The very first MIG welder I purchased back in 1982 had a special shroud for spot welding that did not require a pre drilled/punched hole. Just fit the shroud and switch the machine to spot weld and set the timer according to metal thickness, I have not come across another machine since then that has this function.
Question. When I try to braze I get flash back. It’s seems like the bronze rod blows up kinda. ? And there’s a bunch of spider webs around Any insight?? Thx
@WeldCoachOfficial he's most likely welding galvanized with silicon bronze and is just welding too hot and not concentrating the arc just on the silicon bronze.
This isn't resistance welding, it's TIG fusion welding with a short arc and blunt tip (so the arc wanders around the tip rather than burning through at a point).
Grr trying to join galvanized 12 gague wire to other 12 gague galvanized wire... nothing I'm trying works... basically I have a mesh fence that needs patching up anybody know what I should be doing?
Dude,, You are awesome !! I was curious if TIG could spot weld and as you just showed us,, it can,, Thanks for explaining why to cut the cup, I would probably would never had thought of that.. Much Luck to you ) ... JRG
worked great on a nice clean control piece but when I tried it with my first production piece it blew a hole in it. I wonder if it is the age of the steel..
Can afford a tig welder but is on a budget 🤔🤔 awesome videos man, been watching your channel for years and learned most from you. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the free lessons homie.
You can also use copper as a filler on steel similar to using silicon bronze, If I can’t find a piece I will buy a metre of 120mm2 earth wire, strip it and then use the strands. You can usually run 1/4 to 1/2 the amps it would take to weld, I find it’s useful for joining thin / small sections or just to put copper on something for decorative or conductive electrical connections
Thanks Justin These tips are great. Is there a quick tip for determining the amps needed for thin metal tig welding. is there a ratio like 1 amp per thousandth of an inch ?
GREAT info! I was looking at purchasing a hand held spot welder when I found this video. I've got a Miller TIG so I'm good to go now! One question,... I'm assuming I can do the same with aluminum???
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Nice and informative video! I have a small spotwelder (working with mosfets) for small objects but now his big brother for the bigger stuff! Way to go, I like your style of sharing information!
For an application like that you could also use copper wire instead of the silicone bronze. I use it where I want to fuse thin non structural sections or brazing TIG filler to sheet and usually run about half the amps I would use to weld. If I have to buy it I will buy 1 metre of 120mm2 earth cable and strip it, each strand is about 2mm diameter
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Great video but you said you have a tig welder and a limited budget. I think that is a oxymoron. seriously I watch every video you come out with, all great content.
Although it works well, this technically isn't resistance spot welding. It's still forming an argon plasma arc, which is why you need the argon. I make my own two layer gas lens screens using steel mesh and I spot weld them together using a TIG welder but treat it as an actual resistance spot weld. You don't need any cup or argon for this. Simply touch the flat end of the tungsten directly to where you want the spot weld and apply light pressure. Treat it exactly like a spot welder. You can use a 3.2mm tungsten rod in the ground clamp to sandwich your sheets together similar to the animation at the beginning of the video. Make sure you adjust your current and use the timer feature on your machine if you have it. If not, tap the switch for less than 0.5s and you'll end up with a perfect spot weld on very thin stainless steel mesh. The reason I spot weld those is because the mesh is so thin that even a 5A arc is far too hot and will quickly melt and ruin it. I've since built a custom battery tab spot welder that inputs a precise amount of energy and the results are of course significantly better.
The very first MIG welder I purchased back in 1982 had a special shroud for spot welding that did not require a pre drilled/punched hole. Just fit the shroud and switch the machine to spot weld and set the timer according to metal thickness, I have not come across another machine since then that has this function.
That was actually the first thing I learned how to do right with my TIG welder, spot & tacks and now you made a tool for it. LMFIAO
Thanks Justin, I didn't know that it was so easy to do it with any normal tig.
That spot welder tip is freakin cool! I have a perfect use for that one.
The spot welding tip was great... Making tools was even better... More content please 🙏 Thank you sir!!
I'm definitely going to make a set of those clamps💚🇬🇧🌱
This is a super helpful video, thank you!
Insane. Holy moly, such a great video my dude!
Thanks for the video it help me a lot!!!
Absolutely love your videos, keep up the great work. Thank you
Awesome. Thanks for the tip.
Always wanted a good way to do this - this was spot on! :D
that was cool thank you i was wondering about silicon bronze now i know thanks love your vids
awesome awesome awesome, oh yeah , and Outstanding too......Paul in Orlando
No need to drill a hole! Sign me up! That’s gonna save a lot of time and drill bits for a project of mine!
Awesome info
Good info, thanks for sharing
Great video? Any tips on doing this with lift tig?
I suppose you need high frequency start to make this work.
Does it work with aluminum sheet metal?
No.
Question. When I try to braze I get flash back. It’s seems like the bronze rod blows up kinda. ? And there’s a bunch of spider webs around Any insight?? Thx
That's not bronze, it's brass.
@WeldCoachOfficial he's most likely welding galvanized with silicon bronze and is just welding too hot and not concentrating the arc just on the silicon bronze.
Wow
9:16 reminds me of Bam Bam from the Flintstones :) And I was really cringing about some serious finger lacerations, even with the gloves.
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yay,i like shit that works !
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Hit it with your purse!
A limited budget but you have a TIG welder...ok?
I have a limited budget and I have a Tig welder. Limited budget means maximizing the bang for the buck. My tig does that.
Another good video from Justin. Not many know about TIG spot welding (resistance welding) versus plug welds (AKA rosette welds).
Yar mate and a lot don't this is for those that don't so go weld some thing and leave the rest of us alone you nasty person you
This isn't resistance welding, it's TIG fusion welding with a short arc and blunt tip (so the arc wanders around the tip rather than burning through at a point).
@@eternaloptimist2840 yep, you are correct 👍 serious brain fart on my part 🤪
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Very cool method, I will be trying this soon. Thanks.
Grr trying to join galvanized 12 gague wire to other 12 gague galvanized wire... nothing I'm trying works... basically I have a mesh fence that needs patching up anybody know what I should be doing?
Dude,, You are awesome !! I was curious if TIG could spot weld and as you just showed us,, it can,, Thanks for explaining why to cut the cup, I would probably would never had thought of that.. Much Luck to you ) ... JRG
worked great on a nice clean control piece but when I tried it with my first production piece it blew a hole in it. I wonder if it is the age of the steel..
Nice! Would this work on aluminum too? (W/ ac on the torch, of course)
Can afford a tig welder but is on a budget 🤔🤔 awesome videos man, been watching your channel for years and learned most from you. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the free lessons homie.
This is a really nice technique, and something you said about silicon bronze brazing helped me out too
How many people are doing this for quarters and bed sides? Wondering how good it works grinding plug welds and smoothing them suck
Love the vids! I'm wanting to get into weld, but I don't know where to start with a welder. I know I don't have the budget for a 2,000+ machine.
Disregard my last question,... I just found your test on aluminum :)
You can also use copper as a filler on steel similar to using silicon bronze,
If I can’t find a piece I will buy a metre of 120mm2 earth wire, strip it and then use the strands. You can usually run 1/4 to 1/2 the amps it would take to weld, I find it’s useful for joining thin / small sections or just to put copper on something for decorative or conductive electrical connections
Thanks Justin
These tips are great.
Is there a quick tip for determining the amps needed for thin metal tig welding. is there a ratio like 1 amp per thousandth of an inch ?
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Thanks for sharing this info. Good to know whether you use it or not.
That's really nice, but why do you need to recess the tungsten? You can do this just with the torch set normally, right?
Really cool video thank you for documenting
This is going to help me out a lot when working on my project car
Instructions unclear: blew up a lithium battery
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Post a video!!!
Your ment to wait till the bottom piece of metal that is part of the spot weld is glowing, not the bottom of the battery 😉🤣🤣🤣🤣
What a guy. Who would spot weld their battery with this ?? Duh 🙄 that's why their are one made specifically for batteries
Your not meant to weld positive and negative at the same time
@@epluribusunum5405 I encountered a dude who kept insisting you can use TIG for LiIon batteries
Wow! Thank you. I never knew about this! There have definitely been times when I could have used it!
Very cool.
Another of many great videos, thanks.
Metal failed, not the weld. Very cool.
Can you use a stick welder to stud weld?
Great tip! Fun bonus claw pliers 👍
Brilliant idea 👍🏽
That's super cool
Thanks Justin!
Great video ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Subscribed 👍
Bad assssss
GREAT info! I was looking at purchasing a hand held spot welder when I found this video. I've got a Miller TIG so I'm good to go now! One question,... I'm assuming I can do the same with aluminum???
Thanks
Do those gloves come in a manley color? Asking for a freind.
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Now ask yourself your same question to me again.
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Nice and informative video! I have a small spotwelder (working with mosfets) for small objects but now his big brother for the bigger stuff! Way to go, I like your style of sharing information!
For an application like that you could also use copper wire instead of the silicone bronze.
I use it where I want to fuse thin non structural sections or brazing TIG filler to sheet and usually run about half the amps I would use to weld.
If I have to buy it I will buy 1 metre of 120mm2 earth cable and strip it, each strand is about 2mm diameter
That's amazing, Justin!
I also didn't know that brazing was possible with a TIG welder, I've always used oxy-acetylene.
Thanks for an awesome video.
Really well explained!!!!! And good timing, as I have to do some bodywork soon which I will absolutely be doing this.
Learned a good lesson. Thank you.
Fantastic! After I bought my tig welder I hoped that I could get rid of my old oxy- acetylene torches. Great video! Thank you!!
Brilliant Justin keep up the good work, will this work for Aluminium?
Bryan.
Iv done this quite a few times.. I need to do it more bc it saves me hours and hours in grinding mig welds plus it looks more like stock spot welds
I'll be trying this out with a new set of wings to be fitted to my classic mini. Cheers
Thanks for posting this! I’m going to shop now to try this
That last weld surely took a beating!
Man that's awesome
Thanks Justin
Is this your new channel now ?
This is strictly for welding content. TFS got so mixed up with content that it messes with the algorithm. WeldCoach.com is our new online welding school.
@@WeldCoachOfficial thanks look forward to more content.
I love content like this. Sometimes it's the odd lessons that pay off the most
Weld coach : ridiculous tips 😂
Great video but you said you have a tig welder and a limited budget. I think that is a oxymoron. seriously I watch every video you come out with, all great content.
After buying the tig welder, you now have a limited budget
Although it works well, this technically isn't resistance spot welding. It's still forming an argon plasma arc, which is why you need the argon.
I make my own two layer gas lens screens using steel mesh and I spot weld them together using a TIG welder but treat it as an actual resistance spot weld. You don't need any cup or argon for this. Simply touch the flat end of the tungsten directly to where you want the spot weld and apply light pressure. Treat it exactly like a spot welder. You can use a 3.2mm tungsten rod in the ground clamp to sandwich your sheets together similar to the animation at the beginning of the video. Make sure you adjust your current and use the timer feature on your machine if you have it. If not, tap the switch for less than 0.5s and you'll end up with a perfect spot weld on very thin stainless steel mesh.
The reason I spot weld those is because the mesh is so thin that even a 5A arc is far too hot and will quickly melt and ruin it.
I've since built a custom battery tab spot welder that inputs a precise amount of energy and the results are of course significantly better.