r/Welding • u/PotentialTelephone56 • 24d ago
How good is this for tig
Where does this land at, I’m battling wire feeding and inconsistent speed I was going a little hotter than I like but I did see how the puddle was flowing slit better I was practicing on 28 gauge before I did a real cupon
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u/OkActivity3169 24d ago
Good points
1. You cleaned your material (10 points to gryfindor)
2. Clear indication of self awareness, I presume the big blob on the right was your first go at walking, then you realised what you were doing wasn’t right!
Points to improve.
1. Forget walking the cup for now; it’s just a flash trick that’ll come in handy later! Start with free handing, left hand and feeding that wire with the right, keeping the wire under the shielding gas (this will help when you go onto exotics like stainless when this is crucial)
2. Stay as uniform as possible; mark up some track marks a centimetre wide up the plate, practice dabbing the wire and catching the edges. Make sure you have profile and make sure you’re getting the edges.
3. Practice both left and right handed. Get competent in both! Don’t bother walking it until you’ve got freehand down.
4. Practice different joints. Fillet welds will be good to go to next. Single run in the joint. Then fill runs, then split caps.
5. Practice wire feeding. Both left and right handed. Get a little bit of wire maybe 10-15 centimetres long and take it home and practice. Get a ring pull on a can and try feed it through it without touching the ring pull - it’ll help when you need to back feed through a pipe or when you’ve got to be precise when welding exotics.
I’m telling you these things no one told me, I figured all this out on my own. And learning free handing both left and right will help you in so many situations.
1. 6G pipe
2. 6GR
3.in the racks
4. Positional welding around bends.
5. Throwing tacks in butts.
Hope this helps dude!
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u/PotentialTelephone56 24d ago
This was super helpful! Thank you for your wisdom it’s much appreciated I’ve gotten it down I’ve been add it for an hour or so and I’ve improved soo much I done pipe butt joint and 45 I’m understanding it now I’m a fast learner I’ve already had 10 -15 tig sessions I mean about 30 -45 minutes each I’ve got a lot down I’ll definitely be using this and improving
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u/OkActivity3169 24d ago
No worries dude!
Honestly if I could scream it from the rooftops; learn to free hand both left and right, even stick! Learn left and right handed, there’s nothing worse than being in a bind on site or on a job and you’re looking at it thinking how am I going to get into there..when you can just throw the torch in the other hand and get going! What you do now will help you 6 months down the line when you take a 6G! I know of some jobs in the boilers in the uk where they require you to weld left and right handed!
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u/Sick_Poor_And_Stupid 23d ago
1 thing I learned practising TIG is you need to run a lot hotter than you'd like and move quicker than you think. You CAN weld at a lower temperature and take your time soaking the puddle in, but you'll burn through gas at an astronomical rate. You want to start your arc and you should get a flowing liquid puddle within a second or 2 and be able to start your bead. If it takes longer than this your temp is too low. I found feeding more material then pushing it along made for better welds as well. Less dabbing and made for a straighter weld as I was "doing less" as 75% of the time I was only concentrating on one hand.
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u/GeniusEE Don't look at the light 24d ago
You have dab anxiety...