Aluminum TIG Welding Techniques | Welding Tips & Tricks

[@richardfuerst5286]

I love the TIG finger. I do pontoon repair and the TIG finger is awesome. No more burnt fingers. 👍

[@pontoonrob7948]

Ha, awesome. I repair a ton of pontoons myself. You'll find the clear cup he sells helps alot, especially when you have to use a mirror to get the back side of an "m" bracket on the top of the toon.

[@richardfuerst5286]

@@pontoonrob7948 if I have to use a mirror it's not getting welded!😂

[@gregmaggert8561]

You sir, are the best functional tig welder on youtube. Hands down

[@jaredmcquiniff5362]

I will say that the tug finger bundle was the BEST investment I have in all of my accessories! Love the content!

[@richardj163]

I struggled with tacking aluminum for months. Watching your videos, Jody, sometimes over and over to get all the tips. To me it was like a father, your videos, in terms of learning this skill. THANK YOU!!!

[@Jcrause]

Jody, your the man when I was in welding school we had a saying... what would Jody do! And even 5 years into my career G.M.A.W I always look for your videos to learn

[@jonathankerner2094]

Your videos and narration are excellent. I appreciate the effort!

[@Copper.Cowboy]

Much better description then the videos we watched in class. We made a cube and were told because of the pressure/heat the last hole would keep blowing out, but you mentioned blasting the the hole while its cooled. I drilled a hole in mine, maybe I'll try filling it in.

[@toolbox-gua]

I’m not a welder and could not support your channel more than a DVD here or there, but still not too late to wish you and your family Blessed and Prosperous New Year 2020! One of my favorities on KZbin.

[@jcb2651]

I have watched Jody for years, I have used the cube training for my apprentices in mild steel, stainless steel and aluminium. They can tack the boxes together, then rotate the box and play with the machine settings to get their "own" settings. Keep it up

[@Michagan_outdoorsman_James]

i got my aluminum pro kit for #17 torch on order yesterday. garrett was a great with helping me too. excited to get my learning on . thank you

[@fjb4750]

Ordering my finger saver and a couple other things tomorrow. It’s nice to support you rather than Amazon. I’m glad I just found you. Wish I found you two weeks ago.

[@willardlentz3044]

Just as well. Most of those so called tig fingers are counterfeit and don't last through a weld without falling apart. Just go look at the reviews. Wad looking at them but Jody's are the real thing

[@guzzifabrication3448]

Thanks Jody for the 4943 tip, can't wait to try and test, watching your videos exposes me to equipment or ideas I may not have seen otherwise. Thanks again.

[@welderman6969]

It’s AWESOME! But remember they (different rods) all have their unique place in the aluminum trades.

[@dhanwatiesukhai2524]

Hello Jodi. Once again thank you very much for being able to share your experience with the welding industry people. I very much appreciate your support. (Andrew)

[@ryanjones9305]

I did a bunch of 6” cubes a while back and the challenge was to inject a cup of water into the vent hole before you close it up. Back purging with argon also helps. I finally wore out a tig finger, Jody! It started to fray and it didn’t last long after that. I untucked it and use it as a static prop now, just to try and get some good use out of the old feller.

[@stevesloan6775]

I love your footage! Makes a huge difference when trying to learn this craft. 🤜🏼🤛🏼🇦🇺🍀😎

[@zombisrus]

My tig finger and tig finger XL were just delivered yesterday and they are amazing. They are game changers

[@Gliderking80]

Best arc-shots in the world! Love it

[@michaelbarefoot6334]

Thank you sir! Your videos and plenty of seat time have made me a better welder. Only been using TIG for a year with an AHP 201XD and your videos really guided me. Those TIG fingers are amazing too!

[@michaelbarefoot6334]

@J. G. I just upgraded the pedal and what a difference it made! Cheapest decent TIG setup for a DIYer for sure.

[@bret_Lambky]

That is a great shop practice, to wipe down your filler rod before using. You never know what contamination occurred before use.

[@laiky71]

Thanks Jody! now i'm going to spend my free time cutting up aluminum! Seriously though, not quite a welding topic. It looks like you sheared those pieces. I would love to see a video on alternate ways to get good clean cuts and fit up for a project like this using alternate cutting methods.

[@PARADIM]

I watch your videos in Russia. like! 👍

[@pontoonrob7948]

Awesome video Jody. Thanks for teaching.

[@markandrew3846]

Always another great video. Thanks Jody.

[@dzljon]

As usual, very good training video, I have been using the tig finger for several years now and its has become as important as the the welder its self in my opinion.

[@sharpeguns1]

Planning to make some specialty tool boxes. Just cut in half. Hinges, clap. Drop in some tools. Love these Videos.

[@kup1954]

Good stuff! A short while back you made a video comparing different frequencies, when welding aluminium, how about a video comparing waveforms? (sine, square, triangular)?

[@Aint1S]

He's got that too. You'll have to look back in the last two years or buy the DVD set... Either way, you'll find it on his channel.

[@kup1954]

@@Aint1S Great, thanks, but any chance you can be more specific? I've searched Jody's channel and his newsletters, which I've kept from nine years back - no result.

[@Aint1S]

@@kup1954 he does have one heck of a catalog in his video section... I may have saved it, it's one of my favorites. It's what made me decide on buying the Everlast 255EXT and having the advanced square wave function... Sweet machine brb!

[@kup1954]

@@Aint1S Thx a lot, it helped searching on the machine instead. I've got a 250 EX btw that just crapped out on me, hence the interest as to what the new one should be able to.

[@Aint1S]

@@kup1954 I hear you there. Options are always good and that advanced pulse really works quite well. I almost bought your machine, but I wanted the 3 amp minimum DC with the portability potential for 120v outlets. Happy hunting and glad I could help.

[@davcot3675]

Another great vid One thing I had to do in school and curious if u have ever done after welding the cube. Weld in 1/2” coupling and hydro test to failure record pressures make contest out of it And u will have a really cool shape when done. All the flats ballon out Looks cool and challenging

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Enjoyed the video Jody! Thanks for sharing with us.

[@perryforeman1152]

This helped a lot thank you

[@antonw8134]

You should do a short video about how you capture such great arc shots! It’d be interesting to see what you’re doing behind the scenes. Waiting for 2019 Weldmonger video to hit the store...

[@MAC_6.7]

I like the flick of the rod @6:39 on your lift arc 👍🏼

[@ChrisWojnarski]

Awesome video Jody you the man 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

[@The1withlogic]

I noticed that I wasn’t seeing your videos so I looked at your channel, for some reason I was no longer subscribed. I never unsubscribed.

[@kabelomnisi882]

VERY SATISFYING TO WATCH AND LEARN

[@Ninjavaz]

Super easy looking feed technique! Just wish I could do it! Harder than it looks for sure

[@isacurban450]

My instructor in welding school let me try one of these with some scrap aluminum, I couldn't quite get my vent hole sealed, I love to try it again

[@kevinmorin7965]

Jody, I prefer to either sand (belt sander) or file (Vixen file) the sheared edges of sheet or plate to get rid of the dross forming torn material in the sheared edge. Seems to allow less gas to keep the same weld cleaner- but needs much more gas to shed the 'salt&pepper' from the bits of torn material left from a shear? Would be good to see some of those edges in 5356 - no boat builders use 40 series filler.

[@miladmozayyani]

Would be neat if you could have a secondary camera showing how you control amperage throughout the weld, I think it would help get a feel for good pedal control

[@SteadArcFab_Ministries]

Awesome Jody thank you. I love both size tig fingers! Haven’t had the opportunity to tig with them yet, still waiting to get a machine lol. But still use them for longer mig runs. I also have built a couple cubes that I mig welded together learning from your previous videos and use them as a props as well!!! Awesome stuff!! Be blessed!!!

[@jamesb990]

Hi Jody realy nice welding Sir. I have started using accertone alot more on my boat building project it works realy well.

[@wehtjns]

Great as always, thanks for the video

[@markturbit9974]

Hey Jody really enjoy your video's. Are using a water cooler , i noticed your hose going in too the torch there appears to be only one or is that a cover hose.

[@Hotsauce-cj7kj]

Great job

[@MrShockotaco]

I wouldnt have thought those cups would make that much of a diffrence but I demo'd one from a local supply shop. Holy smokes! It's like welding with a diffrent machine.

[@Mr.NiceGuy0.1134]

I made something like this recently except mine was made from triangles cut from 3x3x¼ aluminum angles. I cleaned up 24 of them and tacked them together to make 6 square's, then tacked the 6 square's together to make a box. I did forget to drill a hole in it and the last weld didn't want to weld up at the end, so I drilled out a big enough hole to weld a small fitting on. Now I have a somewhat lop sided aluminum box with a fitting that isn't centered at all and the box wobbles. But at least my welds look crispy👍🇺🇸

[@mordimustafa1275]

Excellent job , i always learn something THX

[@thomasballew7876]

Jody my son and bought a Vulcan mp 220 to learn tig welding works great on mild Steele but when we do aluminium what do you recommend for gas and tugsten we are doing scratch start. Love your videos and has helped a bunch with mig and stick any info would be great hope one day to lay a weld as good as yours awesome Job

[@atiaaatiaa56]

Goud jobe master tig

[@brianb6603]

Excellent as usual!!!

[@komoto567]

Drill some holes In the sides of the cube and you'll have the best set of dice around!

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Love those a ark shots 😀

[@glenmiller3783]

Awesome videos

[@apachesmokemachining6487]

A great educational video as always, thanks

[@markrand652]

Enjoyed the video Jody. I've got two I have to build for someone and it requires .050 5052. If you have any of that laying around maybe make one with that material, I would love to see how it SHOULD be done.

[@622624324]

Great video and extremely clean technique. I do have a question if you wouldn’t mind answering it when you have the time. How would you recommend that someone with little to no T.I.G welding work experience could get a job performing T.I.G welding to gain vital work experience? Assuming that this person has experience T.I.G welding but only in a school certification program and no work experience yet.

[@evolati12]

Hey I just did a quick KZbin search and there isn’t much on the dangers of not having a vent hole. Any chance you could hit that short subject in the near future?! Thanks either way! Damn good vijeo!

[@accuratealloys]

Thanks Jody!!

[@jeremydoblinger3609]

Nice!! The cube turned out great! I've really gotta get myself a crummie fixture plate or make myself one at work.. might be nicer of me to give Roy some support tho. Great video Jodi as always these arc shots are #1

[@zrocket5660]

Just wondering if it’s really necessary to file the edges or can you just leave them sheared if they are cleaned well? Looks like you’re getting a nice clean puddle.

[@Mustafa-tg8th]

Спасибо за информацию. Всё предельно ясно.

[@irenepereira5145]

I have an aluminium profile , butane torch , some brazing rods that melt very fast and has flux in them, could I use 4043 or 4047 with arc or the butane torch ?will it work or will the profile melt before the rods?

[@jeffhulett4194]

Looks great

[@kenneth6731]

I would give my left lugnut for Crummy fixture plate. It's just genius.

[@terrycapehart6303]

Enjoyed

[@davidcraft4909]

I'm about to order me one of those tig fingers. You should make a tig glove out of that material. I want a whole glove. I bought a tig finger from the local weld supply and it helps but I don't think it works very good. the tig fingers I see in your videos look like they a better than the one I have. so yeah I might just get me one.

[@calebbouchillon]

Anyone have any suggestions on websites to order aluminum stock from? Not just coupons, but sheets and other sizes and dimensions? Thanks Jody for the great channel

[@ColossalCrib]

Flex head is a must.

[@paulmorrey733]

Thanks Jody

[@ravindukalhara9924]

Wow good good job.

[@cdjklm8483]

Hi and thank you for all yout video , i follow you since maybe 6 years cause i like weld all process and kind of metal , i searching for a good video where it's show how to use 6013 1.6 and 2.00 mm cause never seen those kind of MMA welding on 7018 and cannot find any video about those tiny electrod please help me if you can not it's ok but for sur happy new year

[@ARCSTREAMS]

ohh man i used to do aluminium diesel tanks for army vehicles and i sure had my bouts of burning hands hanging in there just to finish a weld nicely ,it got awfully painful at times i had to remove the glove as it kept scorching me with all the heat that leather glove absorbs

[@Butch71]

Wish i could weld aluminum like that.

[@sylvestresanchez4848]

Thank you .

[@gcodemetalworks9138]

💪💯nice job

[@KowboyUSA]

Outstanding!

[@walterwillisk3988]

does your tig set up will work with my esab welder215c

[@valerialerman710]

Очень красивые шва получаются при tig сварке

[@m3a6r9]

💥¡¡ tanks máster !! 💥Great video 👍

[@ferreiramotos4416]

Nós dó canal ferreira motos estamos acompanhando tudo, 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👍👍👍👍

[@rossstammers4263]

If my 2.4 green tungsten keeps melting up what’s the issue on 3/16 aluminum

[@PANTYEATR1]

Mr Jody, is your machine set, so you can just flat foot the pedal? thanks for the many years of welding lessons💪

[@weldingtipsandtricks]

I usually set the machine with slightly higher amps than I actually need so I am not usually full pedal. But sometimes, I experiment

[@PulpFictionized]

Closed my eyes when he was welding so I couldn't get flashed, but I missed seeing his hand technique! Dammit

[@kdk200]

I want to do this but tried a corner weld and blew out the end of corner got too hot. How do you do this over 100 amps? I was at 100

[@keithsparks9089]

Does anyone know where to purchase a tiny fixture plate like this?

[@Qollect]

Hey what do you do about the frequency settings not back feeding into the electrical system in a house, I got a 210 ext in my garage that’s connected to the house and don’t wanna fry my tv/computers while doing HF start etc.

[@weldingtipsandtricks]

the manual shows a ground lug on the back of the machine . they recommend attaching a ground cable to an earth ground www.everlastgenerators.com/sites/everlastgenerators/files/downloads/dfe60188c86d74021235f2b62636585b.pdf

[@paulbisceglia6824]

Your tig gloves nice and comfortable

[@paulbisceglia6824]

Your the best jody wish I had half your knowledge

[@alanmony1582]

Hey Jody, great tips as always. I'm hoping you could do a video on tig welding on non moveable projects. I'm currently building a roll cage and having a difficult time with propping. Sometimes there's just no way to do it, and sight lines are really difficult, too! How do you deal with these issues? Inquiring minds want to know!

[@mattleicester977]

I can't help you with the propping, you just need to be in a really flexible mood and do what you can. I will give you my favorite trick for roll cages, though. When you have to have an inspection hole anyway, vent all of your tubes to each other so the inspection hole becomes a vent for the entire cage and you never have to worry about a weld blowing out on a joint. Also, I use a linear thumb amperage control instead of a foot pedal, they are worth their weight in gold for many positions inside the car.

[@josiahwright7114]

What exactly was going on when you flicked the rod while initiating the arc around 6:45?

[@weldingtipsandtricks]

sometimes when the arc does not want to start, flicking the cup with the rod will jump start it. I dont understand why, but it works

[@jordansunter928]

Hey Jody , a foot pedal is essential for this isn’t it ?

[@titaniumdiveknife]

Mucho respecto el presidente.

[@springer3783]

Can you open a uk website or does anyone know where to get furick cups etc in the uk

[@humberoestrada388]

Yeah fun project

[@Wroom90]

Hey, Jody! I've always hear that tig, and arc welds are the strongest. What do you think about this? Which welds are stronger, while which ones are weaker?

[@rakentrail]

There's a lot of tig snobs that make all kinds of claims. Which process is better? The one that gets the job done best. Need high deposition? Spray-arc mig, Submerged arc or flux core come to mind. Outside in the elements? SMAW (stick) is tried and true. In the shipyard we used tig on pipe for the root and hot pass but switched to stick for fill and cap. And done right, Mr. X-ray wasn't a problem! Learn every process you can. Try hand held sub-arc (squirt), now that's welding blind! LOL!

[@ryanauger1309]

95-112 amps full pedal 120hz 5051 3/32 rod and tungsten with out scratching the cube.

[@joewest2560]

Jody, not quite sure I follow you, you mention pulse 33% peak - 33% background, what is the amperage the other 33% 🥴

[@paky66]

can you also add a link to the small tig torch that you used there, please? I am considering buying one but not sure where to get one (a lot of sellers, but the quality is not the same everywhere)

[@weldingtipsandtricks]

weldmongerstore.com/collections/frontpage/products/ckworldwide-tig-torch-ck1512hsf-fx

[@raseensamman9832]

Gebt mir eine Chance zu sehen, was ich tun kann und Tage zwischen uns. Im Allgemeinen haben wir ein altes Sprichwort (die Stute vom Ritter), um diesen Ritter zu sehen

[@РустамДубинин]

Все интересно позновательно! Нужно переводить на русскмй язык так кто сварщик и так все понятно но вот новичкам или начинающим будет без перевода трудно понять делайте перево с уважением !!! 😎👍👍👍

[@hondafreak8613]

Im new to tig welding. Seem its a lot like soldering. Seems no one compares tig with soldering.

[@KB91YJ40]

About how much were you able to weld before you had to let the cube cool? I'm ASSuming you didn't do it all at once. I could be wrong.