Harbor Freight Welding Spoon
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I Went to Harbor Freight and bought a Welding Spoon. What the heck is a welding spoon? Its a piece of copper with a steel handle and its used for backing for welds. Designed mostly for mig welding holes in auto body panels, it works great for tig welding if its clamped good and tight where it will trap argon, provide a heat sink, and cast the weld metal - Навчання та стиль
Buy Jody's DVD! Welding University! Forget welding school, watch his videos, practice & then PASS THAT WELD TEST! -Thankyou Jody for teaching this phenomenally useful skill!! You are the best there is on UA-cam!
I saw one yesterday at the store. So here I am at your video 10 years later.
I really appreciate what you do for the UA-cam welding community. I just picked up a Miller 252 with a spool gun for free from a shop that closed. It is brand new. I put the wire in her. Anyways I will also be making some videos of my welding learning and projects.
I think I've told you before but I'm going to tell you again. I have learned almost everything I know about welding from you. Aside from what I learned career center. I would come home from school watch your videos and fine-tune my techniques. I've been out of school for two years and I can well almost as good as you thanks to your help. Unfortunately as you mentioned in this video abou being a machinist I have decided to become a machinist strictly for pay. I just wanted to say thank you for all the tip you give me. I still make money on the side doing welding. With much respect!!! -Landon Stearns
Hey I`m from Great Britain. I`ve had a stick welder for 40 years and a Mig for 20 years. Recently bought a Tig 160 SIP welder.I could watch you all day long with reference to general welding, especially Tig.I have`nt use this machine as yet, just getting all the accessories first, then I`ll be welding.All the best from England. Barrie Smith
I usually don't post but your videos are so good I feel obligated. It's not just your welding skills, which are impressive to say the least. Your visuals along with your explanations are top notch. I don't want to sound creepy or anything but I watched HOURS of your videos after subscribing. I wish I could still work, I would love to get back into welding. Keep burning and filming. A+ grade!!
Harbor freight is amazing. I love going there. Everything is a good price for me since I'm in college...... And I'm broke most of the time. Harbor freight has it's place.
Hi Jodie I've been a welder in the oil and gas industry for over 40 years now man and boy so to speak and I've worked in the shops,on the lines and in the rig yards here in Scotland and I'm still learning new tricks from your vids, unfortunately I'm now a welding manager with one of your American company's (National oil well Varco in charge of 15 great guys )so I don't get my hands on as much as I'd like but I still get in a bit of tig stick and mig at home in my shed ( you guys call it at shop I believe) so that keeps me relatively happy (although my wife still doesn't understand the attraction!) keep up the vids my friend I look forward to seeing them it's good to watch a proper old school bear with all the tips and tricks many of which I've used myself. You talk about sugaring in this video, here in the UK us old timers call it coking as it looks just like the coke that they used to use in the old coke furnaces, greetings from Scotland my friend and fellow welder.
The copper spoon works great when filling in big holes using Oxy/Act also. Did one last week and worked perfect. Thanks
I love harbor , I found the paper towel holder also makes a nice hook on the side of my tool box or any other steel surface for my helmet ! Love your show !
Thanks for the videos. I'm just getting started welding and have learned alot from you.
"It's been a life long struggle " LOL aint that just the truth to a lot of aspects of each of our lives. thank you so much for making these videos and sharing them, your just a great guy and funny and its a real pleasure learning about tig welding . i am 52 years old, always welded with stick old tomestone welders, my new dc tig is coming in a few days and im excited to get it going. i've decided i can't seem to work for anybody anymore so i bought a whole 18 foot landscape trailer full of bicycles and i am going to make custom stretched chopper bicycles and auction them off on ebay, so thanks again and keep up the great videos , your really cool !!!
My uncle uses a piece of aluminum plate with magnets on the back for auto body work. Same concept (though larger) and he says it works great!
Awesome videos my friend. I'm learning so much from you. I really enjoy the camera work., and also no annoying advertisements in the middle of your vids
Hi Jody,
For a mess in the workshop you're not the only one, I've been swearing for years because of a messy place. Now I'm in the middle of a major organization marathon so I don't spend whatever is the rest of my life cursing about my own mess...
Tools stores are like the Toys'R'us for grown ups.
Thanks for it all,
Pierre
Jody, you are so much fun to watch. Thank you!
Great video Jamie. I "visit" HF regularly and always seem to spend more (usually 2X) every time. You are right on about thinking how it could break and buy accordingly. BTW keeping the filler rod within the gas envelope FINALLY sunk through my cranium and that improved my TIG welding. Thanks for all you do for us!
Behind you on your wall is a vice-grip clamp. I bought the $5.95 cheap version at Harbor Freight. The adjusting screw was nearly impossible to turn. I removed it and used the wire brush on my grinder to burnish the threads and then sanded and polished the tip and the bar it pushes against inside. I added a little grease and now it works even smoother than the $13.95 version on the rack next to it.
Hey Jodie, You know your getting older when it's just dang easier to go out and buy a grinder stand than to make one! I know cause I seem to be buying more stuff than I'm making! Your vids are becoming more light hearted and jovial at the new location, I like it. Have another beer and keep up the great tips.
It's not a matter of getting older, its just the cost . You can't barely buy steel for what it costs to buy a grinder stand that cheap. Only way it makes sense to diy it is if you have a pile of scrap metal laying around and no other use for it.
Interesting video. The tool review was cool but the welding tips were awesome. I just subscribed to your page. Using acetone to clean filler made me sit up and take notice. Your back gas system was very cool tool. While I hqve been welding for 45 years you gave me more tips in this one video then I've ever seen. Thanks you.
Thanks again Jody. I appreciate your sharing with us. Picked up lots of tips and refer to your videos a lot. Fred 👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Love Harbor Freight. You don't want to buy all your tools there, but some are definitely worth it. I can walk around that store for hours.
We used Pieces of fine grain graphite or copper for backing holes and short fills in bronze and Cast iron castings. The copper was good because it could be bent to match contours, but graphite was preferred because the copper would occasionally get welded to the part. Sometimes the copper would be sprayed with a coating of the same spray used to prevent bronze from sticking to a casting die.
Man, how did i miss this video. This one had me laughing pretty good 😂 thanks Jody for the tips as always!
just found your Channel like it I will be continuing to watch keep them coming thanks Forest
I've got myself one of them fancy dial scribers too. Whenever they start to get dull I just resharpen the points and they're good as new.
Thanks a lot for your time and making the videos!
Thanx for the vid Jody! Always good stuff!
Harbor Freight is great if you keep in mind that you get what you pay for. I have many of their tools in my shop. I treat them like consumables, they are cheap enough to throw away if the break. One example is that I have 4 of their angle grinders, each having a different wheel on it. Saves a lot of time.
Bob Humphries I buy their wrenches to intentionally heat and bend, or make long reach angled wrenches for qorking in boat engine compartments.
I agree I have Several of the $10.00 angle grinders, it takes time to change the wheel just grab another one with a different wheel.
I have always said HF is good if you need something to do a one time job! It if works a second time you have made your money back. I have an angle Grinder I bought from HF 20 years ago and I have not used the back up brushes. do I use it every day No. Maybe 3 or 4 times w week.
It is like a Timex It takes a licken and keeps on ticken. now I am telling my age.
Whenever I cross the border and go to the states, my car always seems to find HF....I really don't know how that happens....but it does.... :)
Keep up the great work Jody.
Richard...from Canada...eh!!!
I bought one of these a few weeks ago along with a really nice fiberglass blanket...for fire:)
Great video!
I need to buy one of these. I can't count the number of times it would have been useful to have when I have been using my everlast.
Great video, good humor. I loved it!
made one in school outta copper. great for auto body when welding in spot welds on side panels. :) good video
Love your humor Jody.
Thanks for sharing this! I wondered about the HF spoon.
If you're looking for an idea for a future video, I've always wondered how difficult it would be to make my own spot welder.
There's a few videos on UA-cam doing just that.
Ya call that a mess? You are one of the best welders on the planet but when it comes to disorganization and making a tee-total mess, you are quite an amature. One would be lucky to find my pickup in my garage!
Jody, always learn from and enjoy your video, Great Work!
Great video Jody, I look at H F as a one time use & I only need it one time My wife will not go in the place. Just watched one other video thought I would say your tig finger as helped greatly .. Thanks for you time
Awesome video and also very funny!
I should have bought one of these spoons the last time I was at harbor freight. It would have really helped the last time I was welding some really thin material with my everlast mig.
Haha I love the humor you included in the video! Good info again though, thank you! By the way, that TIG finger I got, awesome little thing it is!
Harbor Freight rules. Also the stuff is cheap and most of it is heavy duty. I wished we made more of that stuff in the states.
Thanks Jody. I love your videos. I would like to see how those StrongHandTools attach to the table. Please.
I bought that grinder stand for my small vise that is grounded to my Mig with a cable and allows me to use the small vise as a welding clamp!!!
I've got to get myself one of these to use with my everlast welder.
I've found copper pot scrubber pads in the Dollar Store, nice source for copper and brass wool.
Great informative video. I have the same Harbor Freight welding spoon that I have been using for over a year with great success. I really need to put some money together and get a TIG welder. My MIG does a good job, but it has its limitations.
WELDERS SPOON = something lonely welders do??? hell only if you're Jessie Combs ;) good, fun video Jody
Awesome video, I learned a lot.
great video brother! haha the shopping list is great!
Great video !!
it sucks that they don't sell those spoons anymore, I was gonna buy a few finally and they pulled them from their inventory
muito bom seus videos bem didáticos obrigado!!!
I made one of these years ago, didnt know it could be bought or that it had a name.
that one made it in my kit too
i weld a lot of buttons on flanged and dished heads. i always slick the outside and mig the inside. everyone tried using a piece of copper and it seems to weld to the filler metal and it's always a leak I have to fix on hydro day.
Nice video.
nice vid - thanks - i search for purge box on your site and the vids were nice but not like the tiny backing box you used... what is the diffuser material inside that one - and was this bnox - stainless or mild steel thin..? and you made them on the job - so you had readily available preforated metal plate? sheets.. and thinkcness - what are these - thanks again
Great video Jody. Laughed a bit, no, a lot! :-)
A bit non-sequitar, how do you like that Husky box? I've been looking into one like that recently.
You were reeacchhiinngggg on this one Jody. Lol. All good, the other 50 episodes on that dvd will make up for it. :-).
hey jodie can you do a video on sanitary purge pipe please I'm working on that cert right now and your advise can help
hi jody when you tig welding how did you get that white ploom of arc I didn't see anything like it when I try and I don't know what I doing wrong
I've used both the spoon and aluminum drops as a backer. Each had their plus and minus. I found the spoon handiest in those whacky out of position metal bondo jobs, while drops were better suited to flat work on the table... your results may vary, of course. Lol
I was wondering if you could do an in depth video on pulse arc mig. Specifically on a 3 and 4g test type
Jody, beer is not crap, it is a standard consumable in the home shop.
you are awesome and hilarious! love the vids.
Harbor Freight is the Church of DIY
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Salesman for Harbor Freight. Pushing their products? You have a very smart wife!
call me weird, but TIG welding is so beautiful LOL
Not Weird at all
What about a quick video on welding copper to steel, I thought copper had to be crazy heated to something like 2000d Fahrenheit haha. What filler material would you use?
Jody have you ever done backing with Glass , We used too do Glass backed Mig, You have 1/4th strips of glass cut ( we had a glass cutting department in the Rail works I Apprenticed at , So they cut us strips for this) basically you can do a root with a wide gap backed by glass the metal will burn into the glass and form a perfect shaped backup on the root pass then as it cools it will shatter and fall away , Glass being a Silica doesn't really affect the weld too much. If you haven't tried it give it a try your like it ( its really old school lol )
Ryan C I've used a lot of ceramic strips to do full penetration welds but never glass.
That was your funniest video yet. Love it.
Does this work for stick welding, flux core mig, or just gas shielded?
Every welder should have a copper plate in their tool box. Don't need them to often, but when you do it is nice to have one. There was one occasion where I had to fill several 2" holes with 7018 stick rod. If I din't have a copper plate it would have taken me hours to fill a dozen holes.
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Good hint. I've only started to stick weld wtih my everlast recently but I can see how a good chunk of copper can be useful.
Your funniest video yet...
If you get a chunk of brass and drill a shallow divot in it and place that divot under the hole you are welding, you create a pocket to get a full pen weld.
Keep doing what your doing brother! I think I watch your videos more than I do the TV!!!!
wow awsome weld
I like the magnetic paper towel gadget. But you should be aware that misuse by some who pride themselves to be made of iron could bring some trouble : beware they don't turn against you.
Anyway thanks for posting these very instructive infos on welding.
Lol using one of their magnets to make sure it was copper! Very nice!
I'm going to have to pick up one of those spoons for filling in some drilled out spot welds in my engine bay, thanks for the tip.
On the China thing - there's no shame in the HF stuff when American goods often cost orders of magnitude more. Can't blame the consumer when American labor and decades of bad economics have priced most of us out of the market. My 20T press is a great example of this. I couldn't buy the steel to make it for the $170 purchase price, and yet it's done any job I've put before it for over two years. I also have their 2T engine hoist that worked flawlessly in -10F this past winter.
At some point, the skill of the fabricator / creativity / getting the job done - as well as living within your means - should be given priority over where the shiny bits in your toolbox / garage came from.
Keep on keeping on Jody
I hear ya on the organization problems. We aren't lazy or slobbish, we just see the goal and cleaning isn't putting us closer
normally your corny jokes are just corny, but today I laughed real good to your what lonley welders do comment. That one worked me over for a minute, it's not even that funny but it got me. Hope you have a good week.
Can next weeks video be how to make the backup box? :D
I bought a 6" Mitutoyo digital caliper ($115), and also an 8" electronic caliper from HF ($30). There's 0.0005-0.001" difference between the two when I check one against the other. I think the most difference I've ever seen is 0.0015" one time.
I get that the HF stuff often isn't built very well, but for the money (like Jody stated) you pretty much can't go wrong if you're selective on what you buy there. And the fact that it's less than 3 miles from my house, and also they're open any day of the week, makes it a no-brainer when you're in a pinch.
Is that beer at 9:02 a Redbridge?? That stuff is awesome.
Most entertaining demonstration ever. "Subscribe"
Reviewing harbour freight stuff.... GREAT IDEA for your videos ! Show us the good stuff and also show us the junk. We all see a lot of stuff there but hesitate to buy anything because of their bad reputation for selling junk. There is some good stuff there. Eg.... I like their C clamps. They are heavy duty and cheap.
It was good to see beer on your bench. We all know that welding is a thirsty business. Show us some stickers on your beer fridge. Do some beer videos. lol
Am I the only one that thought he looked like david hasselhoff when he put on that black jacket? Thanks for this video.
For your next video, I'd like to see a steel or aluminium box, maybe a repurposed sandblast cabinet that has a glass or pyrex window and a hole in the top side where the torch comes in, and with the vents welded shut. Then, you get delicate pieces of work that need to be nicely shielded, put them in and fill the whole thing with argon and then you can just weld and have perfect shielding.
Ariel Lezen That would waste an insane amount of argon.
+Ariel Lezen I have seen this done at a welding show years ago. They had a plastic bubble that they evacuated of air then filled with argon. They had reach through gloves like a sand blaster and the filter shield was laid on the bubble. Worked good. I also saw it at Fermi accelerator labs where I was told it was used to weld exotic materials. That way any noxious fumes could be filtered before reaching the atmosphere. Also the entire part was shielded.
those cheap tool stands can also be a small welding table. put some pipe and a flat plate, you got a cheap small table that you can rotate.
What is the sleve that youre wearing on your right arm?
The magnetic paper towel holder is good, .I have one...get the magnetic gloves box holder too...it keeps the box of gloves handy..and off the top of the bench to get hidden or off a shelf where you forget to get them....oh yeah..funny thing..my wife don't like harbor freight either....
I was wondering about that spoon how well it worked ?? I love Harbor freight also. the only Problem is my Wallet is a Lot lighter when I leave from all the things I buy. some of their Welding stuff is Ok maybe not the Best but for the money will get you by I have used some of your tips like using a piece of Copper in a corner on stainless sheet metal to prevent Sugaring on the inside works Great
1995dresser I've always used a chunk of brass or a flattened copper pipe with mig welding to plug a hole that was in the wrong place or needed to just be filled.
Отлично Джоди. Очень интересно посмотреть твою мастерскую. Сравнить со своей
HF has its priorities right and knows that its customers is what keeps them in business. *most* everything else is a name, probably punched out a few yards from the HF stuff in longdong
So... what did you buy for the additional $65??
Hi Jody. That wrap on your right elbow is that one of those copper things I saw on TV for pain? If so how do you like it? Does it work? And I'm still checking your store for the stubby gas kit. I really want one. Any idea when they will be available? Thanks.
It's a tommy copper elbow thingy. Can't say it helps at all but am hoping for at least a placebo effect. Haha. Stubby kits are on the way and should be back in stock by May 27. About one week from today.