PULSED MIG WELDING! at Home! (HTP ProPulse)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Say goodbye to the constant voltage MIG welding from your childhood... hello PULSED!
This is my first real go at pulsed mig with the HTP ... come play along!
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Music: Higher Octane / Vans in Japan & A Night Alone / TrackTribe.
Wow!!!! The ToT has graced us with a ~30 minute video!!! We are truly blessed on this day!!! (Thanks Tony)
Praise be!
Or as I sometimes call it... lazy editing. ;)
@@ThisOldTony But, it was good.
@@ThisOldTony there certainly were enough butts in this one 😂
@@jonmccormick6805 Very very good!
I love that I can watch this channel, without actually planning to ever do any of the making seen in these videos or applying the info you provide. As a non machinist or maker, I find myself extremely entertained by your videos
thanks JSA!
Tony is what inspired me to become a welder. Now I'm not only a welder, I'm also an UMEPLOYED welder, so things are looking pretty good.
nice pulsing!
I start the same, then by the end of the video I'm looking up how much a MIG welder costs and then realizing I don't have a proper place to weld in, putting off my welding ambitions indefinitely (i.e. until the next TOT video).
@@tziirkq Same. Between TOT and the old AvE, I ended up picking up a little Lincoln MIG welder. Totally useful in my IT job. OK, maybe when I get enough time to get out in the shop.
Tony - WOW, you're REALLY getting into the spirit of TH-cam! Heavy Metal music, sparks flying, everything! You're going to gain a completely new audience!
Seriously, you did an excellent job of covering pulsed MIG welding, a subject that few people have delved into. And you ALWAYS find ways to make it in-depth, and entertaining!
I know, cool
Still no match to that Ron Corvel...Covell...Cosomething guy. THAT guy is awesome!
Coming next: mig welder VS hydraulic press!
Tony knows the difference between Metal and Hard Rock! 😂
I was going to make a "he has spoken" joke ;)
A 30 minute ToT video just landed when I sent my wife and a kid to play outside. Awesome!:)
Every now-and-then it hits me: I haven't seen a TOT in a while. I'm sure it'll be any day now. Hope all is well!
I have the HTP Pro pulse 220 , I have mine it since last September. I works quite well especially on pulse. I use the 90/10 mix and mostly 0.30 wire but you can use 0.35 wire for pulse if you increase voltage 2-3 volts. HTP said that me when I asked as 0.30 wire is not always what you need. It works just fiddle with it . What I found was that you do need 1/2
Inch work to tip distance, if you change your contact to work distance you may have to change the voltage trim. I also got the #26 mig torch with 8 ft. whip and Teflon liner. You need this to weld aluminum plus the special tips. Buy a bunch of the 0.40 tips.Use a 1 inch tip to work length, sometimes even more .I found a shorter arc length the best, then no burn back, set your trim for no burn back. I have a 1.5 second taper down for ending the weld. Set the wire tension really light, like 1 or less. Start off with 5356 wire to learn the pulse then go to 4043 and try double pulse, MiG like tip they say. Good luck, hope to see a new video of you and this welder soon.
Thanks for the tips Bruce... I'm still learning my 220MTS, but what I've done with it, I'm loving it!
Bruce, wow! Couldn’t have said it any better😂
Yeah even at the end I think he was still too close. Granted they're way more expensive, but the Lincoln pulse mig machines we use at work will crackle a bit at the start and end of a weld, but I've laid a 20 foot weld with no spatter, just the hum and the hint of a sizzle sound.
Thank you, Tony. I had just the other day finished binge watching all your videos and my life felt so empty. Your return is very timely and has quite possibly saved me from doing some work.
I sure do miss the times when you posted your great and fun and witty videos more often.
I used to do production Mig welding in a factory, we always used tip dip (A gel like substance) to keep the tip clean of spatter, and to keep spatter away from the rest of your work piece, we used sacrificial pieces of thin steel to catch all of it, not perfect, but saved some hassle.
coming up on three months since this video getting a lil worried, you ok Tony?
just graduated from welding welding school this morning and seeing this video pop-up was like a gift from god.
Good to see whittle tony back again. I learn a lot
Tony, I honestly find your content more entertaining than most of the stuff coming out of Hollywood.
I'm using pulse mig daily and I'd say that it makes less spatter than that Italian machine. Keep voltage regulated a bit to negative side and leave more cap between material and torch. On clean run there should be no spatter noise, only pulse sound. And double pulse - even more cleaner. Great video, thanks!
Yes there shouldn't be any crackling sound only the buzz of the pulse. If its crackling your trim is too low or your nozzle is too close to the puddle which tickles it and pisses it off lol!
yep, it should buzz like spray transfer does at optimal settings, though it can also handle spatter.
The puddle should look liquid like Spray but stray in place. thats why we use Pulse, simply because it gets the penetration of Spray, with being able to weld every position. It's very neat.
I'm about to do some mig welding for the first time in two years and this video pops up. Thanks for getting me thinking about this before I have the welder in hand
Where in the hell are you?!!!! missing your videos even though I only comprehend half of them!
Tony Tony Tony.. you are the best medicine for when I feel down and out. You have a knack of getting your point accross that enthrawls everyone into you videos. Please keep up the good work and get well soon.
TOT! Where are you? We miss you!
OMIG! Thanks for the wake up Tony, I've been living under a rock. I think my stick welder has seen this well, it's out the back packing up it's stuff. :)
Wonderful to have your unusual sense of humor back among us. Oh, and your content isn't bad either.
Never, okay, not real often, have I sat glued to the screen while watching a video about something I care so little about. Well done!! That view out of the welder at your hands and camera, the music, the llamas mating? All amazing. I salute you good sir.
Love the intro 🤣 for your peace of mind vertical down welds on thin gage steel are perfectly acceptable. It's only on the thicker stuff where you'll get into trouble.
Thanks for another great video!
They are used on plenty of structural applications too. The welder and procedure both need to be qualified but it works well. Especially for an open root and cap. It is not un common to do a downhill open root with 6010, short circuit or RMD Mig and then fill uphill with FCAW, 7018, or Mig. Then do a downhill cap like the root. This way the root is easy to complete with no grapes, you fill with less passes and less cleaning between, then you can cap nice and flat.
In our shipyard we use a few different types of wire but the 2 main types are 70s-3 and 71t-m.
-First one sounds like the standard L56 "home wire" but the -3 is actually a fine granular structure and works much better for pulse, 95-5 ar co2. the millers we use have voltage or arc length control options
-The second one sounds like regular flux core but the -m means it's gas shielded and you use regular short circuit settings at 24v+ to burn off slag, 75/25 ar co2
alright then, I think, me being a professional metalworker, I should give you some advise:
first of all, please leave the old ways of welding and with them the wire feed. One doesn't discuss welding power in wire feed, we use Amps.
In the top left corner of your welder I see the Amps, it's at 104 at 6:35. With your tube cross section (I guess it's about 3mm or about an eighth") you could go up to 120 if you wanted to. Don't try messing with the arc correction too much, with pulse welding it is usually fine at +-0. Now to torch position and speed:
You always want to push, never drag. Or in other words, your torch and the surface you're welding to will always make a acutely angled triangle(viewed from the side). The point of the triangle should always point in the direction you're welding. not much, maybe 80°-85° between the work and the torch. your distance from workpiece to mig tip should be chose in a way that you can still barely see the end of the wire before it is melting. not too close nor too far. speed is quite a tricky one, with pulse welding you don't have much of a variation window to produce nice looking and strong welds. You have to be quite quick. You mentioned you still heard spattering sounds, that's not neccessarily a bad thing, you should move a tiny bit faster than spattersoundslow. getting a spatternoise every few millimeters or so is ideal. not so fast that you don't hear any, not so slow that you don't hear nothing else.
I hope you can see and distinguish your weld puddle. You want your puddle to be closed in front of the arc. The arc should touch the puddle, not the work. If your puddle is only very tightly closed before the arc that's perfect. If it is far in front: correct your speed, speed up. If your arc rides on the work and the puddle is barely keeping up: correct your speed, slow down.
I hope this helps and is understandable, I am no native speaker. If you want further help I'll try and provide some if you ask.
Have a nice weekend :)
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All excellent advice I'll try. Only problem: pushing a weld makes it difficult to film. :)
@@ThisOldTony when welding you shouldn't worry about the video. You can film the weld afterwards, but first priority is that you see the weld well. You have to adjust your speed while seeing it.
The video is, as hard as it must be to hear being a youtuber, not the priority while doing work.
@@malteser0212 Pulling creates deeper penetration, pushing a more flat one, none is necesarly better then the other, just a case of choosing the best for the aplication, and for what he is doing pretty sure that's more then strongh enough, won't really matter
On thin steel, it's perfectly acceptable to drag a downhill weld. Never say "always"
Thank you for this video. I came in from the shop, overwhelmed with my current project. This video gave me inspiration to get back out there.
😭😭Missing you TOT.... hope all is well your way.
It's always nice to see my favorite hand model LOL
On the subject of fumes, just get a bigger shop. That way the accumulation of crud in the air is slower and less noticeable.
Well, until the end of the day when you’re blowing weld bead out of your nose.
I have the biggest welding shop in the world. Most people call it "outdoors", but then again, most people wouldn't call that a "shop" either. Say, isn't that the purpose of a shop, to concentrate the fumes to lethal levels while you work?
@@glenns5627 Absolutely, but you need to hit the sweetspot where the accumulation is slow enough that you don't notice it until its far, far too late.
@@forrest225 dain Bramage am mine name
Another masterpiece from this old Tony.
5/5
I'm 5 months into my boilermaking apprenticeship and have started off with welding this stuff on a similar machine (albeit a bit smaller but still has a auto setting) and I got taught how to weld down in corners first to get used to it. but when welding the top, point the wire at the roll since that's the strongest part of square tubing.
I narrowly missed out on an Olympic team spot in fencing! Just wanted to say hi and thanks for mentioning my underrepresented sport!
tOt not-to-subtlety taking the piss out of most yt welding channels, with some hard rock welding montage. 😁😁 Love ya.
I really enjoy the dry wit coupled with information. Best training there is!
Thank you!
Why, that’s the greatest thing since my full-auto, belt-fed toaster - thanks for showin’ !!!😁
Hello Old Tony, hope all things are well over there.
I enjoy your videos. I hope you still enjoy making them.
I miss these types of TOT videos....very informative a true G.O.A.T 🐐
Awesome video! Couple of real pearls here. Thank you.
Very informative and well filmed these tips help amateur spatter generators like myself improve enormouly thanks for sharing 👍
Finally! A topic I've got experience on before Tony did 🥳
"If I've got my Lathe settings right, we live in an age where welding is a thing."
Damn, I almost had to spin up my own, manual Lathe (by spinning myself in place) to go back to a time when this was a current running joke.
In welding the current is no joke. And isn't running while welding a little ... odd?
That joke never goes away, it just lurks in the corner and waits for the unwary to wander by.
"If my lathe setting are right, we live in an age where..."
BEAUTIFUL reference to the time travel videos
Well I WAS GOING TO SLEEP, BUT I GUESS NO LONGER. Holy shit that crash. Good to see ya, Tony.
The two things I miss is cheap gas and regular ToT videos. #FJB
Love the longer format Tony, like hanging out with a buddy. Welding that piece to your hand made me lol, you're awesome.
"If i've got my lathe settings right" ... great callback
Cooking oil stops the spatter sticking - ignoring any contamination potentially effecting the weld. Sticks good no knoby bits.
"If I got my lathe settings right, we live in a time where welding exists." For those that didn't get the reference, please watch Tony's video on amateur time traveling: th-cam.com/video/ycoCwoplU6Y/w-d-xo.html
Fun Fact: Tony didn't actually take a break from TH-cam, he just sneezed while setting his lathe.
See?! MIG doesn’t suck! It’s just my welding skills that suck- take that TIG evangelists!
I prefer using the Selleys Salastic in the large tube to do my pulse welding.
Makes every joint look like a professional welder and cleans up very easy.
The trick is to use a little dish soap in the water that you dip your finger into, before smoothing it out!
However last week I heard on TH-cam that Windex works well too.
YES Stick out for pulse welding is so important, through the whole video in my head I was saying longer stick out! 3/4" to 1" stick out. Most people over compensate because they are used to the short circuit so shoot for 1" or even further. I should sound like a nice hum no crackling. For aluminum watch your gun angle as well. Awesome video though, glad you are enjoying the machine!
"apparent thickness" is a real term in geology. It refers to how thick a tilted rock unit seems when you drill through it vertically
Really makes me want to weld again. Haven't since I nearly broke my spine on site and had to spend a year rehab.
Friggin awesome Tony.. great video.. I usually just let my kid set the dials and close my eyes.. :)
Ahhh, just the content needed on a Saturday :D
Cool. So that tells me the cut angle is 90°ish. If you make a line at the same angle as the torch is held and measure it. That's your thickness. It's how tank armor works lol. Thanks tank museum! Tank armor is slanted so 90 hit if not deflected has to push through extra thickness created by the slope. direction of the crystal structure in any metal used from forging is tangental to the face plate on the cross section. Think of a bunch of crayons standing on end all pushed together to make a 3' x 3 ' square . Each crayon is a crystal. Pushing them together into a shape was forging them. It lines them up into a uniformly compacted structure. If you raise that crayon sheet to a 30° upward angle , not only is it going to be thicker at a 90° intersection, you have to deal with compression or bending and breaking the full hight of the crystal structure . Or melting in this case. Either way ,it takes more energy to do anything with it. Shoot through it or melt it .
Always love your style of presentation
I'm thoroughly interested in some content on Aluminum mig welding TOT style. I await your next installment :D
Thank you for the warning. I am still at peace negotiations with my normal MIG.
As always Tony, you really have "that" balance between 'all business' and entertainer of the year, light on humor, deep in knowledge and hard on facts which makes all fall in place. At every turn and segment and right before I thought of the next hurdle, bang! You were there giving the answer, like you were tweaking with my brain like cranked on cereal with fresh milk! (that's the way my brain cranks... It was 7:00 AM when I watched your video... I'm sure you eat yours at odd hours of the day...) But as always, fun to watch. I've bought that same welder once and had it returned to HTP because somehow Fronius made me change my mind for the Transsteel 2200 and now, after watching this welder again, you just tempted me to buy it once more... I wish you could do a video about the Transsteel 2200 to know what you think of it and how it compares to the ProPulse 220 as you know that your opinion is revered highly in these welding channels as much as Jodi and Justin & you're definitely The Top Gun when it comes to machining. Thanks for your consideration of the above ask.
Nice bead on your finger test weld. We used to have to weld in a lead kettle. the lead would eat away at the stainless steel kettle and we would have to grind away the lead as much as we could. Then try to weld the huge gouge in the kettle. Talk about smoke if you hit lead it would turn yellow and even with the recommended respirator on, you could still taste a sweet taste.
*cleans glasses*
"wow, did you see that?"
*curses, puts glasses back on hits rewind*
I think swords actually started to get flexible when good steel became available. Before that they had to be made quite rigid and were racing with armour development, but a slim blade that could withstand a beating and put neat holes in your opponent very fast mostly won out once it was available. And eventually disappeared when people with firearms became cheaper per hole made than people with swords.
A spool gun rocks for aluminum. I used to widen racing wheels, and cursed a standard wire feed.
Did anyone else think the Pro Pulse QR code was an easter egg and then get surprised with the Pro Pulse Video Manual?
*burnt tip* "way to let the team down..." lmfaoo i lost it
As a subscriber who is also a DankPods viewer, 1:28 had me expecting a comparison with a pair of headphones.
I don't know what it is about that die filer, every time I get a look at it, I ache to own one. I have no need for a die filer, and yet I already own one. But I don't have that one. I think it's the single most beautiful machine tool I have ever seen. I sort of Hope to never come across one in person, I would not be able to help but pay whatever the asking price. It's just an art deco masterpiece.
Just great, I've had a MIG welder for years, thanks to TOT I've now bought my first TIG machine and what happens, he starts making MIG videos lol
hay ToT and all your fans !! i hope things are well with you
Love the content ToT
Hope you are better soon
Your videos give so much entertainment and inspiration thanks from NZ
I never realized how much heavy metal your videos were missing before now.
Oh, Tony! How we've missed you. The stress of levitating that steel seems immense...:)
Don't tell us you disappeared again?!!?
Looks awesome! Spatter spray helps a lot too.
Another thing that can cause jumpy wire speed is the contact tip. I replace mine pretty often on a big job.
Hi Tony, great to see your up and around. You have a good one, take it easy and I prefer gas axe welding.. Oxy Acetylene, you really need to be careful with that stuff....... no room for fubar. If your quick enough can make lunch in 10 seconds, toasty..... hee
26:50 I wasn’t watching the the screen at this moment and thought he said “ managed to weld my testes to my hand”
Tony, thank you for an enlightening video. I'll certainly be saving that one for later perusal when I get my welder going. Certainly agree with the ventilation requirements mentioned. Regards from Canada's banana belt and welcome back.👍🍌🇨🇦🕊️🇺🇦🤞
Spatter is the reason I have a TIG machine. Actually TOT is the reason I have a TIG welder 🤣. Thanks for bringing us along with you 😀
yeah my miller ideal arc from the late 80's has these features. ideal arc 150. it even has a analog voltage neefle wow wee wow
I found stretching your tip to workpiece length out just a little in Pulse stopped the crackling and spatter a bit. Try getting some thick multicore Earth wire, strip the plastic off and tie the ends, trap it between your earth clamp and work and it will greatly improve your earthing more than you'd think. It really does make a difference you can feel and see
I love MiG welding. . Good Video sure thank you so much 👍😍
Smokey in the shop, try a flux core welder it leaves soot everywhere and your helmet and workpiece looks like you had a volcano erupt all over the place!
Holy craaaaap! I really enjoy your videos, some next level humor there, plus all the buildy makey stuff. I can blow a whole 'need to get something done today' afternoon by 1PM. I think it has something to do with all the time traveling you do. Anyway, back to the holy crap of it all, I've got some stuff, you know, claw hammers, vice-gri...er locking pliers, multi-bit screwdrivers, etc. Looking to upgrade from my circa 1996 Lincoln MIG 140. Pulsed MIG baby, that's the way to go. I mean it looks like to me, right? So I was checking out prices on those nice HTP units you have...hence the holy craaaap. Its like you have a 1996 Corolla sitting there in your shop, dude, an 06 Corolla. There go my retirement plans. I knew I should have gotten a better job than a semiconductor Equipment Technician. Oh well, back to ol' Chemical Vapor Deposition grind. Seriously though, your videos are very good, very helpful, and dare I say, inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
Hamster Triggered Pulse
It's amazing he can spin that wheel and turn the torch on and off now
I thought it was going to be a Make it Extreme/TOT collaboration for a second there :D
Yah when mig welding having the ground directly on what your welding will always give u better results. Though having the part your welding clamped nice an tight to your welding table with the ground hooked to the table does work too. Its just a good rule of thumb to connect it directly to what your welding
The last time I welded anything was at least 3 years ago. I've got a practically ancient stick welder that was my grandpa's, and that thing's cables are roughly 5% original insulator, 85% electrical tape, and 10% exposed copper. I need to buy a new cable, but it's a few hundred dollars for something I don't think I'll use.
I liked stick welding when I was in high school shop class, but I don't have much of a use for it right now.
Tip: Don't use steel wire to weld fingers, use meat wire. Not only does it sizzle like bacon, it smells like bacon.
You know who's definitely got an older mig welder at home? You wife! X'D might be a little rusty for the moment, but definitely a mig welder in the house...
I think you need more voltage. I bought a Multimatic 255 a couple years ago. You set the wire speed to the material/situation as you explained, and then adjust voltage to achieve the proper transfer mode. Based on the spatter and sound, I think you are too low, still short circuiting. It shouldn't sound like bacon at all, just a nice clean hum. My Miller likes to be well above the default setting. You should end up with nearly zero spatter and you don't have to clean the material nearly as thoroughly as with TIG.
Speakers on full volume; was blasting music. Left for 2 hours, "Oh, This Old Tony video!!!" :(
Thanks TOT for informative and enjoyable video.
Angled welding to prevent melting.... Where the hell were you 25 years ago when that wouldve saved my ass!?
A shiny new (almost) spatter -free ToT video on Saturday? That's how to start a weekend right and proper 😁
Thank you for making the exact video I needed today.
I cannot work out why I watched this, all the way through as well. I don't have a workshop let alone a welder.
Thank you Tony!
hi tony. When it comes to pulse mig you should be having no spatter/crackle at all. you need to play with your arc length/trim adjustments to get it so the wire never actually touches the puddle. hope this helps you
I recently got a Sherman digimig (looks very similar to your machine) and having learnt to weld in the days of transformer welding equipment the spray + auto settings seemed bewildering and then there's the trim settings..... so I run a hybrid of what the manual says and my previous experience. I had some stall issues with the wire and tracked it down to the spigot and spring that holds the reel, it was quite rough and was catching on the washers that are either side of the tension spring. For the tension of filler , I push the feed button and hold the reel and tune it so it only just slips. Going through a similar process with a tig machine with all the bells and whistles..... everyday is a school day