The Hank Hill impression was great, have a thumbs up sir.

Love the South Park reference 😂😂 Perfect use of it.

I appreciate the talent and the patience required for cast iron repairs. At 5:10 I decided to buy a new cast iron pan.

I don't know how often this pan gets used, but it would be cool to see an update after a year or so to see how it's holding up or if any problems arose

Love the sound effects and impressions haha, you guys are just awesome. Here in scandinavia how i've been taught to repair cast iron is to use a remote control and cold stick weld it using super small sticks. We use a remote control for most stick welding anyway so it isn't a big deal, what we do is weld small 1/2 inch welds with small electrodes on super small heat and let it cool off between welds, that works really good aswell. Can't wait to get a chance to try your method out!

Wow you guys have really stepped up your production quality. Props to the filming and edit team.

Excellent, thank you. Pre and post heat was my biggest failure attempting to repair several cast items for the Mrs.

“Tree fiddy” I noticed that it’s not as “fluid” as mild steel and you kinda had to pause in order for it to melt. This method is pretty cool and I’m definitely gonna start repairing cast iron this way. You learn something new everyday and this was today’s lesson👍 thank you for sharing. The last part of the video had me rolling!😂

I almost choked on my drink when you did the King of the Hill impression. Love your channel and I’m just getting back into welding after almost 30 years.

I did this on a scale platform at work that was modified by a forklift, it worked very well and is still in use 4 years later.

Now remember that cast iron absorbs things, oils, chemicals ect....you go to use this over high heat, you'll be cooking the microscopic cleaning chemicals into your food. best way to clean iron is to bake it in the oven or in a fireplace for an our or so till all the seasoning comes off, then use sandpaper and salt with warm water to get the rest off, then weld what you need...then begin the re-seasoning process ie. grapeseed oil or olive oil over high heat in the oven for an hour, clean with lint-free rag (never paper towel) then repeat again till the black seasoning is rebuilt

Silicon Bronze is not always the answer for cast Iron. Good to see someone else using The tig method too. I have done the same thing for nearly 30 years now. I also have some .035 nickel 99 mig wire that I use for filler which works well especially on ornamental Iron stuff. Good tip on pre/post heat. Cheers

Wow. Multitalented. If this welding thing doesn’t work out, you can do standup.

Novel use for a "TIG FINGER" could open up a hole new market for them as pot holders. Thanks for a great video with some real nuggets in it.

really digging the edit on this one

We did this exact repair on a 351 Cleveland cast block that a motor mount broke on. Nice job

Good work Jason, I had not thought you could Tig cast iron so successfully.. I have fixed a broken vice using cast 90 rods and it worked very well. Preheated with tiger torch and used digital heat sensor for temp, then after welding let it cool down over night on the wood stove over night as the stove went out. It also worked very well. Not sure it Tig on a vice would be strong enough.

I was so hoping you were going to stick weld it. Good video to be fair with great tips.

Stuff like that actually helps me learn, good video man. Tree fiddy

Nickel rod is a nice repair. Small pieces I use a hot plate to preheat maintain and post heat. Keeps it about 350. They’re are cheap about $20 on amazon

I can do a cartman impersonation as well - sad thing is i look like him as well ! My mate is the living representation of homer simpson - and he hates it when i mention it ! If you need to clean of fat or cooking oil a caustic based oven cleaner or degreaser will do better than brake cleaner which is better for petrolium based grease or oils. I noticed you used a cutting tool rather than a grinding stone to stop any graphite smearing which can be a pia when tig or oxy welding cast iron . I have used stainless to weld cast iron and spring steel before with success as it doesn't pick up the carbon which is essentially what the high nickel content in those rods is there for . Thanks for another fantastic video man ! 👍

Pre-heating the cast iron is one of the keys to successful welds on cast iron. I often need to weld fairly large and complex pieces that won't fit in a typical propane fired pre-heating accessory. So I use ceramic wool, the stuff that is used in kilns, to make custom wrap around ovens . I pace the casting on either the ceramic wool, which is about an inch and a half thick, or on fire brick. Then I heat the casting with a portable propane pre-heater. Harbor Freight sells them but they call them weed burners. Marketing. Makes 'em cheaper though. I heat to at least 350 degrees, usually hotter though, but not glowing hot. Then I cover the casting with the ceramic wool except for the weld zone. After welding the casting it is covered completely and left alone to cool. This method has always worked for me. A word of caution about the ceramic wool: it is best not to breathe the dust generated from rough handling. So use common sense handling the stuff and wear a dust mask or respirator if necessary.

Loved the Hank (King of the Hill) Hill impression. I'm a Texan and I think Texas deserves the satire.

I'm afraid to say it, but I think my toilet is made of cast iron. I think it's getting worse because every time I go to use it, I now know that I am hearing the sound of cast iron cracking! I learn something new everyday, thank you Red Beard! That's a very handy rod I will try out in my welding!

Friend of mine broke a thick piece of cast iron, was considering doing exactly this to fix it, glad to know it works

South park tree fiddy reference, made me subscribe..... oh and the cast weld! Lol

I try your technique and it works great love tig welding. The item I Weld it was to cast iron stove. They hinge broke off the door and it was too thin to use arc welding. Thank you for showing your technique.

I found an 8" Griswold cast iron skillet at the scrap yard while looking for various project steel stock. It was half-buried and I figured it was just half a skillet as I reached for it. But, it came out of the dirt/scrap pile whole. Oh, it was a rusty mess, all right. Once home, I threw it in the sand blaster for a perfect gun metal grey final finish... Yeah, maybe the two revealed cracks were the reason it was sentenced to scrap? One crack was near a pour spout and the other at the handle. I also Dremeled out the cracks with some nice V work. The actual repair involved an acetylene torch and Harris Safety Silv 56 silver solder. It's the only brazing filler Harris explicitly states as, "food equipment safe." It took two cycles of brazing, grinding, and smoothing to effect the repair. And, after a couple of seasoning sessions in the oven, the repairs are only noticeable if one knows they are there or looking over the skillet with a collector/appraiser's eye. Of course, the silver solder cost more than the skillet is worth. But, the cooking implement has now entered my daily kitchen rotation. And, every time I pick it up, I recall the successful reclamation adventure.

Laughed my butt off !! Great impressions. You got it down man. Great video. Learned and laughed together.

I did very similar months back with a cast iron griddle handle that broke off with a cheapo flux-core mig welder, a bin of sand, and a mapp gas torch. I also peened the weld before putting it in the sand after welding, don't know i that helped any, but it's held up just dandy, and when i've tried cold welding or minimally preheating and annealing cast iron welds before it's always a brittle mess. Glad to see my method was on the right track.

Propane, that's God's gas (according to Hank)

love the king of the hill ref

At the “i prefer to use propane and propane accessories” my wife, who was apparently listening to the video from the kitchen, bursts out laughing and says I was just gonna say that! Lmao had a good laugh at that! Good stuff!

The Hank Hill impression was on point!

You sir are a friggin riot lol!! I just pulled the trigger on an Everlast Lightning 225. And.... my buddy just dropped off an antique cast iron skillet. I will clean it up best I can after and maybe sandblast to make it look like nothing ever took place.

The King of the Hill reference was not lost on me!! Hank Hill: a man's man.

Always great info and quite entertaining to watch. Liked the stripped stick rod to tig with... Glad I found your channel a while back!

Still one of the best videos on repairing cast iron! Thanks!

Always good to hear a King of the Hill reference, I'll tell ya h'wat... Same with Chef's parents...

Great camera on the welding, thanks

do you grind smooth after? - will it take seasoning like cast iron?

You are an artist with that torch

Great to see repair work, and cast iron is one of the repairs that a lot of people think requires "black magic". Excellent choice on the Nickel 99. If your repair has a "tighter" crack, StaySilv 45 or silver solder is also a great option. Keep sprinkling a few repair videos in, great stuff! Readbeard rocked this one (well, maybe lay off the tacos and Old Milwaukee the night before! LOL LOL!)

I have similar cracks in a rare cast iron carburetor for my 28' Chevy Truck and this is exactly what I needed to see. Thanks for the video !

I have played that Hank Hill impression back more than once.

He's hilarious I love how theirs a comedic side to this episode! Thanks again fellas!

Tig-settings would be a bonus.. 😄

Great video, Jason, thank you! Could you explain they whys, advantages & disadvantages of using nickel vs. silicon bronze as filler? Is one stronger than the other? Does one filler require significantly more or less heat to braze?

Good content for the video. I would have liked to have seen close-up shots of your weld afterward and a destructive test to see how it holds up.. Maybe a quick little follow-up in your next video. Thank you.

Set a magnet by where you grind. Works great.

Why no love for the oxy-acetylene torch? My first go-to would be gas braze welding with low-fuming bronze. If that isn't desirable for some reason (i.e. high operating temps, like an exhaust manifold), then I will weld with nickel. If it's nodular iron I have used Eutectrode 680 with excellent success. You asked about a different process, so here it is: Old school cast-iron welding with cast iron filler using the good ole oxy-acetylene flame. I've done it plenty of times. The cast iron filler rods (notable for their square cross section rather than being round) and flux are hard to find, but available. Oxweld (later All-State) Ferro Flux is my preferred flux for cast iron welding, but is no longer made. Thanks ESAB :-( I have a small stash of it, and cans of it occasionally pops up on Ebay. Fortunately, Superior still makes Anti-Borax #1 for welding cast iron. Another place to get the flux and cast iron rods is TM Technologies. He has flux and such for gas welding aluminum, stainless steel, and copper as well. True welding of cast iron with cast iron filler is an involved process, but it's rewarding and the weld has the same metallurgy as the base metal. Get the rods and flux and give it a try. Make sure to make a video!

Worth sticking around till the end

Nice fart noise when showing the nickel rod. 😂😂

SP impression was the best.😂 👍🇨🇱🇺🇸

Fantastic explanation and the step by step was easy to follow. Great camera work also. Overall great video.

This was a great vid!!! Love the voices but I subscribed because of the videography some of the finest I have seen for welding.

I think aluminum bronze on AC tig wets out better on cast. This is an interesting method. I’d be interested in the composition of the wire for the nickel welding rod and see the equivalent in a tig wire.

woulda wanted to see the welds on there close up

great video.. as usual...us novices appreciate the time you put into these...

Thank you for the fun video. I do love tig welding. It is my go to for everything I weld. Slower yes but when I done no grinding to make it look good. I hate grinding....

Thanks to you, my brother, "bust'n the flux" has a new meaning😁

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm glad I stayed to the end.

I once had a cheap (really cheap) Campbell-Hausfeld welder that I bought from Wal*mart. The *only* thing that it did well was welding cast iron; with flux core wire! I welded several exhaust manifolds. One is on a car I have, and it's never failed. No KZfaq back then to bother trying to prove it, unfortunately.

I have some Wary old sticks that are nickle. the slag is totally drenched in moisture. so now i know i can use them as tig rods. cant belive i didnt think about that.

7:09 and 7:24 you're now my new favorite KZfaq personality

King of the Hill .. Propane ... Great job hosting the show ..and thank for the slaps you and my boy , mancub

Your video of your Tig welding just explained Tig welding better than any other I've seen, its kinda Create the puddle than feed the puddle as needed thanks outstanding video quality and angle.

After burnishing back about 3/4" from the broken edges all around with the bench grinder wire wheel, I bevel the edges of both parts using the 4-1/2" side grinder w/aluminum oxide 1/4" thick grind disc BEFORE putting them together (it is very fast that way to get the job done). The preheat with the gas torch burns off any remaining grease and oil. About 400-500 F. I Weld using the solid steel wire mig .035 ER70S6 wire w/CO2 shield gas (same thing I fab steel with) using a series of overlapping stitch tacks always starting on the edge of the previous tack (dilutes the carbon in the previous tack and stress relieves). Nothing special welding, just go around the whole thing both sides with the bare steel wire then post heat again with the torch. Done this many times with good results and reliable repairs. If the mig tacks are "very porous"? (indicates excessive silica in the cast iron from the sand molds) I have fed a 3/32" 99% NI rod w/flux coating still on it into the Mig welds to help it all wet and flow better. Usually that isn't necessary on light stuff like that pan. For freeze broken thick water well pump housings repairs? I'll use a first root pass of the pure nickle NI rod coated stick electrodes, well peened after each short tack and not allowed to get too hot. Then finish off with a stitch tack wash over the NI rod buttering with the mig steel wire as noted above. Saves a lot of time and expense over using all NI or NIFE stick electrodes. To be sure to have NO pinhole water leaks on the well pumps? After welding I coat the entire weld areas with filled epoxy while they are still warm (that way they are for certain pressure sealed, and none ever come back from leaking...).

Nice Hank Hill.

With good cleaning, prep, pre/post heat I’ve managed to get away with using an ER70S-6 tig rod to repair some cast. Still in service today

Thank you Jason and weld.com awesome video man!!!

Tig is always the way to go with cast!

That welded really clean!! Nice repair Redbeard nice repair!! Had that mug up ta three fitty!!

Solid advice! Thanks

If you put cast iron in the oven on the self clean cycle it will burn off all the seasoning. I would guess that would make it easier to get really clean

Nice job. Some close up shots of your repair would be nice to see.

Flux core mig now for now exhaust manifold crack or adding a waste gate flange to stock manifold pot handles same preparation extremely durable.

OK, where was this video last Week when I needed it? Im a retired firefighter. guy from work said they had a broken lid off a 12 quart dutch oven .Probbaly been in the dept for 40 years. I said sure I can fix it!. Well ,,, its fixed, but it aint pretty!. Acted like it was dirty no matter how much I cleaned it?? I would recommend preheating as I had a lot of cracking when I didn't pre heat. Question??? Will the nickel rod you used be compatible with the bronze??? Thanks!!!!

Beautiful work!

I have a cast iron engine block I have to do as it cracked due to freezing temps. I am going to use nickle 99 rods to do it but I am going to wait till the summer as I won't have to worry about it cooling down too fast after the preheat. Great video. I like the tig method. I might have to go that route other than stick welding. Looks like a lot less heat penetration to the cast iron. Thank you.

My process is get in the propane powered truck and goto walmart and buy a new skillet. Pick up some steaks and put the grill to good use. But your way worked too.

Is bob ever gonna come back and make some videos?

I don't suppose there's a downside to preheating higher than 350°, right?

Tree Fiddy.

I use SiB, AC, and grind after preheat as well to get rid of the oxide layer that forms. Do my best not to melt the metal and let the bronze wet in, but sometimes that just isn't possible or needed.

😳 Perfect Hank Hill....& great vid.

Thankyou very much.have a great day

Wisdom given. Thanks.

Ive had pretty good luck doin cast iron and cast steel with a pre heat to 450f, weld with plain .035 wire, peen the welds and post heat in a tub of sand. Done many dana 60 and rockwell knuckles that way for repair and armoring them up. I noticed with cast steel peening isnt really needed because it doesnt pull apart as bad as iron when it cools.

One of my favorite episodes haha!

CRC's Brakleen Green can is actually mostly acetone - check the MSDS on their website.

Does your beard ever get loaded up with metal filings?

Excellent work, that is the one of the proper welding technique, thanks for sharing.

Great Safety tip with the red can cleaner. Phosgene Gas is super dangerous.

Thanks for the tutorial and humor Jason! 👍🤘👊

Great tip to remove the flux from the nickel rod and use TIG for better control.

King of the welding hill

Those impressions are really good

Mad skills...you got the juice

I had good results using tig to weld cast iron to itself, no filler rod. A carbon rod on a stick welder will also work for this.