Stick Welding, MIG Welding, and TIG Welding Blog

OK Here's how this Welding Blog works: All the latest posts on welding tips and also the latest welding videos get posted here. , that means I will be making several new posts every day.

Tig Welding Videos

Short and free Tig Welding videos - Welding Stainless, Aluminum, Steel, and more

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6g tig Root

Video shows practical Tips for a 6g tig root and for passing a 6g weld test

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Tig Welding Stainless Shafts

Video shows tig welding stainless steel shafts and how to straighten them

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Welding Aluminum 2g horizontal position

video shows tips for tig welding aluminum 2g horizontal butt joint

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Jeep Bumper Kit

video on Mig welding a jeep bumper kit from jcroffroad

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Welding Projects on the Cheap

Post Your Welding Projects - Good, Bad, or Ugly - We Want to see

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Mig Welding Videos

Mig Welding Videos Reviewed for you, I wasted my time so you dont have to.

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Different Types of Welding

There are 3 main Types of Welding used by the Average Joe...TIG, Stick, Mig

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2012 YouTube welding DVD

4 disc set welding dvd plus a bonus DVD

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How to Tig weld Stainless Tubing for Food and Beverage

Video with tips for how to weld stainless tubing 6g test

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Arc Force Setting for 7018 electrodes

Video shows arc force also known as dig settings also called arc control on older machines

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Tig Weld 1045 to 4140

Video of Modifying some Snap on Pliers and Using inconel 82 filler rod to Tig Weld 1045 to 4140 steel

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Mig Welder Boom Arm

Video shows welding tips along with Building of a mig welder boom arm for hanging the wire feeder.

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Late 70's & early 80's oil boom.

Some of the Ol' Hands that read the comments on here will remember after the Alaska pipe line boom there was the Wyo. oil boom in the late 70's into the

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Welding Techniques

Jody, I enjoyed your video I have welded for 38 years & I have to say that some old school techniques will make you a better welder. Todays machines

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6G tests Carbon & Stainless Duplex

Gid'ay i'm from the land of Oz, (or down under) Question: hay i was doin a 6G test with my scratch start Kempi inverter 150 and it was gonna be X-rayed,

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Lincoln 225 AC/DC Tombstone and Tig

Jody, 1. Can I use a Lincoln AC/DC Tombstone without the extra rectifier for Tig? I have DC+ and DC- up to 125. yes you can. 2. What thickness of metal

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weldor2

Scratch start tigs are definitely still in use today. I am a former Millwright and we were using this within the last 10 or less years on stainless food

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Fabinator ll

Jody, just wanted to say thanks for all the informative videos. I learn something every time I watch one. Also I especially want to thank you for being

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memories of youth

I have an old Miller econo tig hf . It has no pedal and it has no argon valve . I believe it dates from 1980 or so . How might one get a tig torch with

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Old school started me out

Because of your Tig Welding Old School video I added tig to my game about a year ago. I liked it right away and bought a used high freq box. This winter

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Miller maxtar 150 stl

I do stainless food service sanitary tubing for a brewerey. We use a miller maxstar 150 stl lift arc with a foot pedal. the biggest problem we have is

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2% lanthanated tungsten

I saw your review on 2% lanthanated electrodes a couple of years ago. that junk is hard to break. you pretty much have to score it with a diamond wheel

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Tip for starting the arc using the filler rod

Thats a good tip using the filler rod to start the arc. I always rock the torch in slowly until it touches and then rock it back quickly. But sometimes

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Scratch Start Tig Welder

Video shows How to hook up a Scratch start Tig welder and run some beads. Tips for starts and stops and a surprise

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Understanding cleaning action of AC reverse polarity

If you get a thick piece of copper and hold the AC arc on it you can actually see the ions dancing off the copper plate. I suspect it has to do with the

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Davbro Inc. EZ Weld TIG

I haven't tried this stuff but it says it can weld anything. They show a picture of steel welded to cast iron and then both welded to copper. It is flux

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HTP Tig Welder Settings

Instructional Video shows HTP tig welder settings and practical applications of AC frequencies

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Lincoln PowerMig 350mp

Instructional Video shows arc shots of mig welding aluminum with a Lincoln Powermig 350mp

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Lincoln PowerMig 350 mp

Video shows fabricating thick aluminum using a Lincoln Powermig 350 mp

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Here is what others have to say about the TIG Finger...

i will admit i was a little leery about these tig fingers, but glad i went ahead and ordered. got three of them about a week or so ago. they work. what

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Tig Techniques Video

Video shows tig welding techniques like walking the cup vs free hand, lay wire vs dip and more

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Tig Welding Tips and Tricks

If you Dont like these Tig Welding Tips, you may be an expert

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Mig Welding Boom

Video shows fabricating a mig welding boom arm for a wire feeder

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Weld Mold 880

Weld Mold will sell any amount of welding rods directly. They charge $3 more a pound however so it's about $18 a pound but it is better than buying 10

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Weld Mold 880 Composition

My friend owns a junk yard so I have access to a XRF gun. I specked out the comp out the Weld Mold and it is 21 Cr and 9 Ni so it's similar to 309 stainless.

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TIG filler rod

If you're not the best at feeding filler rod constantly forward in your hand, (like me) here is what I do. When you are about to run out of room and need

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Welding Project shows Fabricating a Belt Guard

Welding Project video about fabricating a belt guard

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Welding Project - Fabricating a Belt Guard for an Air Compressor

Welding Project Video shows fabricating an air compressor belt guard

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Welding Aluminum Valve Covers

Video Shows Tig Welding Aluminum thick and thin using an HTP Invertig 221

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Mig like Tig like ZTFab

You just found The Best Video on how to Mig like Tig so far. And this is only part1

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Tig Welding a Bike Frame

You just found The Best Video on Tig Welding a Steel Alloy Bike Frame

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Welding Rods for Maintenance Jobs

You dont need 10 different welding rods...Certainium 707 is a great all around maintenance welding rod

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Tig Welding Tubing...Thin Wall Steel Tubing

Video shows Tig welding tubing for a bike frame using pulse tig

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6011 Welding Rods - Tips for Vertical Uphill

Video shows welding vertical uphill tee joint using 6011 welding rods

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flux core welding tip

When flux core welding especially for newbies like myself, do yourself a favor and buy a flux core nozzle so you can actually see the puddle or you can

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Mug welding for cleaning mig wire

Whelp we all know that it's good to keep our wire clean,so I like to take a but from a cigarette and put it on wire just after the rolls before it goes

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mig nozzle 'dip'

Don't know how correct it was but a Light coat of Never-Seize helped control splatter inside nozzle.~Phil:-

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Mig Anti-spatter

I was told 10 years ago to try using plain old Windex as a mig welding anti-spatter. I didn't believe him but I've been using it for 10 years now and it

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