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0:00-10:51 Introduction to Brad 10:52-12:06 Story - job for a pilot 12:07-15:27 Understanding machines 15:28-21:00 Abrasives and overprep 21:01-25:30 Improving fabrication/plasma cuts 25:31-29:19 Pedal pumping 29:20-40:46 Brad's technique w/clips 40:47-45:07 When to pump 45:08-46:25 Pedals and machines 46:26-52:41 Brad + Weldmonger at fabtech 52:42-54:08 The pressures of filming arc shots 54:09 Signing off and future topics with Brad Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. Welcome Brad Goodman @Bradgoodman1972 who is deepsouthdimestacker on instagram. Brad walks us thru some special pedal pumping techniques for tig welding aluminum. Brad also does a lot of cutting metal on a plasma table and provides some good tips for that. Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weldmonger/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weldingtipsandtricks

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Learn more at https://weldmongerstore.com/collections/welding-machines This video is on TIG welding aluminum with the primeweld TIG325x. This VERY Popular TIG welder goes out of stock quite a lot but since it is back in stock I decided to drop this video showing aluminum settings I used for several different welds on different joints and thicknesses. The primeweld TIG 325x has a low 5 amp start on DC as well as great amperage range up to 325amps for thick aluminum. I don't know of any other 325 amp tig welding machine that is this affordable and where the company has a great track record of customer support. Follow me on social media to see what I’m up to: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weldmonger/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weldingtipsandtricks

Learn more about welding accessories used in this video at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. I made a stand for my milwaukee portaband out of scrap aluminum and welded it using 115 volt power. To get the most out of a tig welder using 115 volt power, you need preheat and a few other tricks like machine settings and weld sequence. Follow me on social media to see what I’m up to: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weldmonger/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weldingtipsandtricks

Learn more about welding accessories used in this video at my store https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. Two of the main challenges with tig welding stainless steel are: 1. distortion 2.maintaining stainless properties Stainless steel is not very thermally conductive so heat can build up easily. that is why I always suggest getting a puddle started quickly and getting moving quickly.

Learn more about welding accessories used in this video https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. In this video, I’m welding with the PrimeWeld MTS200 (MTS stands for MIG, TIG, Stick) —running short circuit MIG and lift arc TIG with the walk-the-cup technique, all on one machine. https://weldmongerstore.com/collections/welding-machines/products/primeweld-mts200-200-amp-3-in-1-welder Whether you're new to multiprocess welders or just want to see how this one handles both mig and lift arc TIG welding, this video gives you arc shots, settings, and technique breakdowns for both processes.

Primeweld MTS200 https://weldmongerstore.com/collections/welding-machines/products/primeweld-mts200-200-amp-3-in-1-welder In part 1 of this 2 part video, I tig welded some of the outside corner joints using a torch switch. For this video, I mig welded the rest of the corner welds and also the legs using a primeweld mts200. Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. Follow me on social media to see what I’m up to: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weldmonger/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weldingtipsandtricks

Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, TIG Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. In this project, I’m putting together a simple fire pit using TIG welding — but with a twist! I’ll show you how to tack weld using 2T mode and take advantage of 4T with upslope and downslope for outside corner welds. Perfect for beginners wanting to learn more about torch switches! The pieces for this firepit welding project were cut for me on a CNC plasma table by my good friend Matt Hayden - Welding Instructor at Polk County College And Career Academy. Since this fire pit welding project is intended more for an educational welding video than a project, I decided to use both MIG and TIG welding to make it more educational and entertaining. So I used TIG to tack weld and to also weld some outside corners and then for part 2, I will switch over to mig welding. Follow me on social media to see what I’m up to: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weldmonger/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weldingtipsandtricks

HERE IS THE LINK FOR OUR TIG CUP KITS https://weldmongerstore.com/collections/kits Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. I don't use clear cups for everything...But they really help with filming the arc...and they help me see better too. Sometimes, I scribe a line on a piece of metal to show a simple bead and half way thru I start having trouble seeing the line. Clear cups help. Of course, a good helmet and clean clear lens help too. Follow me on social media to see what I’m up to: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weldmonger/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weldingtipsandtricks

Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. Padding beads is an under utilized .way to improve your beads in my opinion. Whether you are tig welding, stick welding, mig welding, flux core welding or whatever, padding beads is a very efficient way to improve your welding and build the motor skills needed for uniform beads.

Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. We have a great deal on the Primeweld TIG225 combined with a TIG pro kit here https://weldmongerstore.com/collections/welding-machines/products/primeweld-tig225x-ac-dc-tig-welder-with-pulse?variant=44336399974651 ER70S-2 AND ER70S-6 are the 2 main TIG rods for low carbon steels. There are subtle differences but one main application where ER70S-6 seems to work better is for open roots.

Stainless Steel pipe root pass and hot pass along with fillet weld practice. Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. See plenty of other articles and videos on tig welding stainless steel here https://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/how-to-tig-weld-stainless-steel.html Bridge tacks are sometimes used on stainless pipe to avoid having to purge before tack welding. A bridge tack does not penetrate the sharp part of the bevel. Bridge tacks are not always permitted. Penetrated tacks are when the tack weld fully penetrates and breaks down the sharp edges of a bevel and for stainless pipe, purging with argon is a necessary step to avoid granulation aka sugaring.

Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly Walking the cup is mostly for pipe and socket welds but if you dont have access to pipe coupons the next best thing is plate. I used 3/8" plate with some tracks made with a grinder to keep me straight. 160 amps at first but bumped amperage to 170 and that seemed about right. I used a primeweld mts200 mig, tig, stick welder and a 17v torch with a valve.

Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. Travel speed is one of the biggest factors when it comes to overall heat input. But with manual tig welding, you can only go so fast before things are out of control. excessively slow travel speeds can waste time and cause other problems like distortion and loss of mechanical properties in the heat affected zone. Too fast a travel speed can increase risk of porosity on certain joint types and that can be a problem if the welds are subjected to X ray testing. (rt) Still, it often pays to increase travel speed in certain applications to improve the economics of the job.

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See our upgrade deals on kits when you order a primeweld TIG325 here https://weldmongerstore.com/collections/tig-welding-machines/products/primeweld-tig325x-ac-dc-tig-welder-with-foot-pedal Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. There are several articles and videos on tig welding stainless steel at https://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/how-to-tig-weld-stainless-steel.html Pulse settings can be very useful on stainless steel. especially on thin sheet metal corner joints. in this video, I used 1pps, 5% background, and 30% pulse duty on an outside corner joint on 16 ga stainless done without filler metal (autogenously)

Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. On my first job TIG welding aluminum, 2% thoriated was the only type tungsten they had. So I had to figure out how to sharpen it for the best results. All the tig welding machines were transformers in that shop so I would use DCEP aka reverse polarity to slightly round a tapered tip on 2% thoriated and it seemed to work better than other methods.

Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. A very common joint in welding school is a 3F vertical tee joint TIG weld. you might think this is a pointless weld joint but it is actually good training for socket welds. 140 amps 3/32" ER70S-2 filler rod #6 gas lens cup with 15-20 CFH argon flow rate I like to walk the cup but there are times when you just can't. when you have to prop a TIG finger really helps you concentrate on the weld instead of how bad your fingers are burning.

https://weldmongerstore.com I repaired a high carbon steel pin for a piece of gym equipment as a favor and so for this video, I thought I would mock up the repair using a piece of drill rod to show how I went about the weld repair. Normally, I turn down jobs like this but since it was such a quick job, I welded it. It is still holding up a year later and I think a lot of it is due to using 312 stainless filler metal and the extra fillet I made with that second pass. See the full blog post here https://weldmongerstore.com/blogs/weldingtipsandtricks/is-super-missileweld-just-312-stainless

here is the link for insider access https://weldmongerstore.com/pages/weldmonger-insider-access Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, Welding machines, and other quality welding gear. When it comes to pulse tig settings, sometimes they make a lot of difference and other times they dont seem to make much difference at all. If you have a machine with pulse settings, I hope this video saves you some time in dialing in some useful pulse parameters.

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There is a form at this link where you can get answers from DenaliWeld https://weldmongerstore.com/blogs/weldingtipsandtricks/stainless-tig-laser-demo-fabtech-2024 Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. I tried using the Rule of 33 pulse settings as well as a lay wire technique to speed up tig welding a 16 ga stainless lap joint but I was no match for the speed of the laser. 36 inches per minute is fast. Follow me on social media to see what I’m up to: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weldmonger/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weldingtipsandtricks

Visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com for TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. Aluminum is very thermally conductive but when you are welding near the end of a piece of tubing, the piece gets saturated with heat and the puddle gets very watery. This video shows a quick tip to prevent heat from building up too much. A wad of aluminum also helps but copper really pulls the heat out of a part.

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To learn more about any of the gear used in my videos, visit my store at https://weldmongerstore.com I used several different cups in making this video but all welds were done using the CK MT200 AC DC TIG welder. fFor TIG cup Kits, TIG Fingers, Gloves, Tungsten, Filler metal, and other quality welding tools. New products being added weekly. Follow me on social media to see what I’m up to: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weldmonger/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weldingtipsandtricks