Weld With Me LIVE Setup (here's your settings)

all right guys weld with me live is just a couple of weeks away so this episode is going to be about getting everything set up what we're doing what we're going with and all the rest of that good stuff and then toward the end of the episode for you guys that are just new to welding or never take welded aluminum before or anything like that we've got some beginner level exercises that you should be able to execute in order to have a better chance of following along with this so if you're one of the experienced people this may not really be for you but feel free to stick around check them out and well of course make sure you can do that now as mentioned before weld with me live is a 100 completely free tfs tig welding class brought to you guys in your home your garage your shop wherever it is that you are where you can tune in and you can even follow along with the lesson as we're doing it now you can provide your own metal or you can go for the alternative route here which is pick up the aluminum tig welding starter kit from wildmetalsonline.com this is what we will be using in the class and uh we're at least live as we're going along so it's gonna be a lot easier for you to follow along if you have exactly what we have there because we may just call out for you know grab a 16th coupon and grab an eighth inch coupon and let's weld thick to thin right so that way you have everything there at the ready and it's all labeled it's ready to go straight out of the box the bag it's good so if you haven't picked that one up yet or you're contemplating on the fence whatever or maybe you just need a little extra to practice with before and after you need to get your butt over to weldmetalsonline.com right now pick up that aluminum tig welding starter kit maybe a few extra coupons use my code tfs10 for a discount on it so to get you guys up to speed we're going to need to cover some of the settings that i'm going to have in my machine as we are welding or at least the ones that i'm going to use to present this class to you now i recommend using these if you know nothing about settings if you have your own settings go ahead and dial those in your machine wherever you want but if you know nothing about it not sure where to start you can pretty much just copy and paste these into your machine so the machine that we're going to be using for this is going to be the prime weld tig 225 ac dc that's the one that we're going to feature in this class and use the reason i chose it is because it is probably one of the most popular tig welding machines out there highly recommended by yours truly and i know a lot of people are going to be using it who are participating in this class so that's why i chose it if you don't have a prime well take 225 all you need to do is copy these settings over and your machine will only only require about 120 130 amps output and it needs to have ac on it so we're not teaching dc welding here we're teaching ac so first and foremost make sure that your machine is set on ac on the prime well it's that little switch right let's see two or two switches over from the amperage readout or for the current readout make sure it's set to ac your frequency if you like your own personal preference of frequency dial that in wherever you like it but i'm going to be running at 120 hertz that's going to be one of the best settings for generally everything that you ever weld so frequency at 120 balance on this machine is going to be at 30 percent if you have a negative reference machine like a miller or a lincoln i think their negative reference and a handful of other ones uh make sure that you're in the 70 range our balance is going to be in the 30 70 ratio so 30 percent positive to 70 percent negative if you're unsure of what balance is and stuff like that we've got a video all about ac balance that should make all that make sense but we're going to be in the 30 70 range if you think that that's a little bit too low for your machine you can move in blocks of five but don't go over 60 40. right so 40 positive is 60 negative don't go over that range stay within 30 to 40 positive and 70 to 60 percent negative or 67 negative again if that doesn't make sense check out the ac balance video start current and upslope this machine has it but we're not even going to use it you can turn all those all the way down that's for 2t and 4t operations and in this class we're going to be using our foot pedals so don't even worry about those if you have it if you know 2t and 4t operations and you will be using a switch in the classes you're following along you should already know how to set those up and how they work and if you don't i have a couple of videos on welding with the switch i'll make sure that we link those down in the uh down in the description welding current we need to be running somewhere between 110 and 115 amps to start out with we will be going back and forth and adjusting it during the class but 110 to 115 amps on just about every single machine will weld eight inch aluminum just like that if not you can go up to 120 but as you go through these exercises you'll be able to figure out if your machine does or doesn't do it so uh that's where it's going to start at i'll probably be on me realistically i'm probably gonna be about 130 to 140 amps on my machine but for most people 110 to 115 you guys will be set all day long and be able to keep up and run with this downsloping and current on this machine again we're not using them you don't need that unless your machine requires it and you should know if it does or doesn't on your machine pre-flow if you have it we're going to be at a half second it's nice to have that little extra cushion of argon before the arc strikes but if you don't have it don't worry about it base current and all the pulse controls now we're not using pulse this uh the prime well the pulse trigger or the pulse on switch is over on the right make sure that's flipped down if you are one of those that can't live without pulse turn that sucker off we're going to teach you how to run without it which is actually the best way to go so no pulse no settings don't even worry about those and your post flow needs to be somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds i would probably suggest somewhere around 7 to 10 or so like that and it's just to keep your tungsten shielded as you move the torch around after the arc is stopped because we don't want to contaminate the tungsten hard arc starts are really a pain in the butt especially if you're trying to keep up so make sure that your post flow is a little bit higher 7 to 10 seconds or so we should be set also got to make sure torch goes in negative clamp goes in positive if you've never you know done this before whatever the case is torch negative clamp positive it never ever changes on any single machine out there doesn't matter if you're welding ac doesn't matter if you weld dc we do not flip our leads we don't do any of that stuff torch negative clamp positive every machine there's your settings make sure you got it dialed in if you know nothing about settings that's what i'm going to be using if you know your own put them on your machine next up will be the torch setup i am going to be using the stubby aluminum tig torch kit from wild metals online this is a standard number five cup a stubby collet or call it body and a stubby collet the wedge collet from ck worldwide and it's also using three thirty second laser tungsten this will be the exact setup i have you can use whatever you like but this is the one that i recommend just to let you know how to put your torch together screw your back cap in just lightly don't send it in all the way or whatever generally speaking if you can see your o-ring you're good to go throw your collet into the collet body just like that and we're going to send this all the way up into the torch to where it stops okay then we're going to send our tungsten in pointy side out and just get this down and snug we don't have to wrench it down or nothing like that don't crank it just snug throw the number five on there get this up into there nice and tight and then we'll loosen this set our tungsten to roughly a quarter inch or so of stick out about six millimeters ish and then tighten it down don't wrench it down don't crank it if especially if you have a wedge collet instead of the standard collar body you just want it snug all you want is the tungsten not to fall out or push itself in so just snug that's all you need torch is set up let's go turn on the argon as mentioned we only use 100 argon we are not going to use argon helium mix we are not going to use 100 helium good luck getting it if you haven't priced it out lately uh we're not going to use nitrogen you can't use nitrogen we're not using argon co2 like we do in mig welding you can't use argon co2 so the gas 100 argon that's it 100 argon did i say it enough times 100 argon is the gas that we're going to be using now if you are using the same setup that i have here which is the number five standard uh cup make sure that you set the gas flow meter on your our argon regulator make sure you set up to 10 to 15 cfh you do not need more than 15 cfh so don't exceed that number because yes it does start to cause problems when you get into very high flow rates like that we're all gonna be using ck worldwide laser tungsten in three thirty second diameter i recommend at least three thirty second or two point four millimeter diameter if you're not gonna use ck worldwide laser tungsten or if you're gonna use whatever but make sure it's at least 332nd or 2.4 millimeter in diameter because that's you're going to need that for the little bit higher amp stuff now i recommend that you have a pile of tungsten sitting next to you for the class that's at the ready so that way you can simply switch it out instead of having to run off and sharpen it while we're still teaching so uh if you have let's say in the aluminum starter kit it comes with a piece of tungsten if you have the consumable kit it also comes with a piece of tungsten if you cut them down into three those two pieces become six pieces and you can have them at your side ready to roll if you get a pack of 10 that's 30 pieces you can have sharpened up and ready to roll so if you contaminate your tungsten if you mess it up if something goes wrong whatever the case is it's a lot faster if you have a pile next to you that you can just switch about and keep on going instead of having to run to the sharpener so now that we got all the settings and everything else like that covered let's get ourselves over the garage and let's get some of those beginner exercises knocked out so you guys can follow along you

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Length: 9min 24sec (564 seconds)

Published: Mon May 31 2021