Shop Tips
General tips and tricks to help you keep your tools and your shop in tip-top shape. There's a lot more to welding than the welding itself.
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Sam Hagan - Ratchet Strap Tips
In this shop tips video, Sam shows us different uses, types and tips for using ratchet straps.
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Sam Hagan - Small Business Talk and Rig Fix (Part 1)
I wanted to talk about some of my thoughts on communicating with your customers and small business in general. To make it a little more interesting, I recorded it while fixing my welding rig.
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Brad Goodman - Welding Table Tools
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Brad Goodman - Tungsten Prep and Grinder
Brad sits down and chats about tungsten and grinders. Lots of tips in this one.
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Brad Goodman - Quick Tip AC Tungsten Prep
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JD Brewer - Generator Setup Basics
This video covers the basics for hooking up a generator to weld with stick, mig, or tig in the field. This video just shows how to set the generator controls and strike an arc with each process.
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Jonathan Lewis - Setting up Your Miller Diversion 180 Tig Machine
Setting up a Miller Diversion tig welding machine
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Brad Goodman - A Look at Foot Pedals and Techniques
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Johannes Ciobanica - Peening Fundamentals
Johannes lays out some tips for peening cast aluminum weld repairs to avoid porosity
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Roy Crumrine - Purging Trick
Roy shows us how to use aluminum foil and painter's tape to purge some 310 stainless.
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Jonathan Lewis - 3 Favorite Amperage Controls
A few of Jonathan's favorite amperage devices. Some amperage controls aren't so good, the video shows Jonathan's favs along with some tips on how to use them.
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Building a Slide Hammer Tool for Spatter Removal
Super quick project but very useful is this slide hammer tool that uses a chisel and slide hammer for removing weld spatter
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Roy Crumrine - Grinding Hacks
These are 3 hacks that I used on a daily basis at my last few aerospace jobs. These simple hacks are for the smaller 1.5-3" sanding discs for a 90 deg grinder. Sometimes you need to get into odd spots or hard to reach spots and these simple hacks will help you improve your grinding quality alon...
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Pretty Welds are Not Always Good Welds
In this vdieo, I use a few different tig welding techniques to demonstrate that a pretty weld is not always a good weld. Filler rod size and technique are key factors.
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JD Brewer - Welding Business Talk
Jody sits down with JD Brewer, owner operator of Apex Welding. Hear answers to questions about his welding career, being self employed, and advice he would give anyone getting started in a welding career.
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Silver Brazing Tips with Mike Zanconato
Mike Zanconato shows Tips for Silver Brazing bike lugs fittings. These same tips and techniques apply for most any silver brazing task.