The TIG Field Card cover, a TIG torch resting on a plate beside a finished bead

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The TIG Field Card

Four pages Dakota put together from the settings he actually uses. Amperage for steel, stainless and aluminum, what the bead is telling you, and the twelve things that go wrong with the fix for each. Print it for the wall or fold the last page into your hood bag.

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  • 1 Set the machine. Tungsten grind, torch and filler angles, gas, cup and polarity, and amperage tables for mild steel, stainless and aluminum.
  • 2 Read the bead. Five cross sections, the stainless heat tint chart, the habits that separate good from pretty good, and twelve symptoms with the fix for each.
  • 3 A pocket card. Four to a page. Cut, fold, and you have a two sided card, 3.5 by 2.25 inches, that lives in the hood bag.
Dakota on a conveyor frame in a food plant, hood flipped up, TIG torch in hand

Who put this together

Written by a welder, not a marketer.

Dakota has been welding since 2017. Most days he is in a shop. The rest of the time he is on contract at food plants and manufacturing sites. He runs MIG and TIG, and TIG is the one he is best at. Every number on the card is one he sets himself.

  • Welding since 2017
  • Certified MIG, TIG and stick
  • Stainless, mild steel, aluminum
  • Shop, food plants, manufacturing
More about Dakota

The card sets the machine. The guide teaches the hand.

Arc length, torch angle, filler feed and the practice ladder that gets you from a ropey bead to one you would put your name on. Everything the card only had room to name.