Mind Blowing Welding in Super Slow Motion

[@cenccenc946]

That was one of the most educational videos on welding I have ever seen. Of thousands of videos out there on welding, with a regular camera it is still just theoretical. They are not really able "show" what is going on. It is like talking about microbes, without a microscope. 👍

[@TimWelds]

Thanks! It really does give a different view of the arc.

[@dwightcheck]

Me too

[@richardw3294]

Brilliant insight as to what is happening. Thanks.

[@starbase51shiptestingfacility]

Interesting interaction, electricity and metal. Metal instantaneously melting. If you were into science, it would be a clue to investigate.

[@ashishsjalan]

100%

[@PaulMartin-sq7gc]

Senior welder of 45+ yrs. Excellent slow motion videos of different welding processes. Absolutely interesting. Thank you for your efforts of the filming and production. Educational by all means.

[@MR-backup]

Laser Welding is the future.

[@aerospacewelding]

@@MR-backupabsolutely

[@HenAndPenn]

I feel like a lot of welding classes would benefit from watching your amazing video. This is top notch quality. A+

[@TimWelds]

Thanks a ton! It's really cool to see a new level of detail.

[@lglge611]

​@@TimWelds Not only details, but to see physics of whole process. Thank you and could you please do more of this with stick welding?

[@SgtStinger]

@@TimWelds this short video about welding was able to show so well WHY you do things while welding, especially how to add filler rod properly and why you do it that way.

[@9xqspx6]

Just give them the link to the video! ;)

[@ezelk1337]

This is like the National Geographic of welding videos. Absolutely stunning! Thanks Tim

[@seeharvester]

All he needs is Dave Attenborough to narrate.

[@GamebossUKB]

You’re definitely older than 40 lol, National Geographic is ancient

[@Joachim2012]

@@GamebossUKB Well, best things are ancient, aren't they?

[@shadowrider7072]

Fantastic video! CWI and instructor here. I plan on showing this video to my co-workers and students.

[@jeSuperfly]

Absolutely fantastic footage Tim! Keep up the great work and we all thank you!

[@TimWelds]

Thank you! I appreciate that!

[@4speed3pedals]

That was amazing. Thanks Tim. Do more if you can. I wonder if you did a video on each (MIG, TIG, Stick) and if you could capture the common mistakes and show what is happening, Might help some people to understand why and get the process better ingrained in the mind before striking the arc.

[@TimWelds]

Thanks! That's a great suggestion to capture some mistakes with the system.

[@pazuzu7119]

You can film me welding if you want, but you won't capture any mistakes on film because I've never made one!

[@neepsmcfly4176]

@@pazuzu7119 well then i'm your perfect bookend bc I've yet to make a weld that I'm happy with.

[@pazuzu7119]

@@neepsmcfly4176 Practice makes perfect!

[@crazyfingers_kc]

​@@neepsmcfly4176Try starting off with brazing on an oxy-acetelyne torch. I was a brazer for three years before I ever touched a TIG welder and it made the process much, much easier to learn/understand. It's basically the same thing at the end of the day

[@Zardwark]

Top quality video. For us non welders really shows how it all works and what happens when it doesn't!

[@andrzej3511]

The Chinese have a proverb: one picture is worth a thousand words. It turns out that one video is worth a MILLION WORDS. Especially for a careful observer! ESPECCIALLY SLO-MO like Yours!!!! Your video, although short, told me more about welding techniques than all the lectures I have ever heard!!! This video should become a MANDATORY element of every welder training.

[@gmt-5est803]

Throughout my career on various construction projects, from overhead linework construction to commercial solar, welding has always been interesting. I recall once, way, way back when high schools still offered VOTECH, if anyone else remembers those types of programs, long gone now; I spent an entire day learning about welding and several frustrating hours of trying my hand at stick-welding. I was never very good at it and it just kind of fell by the wayside as my interests changed and evolved. This video was fantastically educational and informative. Now I know what a bead looks like as it's being applied. Very appreciative of the opportunity to see it in action. I learned more about welding in this 9-minute video than I have before. Good welds are as much art as science and experience.

[@BlackwaterDSM]

Hands down the absolute BEST video of the welding processes that I've seen in quite awhile! The slo-mo allows regular people that don't understand these principles to really see how things work, especially in the Tig process with the Aluminum and cleaning/contamination. Awesome video man, you never fail to please! 👏👏👏

[@WeirdScienceTime]

WOW this is amazing. Definitely one of the coolest welding videos I've ever seen. It's crazy how you can't see the arc at all.

[@TimWelds]

Thanks! It's really cool how the camera filters out almost all light except for the wavelength that comes from the bright LEDs.

[@brandonbutela6269]

Your super slow- mo footage of the weld pool was definitely fascinating. I've been staring at a welding arc for 30yrs and I am still mesmorized at what happens every time I strike up, regardless of what process I'm using. Great video. Thank you for your hard work and sharing it as well. Stay safe and God bless.

[@MauriceWakefield]

This was so enlightening to actually be able to see exactly what happens without distortion to the point of being in art form. Definitely a first for me. Awesome, Thank you.

[@MikeSmith-km9ff]

I've been a backyard welder for decades and have taken some classes over the years. If I had seen this when I started welding it would of helped so much. This view of welding is super informative.

[@tedbastwock3810]

I never thought I would see something this incredibly educational and useful for free. Thanks so much for coming up with this idea and doing it and sharing it with us!

[@seeharvester]

Everything educational should be free.

[@tedbastwock3810]

@@seeharvesterWhy?

[@seeharvester]

@@tedbastwock3810 Why not?

[@tedbastwock3810]

@@seeharvesterBecause people who make things that are educational have to eat too

[@seeharvester]

@@tedbastwock3810 You work your regular job for that. I always shared freely my knowledge of masonry with anyone who was interested. Trouble was, the physical effort of building structures out of brick and stone was more than most wanted to bear.

[@communis_scientia]

Absolutely magical to see all the fluctuations, frequencies, noise and phase shifts in the process. You were able to produce so much more, than you thought out of this experience! Thank You!

[@ncruzer]

That was freakin’ amazing! Thanks!

[@TimWelds]

Thank you! I appreciate that!

[@SoftStationMusic]

I just had my first day of welding school today and KZbin randomly recommended this excellent video to me this evening. I was very glad to see welding from this perspective and I feel like I understand it way more. 👍

[@morganahoff2242]

That was absolutely mesmerizing. This is the most rewarding video that's ever turned up in my feed. Learning to weld makes riding a ferry boat a whole 'nuther experience!

[@sia.b6184]

That was great Tim ! Daym, I just started mig and gasless welding for car DIY stuff and my skills are getting better after probably just under half a year, though watching that REALLY shows whats going on internally and its change the mental model in my head of what happens when I weld. Hopefully this allows me to improve even more now. As a self learning guy, when you use the mig gun, you just imagine sticking to peices of metal together with some heat and glue (the filler metal), but seeing how the puddle forms, how it gets drag and what happens when you make a mistake really helps !

[@TimWelds]

Thanks! Nice work practicing and leveling up at home; that's what I love about welding is there's no end to learning.

[@JustBadly]

A dedicated welding lens and light system would make welding so much more accessible. You are right about the limited view of welding with a traditional welders mask.

[@aaronmutch1883]

I could watch slow motion aluminum welding all day. So beautiful. Excellent/educational video brother

[@leitecunha]

I've never welded using these tools, although I thought about doing so. The footage and details here are incredible!!! Well done!

[@Codename-B]

This has to be one of the most insightful videos regarding welding out there. Thank you!

[@irgski]

This video will become the “standard” for all welding classes as well as for any “newbie” welders. Thank you for the education in welding.

[@psuaero100]

Amazing video and at 51 yrs old I learned a lot. I've never welded but been around my father welding when I was young. Back then, he stick/arc welded and gas welded. I never knew how TIG or MIG worked until today! I immediately shared this with my son (16). I love the high speed and clarity of the closeups with your voiceovers clearly explaining what I was seeing. Thanks for this.

[@JKa244]

This is great! I'm not a professional welder but I do occasionally stick a few pieces of metal together at home. This really helps me better understand what's going on and I'll see if that translates to better welds!

[@MrGreen876]

Its crazy how welding was discovered before we even had color TV. Yet we knew how to manipulate electricity like this. Even crazier to see a KZbin video of this process on a microscopic level. This has been added to my favorite weld videos of all time. Thank you good sir 🥂 After thought: Do you think we could get another video like this where you change the settings like frequency and balance?

[@kevinsellsit5584]

Best welding video on KZbin. The most important thing I learned in my college TIG class was "to watch the weld pool flow". This video gives a much better view of that, but this is exactly what you are looking for. The day you start looking at the weld pool is your first day of actually welding metal.

[@pepe6666]

thanks dude. im a newcomer to welding (never welded ever), and this tour through the main types of welding & what they actually do was super helpful. nothing like a demonstration / example to make it so much simpler to grasp. cheers.

[@craig7350]

That was interesting. This video should be part of any welding instruction program.

[@elliottstevens8564]

Top ten welding video on YT!!!

[@navmarroaming2292]

Incredible photography. Thank you.

[@Jeff-rk8hq]

By far the most visually informative welding clip I’ve ever seen. I just got my first fcaw machine from my dad so I have been gathering what I could to better understand what’s all entailed and just a bit more of an informative than instructional based inquiry but this paints a very vivid picture of what a weld is and how it forms. I genuinely think that knowing the process can really help you implement techniques etc. so thanks a bunch tim

[@MRblazedBEANS]

Anyone studying welding, or that is already a welder would benefit from this video. It's great to see up close and slow motion how the beads form and flow. I don't weld never have but I would think it would.

[@speedyham545]

This video is amazing and will be very helpful for new welders everywhere so they know what is going on when welding and not just pushing the puddle around. Thanks!

[@melgross]

That was excellent work Tim. The images look like those examples in my textbooks, but they’re usually illustrations and not photos, sometimes a cut weld after the fact. Congratulations on reaching 300k. We’ll be here with you as you hit 400k and beyond.

[@ryanthomas2374]

Ive mig'd for years and this slowed down high def footage is the first ive seen of it.. really helps you understand what is happening when.

[@thewhitetdn]

WOWZERS!!!, This is one of the greatest educational welding videos on KZbin. Thank you Tim.

[@sergedebel6514]

Mind blowing and so educational on how metals react with DC or AC. Mig short arc is also very interesting and we can sometimes see bigger globules laying out into puddle. Would be super if you could still shoot spray arc and pulse spray and possibly Tig brazing too. Thanks very much for sharing

[@TimWelds]

Thanks! I'm able to capture some more footage and I agree that spray vs pulse would be really interesting to see.

[@markjacobson4248]

It's pretty remarkable looking at an old welding textbook, from well before this sort of video was possible, yet the smart people who came up with this stuff already knew exactly what was happening and describe it pretty much perfectly.

[@pyromen321]

Awesome footage and explanation! I’ve never welded, but I’ve spent way too much time on KZbin so I have an okay understanding of the different types of welding. But this video clearly demonstrated and solidified a lot of the concepts I’be picked up on over the years. Awesome stuff!

[@houstongalloway6380]

Fantastic video. Thanks. I recently retired from a >50 engineering career where I often had to draw and specify metal vessels. I learned how to weld steel in order to be able to design better but I never could weld Al. Al would just melt into a mess every time for me. I have tremendous respect for good Al welders. Really wonderful video. Thanks.

[@Mcannone46]

This has to be one of the most useful, educational, and important videos ever made. We need people to understand the basics of manufacturing to appreciate it. Keep up the great work.

[@leapnlarry]

I have never welded myself, but i found this fascinating, anybody teaching welding needs this footage to help explain what is going on in the different techniques. Larry

[@andrewcramer7214]

Wow, thanks algorithm for FINALLY sending me something constructive rather than mind-numbing garbage. For the first time, i can fully understand the differences in welding. Without a doubt the best welding video on the net. Impressive! Thanks Tim!

[@sharkaholic_12]

Slow Motion is an important piece of science and I never knew what welding looked like at high speed until now. Great footage.

[@Tomc8030]

Absolutely 100% the very best welding video on the internet. I’m going to save this video and the next time I’m tasked with teach a new hand I’m going to show this to him or her! I can’t even tell you how excited I am about this video.

[@bradthayer6782]

Really awesome video. I’d love to see videos like this for typical things that go wrong as well.

[@TimWelds]

Thanks! That's a great suggestion, I appreciate it!

[@maxc2959]

This is a fantastic video! I'm so sick of those "intro to welding" videos where literally nothing makes sense because I can't visualize what they're talking about!

[@KevinHalliburton]

This is the absolute best welding footage I have ever seen. Well done!

[@JustHere999dl]

As a novice welder of 35 years on jobs, this rocks. Helps me think more about how I was successfully able to teach myself how to weld in various formats with no formal training... As I call it, I just melt stuff together as deeply as possible.

[@RVwithTito]

That was really cool slowmo to see especially for us newbie welders. 👍

[@TimWelds]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[@douglasjankey7580]

The is the best video ever produced! All welding schools and programs need to watch this. You did a phenomenal job A++

[@tinytree100]

The guy before me said it all, seeing what's happening in slow mo is very helpful. I learned much from this video ,please produce more !

[@75swampass]

This is what I’ve been looking for. I’m the kind of person who has to physically see how something works and what’s actually happening in order to learn the process and better myself. Thank you

[@psmith2234]

Fascinating to see how fluid the puddle is, with the arc force from the tungsten pushing and holding a dimple in the top of the puddle. Thank you!!!

[@cybco]

Awesome. Bravo. Thanks. Had a welder drop a helmet and stick in my hand, and said weld back in 1983. Larry Parker is his name, was 50 at the time, I was 22 working as a maintenance man and Dulles Marriott.

[@arubanjames]

The best weld puddle video, HANDS DOWN!!! I would love to see some more shots, “how not to weld” or when your “welding wrong” what is going on in the puddle. Absolutely awesome!

[@oldcarguy6863]

Absolutely by far the best welding video I've ever seen. Awesome job.

[@CedarPass]

I've rarely said this in ANY of the 30 or so total comments I've made re: KZbin videos I've watched in the last five years: AWESOME video and explanation. Very helpful. Well done, Tim.

[@breezy0037]

That was neat to see. Understanding how it all works is very beneficial.

[@TimWelds]

Thanks a ton! I learned a lot as well.

[@WesterDrive]

I wish that I could have watched this when I was learning 25 years ago. What a time to be alive!

[@7Trident3]

No small effort to create a fascinating peek into the puddle, and what's happening. Top notch content!!

[@matthewjoscott]

One of the most interesting and educational videos about how the different types of welding actually work. Well done, and thank you!

[@Dev_2R]

When doing stuff with your hands and trying to improve, there's always a "just" that you need to do for success, but those tips are pretty arbitrary. Tim, thank you so much for breaking down the process to this extent, describing what is actually happening during welding so that we can determine on our own how our hands need to facilitate that process more successfully.

[@pro_diesel]

MY God!!...Amazing content!!...THis should be shown in all technical welding schools!!...Great work!!

[@forrestaddy9644]

I've been welding for 60 years and thought by study, practice, and testing I was pretty much aware of most of the subtlties. This video is a revelation. It's absolutely ground breaking. If the welding engineers and makers of welding machines and consumables aren't now beating down your doors for your further insights, expect the thunder soon.

[@VictorMPR]

Super. Cool. The MIG slow-mo really shows all that spatter, which is very neat to see. TIG is ssssoooo clean and “proper”. Almost looks like magic without telling arc.

[@kiloyardstare]

Really shows in truth how superior TIG is for critical welds and just how chaotic MIG is. Amazing footage;

[@yugbe]

I believe this will make people better welders. Allowing welders to see the process in slow motion will help them better understand whats happening. Thank you

[@haroldhenderson2824]

Very nice! This could easily augment classroom teaching and help metallurgist understand what actually happens when three pieces of metal are fusing together.

[@fredastaire6156]

oh wow!! I can understanding welding so much better now!! I have this visual representation to draw from. Bravo on such an exceptional and inovative way to show welding, thank you Tim!

[@andyb7754]

Fantastic video Tim. Love to see the flow in slow motion. Very, very interesting. Maybe that company will "donate" that system to you! Great information, thank you.

[@TimWelds]

Thanks! It looks like I'll be able to use it for some footage in some upcoming videos as well.

[@davidcheswick4059]

Amazing video Tim, we can actually see the physics of electric arc welding in action

[@TimWelds]

Thank you!

[@jameswilson5337]

years ago. when I was learning how to weld videos like this would have been a great blessing to me. I'm it's amazing! and I'm very happy that future welders will be able to see this. I love . please keep it up❤

[@3DCGdesign]

Thank you for making this! I only do stick welding, so was relieved when you showed that. But now I would feel confident to give Mig and Tig a try.

[@v2gbob]

That was great! Fascinating to see what is actually happening while you weld.

[@sike2313]

Slow mo makes welding look so different, absolutely awesome. Thank you for sharing

[@soundguydon]

That was so awesome! Great footage -- as others have said, you don't really understand everything thats happening until you see it in slow-mo!!

[@russellbergersen3296]

This should be standard educational material now that the technology exists. Haven't seen many trade related videos that kept me that interested. I'm glad to see a slow motion camera used for more than the Slo-Mo Guys silliness

[@GrahamC-m9g]

A great pity the camera had to go back!! I started welding when I was 17, I ran a welding factory for 45 years, and I just turned 70, still going strong. That is the best vid I have ever seen on what actually happens in a weld pool ! ! I would have loved to have seen sprayarc ! Perhaps you can borrow it back one day. Ten thumbs uo!

[@doctimw]

WOW, Thank you for sharing these high speed videos and the instructional voice-over also included!! I always learn something new from your channel and today was especially Informative!!

[@cdarw]

I didn’t expect to watch the entire video. I just clicked to see something cool. Before I knew it, the video was ending. Phenomenal job, sir!

[@janmarucha9138]

Tim. That's one of the best videos I've seen in a lot of time. The setup with color filter and roughly monochromatic light is genius. Do you have more videos on physics of aluminum welds? Also, would be cool to see how positive electrode and negative electrode differ under that high speed camera.

[@jacobvaughn7095]

Yes please, if you have more footage can you please upload it. Even if it isn’t 100% flawless like this video. It was really so very cool being able to see only that in which you create in your mind thinking of what is happening. Thank You again for this video for sure!!!!

[@joshbeaulieu7408]

Beautiful quality videos! Slo mo welding really helps people appreciate the beauty of a trade that is frequently too discredited.

[@Andre-hz8yx]

I have been welding for 35 years and seeing this was awesome.

[@stewiepid4385]

Not a welder. This is awesome stuff right here! Respect to all welders.

[@frankbing1]

Everybody as already said everything I was gonna say, this is the best explanation of welding I’ve ever seen, I imagine this video going through the roof.

[@-DIYPRO-]

It's amazing how much you can learn from slow motion. Awesome awesome video! 👏👏

[@TimWelds]

Thanks Jeff! I appreciate it!

[@Metal_Master_YT]

_Amazing,_ I absolutely love this! I personally prefer to learn how things work at the individual level, it really helps me to fully understand how things work. So being able to see this clearly in slow motion was so helpful! oh also, out of curiosity, what causes the black soot around mig welds? it looks like carbon, but I don't know where it comes from. you can even see it forming in your slow motion video.

[@DevoiranGamer]

Mainly, it comes from the shielding gas itself - most MIG on steels is done with an Argon/CO2 mix; the electric arc manages to strip Carbon from CO2, which then combine and scatter as a fine soot! On top of that, there's the carbon in the steel workpiece & MIG wire being liberated as a gas as the metals are melted, and any surface contamination from oils, greases or in mill scale. Especially if that soot tinges orange rather than solely black Sometimes there's no helping it - especially since mills often use graphite or charcoal powders as a lubricant during hot rolling of bar, angle/section/channel stock, and mineral grease or even animal tallow for sheets!

[@Metal_Master_YT]

@@DevoiranGamer well that's what I thought, until I realized that I get the same soot no matter the level of cleaning I do, so it isn't grease, and carbon has a higher boiling point than iron, so it cant be coming from the wire or workpiece. the arc and high temperatures involved might split CO2, but the moment that the oxygen-carbon plasma leaves the arc, it would just recombine forming CO2 again. carbon at several thousand degrees is _very_ flammable. my personal guess is that when everything is clean, the little bit of soot that still remains is caused by vaporized copper, specifically vaporized copper oxide which has a boiling point of only ~3,500F as compared to 5,100F for iron and 6,000F+ for carbon. my reasoning? well, most mig wire has a thin copper coating to protect the steel wire underneath, _including mine._ copper oxide is black too, so that checks out. but hey, it still looks an awful lot like carbon, and visually it looks just like ordinary soot, so I would have to experiment with it. I DO know however, that if you use 75% 25% mix for welding non-ferrous metals, like stainless or aluminum, then the other more chemically active metals present will rip the oxygen off of the CO2 forming carbon and metal oxide. however carbon is above iron in the reactivity series, meaning that iron alone cant rip the oxygen out of CO2.

[@shawnjacobs4111]

WOW! Great footage! Thanks for sharing this Tim.

[@TimWelds]

Thanks a ton!

[@JPEspulgar]

I love this video, it never bored me from the start and very direct to the topic, unlike the other there is so many talking before the main topic, thanks man!

[@benhoffmann6870]

Wonderful high speed video clips! Consider additional videos on more welding modes and positions. Really fantastic video. Excellent. Thanks!

[@dustinandtarynwolfe5540]

I dont usually watch yourbvideos. Ive been a welder for 20 years so your videos arent typically geared towards me however that tig footage was something ive never seen before and it verifys some things ive always believed but couldnt prove. Very cool

[@johnhodgson9395]

Probably the best description of welding I have seen. Nice job.

[@dksaevs]

This was a great video!!! Been welding for 50+years, just awesome! Hope you don't mind I've reposted the link on a friends KZbin channel.

[@RK48frazergasser]

Fantastic video the ability to see so clear thank you Tim just Fantastic