I was out of town out west for a month for work. Did getta go see Barrett Jackson and hung out last weekend at the Grand National Roadster Show, and it was a blast....but no welder in sight for 5 weeks. Got back Friday and was in the garage all weekend. I took a couple of quick vids yesterday. There are pics at the end of each vid. Desk Graffiti: A couple simple cup walking fillets. Nothing fancy, but at least you can see the motion. One was laying wire, one was dipping and pulsing a bit with the peddle. The guys that do this for a living are super quick. I'm just have fun with it.
That is a stitch job , you can tell by the dimples in each pool from the quick on off . It's the same as if you let up too quick with the pedal on the tig machine.
wow....im a Tig-ger by trade and im amazed. technique is different from person to person and those videos are completely different from what i would do. same type of weld in the end but different ways of doing it. amazing welds. wish i had a camera that could tae nice close up pictures.
Heck yeah, it's always cool to see the different ways people go about doing the same thing. I'm always messing around with different techniques and pick stuff up from other guys whenever I can.
Josh, any tricks to useing silicon bronze? I know it requires argon for a mig. Also saw on Covell's site that he suggests useing a carbon arch stick weld with rods of SB. Which is easier for the rookie? It's for an OT body shop repair on boron steel.
Oh man, I've never even SEEN carbon arc welding done. I've not migged with SiB, but I've heard it is really slick. I tig it, and it's not too difficult. It can flow nice, but you've gotta find the sweet spot for it to do so, otherwise it balls up on the filler quickly and/or the puddle gets funky. You need to do short runs and keep the overall heat low or you'll crack the weld all the way through to the back of the base material, even if it's a weld on the top of the material. On thinner stuff you'll be doing that anyways to help with distortion. Looking up stuff on boron steel, it's extremely sensitive to heat. SiB will be nice for that, because you don't need to put a lot of heat into the base metal. You just get it hot enough for the filler to flow into the joint. Sometimes it's called electric brazing if you're not melting the base metal at all. I would guess that when I do it, it's kind of a mix....maybe not a "true" weld or braze. Welding requires the base metal to melt, with brazing the filler flows in and "sticks" into the base metal, below the base metal's melting temp. Funny you ask though, I just recorded this out in the shop yesterday:
Thanks Josh. I know exactly what you are saying about differance between true welding and brazing. This is being done as spot welds for repair panels. Not sure if my buddy's welder has a pulse setting, but it sounds like that might be an advantage. Covell makes it sound like a good alternative for panel replacement, because it doesn't shrink and uses low heat. Hope this isn't concidered a hijack, as it has to do with incredible welds. As always, thanks for your insight.
Off topic for this site but totally on for this thread . This guy kills it . Unreal fab and tig skills / a must see http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127750
Yeah, Marcella does ridiculous work. His stuff is what made me want to try weaving on aluminum. I think it's been posted in this thread before. There's a thread about his work on pretty much every auto forum in existence, and obviously 99.9% understand the talent at work. But there's a local tuner forum that someone posted that link on, and two or three guys were like "yeah, it's nice, but really anyone can do that with a bit of hard work"...I called them out on it, and they questioned if I actually knew anything about welding And of course they were all "too busy" to show their work. That's next level stuff. Talent+hard work+passion. Not "everyone" can reach that level, no matter how hard they try. Freaking outcome based education ruined this country. Here's what I was welding in that vid I posted earlier: SiB on pipe edge by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr
Very informative, This is the kind of stuff I was hoping to see on this forum, There is such talent out there
One other quick thing about the silicon bronze....make sure you've got good ventilation. Not good stuff to breath in. I've got an old box fan I set up on my bench to suck air away when I'm messing with galvanized or welding with silicon bronze.
ok so i just printed out a couple of these and they are hung over my welding table. but for now i outsource all my welding needs to the pros. might have to take a welding class at the C.C. to learn how to really use the machine i talked my wife into letting me buy.
pieces of recent sculptures... Welding Robot Head by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr Silicon Bronze by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr Lakes Zombiefied Roadster Sculpture by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr Lakes Zombiefied Roadster Sculpture by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr another D, stainless Old English D by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr
This bit is awesome man! I finally bit the bullet and went for a new Inverter machine... Hope to be back in the game shortly
I made a base for my latest motorcycle piece. Anyone gonna be at the Detroit Autorama this weekend? Stop by and say hi, I'll be in the Artist's Alley in the basement.
Holy shit! There are some bad ass welders on this topic! Here are some of mine. sorry for the crappy cell pics
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Josh you can weave those welds like no other! what kind of machine are you using?> i have an old miller econo tig.. plan on up grading soon! i was thinking about the dynasty 200dx? your thoughts?
i'm not josh but i have a Dynasty 200dx, i love it and so will you. the only problem with the Dynasty is that you can't blame the machine for your/my goober welds later jim
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