Welding Aluminum on the BuildPro Welding Table

[joek0617]

hehe, my school just gor a brand new miller 211 autoset MVP

[budandbean1]

Jody, you are freaking amazing. You make this look too easy! Thanks for the great video... Again!

[dostuff1234]

hey there jody,

I'm a fatefull subscriber and follow all your videos! I've seen use use just about every type of welding process around.. except for Pulsed aluminum MIG? I use one of these at work everyday and wether i thik i know everything or i don't, i'd like to see a video on this? Would have made this job Cake for sure! I weld 1inch plate all day without any pre-heating needed. Thanks for all the great vids!!

[Andy205ro]

Will a Dyansty200 will be able to do this job using Ar/ He mix ? ...just curious

[EarthshipFreedom]

@Andy205ro The 200dx could probably do it with a good preheat and a water cooler tig set up. I ran mine( air cooled) for a couple years before I got the 350 dynasty, and it gets hot!

[KEF791]

This may not be the problem with the helium and it has only happened to me one time in my career, I recieved a contaminated bottle of helium, a clean test plate doing a tig weld is a good check, a coat of yellowness will appear, floating to the surface of the bead. This was back when local suppliers had machines set up in the store, I confremed it there, as well. pain in the butt to change out bottles in the mid job...

[bathory1100]

As always great video Jody.Thanks so much for doing your videos.

[SmokinPHorses]

Jody, you mentioned maybe using a pre-heat but didn't see it used. If you had, what range temperature would you be shooting for with aluminum? Understood that the weld progression provides pre-heat but what if the first weld had to be spot on?

[weldingtipsandtricks]

@SmokinPHorses Only about 200 F..its hard to get more than 200 f on aluminum this thick. Also, Too much preheat and you might lose temper. In part 2 I will try to include preheat info...coming soon.

[TIGCANADA]

can you use brass instead of copper?

[weldingtipsandtricks]

@TIGCANADA Brass will work but copper is best. Also dont use brass with stainless. Brass contains Zinc and stainless hates that

[cybv7]

Great video as usual Jody...  Thanks for all your great tips...

[Tarhini]

This was just fantastic, thankyou so much for making this video. Really did learn alot from this, the footage makes things so much easier to grasp.

[KEF791]

Jody, that was an eleven out of ten video, slamming, the project was a great well thought out piece of tooling and the Pro Table, hands down, is a great tool in itself to locate the components, assemble and hold for the welding. Well orchestrated demo!

Was the gas mixture, fifty fifty, like you had mentioned you were going to use?

Cheers, Keith

[weldingtipsandtricks]

@KEF791 thanks Keith, I was having some gas shielding issues and soot, and mixing helium seemed to make it worse So I just used straight argon. Maybe part 2 will include helium mix.

[ColtDeltaElite10mm]

Jody..... We're not worthy! Welding is your magic wand! Very nice instructions going with this video Have you ever welded aluminum jobs with a stick welder? There are virtually zero quality SMAW videos on aluminum. Just curious and thought of an idea for a future demonstration video for WeldingTipsandTricks. Thanks!

[dumass00072]

@ColtDeltaElite10mm I know how hard it is to find good instructional videos on welding but check out " khawajaarslanahmed ". Yes that is someones channel. I'm not saying that there's any SMAW videos on aluminum but they are helpful.

[w200build]

Do you have any brazing videos?

[OceanStateTuning]

I need a spool gun

[GameFishermen]

Loving the videos on MIG aluminum with the spoolgun. Have you ever had the chance to do TIG copper welding, and could you possibly do a video on it?

[sbjennings99]

Cool Informational Video...

[billdlv]

I'm impressed with that hobart machine on that thick material. Of course it takes a skilled weldor to make it work. Nice job.

We're lucky to have a build pro table too. We keep using it more and more its great.

[antadefector]

First, thank You for nice videos. I have a wish to learn MIG and TIG welding but still saving for tools. I have watched most of your videos, but in this one You are using a glove instead of that nice fire resistant cloth that You put on your fingers, is that because You had put your forearm on workpiece and finger is small or something else (sorry for bad English).

Thank You once again for nice videos of very, very fine nice welding...

Best regards Goran, Serbia.

[weldingtipsandtricks]

@antadefector I believe you are talking about a Tig finger. I mostly use it for Tig and sometimes mig, and sometimes even a cutting torch. But with this Spool gun welding, there is a lot of reflective heat on the knuckles too

[antadefector]

@weldingtipsandtricks Yes, I thought on Tig finger... Thank You for your promptly reply. Have a nice upcoming holidays, all best to You!

Best Regards Goran

[tattoome5150]

awesome vid. thanks!