Mind Blowing Welding in Super Slow Motion

TIG, MIG and Stick welding viewed in a whole new way
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[@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.

[@starbase51shiptestingfacil97]

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

[@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?

[@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! ;)

[@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

[@ncruzer]

That was freakin’ amazing! Thanks!

[@TimWelds]

Thank you! I appreciate that!

[@jeSuperfly]

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

[@TimWelds]

Thank you! I appreciate that!

[@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.

[@Zardwark]

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

[@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! 👏👏👏

[@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.

[@TheRealUncleBeef]

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. 👍

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Codename-B]

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

[@shadowrider7072]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@breezy0037]

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

[@TimWelds]

Thanks a ton! I learned a lot as well.

[@jerryleejohnsonjr1377]

It would be cool to see typical welding mistakes in this slow motion format.

[@TimWelds]

Great suggestion! Thank you!

[@stanmacdonald1073]

It would have to be fast motion if you wanted to cover my mistakes in a short time!

[@aaronmutch1883]

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

[@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.

[@christianterrill3503]

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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@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!

[@kiloyardstare]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@thewhitetdn]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@RVwithTito]

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

[@TimWelds]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[@tomc8930]

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.

[@davidcheswick4059]

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

[@TimWelds]

Thank you!

[@WesterDrive]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@Casualhobbiest]

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

[@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

[@slowpoke6743]

Sick footage bro! I feel like I can weld anything now. I've never welded a day in my life but this video has convinced me that I have what it takes. Technically, it would be legit for me to claim I have 1000's of hours of experience with various forms of welds yes? Yes. I knew you all would agree. Thanks again for making this instructional video/vocational curriculum for those of use who can"t afford to go to school. I have the money, it just gets in the way of my music career. I was Joan of Arc in my former life.😐

[@GamebossUKB]

What lol

[@johnhodgson9395]

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

[@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 !

[@leitecunha]

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

[@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.

[@7Trident3]

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

[@oldcarguy6863]

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

[@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!

[@elliottstevens8564]

Top ten welding video on YT!!!

[@pro_diesel]

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

[@shawnjacobs4111]

WOW! Great footage! Thanks for sharing this Tim.

[@TimWelds]

Thanks a ton!

[@stewiepid4385]

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

[@Andre-hz8yx]

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

[@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.

[@KevinHalliburton]

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

[@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!

[@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!!!

[@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

[@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

[@sike2313]

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

[@StraitD2]

"Frying bacon" is the best description of a proper MIG weld.

[@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.

[@navmarroaming2292]

Incredible photography. Thank you.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@douglasjankey7580]

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

[@craig7350]

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

[@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.

[@haroldhenderson2824]

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

[@ragnaldodinson7320]

Thanks Tim, I've welded nuke subs, reactor piping, nuclear fuel refining and storage, pipelines, micro plasma arc on a liquid has cooled electron microscope, ship building and all the usual junk jobs you can get. The whole art of welding, the other world inside that helmet, and that molten metal magic pool, there is nothing in this world like it. Please carry on Tim, and thanks

[@danoi99]

It's 23:45hrs.......I should go to sleep, but the wormhole has me watching a great welding video. Interesting stuff.

[@-DIYPRO-]

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

[@TimWelds]

Thanks Jeff! I appreciate it!

[@jakerazmataz852]

I learned 100% more about welding, since watching that.

[@v2gbob]

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

[@user-nj6zr7wi1o]

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!

[@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

[@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?

[@TIGingIt]

That slow mo tig part was the best visual quality.

[@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!

[@mummerk]

And this is why I love welding. so much happens quicker than a blink of an eye.

[@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❤

[@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.

[@jimurrata6785]

When the AC shot started it was cool to see the sharp tungsten instantly ball up and then grow to where it could handle the amperage smoothly.

[@TimWelds]

Yeah, I knew that most machines give a hot start based on the tungsten size setting, but I didn't realize how much it rounded the tungsten in just that fraction of a second.

[@jimurrata6785]

@@TimWelds Watching slag form was cool too! Those Chronos cameras were amazing when I first saw them years ago. Now you have a filter that keeps the image sensor from being blown out by the arc and only passes that violet light is a whole nother level! 🤯 Thank you for sharing this. 👍

[@alexfooify]

This video thaught me more about welding than any tutorial or guide could ever do.

[@sleeplessdev7204]

This is outside of my wheelhouse, but also exactly the type of random, insightful video that I love!

[@proaudiorestore8926]

That was one of the best welding descriptors I’ve ever seen! Well done and thanks for sharing!

[@Hey_Its_That_Guy]

Simply amazing, Tim! Wow, just Wow! This is by far your best video to date. Best arc shots EVER! Well done!

[@TimWelds]

Thanks a ton! I have to give a lot of credit to the folks at Kron for the lighting system. I'm just glad to have the chance to play with it for a bit.

[@Hey_Its_That_Guy]

@@TimWelds That Kron system is going to be a game changer for industry and welding schools. Doesn't matter the process, welding happens so quickly (relatively speaking) that, like you said, you just can't see exactly what's happening. Thanks for sharing this! It's amazing!

[@timmckee2813]

...50 year welder...thank you so much...loved it...

[@EpicATrain]

This video is going to blow up.

[@jimiday9300]

That was hands down the BEST welding video I've ever seen... i make my living playing in them puddles and although I've often imagined that this is how it looks... now I know!!... thank you!!

[@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.

[@cam.venice]

This camera with you knowledge is heaven sent

[@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!!

[@willanderson7441]

That footage is beautiful. Aluminium pulse MIG is very interesting as well.

[@ezze7540]

WOW BROTHER!!! This is by far the best welding principles video I have ever seen! Thank you for sharing this footage. A good image really is worth a book of words trying to explain this.

[@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.