00 Root Pass TIG Field Guide
TIG is slow to learn and it pays practice back the fastest.
Twenty nine pages on the five things every TIG problem comes back to. Heat control, arc length, torch angle, gas coverage and cleanliness.
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Inside the TIG Field Guide
Same settings. Different weld.
The free card gives you starting settings. The guide explains what changes once the part heats up.
Two welders running identical settings can produce completely different welds because one travels steadily and the other pauses.
From Managing heat in the part, not just the arc
The guide continues with cooling between passes, travel speed and how to brace your hands. Read the actual page, then see what else is in the guide.
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Fourteen dollars. Less than a pack of tungsten.
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02 Contents
Sixteen sections. Five variables.
Almost every problem a new TIG welder has traces to one of five things. This is those five, looked at from every angle.
29 pages · 16 sections · 5 parts · PDF
Polarity, gas, tungsten and coverage. Get these four right and the arc behaves.
- DCEN, AC and DCEP, and which one the metal wants
- Pre flow, post flow, upslope, downslope, pulse and AC balance
- Tungsten alloys, taper angle and the flat on the tip
- Cups, gas lenses, flow rates and stickout
Heat, arc length, angle and the rhythm of the rod. The unglamorous half of the skill.
- An amperage chart for steel, stainless and aluminum
- Body mechanics and bracing, before technique
- Arc length, torch angle, starting and stopping
- Filler rod technique and the dip rhythm
Steel, stainless, aluminum and thin wall, each one behaving differently under the same arc.
- Reading your own welds and what the bead is telling you
- Butt, lap, tee and corner, and the positions
- Material by material, including heat tint and back purging
- Walking the cup, when it helps and when it does not
Symptom, cause, fix. Sorted by what you are actually looking at.
- Black soot, porosity, grey or purple stainless
- Bead on top with no fusion underneath
- Wandering arc, blowing holes, crater cracks
- The five checks that come before touching a dial
The parts that actually hurt people, and the practice ladder that gets you good.
- Fume, ultraviolet, tungsten dust and confined space
- A practice ladder that builds in order
- A one page cheat sheet to tear out
- Set up, while welding, and if it looks wrong
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Read the whole thing. If it does not tell you something you did not already know, reply to the receipt inside thirty days and we refund you in full. You keep the file. We would rather have the feedback than the money.
03 The rest of the shelf
The other three, and the set.
You are looking at TIG. These are the rest of the shelf, and they do not repeat what is in it.
- 01 MIG Field Guide Settings, the four things your hands control, and how to see inside your own weld.
- 02 Blueprint Reading for Welders Three complete shop drawings, decoded line by line.
- 03 The Fabricator Layout, tolerance, brake math, distortion and inspection.
- 04 All four, as a set The whole shelf. Sixty dollars bought singly.
03 Straight answers
Questions we get asked.
It assumes you can strike an arc and have a machine in front of you. If you have never welded, start with the Playbook. If you can lay a bead and want it to look and hold like a professional bead, this is the one.
This one is technique. The Playbook is the career guide. They do different jobs and neither replaces the other.
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