First Impressions Welding Titanium Tubing - Can We Just Figure It Out!?
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2022
- Zack is a competent TIG welder, but Titanium welding is a new frontier. Often the best way to learn anything new is to just dive in. Zack isn't ready to weld out an entire Ti bike just yet, but his first welds are promising and hopefully this glimpse into his learning curve helps you lose the intimidation and give it a shot.
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The Miter Buddy was useful for holding 3/4" (19mm) and smaller tubing for mitering.
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The Miter Daddy was useful for holding the larger tubing for mitering.
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Great video !
This is Joe from Titanium Joe Inc. and I was impressed with your step by step practice welds and seeing the changes you made along the way and the results. Loved it !
Great vid. I find that watching someone diagnose and fix their problems is more interesting/ helpful than watching an old pro just breeze through it. The last weld looked awesome!
defs agree with this
Straight forward, good quality video and audio, and I learned something watching you learn. I wouldn't mind more "figurin' it out" content. Thanks guys!
P.S. I love the faint sound of frame building components getting made in the background. Maybe get a few hours of that audio and release it on Spotify for us to fall asleep to?
Great job on the video very informative about the titanium for me I run the furick moose knuckle 14 35-45 cfh I seem to get impatient with it but it's kinda hard at times like you said it all about the heat control. I'm now trying before I weld titanium to sit and meditate and relax so I don't get into a hurry to get it done. Keep up the great work and hope to see updates soon.
Well done! Looks amazing for 4 tries. The biggest Furick cup at 35-40cfh would take care of the color and helps with not having the perfect torch angle around corners. The biggest thing I realized after a few frames was to watch out for the undercut on the acute angles. It helps to use bigger filler rod in those spots!
Thanks for your honesty dude. Is looking great.
SOOOo So good! That last one was huge improvement. I look forward to re-watching this down the road if I ever decide to weld ti frames or frames in general! xD I'm dreaming of a shop one day!
Thanks for the educational video! Cheers
Great content thanks!
Awesome video! I've welded very little titanium but always enjoyed it. Mostly thicker stuff for anodizing fixtures. I've heard before that you don't want to see any color on the weld but I don't know why it's bad.
The color of the weld will tell you how much oxidation is in or on the weld. Depending on what the part is welded for will determine whether any color is acceptable. Some welding applications call for no color and a silver shiny weld indicating that it was welded properly.
neat!
No argon shield on the inside? I would encourage you to film what the inside of the tube looks like. Without backing gas, the weld is similar to stainless on the other side of the weld. In liquid-carrying applications, the inside is more important than the outside.
Did you perform destructive testing? Ti welds look great, but if they're not perfect, the welds shatter like glass on impact.
On the matter of color, yellow is enough to disqualify a weld in the pharma or nuclear industries.
We address this in the video -- as these are merely tests, and because it seems to weld about the same on the outside with or without backpurge -- no backpurge necessary. It's standard practice to backpurge titanium in bicycle frame welding. Hell, we did a whole video on our backpurge kit for our frame fixture.
Do I need a beard like yours to weld titanium?
jeszcze jak!
Medical grade Acetone from a glass bottle, just leaving that here.
welcome to skin cancer fella, get a glove on your filler hand and some sort of sleeves, uv from welding is no joke.
This should be top comment.