TIG welding is one of those skills that seems to elevate your status as a car guy immediately. It also seems to be one of those skills that a lot of folks think is so difficult as to be nearly unattainable. While certainly more difficult to master than MIG welding, the act of TIG welding is a matter of mechanics, but the art of TIG welding is something else all together. I was referred to the Pacific Arc TIG Welding channel by a buddy of mine yesterday, and while I had seen a couple of the videos on the channel, I hadn’t really looked into the history of it. I think this is a great series to watch, and if you guys like it we’ll keep posting them so you can watch the entire series and hopefully get out there and start TIG welding on your own at home.
I’ve been TIG welding for years now, but I’m no master. As much as anything, that’s because I just haven’t been doing it enough the last few years. In fact, that’s one of the things I’m really looking forward to fixing once the new shop is up and done. I want to be welding on a regular basis, and maybe even daily. Who knows, it might be fun to have some daily welding project to work on, or something that I can set aside 30 minutes worth of time to weld on each day in order to get some larger project done.
Regardless of how long I, or anyone else, has been doing it though it is always cool to watch other folks ways of doing things to see if we might learn something. I like this series, and I am going to use some of the tips and tricks with my own welding for sure. Why don’t you do the same.
Watch.
An accomplished TIG welder is a sight to behold.
When I worked at the heat exchanger shop back in the 80s we had a young dude that had attended an Oklahoma welding tech school and was an artist with the TIG torch. I hydro tested thousands of his tube welds and never found a leak. ”Nothing to it bro, just stackin’ dimes and thinking about p#@sy.”