TIG Welding Basics for Beginners
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- A welcoming introduction to TIG welding for beginners from a welding engineer with a passion for teaching.
Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), also known as Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding is a precise process that can be used for welding steel, welding stainless steel, welding aluminum along with most other metals. A TIG torch is used to heat and melt material while feeding filler rod into the molten puddle to add material. In this video, you’ll learn everything you need to know to start welding.
0:00 Intro
0:24 Gear for TIG Welding
10:54 TIG Torches
16:56 TIG Welding Machines
21:21 Setup for TIG Welding
23:08 TIG Welding Technique
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Humble, helpful, credible. You are a natural teacher. Please keep posting!
Thank you so much!
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I also agree. Very easy to learn from this man. Keep em coming sir.
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Hi Tim, new welder and Sub here. Appreciate your video on TIG welding. At 59 years old it’s a new trade to add to my skill set. You’re never too old to learn a new skill!! Cheers!
How’s it been going?
If you are new to TIG welding like me, this video will be the best 1/2 hour of your time! Thanks TIM! Excellent video! The Vulcan Protig 205 I just purchased from HF checks all the boxes... A/C, high frequency arc starter, pulsing, and foot pedal that Tim mentions. Can't wait to get started!
I've watched many videos on stick, tig and mig welding on CZcams and can safely say that you're are without doubt the best I've seen on here. Love you teaching method with no BS.
Definitely one of the better beginner Tig tutorials on youtube.
Wow, thanks!
You covered a lot of stuff I feel other channels totally skip over. Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Great Job Tim. I'm sure all of us out here in CZcams land appreciate every time you make a video. Thank You !
Wow! Thank you SO much for sharing all your skills, tips and tricks! You are a perfect teacher: calm, breaking down everything into easy-to-understand bits, structured and easy going. I've never welded before but finding your channel have made me want to - and dare to - dive in to all forms of welding. (MIG now, but TIG and Stick is up next!) Thank you and I hope you feel inspired to continue to make these great great videos! Cheers from Sweden!
Thanks, certainly the most informative discussion on the basics of TIG that I've come across thus far.
Thank you for your time and knowledge. I started stick welden in my dad’s garage when I was a kid. Then I got a mig. Now I just got a tig. Your video is very helpful, thank you again. And your a good teacher.
Excellent teaching Tim, thank you. Calm, relaxed, informative, easy to understand, and with NO ARROGANCE OR EGO!! Cheers.
Thank you Tim for such an informative intro into TIG welding, I’ve learnt more listening to you than in the past few years! 👍
probably the best beginner video out there ....thank you for your time and info!!!
One of the best tig videos I have seen so far. Thanks for posting.
I feel like a pro after watching this vid and idk how to tig weld😂
I wouldn’t fail a test having such an educated teacher like you😎
Keep up the good work💯
Hi Tim! This was a very useful and interesting video. I am just starting out using TIG and I will use your videos to learn from. Thanks!
I really liked the pace you have to explain the basics. I wish I had an instructor like you when I started.
Back then almost half of the bead was made out of tungsten, nowadays only a bit
Thanks for the great video! I've been MIG welding for many years, but am about to try my hand at TIG. This video was very helpful.
Thank you for taking the time to post this - very clear and helpful!
This is an extremely well-thought out and well-executed introduction to TIG. Thank you so much 🙏
I've always been passively interested in welding. Now I straight up want to get started. Thanks!
This is excellent and I can heartily recommend it to anyone interested in learning to TIG weld. I very much appreciate your efforts to share your knowledge and expertise with us. Thank you.
Best welding channel on CZcams,
Thanks for simplifying welding for the want to learn welding across the globe.
Thank you so much!
Easy to understand. You are a natural born teacher. I am going to to be teaching myself to TIG weld soon and your videos are the most concise and get right to the point. Thank you and keep making videos.
Thanks 👍 Making these videos is one of my favorite things to do!
Yet another great video. I am newbie just getting started with welding. There is a lot of information for me here. Thank you so much! When I was thinking about getting started with welding one big question I had was what kind of welding to start with. After watching your videos on all kinds of welding I decided to go with TIG. Thanks for inspiring and educating newbies like me!
Thank you for the detailed info and wisdom that you are sharing.
This is just what I have been looking for to learn from, Outstanding learn tool from ! Thank You
Never had the confidence to do this but after watching I think I could do this. Thank you so much for doing this video.
Thank you sir, lots of great advice. You have taught me a lot in the last three minutes of this video regarding the problem I was having with the addition of filler metal. Thank you again, out to the shop. LOL
this is very helpful information my grandpa has been in a wheelchair for a couple of years so I have been trying to learn how to use a tig but I have experience in mig and stick!thank you sm
You crammed so much useful info for the beginner in here, excellent vid. My torched arrived today and I can’t wait to get started with lift tig😎 Cheers Tim!
Awesome! It may be a little frustrating at first, but you're going to love it!
Where to buy like sample projects to weld?
Dude!!!! Thank you! I'm a structural duel shielded flux welder and have always wanted to get into stick and tig and your videos are great! I appreciate the time and effort you out in to help all of us out!
Thank you so much! I really enjoy putting them together.
@@TimWelds you're welcome! It's easy to tell how much you enjoy it as well as how experienced you are 👍
Just stumbled upon this video. Lovely calm delivery. Really impressed.
Best welding tutorials, period.👍👏👌👏👌👍👏👌
Seriously excited to get my machine up and running and get my skills developed!
Very good Tim. Clear and precise. I would like to add to the “art” of cleaning. If one welds different metals, it’s critical to have separate components used for cleaning for each metal, and to just use them for the metal they’re first used with.
Great tip! Thanks!
An excellent treatise ! Points well covered & a constant talking speed & audio level.
Tim Hi, thanks that was really helpful
Now I can go back and try again I have a better understanding of what I was doing wrong. Great video.
God bless
47 yrs old and just signed up for some classes at my local comm. collage for tig welding. Looking for a change in life outlook and i hear they have alot of apprentice programs. Your a great teacher bud. Thank you.
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Amazing videos , very educative and insightfull! thank you!
One of the best basic primers I have seen on trying to get started TIG Welding. Love the fact that you give basic exercises to improve the basic skills need to achieve reasonably acceptable weld quality as an absolute beginner. Especially when welding aluminum! Thanks, subscribed, will be checking out ALL your videos.
Really well explained Tim...thanks for this upload...answered lots of beginner questions
So glad to hear it. Thanks!
Really appreciate your videos my friend and even more your natural teaching abilities mate - thank you for such a seriously outstanding work moreover the exquisite easily simple basic languages, alongside too all the real necessary jargon and industry vernacular to point of fact 😁🙂 you're just wonderful my friend !!! You've earned yourself a new sub here for sure
soo much knowledge cant wait for non rain weather thank you
Well done, thank you. I am looking forward to more of your videos.
Detailed explanation of the ABCs of TiG ! Thank You
Thanks!
Great video for a beginner. Thank you!
Fantastic video and I look forward to learning from you!!!!
Tim you're the best mate...for real. Thank you sir.
Great guidelines and very good presentation.
This wonderful, have really learnt a lot watching this video.
Bro....After watching this video, you made me call my podiatrist... Because this video rocked my socks off.
Keep up the great work!
Omg ur videos are super helpful. Thank u
I really have to commend you on your work on this channel which includes this video also. It does what is says, i.e. teaches you TIG basics. And it does that from perspective of absolute beginner. A bit about equipment, a good bit on how it works and some tips and tricks. No BS and with good attitude. I feels like, after watching this video, you could go out and make a probably ugly but functional weld. Thanks a lot for this.
An idea maybe for the future. How to effectively use inverter stick welder machine as TIG welder. I see that a lot of hobby machines have this functionality.
Thank you so much! I really enjoy making these videos. It would be fun to set up a little scratch start rig with a cheap inverter stick machine. There are several little TIG inverters with high frequency start that aren't much more expensive. I'm going to be reviewing one in the next few weeks to see how it works for TIG and Stick.
Very well done. Thank you very much you are a good teacher
very clear explanation, I am a newbie
You are a great teacher. Thanks
Thanks for the videos man!
Thank you for a great video.
GREAT VIDEO!! thanks
Thanks, Tim!
Very helpful. Many thanks
Nice tutorial thanks.
Great information , thanks!
thank you. I really find your video learn full
Great video!
Outstanding!👍👍👍👍👍
very detailed , i will check out your other videos,I need to understand settings on machines.
Very helpful video. I am learning Tig welding for 4 months
Glad it helped!
Wow! Great video - I feel like I'm already an expert and yet I'm only typing this on the keyboard ;)
Thanks for your help good job.
Wow this looks like an expensive thing for a beginner. My fluxcore is great, but maybe a next step up for me is learning stick. These are great vids Tim. Learning so much from them all! (I also learned on the Titanium 125 from your channel 😊👍🏼). 🇨🇦
Really cool!
Thank you so much for this video, much appreciated. I will make sure whatever I buy from the accessories I use your affiliate links. Regards.
Thanks mate, Subbed!
EXELLENT video!
Line of sight very important to see everything arc length and puddle and weld size ! And your filler rod too !
Hi Tim I’m hooked on your explanations regarding different welding techniques, having received a Rohm mig welder for Xmas , I’m keen to get going , just one request if I may, could you show some different types of metal pieces please as I hear you mention several, and I kind of glaze over lol 🥴 , don’t want to sound a complete noob when I visit my local engineers and ask for some off cut bits of metal !! Great vids thanks mate 👍😁
Hi Tim, i'm on a !st Year Engineering Diploma- Welding Techniques Course. I started on tig, for the first time 3 weeks ago. And I'm finding unbearably hard. I seam or butt mild steel plate. i finding so crap to get a good looking weld. The tutor (who's NOT so good at teaching), told me the torch should be 80*, now I've found out it's works well at being at 45*. I can already oxy acetylene & mig. Great tutorial video as well!!!
good vid, thanks.
thank nice lesson
Bro your channel is incredible awesome, im learning a lot,i was thinking if you could make a video of using a tig torch on a regular inverter stick welding machine DC
I use a Tig finger daily it really helps
Also use the Tig finger XL at times
Seen guys put the tungsten in a drill and use that’s against the grinder. Also wearing respirator while sharpening is a must, lots of nasties in the tungsten
Thanks for the tips and sharing your experience. I'm a new subscriber. I have a project that requires me to learn welding aluminum. I own stick & Mig welders. The learning curve seems much more difficult than welding steel. Cleanliness using Acetone and dedicated cleaning brushes, torch angle, tungsten length and sharpening angle, and using AC for aluminum. The project calls for 1" square aluminum tubing with a 1/20" wall thickness. Is TIG overkill for this material that could be brazed? Also I'll need to weld the project outside. Do you have any tips for outside TIG welding?
very imformative video.....I am giving you a thunbs up
Dude your content was fkn awesome thx!
Hi Tim. Great video! I watched several videos that all suggested the stubby gas lenses. So l went ahead and bought a set. I found them extremely uncomfortable to use. One thing l haven't heard brought up is the size of your hands. I'm well over 6 feet tall and have pretty massive hands. I have found that the longer lengths of the standard gas lenses have allowed me to adopt a more comfortable grip on the torch. Other than that, great content. Doesn't assume any prior knowledge and is very comprehensive. Cheers.
Feel like I should've paid for this......
Subscribed
Thanks!
Hello tim ! Amazing content! I wanted to ask can you touch the back end of your cup to the metal as you move forward with the torch?
Thanks Tim, really wonderful presentation.
Question..when you said check the links below I’m not sure where to locate the links
Dear Sir.
I have watched many programs where the filler rod is laid on top of the joint to welded. It is well-over 35 years since I last welded, (I was a master welder at that time), and thus I assumed that technics had evolved, having watched your film, I now know that the film makers are wrong in their methodology. Thank you for confirming my out of date' knowledge.
Respectfully yours Rob A.
I'm interested in that little plate with the holes that is sitting on your table, is this homemade or does some company sell these? I'd like a nice flat plate that is small that I can just pull out when needed. Thanks for the vid!
Is that an aluminum plate that you're setting the coupons on? Are they available online?
Excellent video....The only thing you might have added is hand-rod-feeding technique but otherwise, just an excellent condensed 'starter TIG vid'
Informative video thank you. What size cylinder did you show. Thanks
Thanks! I'm pretty sure that little one is 60 cubic feet.
i plan to do some light welds mainly with steel, as a beginner, what type of welding i should try and learn...thanks a lot, subscribed & watching...
Great teaching! It's been 35 years since I did any tig and I'm looking forward to getting into it again. Qurstion: I don't have a garage I'll need to set up in a basement. I saw a video about using a carbon filter and fan to remove fumes. Would my argon gas be an issue without great ventilation? Maybe just do shorter sessions for dissipation ? Thanks. Tony
Argon is a "simple asphyxiant" which means it's not actively going to kill you but it's also not air so in a high enough concentration it will replace oxygen and you die.
Can you tig with 100% argon or is it best to mix 25%C02