TIG WELDING JOINT REQUEST! (NEAR FAIL..)

hey everyone in this episode we're going to do a tig welding joint request [Music] what's up everyone welcome to another episode from pacific arctic welding my name is dusty to all the our kids who watch the show every week what's up welcome back as always i appreciate you tuning in each week and to anybody that is new to the channel welcome i encourage you if you're interested in tig welding to bounce back in my catalog and take a look at all the different videos i've done up to this point if you're a fan of tig welding i do all things tig welding on this channel my favorite thing to do hands down is tig welding art i do two-dimensional and three-dimensional art pieces where i basically take all the experience of about 18 years of take welding so far and use it to do art pieces that challenge me in every way i can imagine as well as art pieces on this channel we also do how to's demos like i'm going to do today and as well as that i also do take welding gear reviews gear breakdowns and stuff like that so if you're into tig welding i encourage you like i said bounce back check out some of the previous episodes if you enjoy what you see please make sure you subscribe to the channel like the videos really really helps my channel at this point i'm still a small channel and i'm really trying to grow what i'm doing here so i got a message from a viewer asking me specifically to do a demo on a joint he needed help with so shout out to dan creer i hope i'm saying your name right but dan hit me up on instagram again hit me up on instagram my instagram handle's right there you can send me questions you can send me uh suggestions for episodes and whatnot hit me up on there i'll do everything i can to help you out so let me just bring the message up here so dan said can you do a demo welding a piece of two inch by two inch by quarter inch aluminum angle the end to a flat piece of plate specifically on the inside corner what's the direction of travel where do you start and stop though what we're going to do i popped on up to the scrap rack i got here had a little look i had a piece of two inch by two inch by quarter inch uh aluminum angle so i cut off a piece of it i got a piece of plate here uh what we're gonna do i'm gonna show you what i would do to go about tacking this in place here and then we'll kind of talk about weld planning and figure out which way we want to do it we'll start with tacking it up and then we'll go from there so before we get going let's fire up the machine i'll show you what i'm going to use for settings and gas and then my torch and then we'll uh get into it from there okay so today we are going to use the canon weld 201 pulse d this machine is super simple and super dope i use it for almost every episode i do here so uh let's get into it if you want to learn more about this machine i have a link in the description below and it's a full review and breakdown of this little machine here all right what we're going to do for settings here today we're going to change this to alternating current very simple for amperage let's turn this up we're going to run probably about 140 give giver takes 245. close enough uh no down slope uh post flow we can turn that down a little bit i was just doing some stainless in there five seconds so for balance we're running about 35 on the positive side uh for frequency right about 100 hertz this should be good enough uh half a second of pre-flow no upslope running the foot pedal as well super simple foot pedal uh works pretty good and uh yeah there we go that's what i'm doing for a machine setup okay so let's break down the torch here what i'm using is a 332 setup i got a gas lens in there so it's a gas screen for a 26 style torch i'm using a two percent lanthanated tungsten i love the lanthanated tungstens for what i do in this studio here they seem to work great with this machine i'm using a number eight uh it is a ceramic or alumina type cup from michael furyk uh michael furyk you make great stuff so i'll trust you on this one i'm just kidding i use this cup all the time it's great it's a number eight very simple i got a slight little ball on the end of the tungsten there and that's pretty much good to go we should be ready to rock okay so let's go over the parts real quick here so i got a 3 16 piece of plate here it has been wire brushed and hit with acetone so it's nice and clean i got my two by two by quarter inch aluminum angle there it also has been cleaned up with a wire brush it has been hit with acetone i have very nicely uh detailed the top edge around the corners uh detail your parts people come on we don't want we don't want no sharp edges on stuff so everything's nice and nice and clean here nice and detailed ready to rock as if it was going out to a customer so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to position it like so because dan really wanted to see the inside and how i go about doing that so what i'm going to do is i need to figure out how i want to tack this thing in place so one general rule of thumb i have when tacking something together is i always tack on the ends of passes so never will you see me put attack in the middle of a run reason i don't like doing this is because when you establish a nice bead that's been heated up properly exactly the way you need to if you have to go over attack somewhere in the middle of your run you're going to have a large bump or something to go around or contend with to make a nice smooth weld so always put your welds usually or sorry always put your tacks near the ends of where you're going to be starting and stopping from so in this case i will probably do tacks on the edges like so and then if i were to spin it around i'll probably do a tack out here as well tacking is also nice because we can give it a good wash a little bit it's going to help us to heat this material up because this guy obviously is much thicker than this here so we have more material to heat up in this piece so a nice generous blended tack is going to help us to get this wetted in nicely and kind of preheat our material a little bit another little rule of thumb i always make sure i do is when i tack i don't just tack one spot and then leave it and go tack something else because what's gonna happen is if you tack one little spot like so what we're gonna do is we're probably gonna start here and weld our way in if i start on a tack that i've just done a dinky little small tack on as soon as i hit it with any kind of heat if it's under any load it's going to pop and break so when i do attack i always tend to do a little two-stepper so i'll do a dab dab and then i blend it in nicely and i make sure that when i start my weld i'll start somewhere over here so i'm not even affecting the tack on this side so when i do my top here here and on the back side as well i'm going to make sure that i wash a good two-stepper so again it's going to heat up our material nicely but it's also going to give us a little bit of beef that we can uh we can bite into to start with and uh that way we're not going to pop any tacks when we go into the actual well joint so because i'm in i'm a left-handed welder i'm going to be running from this side into the middle and then around i need to think about where i want to put my button how many times do you see somebody do something really nice and there's a weird button just chilling in the middle of like nowhere and it's just been a lack of planning so what i always like doing is taking an actual second to think about which way i want to do my welding here so obviously dan asked to see this as kind of like the show zone or the money the money shot or whatever you want to call it so i'm not going to put my button anywhere in there what i probably will end up doing is start over here so i'm going to weld out from there it's going to get my piece nice and hot and then what happens is when i come around the back side here i'm going to be able to put my button right on the end there for example if dan really wants this to be the money shot here you're not even going to see the button it's just going to be a weld that flows in goes around the corner and flows out so that's what our goal is there is we want to organize and plan before we start welding to show exactly what we want to be doing okay i'm thinking about where to start with my tacking i'm going to start i'm going to start probably out here it's going to be easiest to heat up out that way here we go and then i'm going to do this one next this one's going to be second easiest to heat up and we're slowly going to heat this plate up as or this piece up is the idea so here we go and then last up is going to be the most difficult one to heat up here so we're going to start with this spot last because now we've given it some time to heat up from those two tacks to begin with so there we go so this is going to be very difficult for me to film so i'm going to film from a distance here and what we're going to do is basically i'm going to try and get my angles good as good as possible without trying to or without contacting the camera i'm still wire brushing here as i go wire brushing one direction if i can there we go so again i'm going to kind of weld from a distance here i'm going to try not to contact the camera the camera's going to be a little difficult for me to work around with this one but here we go let's try it out so okay so we're gonna round the corner here before we go inside and then i'm probably gonna move the camera after that one okay there we go so let's reposition and i got to figure out a way to weld this without bonking the camera so i'm going to be welding from inside i'm going to have to top feed top feeding is going to be the way to go here because obviously i want to feed this way but i can't really do that so i'm going to top feed just going to let gravity do the do its thing and pull everything to the bottom edge we'll do the best we can [Music] okay okay we're doing all right let's finish this up while it's hot this is going to be the toughest one to film all right so i apologize my torch is going to kind of be in the way for this one uh this is this is the tricky one here so i'm going to do the best i can okay that one turned out all right that was the worst weld of the bunch so we'll finish it off here okay home stretch here i'm going to move the camera again because this one's going to be in my way a little bit all right here we go home stretch up just going to re-center that button [Music] [Music] here we go stop and take a look my hands are smoking okay so there we go as you can see you i'm not very happy with this one this one it turned out a little bit dirty in the corner there which i am pretty unhappy with i think it might have been a little bit of arc deflection because i had to hang out there for a second to get it to flow properly the way i wanted it to when we came out of it but overall everything was wetted properly we got the leg lengths pretty equal which is good as you can see when we came up and went around the corner that one turned out not too bad the weld profile stayed virtually the same the whole way then around this side not too bad uh it was a little bit tricky for sure i'm finding out that filming this while i'm welding is adding another variable of difficulty it's really tough to weld around a camera i've heard people complain about it before but it really is difficult so anyway we got it done these are the straightaways in the home stretch there that worked out not too bad but there it is there's the inside so dan really wanted to see that i hope that worked out well for you dan i hope i could help you in any way but there it is uh we got the weld on the inside that turned out not too bad we got our button tucked away all sneaky like on the back side so nobody will see it and uh yeah i'm decently happy with that okay so that was it that was a well challenge for sure we got it done like i said i'm not terribly happy with it if i was doing this for an actual client or something like that or a customer i i would take a little more time to kind of work around and get things set up but overall the approach that what i went with with my torch angle and everything is exactly what i would do in the real world so uh dan i hope i could help you out man this was a really really good question it was fun i've never actually addressed a specific well joint before so i really i'm happy that this one came my way i learned from it for sure and yeah hopefully maybe a little better in the long run so to everybody watching i really hope you enjoyed this one i enjoyed this one even though i said again didn't really turn out the way i wanted it to it's going to bug me but that's all good we're going to let it go to anybody else hit me up on instagram if you have any well joints that you want to see me attempt uh hit me up on there i'm not promising i'll do everything that comes my way because i get a fair amount of messages and i can't do everything that comes my way but if you hit me up with a good one i might give it a whirl again i teach people to take weld by distance i have a program on my website you can go right there pacific arctic building dot com pop on over there i have a little bit of information on the course there you send me an email what we'll do is we'll start chatting a little bit back and forth i'll find out if kind of uh what i'm offering is going to be able to help you out but basically i take people from zero experience i take them to be able to do uh very confidently most well joints that they'll come across with aluminum tig welding so if you're interested in that hit me up on my website say what's up and we'll get in touch we'll talk a little bit about it a little further and finally the last thing i go over on my episodes is a random act of kindness it's a challenge i issue at the end of every episode now the world needs as much positivity as we can so in the name of you enjoying this show today go out and do a random act of kindness for a stranger if you see a guy fall down a set of stairs um go go help him out help him back up make sure he's cool uh if you see someone carrying their groceries to the car help them out write something nice on a stranger's instagram just anything just do something nice to make someone feel good today so again i'm exhausted after this one i'm gonna go have a coffee and try and get back at it here in the studio i got an art project on the go but to everybody that watched all the way to the end i appreciate you so much i really really hope you enjoyed this one i hope you're doing good i'm thinking about you and uh we'll talk soon peace you

Channel: Pacific Arc Tig Welding

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Length: 18min 33sec (1113 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 08 2020