Poor Color On Stainless: What Causes It & How To Fix It

[@Oneshot8242]

From a metallurgy standpoint, I think you've contributed a better explanation of how controlling welding variables can affect weld quality. I honestly can't imagine taking time to learn how to reproduce these effects. These colors indicate contaminants which, at worst, would require a reweld. His bright, shiny weld in the last pic (bottom right) is what it's supposed to look like. Stainless is a breeze to weld. Love from Denmark.

[@TJCaton91]

Thanks for the love man. Just a lot of time experimenting and getting results of hours under the hood.

[@ypaulbrown]

Tyler, this is great information, cheers form an old guy in Florida.......Paul

[@timfogle7337]

I'd like to see you do some vid on 14 or 16 gauge corner to corner. Tig fuse inside and outside that's what we do alot of. No burnthrough

[@justinn7580]

Awesome info and demonstration! Thank you Tyler and Weld!

[@GRich120]

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Fabtech!

[@ls2005019227]

Excellent video & information! Learning to weld aluminum and steel has seemed easier than mastering the look on stainless. I recently purchased an assortment of larger cups for the very reasons shown. Looking forward to another video with thinner test coupons- Thanks!

[@TJCaton91]

Keep posted we're working on it

[@TJCaton91]

I appreciate it! Ally is probably my favorite to weld. I work woth a lot of thin gauge material. It's fun but challenging.

[@Thedoug369]

What exactly is a cubic foot pound? Never heard of that one before. Just don't make sense to my simple brain.

[@brapbrapmafucka]

A typo to the best of my knowledge. CFH is a flow rate of gas. Which stands for cubic feet/hour of flow

[@Thedoug369]

@@brapbrapmafucka That's what I thought. Just messin a bit ✌

[@b2marksman253]

I believe it refers to gas pressure

[@fatkorn]

Good job big guy

[@ponnamusprime4753]

Can cologne mask a welder's smell?

[@terrywhite5240]

Thanks for info Tyler but 1/4 inch stainless is a lot easier to weld than 1/16 or 1/8th which is the majority of what I have to weld. The real question I would ask is how do you protect the already welded side from burning when you need to weld the back side ?????

[@TJCaton91]

Create a purge chamber. I weld a ton of 1/16th SS. We're working on some content in that as well.

[@TJCaton91]

Also use aluminum backing blacks clamped to the backside. That makes a massive difference.

[@paulmcdonald3570]

I looks like you pretty much run 25 cfh flow of argon on your 25” ss. Would you also run 25cfh on 16g ss ?

[@TJCaton91]

Yes. I base it off of the cup size. Post flow may change based on material thickness or length of the joint.

[@paulmcdonald3570]

@@TJCaton91 so for a smaller cup (like an 8) you would reduce the flow to reduce turbulence coverage?

[@TJCaton91]

@@paulmcdonald3570 yeah a little bit you could get away with 25 cfh on a #8 I'll drop down to maybe 20 cfh just to save a bit of argon. I know it's not much but it does add up overtime. Or if I need a longer tungsten stick out I'll up the flow to push a little more gas. But typically I'm within that range. Too high will cause turbulence like you said obviously too low will result in contamination.

[@justinbustin677]

I'd like to see stick stainless

[@Welddotcom]

You can always check out the weld app. We are providing much more content there :)

[@JRGood-mm9yu]

We would stick weld 8" stainless exhaust on gas compressors and it was beautiful to work with.

[@JonDingle]

It's a great process. I have done quite a bit on old stainless steel feed hoods on dairy farms where cattle have bashed the hood to get a few more treats. With stick, l always got good colours but with Tig it's seems harder. Must just be my technique.

[@brapbrapmafucka]

309-16 sodel rods are a dream flat and horizontal and overhead. Ive used 309L-15 esab rods before for vertical and stuff and it wasnt as fun or fresh but thats just an amateur millwright opinion lol

[@runifuceeme406]

YOU SHOULD SEND ME ALL THAT LEFTOVER WASTED STAINLESS PLATE..

[@christianbocka2724]

That’s crazy, I didn’t know my regulators measured cubic foot pounds per hour.

[@TJCaton91]

Was a typo. It obviously isn't said in the actual video.

[@christianbocka2724]

@@TJCaton91 Yes, that was quite clear to me.

[@TJCaton91]

@@christianbocka2724 seemed like I need to clarify it for you.

[@MichaelLangell]

CFH stands for Cubic Feet per Hour. What is Cubic Foot pounds per Hour??? It’s pretty sad to see a mistake like this on a video from your channel that has 800k subscribers. Not to mention at the time of this comment there are 1.3k views and no likes. Also this video is full of useless information that wastes time…

[@TJCaton91]

Welp I'm not sure what to tell you about the CFH. But experimenting with equipment and settings can help someone a lot when learning or from making mistakes on their own. But thanks for the negative feelings. As far as likes it looks like they're turned off.

[@Welddotcom]

Mistakes happen what you can do to contribute to the industry is nicely correct it Secondly the likes are off on all our videos for a reason as it’s not for the public..there’s no need for a likes contest. We spend a lot of time, money and energy to give you some free for you content..please be respectful as negativity isn’t necessary. For more in depth education you can download the app. Thanks for the feedback.

[@causewaykayak]

I disagree with this negative comment. I'm one amateur who experiments in my garage and thought this production was full of interest. The welding community goes to a lot of effort to provide instructional content at ALL levels and its all for free. So Michael wants perfection and he wants it for Free. I'd say that was ungrateful, unrealistic and downright disrespectful. Free speech is fine to a degree but this sort of attack will just get a lot of people irritated.

[@Welddotcom]

@@causewaykayak Thank you for the support and understanding. We appreciate it!!

[@TJCaton91]

@@causewaykayak I really appreciate your support and seeing value in the content. You're the audience we strive to help and build up in the community.