TIG Welding with a Wire Feeder and CK Worldwide WF-5 Review : Part 2 | TIG Time
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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In this video we brought back the CK Worldwide WF-5, which is a machine that helps make TIG a wire fed process. In part one we looked at the wand, which is used in the "wire feed" hand to automate the feeding process so you are not limited by the cut length of your filler metal. In this episode we look at a feature that completely frees up your off hand. This torch attachment will feed the wire directly in front of the TIG torch allowing you to TIG weld with only one hand, similar to MIG welding; but with all the advantages of the TIG process.
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With a name like mr tig id expect a lot better looking welds
I've been welding with this coldwire tig process for about 3 years....... it's meant to mimic a automated weld... I'll come back tomorrow when I go to work and I'll post a video to show MR TIG HOW IT SUPPOSE TO LOOK.... HIS WELD IS....BOO-BOO
it's been 2 weeks, where's the video
It's now been 7 months lol..
Been 3 years
5 YEARS later and his channel has nothing...Who is surprised?
6 years and counting
any reason you would use this TIG setup instead of just MIG welding?
Thank you for the vid. I work for a production co and we are looking to get into this set up for various applications, all stainless steel. anxious to see you next video including such applications.
wire speed needs to be higher, or maybe i just weld too much alum.. either way it looks like globular transfer and it needs to be smoother. if you get it just right into the puddle it should tig like mig
Seems like you can run into lack of root fusion and the wire seems to be burning off prior to the parent metal melting. Probably ok for general stuff but I would not like to use it on pipe of anything used in a critical situation.
I can see something like this being nice for production welding. Your close-up shots and camera angle were exceptional! It was great to see how it actually worked. I noticed at 7:38 that the filler was falling into the puddle at irregular intervals because the heat being reflected away from the top plate was making a ball on the end of the rod. It's not as precise as putting the rod right where you want it at the exact moment you want it there. I imagine you could compensate for this by changing the angle of the feed for a specific type of weld, especially if this was a production situation where you were doing the same weld all day. Great video, thank you!
I noticed same thing you did. It seems like the angle it feeds the filler in should be much closer to the plate so it dips into and cools the melt pool rather than just dripping into it.
I wish someone would make wire feeder with stepper motor, and we could set finite amount of filler material fed into the pool per button press... eg. 5mm per click... rather than how long (time wise) the machine will feed the wire at vague speed (slow or fast).
This way we can weld as usual, move forward in increments, and have uniform beed size.
as a guy who isn't a welder and wants to break into very specific type of welding, marine towers, leaning posts, cooler racks etc... I welcome this semi-automated and automated innovations with open arms. The less I have to learn and the easier it is the better
The melting metal from the wire doesn’t look right. I think your infeed wire angle is wrong
we production weld aluminum surge tanks. this would work great!
Wyatt
Great Job
I noticed the dropping of the filler a couple of times but the weld looks good
Thanks again as most of us will not have the opportunity to try out that kind of gear
Awful Arthur
Your an awsome welder I look to you for my beginner welding those welds done look like your hand welds dont sell out
I believe the point here is to be able to make colder welds. I know it is for what I do
I make
Love the setup... But maybe it would work better based on a mig setup??
We mig a lot of very dirty materials... Rusty, corroded, dirt and mud, oil, grease, even manure.. high flow 100% CO2.
Sometimes I wonder if Tig would be better due to less heat, not so sure about that now.... Those beads look worse than mine on corroded manure covered equipment...
No offense Mr. Tig!
At my job I do cold feed using a MIG weld head to feed wire with my left hand and TIG with my right. I disconnect the power to the MIG and just use the wire. I have to run it super slow ( like .5 ) wire speed but it works.
Be a man, use two hands
I make 10 to 23 inch welds where using 35 wire you could go nuts trying to keep up so I just use wire feeder. With what he was doing he could probably just hand feed the wire better.
I am interested in seeing it in automation form.
How difficult would it be to let the wire feed do what it was meant to do? Let the wire feed, feed wire and let the argon gas flow in. Everything else requires a foot pedal . You have control of the wire with the trigger. Can this be produced with a MIG welder?
That looks like Mig with extra steps
I don't like it! Those beads look like the first bead I drew gas welding! Nah, that sucks and I'm disappointed in Mr. Tig for not saying so too!
patrick farley I think he just didn’t have a clue how to really set one up. I’m in the process of building one myself from an old 90 amp flux core cheapo welder. I bet I can get way better results.
So it's just adjustable amp mig with no spatter?
A nice vid there! Thanks for keeping the sales pitch minimal. :D
Some questions on the wire feeder. Are there any issues with "back feed" of current thru the wire to the drive, if the welder and wire feed machine are not on the same circuit and are not "earth" grounded?? Or would having both grounded to the work create a circuit?? I know the current "follows" the shortest path, but I am curious about possible setup issues.
I like it!
Hi
With two hand can weld better than wire feeder.
I would like to see this on 18 gage stainless or thinner
Very interesting product but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be good for me and my powertig.
But why? Why not just mig weld the joint? The only thing I can think of is less noise and spatter. But the point of tig is precision not endurance.
You still get the precision of TIG. You still have a foot control and all the ability to control your settings. This is ideal for applications such as commercial kitchens, where you can't have any spatter or places where bacteria can potentially grow and welders are continuously doing long, production type runs.
AH! But why would you be welding for a long period of time in a kitchen? You forgot the obvious answer here (i did as well until now). Amputees!
x9x9x9x9x9 yes yes fuckin yes couldn't have said it better myself it us an amazing product but I'll do manual any day great comment
x9x9x9x9x9 I work in a stainless steel Fab shop where we Fab commercial kitchen equipment and residential stainless steel countertops we build everything from scratch and I would not I repeat would not want to use that in my process
prob would do a nice job in the right hands but them welds look like fidos butt sorry Mr Tig.
there's already an autofed wire welding process.....
This allows to you to control amperage and filler metal inputs independently whereas with other autofed wire (constant voltage) processes the filler and amperage are controlled together. For example, in MIG welding you turn up the amperage by increasing wire feed speed.
Also for someone like me that builds aluminum boats. I absolutely need to weld with 5356 wire for corrosion resistance. So as we all know 5356 looks like crap most of the time when welded with a mig. So being able to use something like this is awesome. Plus the fact that I’m doing weld runs that are 16 or 20 foot long. That’s would be a ton of stopping to grab rod. Also most of the welding is done out of position which sucks. It can be really hard to have your pedal in the right spot. I’m ether gonna build one or buy one for sure.
Patrick McNeely you adjust that by changing your travel speed. 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Setup was a bit off. I've seen much better examples of this process and it looked like perfect stacked dimes.
where is part 3?
How to tack using filler wire
can't use both hands, look into mig,
Hatuey Villavicencio but what if I don't want to? What if I want wire feed abilities but not the appearance of a short arc mig weld?
MadMetalManiac74 guess you can’t please everyone.
HI CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE CAN TO BUY A MICRO TORCH AND A WIRE FEEDER IN MEXICO?
You can get both on the Weld.com store. We ship to Mexico. Here is a link to both products:
WF-5 Wire Feeder: www.weld.com/index.php/shop-weld-com/shop-weldcom/automation/ck-worldwide-wf-5-cold-wire-feeder-detail
Micro Torch:www.weld.com/index.php/shop-weld-com/shop-weldcom/tig-torches-air-cooled/mr712-sf-micro-torch-package-detail
What?!? I've kept reading some of the comments and some idiots say; "great job", nice this or that but... WRONG ANGLE, WRONG AMPERAGE, WRONG SPEED ON THE WIRE FEEDER, UNDERCUT, OVERLAP, POOR WELDING SKILLS AND WRONG TITLE... not really a pro by any means... he should call himself "mr. bit" 'cause he knows a little bit of this and a little bit of that... Mr. Jodi !! we need your help here!!
Seriously, what hell was he doing on that weld?
can you conect a tig gun from the acual mig machine
Kool.
it is laser welding , not Tig
They can have my hand feed tig wire when they pry it from my cold dead hands. Haha, that's a really nice device and I can definitely see its place but srsly . . I mean pry with a crowbar. Especially when tig feeding aluminum!!
It welds worse than a cheap mig I would stick to manually feeding the wire
Does it still sell?
Yeah, you can pick them up in the Weld.com store: weld.com/index.php/shop-weld-com/shop-weldcom/automation/ck-worldwide-wf-5-cold-wire-feeder-detail
Very interesting product. I'd like to try one of these with my everlast welder.
I seriously doubt it
let's see a tee joint with this torch
This whole setup seems not efficient, why not just feed by hand. Honestly could probably be done faster that wat
Man I can't get over how trash that was and you still posted bro..
If I want to auto wire feed I will use my mig
That just seems goofy to me.
Sam Lawrence as long as the job gets done. Fuck it
ummmmmm, no
the weld looks like shit
Borg Drone i can agree on that 👎🏻💩
As Jodi would say...Looks like Fidos ass lol.
This guy calls himself Mr.TIG
and says he's world known...
For what???
That feeder is a waste of money...
Dangling Dingle berries barely making it in the puddle.
The feed angle is all wrong and that's why it looks like shit.
"World Renowned TIG Expert" LMFAO
I would'nt show beads like that to my boss, let alone the internet
WHY PAY SO MUCH $ FOR A WIRE FEEDER IF YOU CAN BUY A CHEAP MIG WELDER AND CONVERT IT TO A WIRE FEEDER FOR UNDER $90!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why not just use a mig welder and save bucks on this elaborate set up?
I have a tig wire feeder system too. It’s called a MIG machine! God, laziness really throws everything back a few steps. Really stupid idea. Learn a skill for gods sake.
Wtf was that.
you realy need to consider replase yourself for a real welder
This process is terrible.
Really ugly welds
we production weld aluminum surge tanks. this would work great!