I try 5 Aluminum Welding Drills from the TFS Channel - Prime Weld TIG 225X AC-DC TIG Welder

hey everyone Bruce here with DIY homestead projects today is going to be a fun video at least it will be for me I hope you guys enjoy it I'm gonna be working on some aluminum and doing a practice that covers five different types of welds I learned this from a YouTube channel that I like to watch called the fabrication series and I think the guys name is Justin and he showed how you could do five different practice runs weld practice with only two pieces of aluminum now I've got some coupons cut that I made out of some 1/8 inch scrap I got at the scrap yard 1/8 inch thick cut it into these small coupons and we're going to be going through that I'll bring you guys along so you can see how this goes watching the professionals on YouTube is usually a much different experience than actually some rookie like myself trying to apply these techniques so but I think it'll be great practice now I got to admit I have been playing around with the prime weld pig 225 I ran a bunch of beads on a scrap piece some of the welds are really nice some of them are just horrible so for the first time and just learning of course I wouldn't expect anything different than that so what we're going to do is we're gonna take these two pieces of aluminum I have no idea what type of aluminum this is he does the test on his videos with 1/16 inch filler rod I was not able to find any of that at my local Harbor Freight I just picked up some I think it's 53 56 so I have no idea if it's the right type of rod but I think for practice it'll be fine so the first is an untouched missed at and he's just going to tack these together with a flat joint on one side so you want those edges lined up and then just to without filler just tack those two together so that's going to be the first one the second is going to be a philip weld on the other side and then the third will be an edge weld and you get a chance to do two of those I gotta admit I tried this earlier off-camera and it was pretty much a disaster so so we'll see how it goes here on this one this will be my second attempt at doing this nonetheless it's still a learning experience and really in my mind nothing beats experience so if you don't have any you need to practice and that's what we're doing here today so let me get this set up so I can go ahead and do the tacks and then we'll flip this over and set it like like a teepee or just set it on the table like this and then we'll run this this is actually going to be a butt joint the trick is to consume the corner but not pour it over the side and also to not have your welds sag so if you get it too hot it'll sag or blow through because you got no backer on this and then just consume the edge or just up to the edge without totally burning that over so it should be a quite the challenge we're going to be using a hundred and twenty-five amps on the machine that's also part of this part of this practice I believe that's going to be way more amperage than necessary to do this but it's trying to teach me how to use that foot pedal which I really need to learn I'm usually way too hot burning through everything and making just a globbed up mess so we'll see we'll see how this goes let me get that get this all set up and then we'll get started I'm going to show you how I'm gonna set this up we'll just do TIG AC AC frequency I'm about 120 or so I believe this goes from 40 to 200 and that's one of the drawbacks of this particular machine you can't get that exact because you don't have a digital readout for it so I think I've got that set around 120 ac balance I'm at about 35 I believe I'm running to tea with the pedal I'm going to set this to about a hundred and 25 amps once I get it turned on will set the welding current and I'm not using any of the pulse settings or anything we're just going to go straight AC welding okay there we go pretty straight pretty lined up so the next is I'm going to set this up just like this okay let's give this buck joint a try see if I can do this without blowing over the edge or blowing through 125 amps I'm just gonna try it leaning right on the edge at the table here to hold the torch steady and then just come right across all right let's see what happens all right that's a lot harder than you would think I blew through right at the end way too hot right in the middle I was coming along pretty fair but then way too hot on too much pedals too hot burnout that's going to mess up the backside so I better scrub that down a little bit before I do that feel it welts all right these feel it welds I really struggle with and this one's kind of blown out on the end so let's see what happens just try to rest my hand right on the table come right down that joint this should take all 225 amps if I do it correctly we'll see [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] all right well I tried to fix it at the end it was just a mess on that end but the beginning looks beginning looks halfway decent let me show you that well it started out okay until I got to that part where I blew it out from the back and I tried to fill that in a little bit and it just became a real mess but anyway alright let's try this edge weld and see what happens alright this one may be the trickiest of all but just these claims that it's it's a beginner project I felt miserably on the other attempts but I think I got myself set up pretty good here I'm just gonna run my hand across this board give me something steady to work with all right let's try wish me luck [Music] [Music] like came out a lot better than I expected that was the best one I've done so far let me get this set up I'll show it to you okay let's have a look at this there's the butt weld where I blew out this end here tried to fix it a little bit and it didn't work out so well not too bad right in the middle but if I could do the whole thing like that I'd be pretty decent I think then we did the the Phillip weld started on the left and went to the right here's where it was blown out and I tried to fix it just to globbed up mess so don't try to fix it but up to about there not not too bad especially considering this is only the second time I've done this that is the nice shiny I think it's I think it's decent and then here's the edge weld kind of curved across the top but that is not easy to do for a new new welder like myself but it was fun and I learned a lot on the practice I think maybe I'll put one of these together and try it without any cameras see if I can improve on that yeah so guys prime well TIG 225 on AC welding 1/8 inch aluminum this is a good practice so you got the tax that's one the butt weld that's two three is the fill it 4 is the edge weld and then 5 is just to go down here and run beads and fill up the rest of the coupon just for just for practice and I made a real small coupon so because I'm limited on how much material I have to practice with but very interesting it fun to weld with that I had it set on a hundred and twenty Hertz and about thirty percent positive on the cleaning on the AC balance I'll do another video here soon showing you a little bit about setting up the knobs or what I've learned on setting up the knobs on this prime well take 225 and machine some interesting things I found out about that because you don't have a digital readout you just got the knobs maybe it'll help some of you guys out there that just got one of these machines and know about as much about it as I do good practice good fun hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did give me a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't already if you're interested in this sort of thing and I really appreciate you guys watching the videos and riding along with me on my learning process learning how to TIG weld it's very interesting and a lot of fun hope you guys have a great day and we'll see on the next video [Music]

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Length: 14min 0sec (840 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 02 2020