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A welding video! Thinking you want to kick me. 😛 I take it for granted I guess that everyone or most everyone knows a little bit about welding. I guess I am not sure why. The thought that mechanics should be great welders I just that would be the norm, not sure why on that account either. When do us mechanics get deep into welding? Putting in sub frame connectors, installing exhaust? How about in a dealership when only certain guys ever touch a welder?
Learning and knowing how to weld is not that hard. However it is really really useful to know how. Once you know how, there is almost nothing you cannot make. Welding opens up a lot of doors, and especially for us gear heads. I edited this due to the way I originally put the topic. Sounded a bit bone headed. If you read the original, ignore it.
Making your own sub frame connectors, making your own suspension parts, making your own K rails, the list goes on and on especially if you have torches and tube benders. Making your own roll cage, motorcycle frame. Welding is awesome, DIY people should be all over this. Especially gear heads.
If I could do video, I would love to make one on how to weld. Eric, you can practice a little bit, and show the masses my friend. Stay dirty.
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It’s been in the works for some time. I actually know a ‘welding YouTuber’ that I was going to work with on this. For now, I have these on TIG welding.
I have seen the effects of tig welding, and I have seen OCC tig welding. Doing all those materials? Wow, and the lack of mess is awesome. I so need a tig welder after seeing this. I heard the cheaper ones really were not to good. I am always welding something here at the house just fixing odd and end things. I have the cheapest welder known to mankind, it is loud, messy and so hard to make a good bead even with all of my experience. Tig welders hand that bead to you on a silver platter! Nice. Not sure I would ever be able to get one. It is honestly worth saving for. I would just give me Mig to my son in law. Oh and those grampa lenses, I need them. Never knew they had them. Welding for 6 years non-stop basically kills your eyes. I hope you really enjoy that toy. That is a great tool to have. That guy was a great teacher to boot. Thanks for sharing those vids.
[quote=”iron” post=172617]I have seen the effects of tig welding, and I have seen OCC tig welding. Doing all those materials? Wow, and the lack of mess is awesome. I so need a tig welder after seeing this. I heard the cheaper ones really were not to good. I am always welding something here at the house just fixing odd and end things. I have the cheapest welder known to mankind, it is loud, messy and so hard to make a good bead even with all of my experience. Tig welders hand that bead to you on a silver platter! Nice. Not sure I would ever be able to get one. It is honestly worth saving for. I would just give me Mig to my son in law. Oh and those grampa lenses, I need them. Never knew they had them. Welding for 6 years non-stop basically kills your eyes. I hope you really enjoy that toy. That is a great tool to have. That guy was a great teacher to boot. Thanks for sharing those vids.[/quote]
TIG welding requires 100% Argon to run. It can be expensive. Since the MIG I have uses a mix, it’s cheaper to run and therefore what I use most of the time.
I use flux core. Cheap as dirt, and you have to clean up from the slag no matter how clean the surface. I didn’t know it was so expensive. Which explains why people charge so much for materials welded by it perhaps. Good info. In fact the only gas welding I have done was making a gravel trail in Michigan. I had to rebuild all the sidewalls in the trailer. It was all aluminum. I was just thrown at it, as usual, no training. I figured it out for the most part. They had a plasma cutter there that I worked with, that was awesome. Well worth every penny.
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