This TIG Trick BLEW MY MIND

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[@thefirstcalled]

I'm happy because you are happy!

[@michaelanderson3771]

I knew we can relieve stress by annealing, heating it up and quench cooling to release stress, but this is so super handy to know I can do this with the tig torch. Awesome tip fella's. Love your stuff.

[@someyoungguy6990]

Tay, if you really want to blow your mind try this. DIY Collector/Reducer. Take some exhaust tube and mark a starting point. Start your runs from the line moving the length of the tube and work in this order. Top run, rotate 180 degrees to the bottom. Run, rotate 90 deg. Rotate 180 run. So you are working in 1/4's. EG; top, bottom, left, right. Next you half the remaining gap between your welds and repeat the top bottom left right. Keep doing the step and you will see the tube end reduce in size as it cools. If you want a compound radius, start running your welds along the circumference remembering the more you overlap the runs the tighter the radius becomes. I have a 316 ss hourglass in my shed that I made sanded and mirror polished. It's about 12 inches tall with 1/4 plate for the ends and 3/8 bar connecting them and looks sick AF. Took me about 6 months to make as it was my "test piece" for setup.....lol

[@peters5333]

It blew my mind too. Deja Vu. .one hour ago I was tig welding .065 square tubing. then you appeared on YT once I poured an adult beverage and sat town. Tay. That is a game changer.

[@LiftArcStudios]

This comment made me so happy to read! That's why we wanted to share!

[@akraix182]

We do this all the time with the acetylene torch. Just a little red dot will make a huge difference

[@AlAmantea]

Tay, I share in your excitement! Not only is this trick a game changer, but it's cool as hell doing it with only tool! Gotta love TIG welding!

[@jfa3019]

Cool trick, I have some steel benches to build, will definitely give it a try.

[@melgross]

The best way to heat straighten is to constrain the material when heating so it can’t bend. Then remove the clamps quickly as soon as you finish heating and it will shrink . If you don’t, the metal will stretch away from the heat, then shrink back to where it was, pretty much.

[@jrudewick]

Great job, Tay! Experience and studying your craft will only continue to make what you create even better each and every day!

[@MichaelAllanFrancisSheaver]

Wonderful insight, thanks for sharing this with those of us who will likely never, ever weld!

[@bavariantechniker75]

Have you guys ever thought of having welding classes after your all settled in to the new place? I’d take a trip down from New England for that. Keep up the awesome work!

[@tezzrterry7485]

An old welder told me, if heat bent it, heat will reverse it.

[@LiftArcStudios]

I like their style!

[@jughed74]

This is awesome! I can barely tell you are excited.

[@777smitty4]

I have seen heat straightening before on flat plate but never on tubing.very useful info thanks

[@Bennetts_Fabrication_Welding]

I had to do this with 10 gauge sheet steel after plasma cutting some stuff out for my sign. It was all kinds of warped and a bottle of map fuel torch got it really close to flat. Good job

[@stevenm8429]

Doing diameters between centers with torch and an indicator on it watching it grow and settle is a way to do this .😁

[@joshwelch8288]

We do this alot at work, i work in a structual steel fab shop, but we use a rose bud and oxy acetelyn bc they are big i beams and tubes. We cool it faster with water or snow in the winter. Never thought about doing it this way though. Nice job!!

[@RHarris42]

It gets me stoked seeing how stoked you got. Lol right on fella! Thanks for sharing this. I have heard of this technique before and im happy that it worked well for you. Something else to keep in mind though, i wouldnt do that when youre working with kitchen grade S.S. projects. Its a good way to make it porous thus it will have bacteria icky poo yucks embedded. Great job once again! 😎👍

[@tommyhays2851]

Great video one thing that helps as well is to put a strong back across the whole thing and clamp it down

[@SteveStuttard]

You should check out fireball tools for fixtures to use on your expensive welding table. This would eliminate your wrapage issue.

[@ToxicMrSmith]

Yeah he sells awesome tools for welding tables that will only cost you a bit more than your mortgage. No thanks

[@Rusty-Metal]

Awesome. Thx for sharing.

[@Tom_H]

You can also cool it with a wet rag. Same trick works on sheet metal.

[@melgross]

If anything is structural, you never cool a weld with water. That guarantees cracking and premature failure. For sheet for autos, sure.

[@frankconsidine5989]

You could always preheat. We do preheat to minimize warping

[@heres2ya]

back in the day welding this is an old trick i was tough. it even puts a bit of strength in the metal. i also us that method when doing auto body work. (yes we did it with a torch)

[@scottorear6725]

Doesn’t take long before you realize heat can warp and ruin a project. This is a interesting way to combat it for sure

[@adamthreapleton9149]

If you only weld the two welds on the corner of the material instead of the face welds you will get far less bending. Still a great straightening trick.

[@Oliveirafarmer]

WAOO GUYS, BADASS TRICK! THANK YOU 🤓👏🏻👍🏻

[@LiftArcStudios]

Our pleasure!

[@michaelnoyes4817]

It's called contra heating

[@Ernie-zk3gb]

I noticed you dragging your foot pedal around? I think I remember you trying a “TIG button” but I can’t remember what your thoughts were on it. If I’m mistaken, you should try it. “TIG Button” a pressure sensitive button.

[@evilsdexter5261]

really cool, thank you for sharing

[@mohawkc77]

ive posted a video of shaft straitening with a tig tourch on my chanel a while ago ... use small , hot localised dabs with the tourch . works great

[@chainsawcanuck]

Yeah been doing that a long time, seems even worse with Stainless tubing, especially when it's round and you have coped notches

[@mouradabdi2207]

👍🤓 Je comprends bien votre enthousiasme et votre fierté, c'est tout simplement le fruit de plusieurs années de travail passionné.

[@ahbushnell1]

you need two people doing both sides at the same time.

[@oldscoutinks_7482]

This is so cool!!!!👍👍

[@mikedesilets3324]

Anyone on here tried using a plasma cutter turned down and held a distance off the material, like a torch?

[@kmarshall131]

150 amps seems high for 16 gauge, no?

[@Hu88le]

cool

[@kmarshall131]

watched this about 3 days too late lol. fml

[@Nick-ih5em]

Did you not use your fixture table?

[@darenscott1718]

Fixture table and all the clamps in the world won't stop all warping Sure it helps, but the metal is still shrinking. As nice as fixture tables are, they cannot push pause on physics.

[@melgross]

Well, actually, clamping your work properly on a fixture table prevents that movement. Much of that movement is caused, remember, by the shrinking of the weld material. If you clamp properly, that weld won’t shrink. You have to clamp close to the weld, on both sides. I’ve done this too many times to count.

[@Nick-ih5em]

@@darenscott1718 huh. Do you weld?

[@ChrisS-oo6fl]

This is just basic skills and comprehension of heat manipulation. Knowledge that information separates “welders” from true fabricators. Good fabricators know how to counter bow and use other counter measures to prevent that much distortion to begin with, so the piece is nearly perfect without any necessary secondary Heat manipulation. Even better fabricators anticipate heat from the coating process to prevent further distortion from the ovens or vats to illuminate the necessity for final straightening. It’s why back in the days when America still had manufacturing facilities, guys like us used to work under a much higher pay scale then the other union “welders” in the same facility.

[@snowgorilla9789]

A guy I worked with spent two weeks in Japan learning shrink technique they made a spiral staircase in the class. A must have skill if you are a shipbuilder. Not many of us left.

[@Nick-ih5em]

Well said.

[@melgross]

Still, a lot of this is corrected later with heat straightening. By the way, the US is not the first in manufacturing since the Bush recession, but we are the second largest. And more has been coming back the past few years.

[@roberta4989]

"When America still had manufacturing facilities"? America still has plenty of manufacturing facilities, stop watching FOX entertainment for your news. Your comment reeks of condescension. Tay is showing novice fabricators, not self proclaimed know it all experts like yourself.

[@Nick-ih5em]

@@roberta4989 you must be in your 20's. I didn't get that from his comment at all.