Welding 101 for Hobbyists (and Nerds)

Soldering is not like glue. It does not melt base metal like copper but it makes alloy on the interface layer.

A spice girs reference!?

You’re a gigachad

apparently aluminum stick welding is a thing but it isn't very clean from what I've heard

“Now, this is welding for the guys and girls at the front of the class. You know who I’m talking about. The ones who never set foot in a machine shop” LOL! I love it. Subscribed just for that. (I was more shop and less “front of the class”)

do you have any video about making control panels for automation or so?

The whole video I was thinking “what does he mean he’s new, those pools look beautiful”. Then find out at the end that’s not him welding. 😆

welding sucks 👍 I make more money trapping

Stick welding is perfect for most hobbyists. People like me welding bits of junk together, occasionally fixing things like a gate or a wheelbarrow. Shielding gas is too expensive for most amateurs. The hobby size cylinders you can buy are pretty useless. You need a proper large cylinder or two of shielding gas that you need to buy or lease these days. Of Course the first welder I bought was a TIG. To expensive and complicated to run if your just having fun making kess serious stuff.

This is a treat !especial!

Absolutely perfect. I have been wanting to learn welding for some time now, after soldering circuit boards for 30 years. :) This was a fabulous introduction to welding for us geeks. I think the most difficult aspect of getting things set up is where to find the appropriate googly eyes.

"We're not going to obfuscate things with bumblefudgery and Canadian syllogisms"

You had me at bumblefudgery. Keep your stick in a vice!

Brazing mufflers. I can weld your lug nuts on. 😜 or make shift tools .

I cant believe the Google eyes weren't practicing safety first? I mean they were staring straight at the bright light of the weld the whole time. (Probably blind by now)

Really nice introductory video, good job!

Great video Grady! Love your stuff, and your presentation is simply awesome!

I love your channel and liked this older video....but I'm cringing at using your table saw. Besides the mess on the worktop, all I can see is one spark going down the blade slot into a nice dry pile of sawdust 😱

Hehheh, I've heard of This Old Tony a few times before thanks to Wintergatan SuperVinlin

I just thought about getting into welding, how amazingly convenient! Thanks!

Great video

I’ve been around welding alot and still learned a thing or two in this short video.

im a bit old school but start on a stick welder its cheep and keep at hand control etc i still mainly run my stick welder but i do have a smaller Mig flux core welder i do have oxy cutting welding etc but now its sort of obsolete but handy but getting to old and running out of tractors, ps want to stay farming look up right to repair even nerds that type of thing impacts us all

I never thought to use my table saw like a welding table

Nice informative video, and I love your clever reference to AvE. TOT and Welding tips and Tricks are both favorites of mine too.

Thirty-seven years into welding. Any process .. but MIG is popular and cheap now. Newb asked me to teach .. so I got to thinking .. what arsed me when I wanted to learn? The answer may sound crazy, but here it is. Take a sheet of 18 gua .. scribe some lines .. and do grade three cursive writing with a bead. ABC, etc. Get the control .. Rod, gun .. down first - then the actual physics and learnin' of a good weld.

Hobbiest my arse... I see those beads. 😂

5 years ago already

Very good video!
Just wanna add a tiny correction: MIG (metal inert gas) refers to the tool that you describe in your video, but only when you use pure argon (or rarely helium) as protection gas. If some CO2 is added, it is referred to as MAG (Metal Active Gas) since the carbon in the CO2 reacts slightly with the steel :)

Weld weld... What do we have here 🧐

"If you can nail the key hole.." love your videos but I think I'll take a pass on this one, i might have this one down solid!

Awesome thank you for all you do been looking for Thai kind of stuff!

Great video! Thank you.

Can you Make a video about grounding and the table and what to connect it to lol, I wanna learn mig/fluxcore welding but don’t wanna electrocute myself

I am a tradesmen i can braze with oxygen/acycetelene and solder pipes and electronics

nothing more entertaining than watching and engineer learn a trade

This Old Tony is one of my favorite channels ever

Just make sure you grind the tip very precise, at a downward angle, and make the tip flat so the arc doesn’t walk on you.

Why was he so scared to say work the wood🤔

The curvy peru lately sign because lobster baly suit onto a whole mallet. second, boiling backbone

I like your way of studying

I love the AVE reference

Thank you for making this video. I follow several projects, one of which seems to always have welding going on. Project Brupeg. This couple has been restoring a sunken trawler for several years now and I'm even a patron in a small way. Anyway, I'm very interested in everything they do but it's over my head alot of times. I can follow along and understand the gist of what their doing but they use the appropriate terminology and I'm clueless. Lol. I just subscribed to the two you recommended and I can't wait to learn more. I may never get to weld but my appreciation for it grows as I learn. I've been watching your videos lately since I discovered them and I love the CLEAR, CONCISE, EXPLANATORY (and occasionally silly, which is so cute!) manner that really captures what one needs to know about a subject to understand it better. Kudos and thanks again!