This is my first attempt at 1/4" aluminum outside corner joints. Running 200amps, 100 hz, 40% balance and 1/8" tungsten. After successfully welding out most of these mirrored 3 sided pyramids, I all of a sudden on the last half of the last weld had issues with blowing a hole in the outside corner joint. I let it cool, ground and cleaned the damaged area and tried again. Because of the increased width of the weld joint I decided to weave, but as I got close to meeting up with the previous weld things went sideways on me. Erratic arc, very hard time forming a weld pool and lots of porosity. Pictures are attached. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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The bead challenge contest is over and we have winners!1st - Jeff Loffert 🥇2nd - Mike Murphy 🥈3rd - Kenneth Lawrence 🥉4th - Everyone else who entered, we're sending you something too!Email me joey@welderskills.com with your name and address info so we can reward everybody who participated. To recap, prizes are:1st: Goodman Metal Products Kit, 1 on 1 call with Jody, Brad, JD, Sam, or Aren, TIG Finger Bundle, Gloves, and hat2nd: Gloves, TIG finger Bundle, and Hat3rd: TIG Finger BundleEverybody else who entered will get something nice too as a thank you and a early Christmas gift.We're cooking up the next challenge as I type this, so look forward to that! We'll be highlighting the winners on socials likely starting tomorrow.
December 20
Part 2 of Sam's Peterbilt Rig build is up now!
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Sam Hagan - Peterbilt Weldi...
Sam continues building his new welding rig with a focus on the...
November 02
Puke tank that we built here in the shop this week. Would you guys like to see one of these built start to finish? Comment below or any other projects you may wanna see.
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December 16
This question is for JODY COLLIER since I joined this forum after watching YouTube videos hoping to learn from you. I have a body shop and I make rust repair panels and weld with my millermatic 135 all the time. I have never been taught a single thing about welding and never really got better. I mean I can get away with mig welding but I want to Tig and grow my skills. So I have been practicing like you said running beads and I can't seem to do anything decent on steel but am able to find myself creating better and better welds on aluminum. I need to understand why even when I'm following your parameters for 1/8 steel my welds are grey and my heat affected area is huge having no thin edge I guess the cleaning action like on aluminum. I am a very beginner to Tig with that being said where can I get the information I need to weld steel better? Can you help me. Thank you for your time. A couple of pics one because if you can weld the blades that's cool and the other to show you my struggles in hopes for your point of view
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December 18
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My miller 135 mig machine has started acting up and I'm not sure what this is all about. Sometimes the weld is full of holes and once I stop pulling the trigger the weld puddle will grow a snake deal like the old fireworks for kids, it's behaving like there's no gas. The nozzle is dirty I've tried to clean it up but it seems like maybe a new nozzle is in order. What cause this type of malfunction? Any answers would be helpful. Liner? Wire corrosion? Nozzle? Gas issue? See the large hole inside? Now I have to cut that out and get the weld in there correctly. But this is frustrating. Thank you welderskills JODY COLLIER
October 24
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Check the boat repair out. Finally got time to repair the boat I posted pics of awhile back.
December 14
00:16
Here’s a few pics and video from an Aluminum tig class I put on at my shop today.
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December 12
Ok , to be honest after laying out the cardboard cad, I I thought this was gonna look sharp, then I started matching up the and and cutting things out, next thing I knew I was squeezing and tacking, beating and welding. lol , it really was a fun ,easy and affordable project to create . Learned a bit about fit up, chill blocks (used a 3x3 aluminum angle to weld all panels) filled gaps with silicone bronze., and best of all its was done with my daughter, she actually engineered the whole thing, gave me a sketch and we work together to build it.
Question
1) silicone bronze don’t work on dirty steel right?
2) what the quickest way to clean off the old peel on stainless steel, you know the protective cover.
3) does the sili bronze filller flow like mud, or was I completely doing it wrong
Happy holidays
Brad Goodman Matt Hayden Shaun Graham
December 16
Prizes for contest #1 should go out in the next day or so! Thanks again for all who participated. Next we're thinking we'll do a stainless Tee joint. More info on that coming soon!
December 13
Outboard guard got crunched at a shipyard assist job, whipped up a new one.