TFS: Extreme Cope Challenge (watch me get humbled)

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

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[@antonylowick231]

Do you think you could put one side near a wall with a mirror as paractice and explain it. Just to show the crap you have go to on job site's and a worst case scenario. Great video and your awesome i really want to try this just wondering if you ship worldwide

[@colbygrapov1239]

yo Justin you should use the primeweld tig225 more often in your vids

[@willhall7777]

Just noticed your torch at 27 mins in... Where do I get one of those??? Looks super handy!!!

[@somd_lftd_hoe8074]

Have to tried the ahp alphatig 203?? I'm debating between that or the primeweld 225x

[@mrmidnight32]

You make me feel so much better about my trademarked tungsten dipping technique I’ve perfected over the last 6 months of welding 😂😭😩

[@TomMakeHere]

Yeah I must get confused with stick welding with the amount that I dip my electrode!

[@416cubes4]

nothing's more annoying than looking down and asking yourself didn't I just sharpen all 10 of those 5 minutest ago?

[@MustardActual]

Story of my life man😂

[@dennisleadbetter7721]

I agree, I feel so much better, but I don't think I could do the contortionist act of the century and only dip 7 tungstens.

[@adrianm5147]

Thank you for not doing a practice piece beforehand. This is a small insight on true welding "in the field". One thing is on a bench and another thing is welding upside down in 100 degree weather. You kept it real, mad respect.

[@arcdragon6906]

Thanks for sharing! So glad you have the balls to show everyone something that isn't 100% perfect. Definitely helps moderate my current aspirations back towards reality.

[@skeeterdirks3992]

I like how real you are Justin. No excuses no bull!! And very informative on everything you do. Excellent content. For beginner tig welders like me this is all very good info and I thank you for that.

[@dereckbauer2613]

Damn & I was feeling bad about how often I have to regrind/replace tungstens, THANKS for that!!

[@icyuranus404]

"welding" is just a name used to disguise the real task: grinding

[@gabewhisen3446]

@@icyuranus404 if your really good like me throw in some Bondo and paint to that list

[@johanjotun1647]

just you Justin, your the only one who can instruct/talk while they do it thanks for the content love the channel.

[@anetworkservice]

Nicely done. I bought this kit for practice before rollbar welding. I haven't opened it yet. Also; I'm glad you didn't practice first. That helps the rest of us aspiring welders feel better.

[@carlpimblett8628]

I have the greatest respect for you on this one for being both Honest and Brave for performing this exam piece in front of the world (and probably your old welding school teacher).

[@autoSRI]

That looks way harder than it first appears Nice to see your not afraid to show your mistakes

[@icyuranus404]

you+are=you're nice to see that not afraid to show mistakes

[@robertsample42]

Icy Uranus :DILLIGAF!!!

[@icyuranus404]

@@robertsample42 ur mom must think highly of you

[@rdb8509]

That is reality for me. So thanks for doing that. I weld about 2x a year so this helps reinforce that I need to practice a lot more. Great channel!

[@416cubes4]

Sweet, looks great🤘 Appreciation for sharing your thoughts as your at it.. The little things you mention as your burning through it are all things I will be more observant of. All details that can only come from experience. For those of us who have a lack of that (experience) learning from yours, absolutely helps speed up our learning curve. I've been swinging a hammer/remodeling/building for 17 years. Finally, over the past couple years I'm able to make the time and now have the space/tools to create via a new medium, metal. I'm getting board with wood. Lol. Love your series, it really is helping me progress faster than I would have otherwise. I don't have time or money for school, this is as good as it gets for a guy like me! Always looking forward to your next video. Thx!

[@samla2404]

Solid work and thanks man for showing not only skills but effort to demonstrate the piece.

[@vili8893]

You spirit is contagious, i'm all hyped too when u started.

[@Titantramp4u]

Back in the 80's I was working for a desert racer named John Baker and was just learning high end fabrication including TIG welding. John needed a TIG welder and was interviewing quite a few all week...they all layed down good solid TIG welds on the bench, but just about everyone failed when the had to weld on the actual race car in all the off hand positions that came up. Bench - ok, Tube frame - not so well....Where I learned that you need to be able to weld in all sorts of crazy places...

[@nzalog]

I appreciate seeing this, after watching all these perfect TIG videos, I thought I was just very slow.

[@RicardoGarcia-104]

Love the struggle. Sometimes you definitely make it look so easy. Thankx for the video

[@k0rndog93]

I'm a bit late to this party, but it seems like 30 people ran out of Tungsten before they finished the challenge lol.. But I've been watching your channel alot lately, really dig the content!! I'm only a beginner right now (Started like 3 months ago) and have learned a lot from your vids. It's super rad that you show your mistakes!! It keeps me motivated seeing professionals make mistakes! It can be discouraging to watch some channels that only show the perfect stuff.

[@dereckbauer2613]

LOVE watching your vids, serious sense of humor

[@abarry48]

Definitely gunna have to get one to try out, I’m just a self taught and your videos helped a ton with learning. Hopefully I can stick one together

[@tgsubie]

Dude, i absolutely love your channel. You have taught me so much and ive had fun just watching and learning from you. Thank you for the valuable information you provide to make the world of fabrication a better place. I laughed a lot during this one lol. But still glad to watch and learn.

[@scottH18370]

Making me really look forward to building my new airboat cage

[@JO.Racing]

It’s nice to see the mistakes on KZbin, often times we only see the best of the welds and not knowing how may outtakes the person did to get that perfect bead. Basically it’s nice to see that you sometimes suck as much as we do at home in our own workshops. Lol

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

19 years of practice only to find out I'm still human.

[@JO.Racing]

The Fabrication Series love you’re work man, I’ve watched multiple video you’ve posted and probably watched the cage build series 3-4 times when building my roll cage on our time trials car. Seeing you dip the tungsten a few times made me feel alittle better about my welding ability. Lol

[@gsh319]

...and if we wanna add just a bit more of challenge to this exercise, my cameraman is gonna jab a pointed stick in my right eye...which......he first rolled in salt!.... remember no cheating! Great work Justin. Thank You for all your valuable lessons my friend

[@Metal2Venom]

Awesome work was good seeing hole video see the different angles can get in, just wish had guy like you in UK to teach tig would be there in a heartbeat hard learning from videos

[@daveettel4750]

My back hurts just watching this lol. Thanks for all the great info I really appreciate it

[@superkillr]

No joke. Keep your body in some off crooked hold for even 30 seconds could sideline me now.

[@prozeke07]

Really appreciated the real time errors in the exercise. Let's us commoners realize we aren't that far off.

[@fullboostturbo1]

Great Vid mate, I always comment on Welds I see on youtube reason being I used to be a welder some 13 years ago and just a can't help myself lol. I used to lay some really decent mild/stainless steel and Aluminum tig welds, I was a welder/boilermaker for some 22 years, I used to take great pride in all my welds often getting comments off other welders, on how perfectly uniform they all looked. I have never had a job come back due to failure of any kind from any of my welds, at any time throughout my welding career which I am totally proud of. But I do often think to myself, here I am making fun of other peoples welds yet I have not really done any decent welding for 13 years, so I bet my welds would be dam shitty to start off with again maybe on par with a beginner, at least for the first few welds anyway. One thing which is like riding a bicycle, you should never really forget how to make a welding machine purr so to speak, by adjusting everything correctly whether it be Mig, Tig, or just the correct amps/polarity for stick welding. Keep up the great vid's of you actually being a human, and making mistakes every now and again.

[@fredblair4307]

i pretty much watch all the welding videos for one reason many years ago back in England when I was a young man i was a welder i welded high pressure hydraulic elbows for a company called hi flex in Salisbury wilts uk from there i graduated to working on the early mini coopers for a company called downton engineering in Wiltshire southern England making inlet and exhaust manifolds from there to fabricating fuselage for various aircraft all this was done with gas welding idid just a little tig but it was nothing like today's machines it was a monster water cooled very heavy torch big heavy rubber hoses im looking at buying a new multi purpose machine and thanks to your review its going to be the fronius transteel 2200 as i plan on building a lutus seven clone as i worked for colin Chapman on couple of early versions of the lotus seven and promised myself one day id have one

[@MonkeyTron69]

This video inspired me to want to learn how to weld, I'll be watching that video next. Thank you, Great job. 👍 That looked complicated and fun.

[@maximfadeev2012]

Thanks for true video! Did not expect that you spent so many tungstens!!!

[@skoue4165]

Love the tungsten count. Mine would have been a lot higher!

[@seanwolfe9321]

Good God Justin....if I could have pulled that thing off the stand or at least rotated it...it would have just been hard. This was a monster even with your face to face help. I highly recommend anyone wanting to learn tube/roll cage etc welding to go to your link for weldmetalsonline. It starts out fun...until your shoulders and arms start getting fatigue! Nice, right fits on those coping cuts...gonna give it another try soon (in my shop this time...)

[@jimzivny1554]

Great video, very interesting listening to your thoughts as you went along.

[@lindseylucciannio9244]

Love the fact you show that your human like the rest of us

[@chrisduncan2626]

An older guy i work with always said "you give me perfect conditions, ill give you a perfect weld. Therefore you do what you can to get it done" lol i do enjoy doing stuff static sometimes (mainly build pressure vessels and condensors). I may have to order this and give it a go. I always tell people those 6g pipe welds are a cakewalk compared to stuff like this in the real world where theres crap in your way all the time

[@paulhancock3844]

My instructor always told me off for trying to move items to the perfect position. Said they don't tip ships over so People like you can weld, make it work with what you have

[@BigDave71]

I find this so interesting. I should have been a welder or at least tried. I bajad no guidance when I graduated high school. Should have followed my heart. There were too many negative people around me. Thank goodness they are now far away from me. 😆

[@vinnbrock]

Wow. Another great video. Thank you for showing it in a single take format and being honest about the tungstens. I'm saving up for a tig rig, and it's refreshing to see that a bad@ss like you dips the tip (just the tip). Wish I could give it more than one thumbs up.

[@ALurkingCamper]

I really like watching these videos. It’s good entertainment. Thank you.

[@AlisonWheeler]

It's sorta good to know experts tag their tungsten too.

[@darylt57]

Awesome video! going to try this when i get better.

[@FordMan-lf8ns]

nice work and very informative I haven't tigged in yrs but taught 2 of our younger peeps in the shop so now they do it all so i'm out of practice big time!!!!

[@kmcwhq]

What happened to the AHP welder comparison video?

[@FrankRuiz66]

That was awesome sauce to watch.. Well done dudw👍👍

[@DynamicViper771]

im just learning to TIG, this would own me but eh i would so try it

[@mopar92]

One definitely sees why all commercially built chassis are mig welded. This is some hard stuff. My back hurts watching it. Good job.

[@kf8575]

Theyre probably mig welded by commercial suppliers for one simple reason.... Money. Tig welding a roll cage will have a higher manufacturing cost; more expensive gas and consumables, will take longer to fabricate (properly, ie all joints being cleaned and with an accurate fit-up) and if they're Mig welded, then the company only has to hire in semi-skilled staff giving lower wage bills each month.

[@mopar92]

Ken F I wouldn’t say a nascar team is cheaping out. All the nascar stuff is migged. Even aircraft that are tube fuselages are migged now.

[@tjf1531]

Always appreciate real world work. Great job sir

[@rickyburton4642]

Justin, that was great! And I didn’t see any leaks at all!😃👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👌lol!

[@rhb8663]

Hey. I can dip loads more tungstens than that. I can also stuff the rod into it. That was a surprise the first time I did it!!

[@daos3300]

great stuff, one of your best.

[@jamessonger3]

Damn bro I hope those are not some knockoff Tig Fingers..... you, me and everyone else in this community should support Jody by using his Tig Fingers.... That's just how I feel because of what he's done for me and taught me with his videos....

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

It's a spark plug heat shield boot thingy. My TIG fingers were missing the day of the shoot (I suspect they stayed on someone else's finger since I still havent found them). Gotta improvise.

[@chriswhite6882]

that made my back hurt just watching bro good stuff tho!

[@icyuranus404]

up your abs game do some crunches

[@johnthomas8605]

Try it with GMAW .030 ER70S6. I just welded up a prototype piece for a military client using 2" .095 chrome moly tube with a number of extreme coped joints. It was humbling as I has gotten used to just running straight 2, 3, and 4 F and G type joints on plate and some square stock (we have used very little round stock due to what we build). I'm goping to get a TIG welder this fall and go back through all your coping and tube fabing and welding vids and get my skills back up in those areas.

[@melgross]

Do you ever watch your own videos (after you edit them, that is?) because on this one, you’re positively manic. ;~}

[@fredblair4307]

be very careful what you wish for you just might get it and be made to look just a little bit to cocky lol im just teasing you because I watch all your videos that i can find

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

I recall editing this vid and think "Wow, I sound like an ass in that intro." But I meant it to encourage others to try it out and hope others can do way better than I did 🤣

[@ChrisMclaughlin-g6n]

“ you wanna switch roles”. Tig welding does require a skill, that is easily learned, but at the end of the day, photographers and videographers get payed way more.

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

Payed? I've seen your other comments about how much you don't like me now. It's OK. I can handle it... especially since I get paid every time you let me know. Negativity always pays more.

[@jayspain]

Thanks it is informative, I'd have liked you to include 45 degree cuts. My abrasive chop saw is pretty useless at them. I won't mention the make as I think its down to wobbly cutter rather than make.

[@charliecyr5482]

Should of had a last tube coming straight down on top 😁 very nice job

[@chuckpyle1624]

Awesome job

[@BigDave71]

Awesome video. Thank you

[@TrojanHorse1959]

Great video and challenge, thanks!

[@aaronanderson7619]

I took that missing dab... And 3 more, I'm not sorry... Sleepy maybe.

[@overbuiltautomotive1299]

lol i going to try this for my first tig peace man why not be fun

[@icyuranus404]

just put the one thing on the other thing and there you go

[@1tarbaby1]

more power to you man that was awesome Cheers

[@EVERETHFORRESTER]

Good work 👍

[@thomwood8768]

Great job on the cope challenge. Love your channel and have learned a lot from it. I do have a question. I noticed in previous videos that you have a porter cable band saw. I was wondering how you slowed down the speed to be able to cut steel with that saw. I have the same one but trying not to change the motor out. I am hoping you could answer this question. Keep up the good job on the videos.

[@andyp2001]

You should invest in a Tig Finger from Jody!

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

I used to buy them often, but they kept staying on other people's fingers in the classes. So I switched to spark plug heat shields. I cant even gives these away 🤣

[@djack1948]

Hey Justin, Try the 'Tig Finger' work great for those hot spots.

[@labcraft4934]

Hey Justin, great video. Honest work. But how do you not get ray burns from bare arms??? I always get fried!

[@h-j.k.8971]

admirable...

[@rafatrill]

I want to see another welder do this I triple dog dare u to call someone out lol

[@Jason-ms4gb]

Didn't catch if there was a time limit for the challenge. Seemed you were really hyped up about it.

[@harleyjune1233]

apologies i do not have sound or captions - is rotating work just off the table for this video - i work to always try to minimize these out of position welds - that has not been an exercise we do - trying to contort our body - I have a roll cage that they want tigged - they like the look - and that will be all out of position like this. - i have procastinated a long while on this project....

[@gazzabowers1184]

Awesome welding mask. KR Gaz

[@inklipMedia]

Why is it important to run all in a particular direction around the joints? Is it a matter of always building from the weld that's already started, rather than ending on an already-welded place?

[@davidoliver2826]

As I have said before, I like that you keep it real. Just purchased my Prime Weld machine and excited to get started. My question is, how do you know how much pedal, when to mash it and when to back off? Thanks Justin.

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

You look at what the weld is doing.

[@deatz8997]

I can't find the rotoflex torch on the AHP site, is it another brand? Thanks

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

No. It hasn't been released yet

[@evanchi9460]

It comes with the new 201DX's.

[@rickdefalco1676]

what are the green things on your fingers for heat protection? where can you get them? Thanks for the Vid.

[@carbocycle]

If you were doing a roll cage and you touched the tunsten that often, would you need to clean the welds out and start over?

[@tonybush2]

Did you notice if as you got more weld done the quality of the welds got better?

[@fishhuntadventure]

Always does

[@gavinalmeida1994]

Wow 😲

[@dean6662009]

Could you do a video on gasless tig please

[@kf8575]

Why people use footpedals for things like this really is beyond me. Thumbutton and either lift or HF start for me, on everything other than aluminium

[@evanchi9460]

Being a foot pedal guy my whole career, it is really difficult for me to maintain total precision while trying to manipulate a button or wheel on the torch. Probably just haven't messed with them enough to get good enough at it.

[@adrianm5147]

Remember: It doesn't matter how you do it as long as you get the correct results.

[@XPFanatix]

I learned to Tig with the thumb button. I can see the benefit of using a pedal if your sitting down but must be hard while standing.

[@raulduke85]

I used 4t mode and buttons with job mode for the past 2 years (you can switch between saved jobs while you weld) on aluminum; also in my factory we free handed everything, even in position and for free handing I mean that we used our bare hands with no chance to put the pal anywhere. It's a bit difficult at first, but it's much faster and you get so much confident when you learn.

[@raulduke85]

@@evanchi9460 it's easy, you can also emulate the foot pedal pulsing; set 2t, and a downslope ramp about 4 seconds; you set a current a bit high, then you just push the button, the puddle starts fast cause you have amp set too high, then you dab, release the button, now you got downslope current, when you see your puddle is ready you press again and you get again the peak current and you go for another dab. Sounds slow, but it's not, depends on how fast you are. It's an easy way to start with button and cosmetic result is pretty nice, you have nice dimes in every material. Generally i use this method on thin sheet metal, 1mm or thinner but it works also till 3 mm i'd say (u don't really need on 3mm but you control heat transfer and distortion so much better). Beyond 3 mm it's not worth to be used

[@dcrahn]

For real world test each of those tubes should be about 3 or 4 feet long. The short tubes made it easy for you to maneuver around.

[@chaddickey5424]

i would like to know where you buy those purge plugs. Thank You!

[@christiankultz5735]

Can you do this again with longer tubes? May be 1 or two meters? 😎

[@chris_b_liven]

Awesome Video💯

[@vincentrocco7301]

bad ass great job!!!!

[@tallyman15]

Cool

[@aaronbowe596]

Can u run switch hands with your torch and filler??

[@madcapmagician6018]

Awesome...

[@grndplane]

It will look nice on top of the Christmas Tree. :-)

[@maggitmaster]

I couldn't even come close with tig, but if mig is aloud then I could give your tig welds a run for your money.

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

Do it 👍

[@TheOriginalCoda]

Where can I get stuff like this in the UK?

[@110welding]

I learn alot from your Vids, Thx You.. Would you recommend the AHP201 ??? I am shopping for my first Tig machine and I need AC for Aluminum.

[@michaelphillips7983]

That looked ruff, would like to know how long it really took, or was that real time?

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

Total footage was about 49 minutes. Everything is real time and "as is"

[@keithjurena9319]

Try 3/4" tube. At far more acute angles.

[@HTHCLLC]

I understand the challenge. Hats off to you mate, Question : Real world, Does it mater if all welds go the same direction on a true roll cage. Seems real life says it would be stronger and better if not held to that rule. Comfort makes the weld. I am going to assume this is "Only" for the challenge.

[@TheFabricatorSeries]

Makes no difference as long as you dont change direction every time you light up the torch. It's just a challenge.

[@mr.tarkovish2587]

Would love to buy those kits but I live in canada and the current shipping rate is 70$ for a 5$ coupon kit soooooo

[@crztrn1]

i need a glossary for all the terminology used in this video