forth due to the one point mounting.SOOOO I bought a harbor freight engine stand and added the following pieces to make it a solid mount and portable. I came off the engine mounting flange with a 2 x 2 square tubing forward and then down to...

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A steady hand welds better

by Rodiron(Kelly, N.C..)This is a tip my father gave me back when I first let him know I was taking up the pipe welding trade. He was a 34yr. Union boilermaker and owned his own shop, (that which when I was going to wear a suit and work in a office) this may not help anyone but then again over my 40yrs in the trade for stick it has come to mind many times and mainly and mig welding. He told me to always try to find something to rest my free arm on, ya know, the one...

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cooling tig welded304 stainless pressure pipe with spray bottle

AppId is over the quota by mark (calgary) I am doing a job with sch 10 304 stainless pipe which ispressure and 100% xray it gets hot while I am tig welding a welder told me to cool it using a wet rag or a spray bottle which does not seem like a good idea to me will it make the weld crack or any other problem?--------------------------------------------------Hi Mark, good question.I worked a Dept of Energy job fab shop where each work station had a water mist contraption...

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Tig Welding Socket Welds

AppId is over the quota This weekly welding video is about socket welds.I needed to hang a chinup bar in my basement so I figured instead of using threaded pipe and fittings,...Why not just use socket  fittings?It might even make for a decent tig welding video. I have done my share of these welds...Like a whole crap load of them. But it has been almost 25 years, So I had to shake off a little...

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Kids my age these days

AppId is over the quota by Trenten Morris (South Texas) Hello I'm 21 years old and wanted to be a welder since I could remember I tried the whole college thing for operations due to peer pressure seeing a lot of my buddy's go and I absolutely could not stand sitting by a computer screen all day. I got out of school after two semesters and got a job on the railroad repairing all the railcars in the Dow chemical fleet in Freeport Texas. I couldn't believe the looks and...

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Welding rods for maintenance jobs

What are Maintenance Welding Rods?Maintenance rods are for those jobs when you don't know exactly what you are welding.You know its some kind of steel but you dont know exactly what child.In other words, you know its not aluminum, its not titanium, its not magnesium, and its not copper.Its steel...but what kind?It could be cast steel, stainless steel, tool steel, high speed steel, manganese steel,...

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TIG welding a bike frame

TIG welding with a bike frame. 032 "wall alloy steel tubing and with WeldMold 880 Tig rod and then smashing it with a hammer.Bike frame fixtured on a strong hand tools welding table and welded out using both ER70s-2 tig rod along with Weldmold 880.I wanted to shoot a video on welding thin wall (. 032 ") steel tubing... the child of used for building bike frames.Mike Zanconato of Zanconato custom...

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Tig Welding Tips

AppId is over the quota Tig welding tips... When you are learning to tig weld or just trying to be a better tig welder, The last thing to come up to speed is the hand that feeds the rod. We all learned how to hold a big crayon in kindergarten and holding a big crayon is not too different from holding a tig torch….so we’ve got that going for us. But the other hand? the hand that feeds the filler...

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More Tig welding tips and tricks worth stealing

"the angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the mass of the ...something"Click here for Tig welding tips # 1Click here for TIG tips # 8--11Click here for TIG tips # 12-17Click here for TIG tips # 24-28Click here for basic Tig welding tips"sideways scratches on your tungsten will cause dogs and cats to sleep together.""sideways scratches on your will so tungsten cause pandemonium and...

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Tig Welding Aluminum Tee Joint

AppId is over the quota Today we are tig welding a vertical uphill tee joint.Vertical fillet welds are called the "3F position" in AWS terminology.I am using 11 ga 6061t6 aluminum.  11 ga is 1/8" thick or .125" (about 3mm)Tig welding vertical up is not all that different from welding flat or horizontal but there are a few things to keep in mind that makes it a lot easier.Tig welding aluminum...

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1977 Cold Case Leads to Arrests

AppId is over the quota Reported by Samantha Riley: For 30 years the trail had been cold — Major Chester Garrett, a decorated U.S. Army officer, found murdered in the desert near El Paso, Texas in January 1977.  Now, police say they have arrested his stepson and estranged wife.Maj. Garrett was 36 when he was found dead.  He had suffered blunt force trauma to the head, and stab wounds...

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7 Diseases that strike young

"intro:"When we re young, we think we're invincible,"says Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director of the American public health association.""But we're not." And safeguarding, diseases we commonly associate with people in their 60s and 70s are hitting two, three, or even four decades earlier. Why? Better screening and early detection are part of the picture, but lifestyle factors such as poor...

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Alleged COP-killer has dangerous skills and weapons

The find manhunt is intensifying to Christopher Dorner, a highly-trained former Los Angeles police officer who is believed to be on a rampage to kill his former colleagues.Police officers say Dorner has now become their worst nightmare--a heavily armed man with the same training they have, plus a military background.As the search continues, law enforcement officials are wondering whether Dorner has been engaged in diversionary tactics--leaving a trail of false bread...

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Documentary Shows Beauty in the Face of Cancer

AppId is over the quota Photographer Sue Bryce invited Jill Brzezinski-Conley to Paris for a photo shoot. (The Light that Shines via YouTube)You would never guess that the woman in a photo who is smiling and swishing a pink tulle gown in front of the Eiffel Tower underwent 16 rounds of chemotherapy and five surgeries when she was diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago. You would also never...

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Dr. Ruth: How to Spice Up Your Love Life

Translate Request has too much data Parameter name: request Dr. Ruth's 7 Tips for Spicing Up Your Love Life - ABC News #scWinChk{right:166px; background:url(http://a.abcnews.go.com/assets/images/elections/2012/rc-blue_check.png) no-repeat;position:absolute; z-index:5000; height: 23px; width: 23px; top:20px;}#but_vt{background:#36305d; border:2px solid #36305d;}#but_vt a{color:#fff;}#but_wv{background:#b81f2a;...

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