Thanks Jody! Today marks 4 years since I first plugged a TIG welder into the wall and started learning to weld with all your videos. Today I'm building a backpurged stainless turbo manifold for a show Camaro. We appreciate all the time you've put into helping people like me learn how to weld with absolutely zero experience 💯

Never retire from YT Jodie

Thanks for mentioning those of us with damaged hands. Many decades of manual labor takes a toll on the hands.

I don't even weld anymore but I'm still subscribed

You can always tell if someone is a novice by watching their rod feeding technique. Back when I was learning and going to welding school, I would practice feeding rod in my down time every day for an hour. After a few weeks it started to become second nature, and eventually I could make continuous passes smoothly without pausing to readjust the filler rod… Time + effort = results

In the beginning of my welding career, I used a "pen" that had a wheel in the side. You feed your wire through the "pen", and use the wheel to feed it.

Still the most informative welding videos on the web. I show your videos to my son as I attempt to teach him. BTW, TIG finger has saved me from a lot of burns!

Thanks for the video. I really enjoy TIG welding but my arthritis makes feeding rod extremely difficult. Part II was very informative.

A lot of my welding is on small thin cross section materials using .032 filler and it goes so fast I forget/don't have time to advance the filler so I use the method of holding the filler out long. The parts are small so I rarely run out of the stickout before I have to stop and reposition.

Very much food for thought. I am old and have rheumatoid arthritis, so my TIG days are long behind me, but I really enjoy your thinking and examples here. Yours is the only welding channel I still watch, and I always enjoy it.

Thanks Jody for the great instructions in your video, it's easier seeing what you are actually doing and helps in trying to get coordinated to feed the filler rod. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.

Jody, your videos have had a profound impact on my welding career. I started watching your videos about 7 and a half years ago when I was in welding school. I binge watched everything you had and graduated at the top of my class, now years later I’m running my own welding business full time and it is going extremely well. It was always my dream to do so! And without your videos I know I wouldn’t have the success I have now. So just want to say thanks and I still enjoy watching your videos, I always learn something new!

Always an educational video. Thanks Jody!!

Jody thank you for every video that you uploaded and please keep uploading.

Good stuff as always Jody. I seriously need to practice this. Thanks!

Best videos out there. I’ve been watching for years and years and I’ve bought everything off your store. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

Super vidéo très instructive (comme d'habitude) Merci

Thanks for your tips, Jody. And for your online store.

Started watching your videos a long time ago. Always enjoyed welding. Fast forward many years and I just attended a local foundations of welding class and then their intermediate GTAW class for a cert or two. Passed the carbon steel and stainless steel, failed my two attempts at aluminum. I and other students would watch your tips during lunch if we were having a tough time. You rock!!

Been welding for too long😂😂...and got the old man's hands and eyes...and I've just got back into alloys for myself jobs, ...and you vids are just full of very useful stuff, even for us old blokes..👍👍

Thank you for tutorials welding

Another good viedo. Thank you Jody.

Thank you Jody.

You should do a video on some sch 10 stainless pipe. From rooting to capping. Thanks.

It's a fantastic video, keep it up.

Very informative

Having to laugh at this video Jody..., I have been trying for years to feed filler the way you demonstrated back in the day, and have never been very good...seeing the truth come out, makes me have to go back to the drawing board and learn a new way.....thanks for the technique ......your fan here in Orlando, Paul

The GOAT!!! Thank you sir!

Wow watching from Burundi 🇧🇮 good Wark

Thanks

Beleza !muito obrigado por todo o aprendizado 👍👍

Thank you a lot.

Sweet.

I don't like regular tig gloves made of smooth skin, because the welding rod slips a little. But after you use these gloves for a couple of days - they become softer and you get that extra bit of traction so much needed to feed the rod with precision. I wish I could try deerskin gloves someday, I feel they could make feeding way easier

My feed hand is still recovering from breakage. I got my primeweld from you while it was still casted. I thought i was being lazy feeding from way back without trying to finger feed. Lol. I need to start working it by carrying around a piece of filler rod and getting use to it.

Great video as always. I was hoping to see you weld with your opposite hand. Ponder this idea. We all know that the shielding gas is there, just as we know oxygen is in the air. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to put some kind of dye into the shielding gas so as to see the how it surrounds the welding surface? Just a thought.

I have stiff fingers and butt weld mostly thin aluminum and often times in very uncomfortable positions and sometimes very cramped places so I use all the time the solution you give for arthritis because I can weld only 2 to 5 seconds before having to reposition myself. I have to cut the filler rod in half because otherwise it tends to weld the other extremity with the part when it makes contact, yes I'm literally inside the part I'm welding sometimes.

I’m planning welding 304 stainless tube 1.5mm wall thickness for motorcycle exhaust. I was planning on using 308rod but how can I stop contamination forming on the back of the weld without purging?? Can you advise would be really appreciated! Love the channel

I have come to call intense focus " puddle vision"

Hello, just ran across your channel yesterday and watched the vid you made on gasless flux core for beginners. I baught a HF $100.00 wire feed and I'm having the same problem with the spatter. The thing is it doesn't look anything inside like you showed as far as the wiring. I'm new at this so besides telling me to get a better unit is there anything I could change? Thank you

Thanks Jody. I have a gopro and would like to film myself, do I need a filter in front of the camera to keep from hurting my camera? If I just use a dark lens then it is dark before I start welding? What should the setup look like?

Hey Jody. I just learned Sub-Arc and I'm about to start practicing TIG at home. Could I use Sub-Arc wire for TIG rod on mild steel? I seen the video where you mentioned braiding .035 hard wire, and Sub-Arc looks similar, but that doesn't mean much, I suppose.

Hi Jody. Just a quick question- with clamping the pipe with the jaws on the inside, don't they slacken the grip when the pipe warms up?

Good video Jody! I'm having little problem with fcaw welding vertical position with strick tack welds, don't know how to melt them good, can you maybe do a video about that?

Will you start showing how you prop and get comfortable, best ways the hold torch, best ways to move along a joint, best ways to use tig finger. But please show more of how you prop your hands and body when you tig weld

Thank you! I only buy my weld consumables and materials from you to support these videos. I’m 100% taught by people like you and “the fabrication series” channel. I know no one who tig welds aluminum so even if I wanted advice I couldn’t get it. I do know plenty of boilermakers/pipefitters who have helped me on carbon and stainless some. It’s funny to ask them about aluminum and most never even attempted and think it’s very difficult. Most never have used a pedal. I honestly think steel is tougher for me just because I’ve done so much aluminum welding. I rebuilt a boat and have done plenty of other projects on pontoons, aluminum box trucks, trailers, dirtbike parts etc. I’d like to start a small side welder shop one of these days. Anyways thank you!

Hi sir, I'm your follower from Indonesia, here welding often uses LB52 or E7016 welding wire from root to cap, please give me tips for working on the 5G position. Thank you sir.

Just curious what tungsten you were using?

It's not so much the actual feeding out of the rod that I find tricky, but keeping the end steady while you're doing it - tends to waggle all over the place!

Shove it in until u switch naturally into pencil feeding ... I'd really love to learn how to feed it king style tho

Do you only feed tig rod by hand or do you also use a tig rod feed tool like auto tig feed tool that they sell on eBay? Super handy tool

Love your videos Now do Alu mig/mag :)

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I can feed filler rod with the best as long as I'm not doing anything else. But add the foot pedal and the torch and suddenly, my ability to feed the rod is gone. One too many things for my brain I guess.

I love my stubby gloves.

Hey Jody, serious question- how complicated is TIG really? I MIG welded once when I was 18, didnt seem too difficult (ugly welds for first time with no instruction but they held) I'm 38 now and looking to start welding as a hobbyist/homestead situation. Make a chicken feeder, funnels, welding small pipe joints, stiff like that. Gonna have to be self taught, no welding classes in the area and even if there were, my job in the military wouldnt afford me much time to attend classes. My hand/eye coordination and patience, Id say, is excellent. I have been flying H-60 Blackhawk helicopters for almost a decade on the medevac platform and one of the things I teach new pilots to do is balance that 18,000 lb aircraft on one wheel on a cliff. Or hovering 100 feet up while hoisting our medic. Im not saying all this to brag, all the videos, books and articles I have been reading the past two years talk about how complicated TIG is like you have to have attained Jedi status to even attempt it. And I am ready to drop some money right now on either MIG or TIG to start practicing to finally make all these projects Ive held off for years. I really want TIG because everything I have read and watched praises how versatile it is but again, Jedi status.... I know that was lengthy and not fully expecting a response from you but if you do read this, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Jody hello, I very like your videos, your videos are one of the best. I try to support your work through your WeldMonger store. On November 13th I made an order, today is December 14th, I still didn’t receive it. I understand maybe you are not aware of it. I think your team could do better work. Thank you for videos.

Are you totally opposed to those rod feeding roller aids? I never knew they existed until a few days ago. What is your opinion of them?

When will we see the 2023 skills, agc welding competition?

I'm just amazed that film doesn't cook the camera.

My 2 y/o son asked over my shoulder, “Is that Todd the builder or Bob the builder?” “No buddy that’s Jody the welder.”

As a welder, I've always felt like a dummy for not knowing how to solder copper. Some welders actually tig copper. Is this practical, or a waste of gas?

I have never been able to feed the filler rod, I aways dab

Geez Jodie, your videos are always so helpful but you failed to explain how you were feeding the rod in this one. I saw your thumb moving and your fingers staying still, I can’t replicate it?

If I film it, then I can watch 30 minutes of me dipping tungsten :(