HOW TO PREP Stainless Steel Tube (QUICK) for TIG welding + Tips!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- HOW TO PREP stainless steel tube for TIG welding + a couple of tips that will help you out with the material prep process. We all know that Prepping Stainless steel is either going to make or break you when it comes to the TIG welding process. If you don't follow a few simple steps you're only hurting yourself, Let's make it easy with GTAW SS PREP in under 4 minutes. Whether its automotive fabrication and you're building awesome Stainless steel exhausts, Downpipes or headers..
The process is the same as a pressure vessel assembly or a welded part for the aerospace industry. Take the time to properly prep your weld area so you can lay down really nice welds without any contamination!
I will be doing a series on Welding that will include everything from Prep, to fit up, best methods in tacking assemblies for the most aesthetic weld, pie cuts, and so on..Keep welding and practicing and if you need any welding advice, please send me a message on instagram!
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This is an excellent video. We often get caught up in the welding process and forget about the prep. Burning off lint with torch is a good tip
Yo! Great vid man! Much respect for great filming and a great job on the prep!
Hey thank you so much! Really appreciate it.
I got a bunch of tips from this video, cuz I've never done stainless before... I had a customer come in and needed a little bit of stainless welding done
Awesome video Brad, great to see you back at it again.
Thanks for dropping in man! I appreciate it. Hope you’re doing fantastic! 🙌🏻
Professional welder here, who spent a decade in bio-pharm and semi-conductor ultra high purity piping, specifically a pipe fab shop.
Rarely did we use a belt sander (contaminants), only for fab'ing special fittings. Didn't use much scoth brite either. NEVER used tools that had previously been used on carbon steel pipe. We always used backing gas (99.9% Argon) for tacking to eliminate internal bluing, and our machines had high frequency starts to prevent tungsten inclusion. But mostly, we used GF and Metabo facing machines to insure square cuts, and pipe reamers and small fine files to remove burrs. We cleaned our joints with isopropyl alcohol before tacking, and sealed the joint with reversed electrical tape.
Great tips, and I must say, excellent production quality.
Thank you so Much! I really appreciate it man. I’m trying my best! ✊🏻
@@hourglassingenuity103 your doing great!
Good stuff Brad!
Thanks a lot! Just quick and simple! Appreciate it.
@@hourglassingenuity103 quick, but packed with good info.
That’s my goal! I don’t want to bore anyone. Learning from lots of negative comments! 😅😂
Do you prep the prep before or after you prep. Also lets see your back gas preparations.
Back purge video dropping today. Prep what before what? Can you say that again? Thanks!
Awesome video!
Well done!
Great video, thanks bro
Great vid, but i have a few questions if you can help?
1. I cut alot if mild steel on my bandsaw, is the blade ok to use on stainless steel, or will it contaminate it?
2. What grit do you use on you're belt sander for grinding the stainless?
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What grid did you use on your belt sander? Thanks and keep the good work up
good stuff!!! thanks for sharing
Very nice! Do you always just hand sand it flat without using a table for keeping it square?
Yep.. I can usually get extremely close. I can check it with a square and a flat surface if I want it to be perfectly square. Usually a super micro angular variation won’t effect fit up too much. I can do a video on how to square off the end of stainless tube also in the future by using a flat surface and a square.
@@hourglassingenuity103 Gotcha! As long as the band saw is dialed in, it should be pretty square to start with. I think it's good have the skill to do it by hand. Plus you wont risk adding surface defects sliding it on the table...
I look forward to your future videos!
Brandon Parry exactly! The thicker the blade.. less deflection and much easier to keep nice square cuts. Old saws with .750” wide blades work really well in my opinion. Especially on titanium! Thanks for watching and I’ll be posting every Wednesday and Friday!
@@hourglassingenuity103 another thing is, you don't always cut straight pipes. what if there is a 90° bend that has to be sanded, obviously you cannot push it 'against' something to check the square, bc the whole pipe is a bend. the only thing you can do is to check the flatness of the cut via the shine light through method.. however I am keen to know if there are any really good methods, tools or jigs to make sure your bent pipe cuts are exactly flat.
Hey Brad, I use a portaband (vertical stand homemade) and bench belt sander but I am struggling with getting clean cuts and then getting a flat surface for a tight fit up. Can you please drop some tips for a nice flat flush ground face?
Hey, love your videos. I’ve been looking for that scotchbrite wheel online but can’t seem to find it. Where did you get yours?
Great tips, thank you! Do you back purge your tack welds? I'm just a hobbist and currently building some stainless exhaust where I didn't back purge my first tack welds and the inside of the tubing was pretty terrible so I'm purging them now.
Jeremiah Zanin on titanium I will back purge my tacks because it is 1mm or .040” thick usually so it’s easier to accidentally full penetrate on A tack. Now in stainless I don’t purge my tacks on .0625” wall because I use a lot of baby racks at lower amps that do not penetrate through causing carbide precipitation. I’ll be posting a video on back purging stainless tube Friday!
@@hourglassingenuity103 Makes sense, thank you! Looking forward the back purging video!
Thanks for tuning in man! Really appreciate the engagement.
Hope it is useful,good job
could you suggest any Ebay 304 stainless exhaust pipe kit, which is actually 304 and not fake?
It’s all fake.
@@hourglassingenuity103 That was my guess. This is sad truth
Where did you buy your rondel scotch brite? (1:17)
What are the yellow gloves you use? How do you like them? I’d like to try those out
You can find orange ones on amazon made by fear wrench that work fantastic. I like them more than the yellow. They rarely ever rip like regular junk from the hardware store.
HourGlassIngenuity awesome thanks man! I really enjoy your videos and learn alot from you 🤙🏼
Ripcurlsurfur411 anytime man! Gear wrench * I’m glad I can give some insight into something that may help you! That’s what it is all about. 🙌🏻 have a great night!
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sigh.
*stares at pile of pie*
sigh.
takes a lot to get started with... 57 pieces so far. in 32mm.
sigh.
at least i have plenty of leeway on location.
i will tig weld some exhaust and your preparation looks too much, because my last exhaust was welded on mig and i think that welder did not do any preparation and every weld is still firm although exhaust was made not good-weld burr inside, too narrow tubes....