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I kept a glove and a filler rod on my coffee table and practiced feeding by finger, while watching tv. It's a good way to do it because you don't stop for q tips or having to turn the work piece. An hour of practice without worrying about the torch really focuses on the process and is better than hours of frustration actually welding. You're working on muscle memory, not welding ability.

it might comfort you to know that your third point is grounded in very well-researched education theory. Specifically, what you are talking about is "Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Learning", which essentially states that a learning exercise should be only difficult enough to challenge a weakness, but never so difficult as to discourage the learner, but also never so easy as to add nothing to the learner's abilities. It's a good approach for sure and one that I wish was applied more in the learning of manual arts and industrial fields in general

Yep I’m just learning. Burning holes & fingers sounds like me. My practice heap shows the progress. I’m determined to redo my R53 exhaust to accommodate 330 Hp. Love your help. Thankyou

I just started tig welding. I've been mig welding since I was 15 and I'm 39. I worked at a machine shop crushing it welding specified stuff. But now I wanna tig weld. I already ran into the worst lol. Hit me up thanks brother!

Dusty your videos are great, I find them very helpful thank you

Starting TIG welding now in trade school and I'm loving your channel mate...can wait to cycle through your archive and learn. Thanks for the excellent quality for your videos.

Hahaha I did this and also would stick the filler rod into the weld and make it stick then pull my hand up the rod. Then one day i noticed I was feeding correctly and it was natural. Pretty awesome!

Knocked it out of the park. Thanks for the help as always!

An episode that covers TIG welding in the context of airframe repair would be of great interest to me.

In college learning to Tig weld going for my advanced welding certification thank u so much for your videos

That was a great first tip. Never thought about it that way. Now to put it into practice for a very big newbie.

Good tips, Dusty 😊. For the novice practice is key. First you get good, then you get fast 😁. I was literally practicing my tig wire feeding when I found your vid lol. Cheers!

Kick ass advice, been at it 35 years and wouldn’t change or add a thing.

Thanks again Dusty for your excellent videos!!!

Great tips Dusty. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

Lol @ "TO THIS DAY"!

Love this content!! Thank you!!

Good tips. Thanks for sharing!

I am learning to Jig . I have been studying do weeks before strickling an arc. Love your videos!!

this really helped I'm trying the puddle size and heat thing

Thank you very much for the lesson. I learned a lot today.

Rock Solid Advice!!!

Full respect ❤

Thank you , good tips. I must follow this channel more often.

Great vid!

Thank u brother. Very informative!

Nice Channel bro. Those tips are great. What I teach for fillerrod control, is take one of every diameter we have home. Watch tv and just play with it. It becomes second nature. I tig weld for 20 years now and the first 10 were just figuring it all out. Till it became to make sense. Arc length, travelspeed, amp power, filler technique, torch angle, gas coverage at different joints, amp power, dry runs and overall knowledge of the industry mixed in the soup made do it. Still in stainless food industry machines and chasing rainbow colours everyday.

Hello brothers and sisters In the tig welding community. Great tips as always.

Brilliant!

I've been watching you for awhile. Absolutely love your work and the advice you give. I'm not a beginner but also not as proficient as id like to be, and oftenly overthink things so I like watching videos like this to refocus sometimes. The rusty spoons picture made this for me. This is all great advise for beginners. keep it up, your killing it!

Nice manner and presentation and sensitive to not offending. Great tutorial.

Thanks Dusty LARRYMOORE

Good video, I am a Novice watching everything I can. AND thanks for getting rid of the ticking/dripping noise, much better ;-)

Good video. Great info.

Thanks. Still trying to learn the basics (not enough time, I can only work on days when it's not too windy - and during daylight due to not having much in the way of lights - I'm fixing the latter, and I'm planning to build a shield around by welding table - something for the Christmas projects!) Would love a basic "here's what you do wrong when your welds look like this" type video - is it "too hot", "not hot enough", "too much Argon", "not enough Argon".

I have started my learning process by doing horizontal flat beads on plate. This is the easiest position to learn. I figure that if I can't do an excellent weld this way, I don't have a chance with vertical and overhead. For some reason, I have found outside corner joints easy to do and have achieved good results. My hardest to do and get good results is fillet welds.

Great points. Hey, what would be great is a vid showing overhead TIG. It’s something you often have to do in autobody and I just can’t get the hang of it. But my vertical up isn’t the best either.

You making it clear your channel is aimed towards the POSITIVE people out there that want to and are willing to learn is what convinced me to sub. Much respect!

I have a few kits that will make metal dice, tried one at home before i started a tig class this spring, and it was junk looking. Found out my tungsten was all messed up, among other things. Working on larger plate scraps before i try and work on these thin things again, like to make them look nice. Even if a metal dice is useless it could still be a cool thing for my desk at work, etc. Then i can say yeah i welded that... and not be embarased hopefully. I kind of struggle still with the filler part, the other part I still have to force myself to do is slow down one way i can see a slow back and forth makes a nice weld and it seems should be more relaxing. I'm used to stick or flux core though where you have to move a lot more, and i need more paitance. Sometimes i make like a 6 inch weld and it feels like i'm sitting there like 10 minutes on weld though probably more like 3-5 minutes.I have heared others say they don't like TIG because how slow it is. TIG is neat though it can do so many metals, things others would just burn through and can do autogonous welds also a lot of control and can get some neat looking results if you know how.

Ima try wat you said weld around the pipe first tip number 3 fireeeee

Thank you Man, i‘m just starting with Tigwelding and your Videos are very helpfull! It looks so easy how you‘re doing , but it will be a long way. I hope you keep doing these nice Videos. I‘m so sad about the Loss of your Dogs , they are part of the Family. Kind Regards from Europe.

Your tip about being scared of blowing through certainly is familiar to me! I retired a year and a half ago after a 41 career as a certified welder. My certifications were to the AWS D15.1 standard, and I was certified in SMAW (7018), flux cored/gas shielded wire, and GMAW (aluminum only on this), unlimited thickness-all position. Since retiring, I’ve spent a lot of time practicing with a Lincoln TIG/Stick machine I’ve had for years, and only recently have I figured out that you have to throw the heat to it! Now if I could only figure out how to stop getting crater holes at the end of my welds, I’d be doing good! Thanks for the vid, and Merry Christmas!

amazing video! taking notes on all your videos bro. enjoy the holidays with your love ones

Just started four days ago at my school and seeing major progress but I need to get better and making a straighter line and trying to keep it smaller

I'm trying to learn also but nobody ever shows you how to set up the cup with the o-rings initially tried to weld my inner door piece for a truck I noticed I was losing a lot of fuel Alice birney through quite a bit and I realized it's really tough to weld outside any information would be great thank you so much have a great day

I like the way you present the material and how completely thorough you are with the explanations and accompanying videos.......just subscribed...........Oh, by-the-way, I have burned through many thin-walled tube joints while stick welding....just bought a stick / tig welder and your videos will help me tremendously while fumbling through the basics.........

Salad fingers! Love your videos man. They've helped me a ton learning TIG. Thanks!

Thanks Million! Need to look into your online course-

Very well said. New to your channel. Glad I came across it.

What a terrific video! Thanks so much, I've just started. Deep end with aluminum ac. Lol

My dad taught me to hold it kinda like a cigarette with the filler sought of resting between my finger and thumb while slowly feeding with thumb and sort of guiding with fingers .

When i started TIG welding my flat stringers were awful. I started to try lap joints and butt joints then when i went back to stringers i was much better. Just do something more challenging then go back to something easier and you will continue to get better. With anything tho, practice makes perfect. Gotta stay in them booths💯

I’m in a class right now and the big eye opening thing for me was figuring out that burning thru material is much more dependent on speed of the torch than amps in the plasma. I was not using enough heat so the puddle would ball up and I would sit there trying to move the puddle heating up that area and I’d burn thru.

Dam solid advice your videos trach me alot thank you!!!

Yep, I have all three of those issues.

Love your vids. Can you do a demo on feeding your tig rod and welding an automive patch on sheet metal? Thanks boss

Your video so cute 😊 thnx👍

Thanks for the info once again LARRYMOORE

Hey Dusty Can you talk about Argon? Where to buy How to buy How long will it last in a bottle. Do you have to rent the bottle or can you bring a bottle you bought on Amazon and have it filled up? How to shop for metals. What condition you should be looking for? Some rust, scaling? I know you still have to clean it. At what point would you consider too far gone to be usable.

Excelente.

The Dillinger Escape Plan...Nice

Hi love your video, I'm just starting out with tig as I'm into rc models. Iv seen many tutorials about how to and technics but not about what hand does what. I'm right handed so which hand holds the torch and which holds the filler rod. Many thanks Steve.

When tig welding please use shade 11-13

Hi Dusty, was scrolling through KZfaq and this video caught my interest as I’m wanting to get into TIG welding. I’ve been using O/A & stick for many years and recently got into MIG, but want to do SS and generally like the looks of TIG. First question: in your opinion what is the best machine to get? I plan on doing some thin stuff ~1/16” up to maybe 3/8-1/2” mild & SS. Also have eyed doing so Al projects. So looking for suggestions on a once buy machine (learned that getting an almost good enough beginner system and stepping up to an intermediate system, then stepping up again to what you really want is more costly in the long one than just getting the final system to begin with). Thanks in advance. Cheers, Tom. BTW, where do I find info on this online course you mentioned?

Lol can relate to the outside corner one but I was always the opposite I was always afraid of not getting enough penitration and could never get it neat would always start to hot then have to really speed up to avoid ending up with a huge sunken in bead and had no controll .... then one day I just got it hadn't been practiceing it or anything I was always trying to avoid doin them but a job came up and I had no choice I was stress out about it but I started and I just had it ... it just worked ... havnt really had a issue since

Nice helpful video. Also, big up for the salad fingers reference XD

Great tips! What kind of tungsten do you use for welding aluminum? Lanthanatad? Ceriated?

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Hi there, thank you so much for your advice. In New Zealand (Christchurch) we do not have short welding courses. I work full time and have bought my first TIG but cant afford to spend 8 hours, 5 days a week on a course while still working. I had hoped to find somewhere I could get an introduction course to, at least, get me started, no such luck. Any help on line is very valuable so, again, thank you.

Never had an issue with burning my fingers on filler hand starting out. In learning anything , I make it a habit to find someone who I believe knows their shit and watch/study what they do intently. No matter what the subject is, that I want to get good at. Copy what they do and make it yours. I teach my kids to do the same. Also if your unsure , never be scared to ask questions.

Bro i go to a voc school and have an interview at a tig company in 4 days and ive never done tig welding they are supposed to teach me but im so worried im gonna screw it up. Im not even in a metal shop im in hvac metal is just what im good at and enjoy

I need practice practice practice practice thanks bra The basics

I first learned [with the aid of KZfaq] how to weld razor blades together. Not joking. Impractical, but that's how I started. Now I suffer from all the things mentioned in this video! LOL. Really my main weakness is not doing enough prep work now. Prep is king above technique.

Great video. Got any videos on learning how to get rid of shaky hands but still keeping a good range of motion while TIG welding?

Would it be beneficial to get a scrap piece of metal the same thickness and focus on the length of time it takes while feeding filler to actually burn though then back off the amps from that point? Just thinking out loud. Newbie thoughts

Aluminum can be tricky for beginners. I've always had a knack for TIG welding, even owned my own contracting business centered around matal working and hard to repair items, rare metals, onsite welding etc. Did a lot of aluminum tig. I used to work for AlumaCraft tig welding basically cosmetic on the exterior of the "all weld" boats. I hear they have since gotten rid of their "all weld" boat line. Unfortunate becuase I feel a welded boat is much better than a riveted one. + the work of a skilled craftsman welding vs some high-school kid riveting all day. I bet the welder take more pride in his work than anyone on the shop floor. I bet managment didn't take that into account. With welding instead of riveting the options are 10x more. The work is less and the final product is much better. Uses less gasketing than riveting as rivets are not water tight like a weld is. So it's less impactful on the environment with less chemicals and material used the making. I can go on if you'd like. Lol 😆

Hey dusty, love your videos. Hey was curious you had mentioned you teach online? Is there anyway to get some more of that info. Been wanting to get into the weld world. Thx

could you go over welding brass/bronze? please? at my new job i have to weld alot of brass and bronze and im having a rough go of it. thank you

Dusty, "Happy Holidays" to your and your's!! Thanks for all you do educating the newbie masses. I just received and unboxed my X-mas present to me; an AHP 203Xi and matching water cooler. Plan to spend X-mas day with family, friends, football, and later out in the garage melting metal. Does it get any better? ;) Regarding filler rod and tungsten, gas lens kits, etc., for the home gamer / hobbiest, how critical are those consumables comparing budget vs. more professional grade? I understand how one can get spoiled with the good stuff and the "You get what you pay for." argument; but, realistically, where does one draw a line in the sand in said scenario? Don't want to buy into self inflicted obstacles, but still need to keep budget in mind. Your thoughts?

@pacificarctigwelding when welding thin aluminium and the heat starts to build up, would you back off the amps a bit or increase your travel speed?

Hey dusty I’m in a college course right now having huge issues Dipping the tungsten any tips ?

Wanna know a secret - I REALLY suck at tig welding, thanks for these vids!

It has been said that the master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.👍🐴

when i'm brazing copper i clean it with sulfuric acid. no need to use brushes, sand paper, acetone. I think aluminium can handle it too.

I’m currently in a tech school learning welding as a sr in hs but unfortunately I won’t be able to get to rig this year so I plan on teaching myself this summer what is a good rig welder to start off with?

I must admit I cheat on my TIG welds. I find (or set up) an edge to slide my filler on and advance it like a violin bow. I also bought a TIG rod advancer aid thingy that I have yet to try.

I’m big faded and Cuz I wanna learn how to weld and I’m trying to make a turbo manifold already 😂😂😂

I was 16 when i learned how to TIG weld, it was the first time i tried welding, now i do some under the table work by welding custom Exhaust for friends and family, and i HATE mig welding have tried it alot but it's never the same and the quality is garbage IMO it could be because im not good at it, but i will stick to tig welding because i feel like i have more control over it and the quality is way better, i mainly weld Aluminium and stainless steel, i work at a food factory so we use SS for everything and it's the best to learn on because you have to be very bad to fuck up stainless

Does the waiting a little bit at the beginning of the weld to not burn through and establish a good puddle work with MIG as well ? Or is everything to do with TIG different than MIG

I noticed that you where using a Everlast welder in another video. I Have been mig welding exhaust for years in the automotive trade but I have never used a tig welder before. I have been looking at getting a entry level tig welder for a while and when I look online I only see a Everlast dealer in Hamilton Ontario. I only know of the Praxair on Devonshire but I think they only sell Miller. Is there anyone in or around the Victoria area that sells Everlast?

Yep do a 5 year apprenticeship then another 20 years in real world then still never learn faster Huge respect to anyone who gets to earn a living welding I have and I know many others but there is also thousands of chancers that will never be any good because they don’t love what they do they just turn up and expect results Merry Xmas

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If you have trouble feeding with your hand let it stick to the metal pull the cup away and let it stick to the metal pull your hand back and then start over

Have a Merry Christmas my friend! Sorry, KZfaq been hiding you from me for days on end here recently 🤔 not sure why. I mean, you my dawg! You hear that KZfaq?! 😆 be blessed, have a great holiday, hope Santa gives your stocking the ol' fill n chill!

Im new at TIG....How do you know which hand holds the torch and which hand feeds the rod? Im normally right handed....but not sure which way to TIG?? I MIG right handed.

In what order should I learn to do joints, butt,angle etc.?

What’s some good to practice?

Where do you get the torch end caps??? Always a plus watching and learning. Wish you was in Ohio I would take all the classes 😂

Thank you for your information, just started to learn TIG I need all the help I can get.