Welding without warping

[Vince@Meanstreets]

Originally Posted by mitch_04

I can't wait until I get to that level. I've been following the TIG thread, watching Jody's videos, and staring at my lonely TIG in the corner. During the day-job I can't justify spending time learning, in my part time job (restoring cars) I have to use what little extra time I have to earn money for such tools, and any other time I have goes to family. Hard to go into the shop when a 2 year old is saying "Daddy don't go to work" over and over while holding you! If only you could learn by just reading...

Well in that case you will have to make one of two things, make more time learning or make more money to have someone else do it for you.

If you have a TIG welder at your disposal start burning tungsten and if your in a shop already make an excuss to use it. Fix a bumper bracket, make a transmission crossmember.

With the tips here and experience you should be able to figure it out. BTW, that picture I posted was a practice piece I had an apprentice do. It's .120 wall 2"x5" flat that he cut. It's a fabricated square tube in a square tube slip fit. That was after playing with my TIG welder for about an hour.