Welding 101 with Jeff Nickell
These are two separate gas tanks, each one hold about two and a half to three galloons and it is for a five wheels bike.
Basically what you see is what you get. There is no body, organ or paint or nothing over it. So all the welds have to be legit and presentable. So do not hire a beginner welder. And those, what I am putting in now are the bangs. These are bangs that hold the gas tanks to the frame. This is the bang for the peacock, for the peacock to bolt to very few line. These are a crossover lines so I do fill a crossover from one side to the other. And then what we will do here is, I weld this in, I tig weld this in, if you take it between tig and mig, mig is you are using wire, melting wire. With tig you are melting a wire, you use an electricity. You could base it, if it fuses together or you can use the filler rod whichever you prefer but if you are going to use anything with strength, we do want to use a filler rod. And if you can tig welds really well, you know, you really have to do anything to the welds as far as the lining and what not, should go over there. Just lay a nice beam and taking this good body work right over the top of that.
You know, on tungstens, you use different size tungstens for different size materials that you weld in. So you do not want to use a tungsten that is a quarter-inch rod when you are welding a 16-gauge. You want to use about an 8-inch tungsten when you are using, or when you are welding any type of 18, 16, or 14-gauge material. When you weld, you want to weld on one side, come back on the other side; otherwise, it will tend to pull to one side, if you stay to the one side. That which you do is you get the tip, the tip of this about an eight of an inch away from a material and like this bang is a quarter of an inch thick and this material is 16 gauge. So you want to tend to put the point more on the thick part and then what I will do is to further, I press the pedal, the more penetration, the harder that gets and it will create a puddle and then when you get the right size puddle you want, you do not just hammer this puddle all the way down. You will work the pedal until you get the puddle you want and then you start filling the puddle in as you go around it.
Everybody welds different and the key to welding for me is you got to know what you are working with and you got to be comfortable. You have to get comfortable well. Some people could sit up here and hold this with one hand and do it well, while other people might shake, so you got to get steady and resting and something. I tend to use my fingers as a point of rest and use my hand.
Tig welding is a lot more tedious welding than wire welding. Mig welding, you can lay a bid well fast. Tig welding is really time consuming. On a tig welding, tig will penetrate more than a mig welding, depending on what you are welding. But some of them are like this when probably you want the industrial look. So pretty much that weld right there is what you are going to get. People are now looking at that and that is what you are going to see. So there is no going back, grinding, and all that. Usually, if I was to get buyer who are complaining on this, time they spent with the bundle all over it, you know, you can not see no welds. I mean you can know that a beginner weld it, and it could be just fine
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