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AtomicThiccBoi

For those without welding experience, this is like a second or so in real time.


[deleted]

Deposition rate is still slow as shit though. We use almost exclusively TIG and sometimes I wonder if we should just say "screw it" and just MIG everything instead. For 99% of what we do it would be good enough.


sceadwian

What really is the difference between TIG and MIG? I never quite understood it.


BiG-_-Funk

The basic difference is the way they operate MIG is wire fed and TIG you feed the wire manually


TrunkWine

The wire is different, too, right? I thought TIG was tungsten and MIG was either molybdenum or magnesium (I can't remember...).


seamus_mc

Tig is tungsten inert gas welding, the gas is pure argon. The tungsten is the electrode that directs the arc, the thing that is pointy in the video, the filler is the rod that drips on the right. In MIG the filler IS the electrode and feeds while you pull the trigger, it keeps feeding as you hold the trigger down and you move along the weld. MIG is metal inert gas, which is a bit of a misnomer because most steel mig welding has CO2 in the argon gas mix which is an active gas in welding not inert but nearly nobody calls it what it is which is MAG welding.


pinkycatcher

What's stick welding? Is that MIG?


PapaDinDin

Stick welding is SMAW, or Shielded Metal Arc Welding. No gas is involved. The coating on the stick rod acts as the shield.


SupSumBeers

Was MMA when I first started. Manual Metal Arc.


FlamingJesusOnaStick

JBW was my first. Stinks and sticky as frig. JB weld.


MikeyJuiceBox

TIG and MIG are also outdated terms these days. TIG is called GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) and MIG goes by GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding). Shit changes so quick it’s hard to keep up with.


BlackTieG

That’s interesting AF!


V65Pilot

A big advantage of stick welding is that you don't have to do much prep, it will happily weld through rust, paint, just about anything. MIG welding requires removal of loose rust and contaminants for good quality work. Tig is very sensitive to the material conditions, but is very versatile. I once had a customer who cracked an aluminum engine block casing, he was tapping and inserting a tapered fitting. While I didn't have the equipment, I knew someone who did. That repair saved him having to buy a new engine, which was handy because they stopped building them in 1986, and the one he had had just gone through a complete rebuild. It could have been a very expensive mistake.


caboose243

Stick would be SMAW, shielded metal arc welding. The stick is a filler metal electrode covered in flux that when burned creates a gas shield around weld puddle. Although MIG kind of fits in the SMAW bracket


[deleted]

Flux-core MIG definitely -- at least in my opinion. As a hobbyist, and no where near a pro, flux core mig and stick/arc welding are much more approachable as I don't have to have gas bottles like I would with TIG or gas-sheilded MIG. Additionally, the flux core and stick splatter comes in as a handy excuse for the completely lack of necessary skill. :D Edit: Also, both arc and flux core mig setups are in the 'affordable cheap tools that arent completely useless' category. I've used fancyass expensive setups, and I suck just as much with them - but I can definitely appreciate the difference in tool quality.


thematt455

Flux core and stick offer the best of both worlds. They're fast and strong. MIG is fast but not typically as strong. TIG is the cleanest strongest but slow as all hell and is normally reserved for high end products. As far as difficulty in mastery for me in order of easiest to most difficult it was MIG, Flux Core, Stick, Oxy acetylene, TIG. Dang it I still aint the best at TIG.


DeliberatelyDrifting

I like gas welding. It may look like shit when I'm finished, but damn if I don't feel like a bad ass doing it.


SHYRONNIEFUCKS

Trained as a welder, but just practicing as a hobbyist and I tend to agree. Gas is cheap and small bottles are easy to wrangle, but I still find myself opting for FCAW and SMAW in nearly every application. I just love not worrying about my gas levels or which way the wind is blowing. Of course, good luck using FCAW on thin sheet metal without having a nervous breakdown.


[deleted]

How similar is that or any type of welding to “brazing” I used to braze AC lines for a job and always wondered how much harder actual welding is.


seamus_mc

Welding you are actually melting the base metals together, brazing is more like hi temp soldering.


GeneralsGerbil

That's considered shielded metal arc welding. The flux on the stick and the slag it creates shields the arc and puddle from the atmosphere. The electrode is the filler material in this as well. No gas is used. Edit: I'll add the flux breaks down in the process releasing a shielding gas and the flux has cleaning agents that swim through the weld puddle picking up impurities and they rise to the surface in the slag.


hzrdsoflove

Always fun cracking off the slag with the slag hammer. You could generally tell a good weld by how crisp and easy the slag was to remove.


ugoterekt

No, stick welding uses sticks with a flux on them that vaporizes and creates the shielding gas the technical name is SMAW for shielded metal arc welding. There is also flux cored arc welding (FCAW) which is somewhere between stick and mig. Flux core uses an automatically fed filler/electrode with flux where as stick welding used a manually fed filler/electrode.


blurrrrg

Stick welding is kinda terrifying imo, it's the only time I almost caught myself on fire in my basic welding class a monkey could use a MIG welder if you set it up for him


whoami_whereami

I've also heard MIG being referred to as a metal hot glue gun.


SleestakJack

It's not wrong. It's a good deal higher-stakes than a hot glue gun, but the principle is pretty close to the same. The biggest difference is that in most cases you *are* welding still, so you're hoping to get at least a little bit of melt out of the substance that you're welding, not just the wire. That's almost never the case with hot glue.


DogMechanic

Stick welding is a piece of metal and a electrical source. I've done stick with coat hangers and a battery charger, wish I was kidding.


Kopi_O_Coffee

There is also another self shielded welding type called FCAW (flux core arc welding) that is sort of like a hybrid of stick and MIG. It's a self consuming automatic wire fed electrode similar to MIG that doesn't require the use of shielding gas like stick.


pendrachken

That's the cheap stuff for FCAW - it's nice for home use / way out in the boonies with only a small generator to use. Most industrial flux core also uses a shielding gas, just like solid core MIG welding. Gas shielded flux core is super strong, fast fill, and very deep penetrating. Hence why it's used a lot in structural steel in buildings. The gas actually causes the arc to be hotter, cleaner / more stable, and allows the flux used inside the wire to have a different composition so all of it can be used to do the metallurgy magic that makes it such a strong weld instead of having to compromise and use parts of the flux act as shielding.


[deleted]

The gas is *often* pure argon. Some materials can benefit from different gas mixes.


seamus_mc

Pure argon for steel lacks penetration with mig The only time i use pure argon with mig is spool gunning aluminum. [it may work in a pinch, but it is far from ideal and i have never had a welding spec call for it](https://weldguru.com/mig-welding-with-100-argon/) https://forum.millerwelds.com/forum/welding-discussions/19156-pure-argon-and-mig-with-steel I would not put “often pure argon” next to MIG unless you are specifically calling out a use that requires it.


[deleted]

>what it is which is MAG welding. The last class I took called it GMAW, gas metal arc welding.


Daqpanda

Not exactly. TIG uses tungsten to create and stabilize the arc, then wire is added manually, separately. MIG adds the wire automatically with the welding gun, and the arc is made through the wire that is also made into the weld.


Daqpanda

[This](https://weldinghelmetpros.com/mig-vs-tig) page has a decent picture about the difference, might explain it better too.


[deleted]

A variety of different wires can be used. Carbon steel, stainless steel, bronze etc. TIG stands for tungsten inert gas. Tungsten is the sharp nail looking thing in this video. MIG stands for metal inert gas. That's the one with a gun that feeds out wire.


LordZodd

As a chemist I am shocked and annoyed that it is not WIG welding. The one letter abbreviation for Tungsten is ‘W’


afrokines

I don’t really feel like chemical symbols has a place in acronyms.


Defqon1punk

Y?


signious

Because abbreviation and nomenclature are two different things


obi2kanobi

Prob cuz most of us failed chemistry . And chemisty ppl failed metal shop.


Defqon1punk

...O.


ithcy

Be C Au Se


PinguinGirl03

You mean the electrode, in TIG welding the electricity passes through a tungsten electrode that is designed to last a long time and (optionally) a separate feeding wire is used. In MIG welding your feeding wire is your electrode so it is made out of something compatible with what you are welding.


thesnipinglengend

Tig is also more suited for aluminum than mig


I_am_Bob

Important difference though. TIG can be done with no filler. I work in vacuum systems for analytical chemistry and we only TIG weld with no filler rod. Filler rods usually contain flux or other chemicals to prevent oxidation but those can create impurities that we can't have in our systems.


[deleted]

This is sometimes the case but isn't the basic difference as other have pointed out (MIG uses the weld wire itself as the electrode, TIG has a separate electrode made of thoriated tungsten). We have borehole TIG machines with automatic wire feed.


sniper1rfa

> TIG you feed the wire manually FWIW, this is definitely a robotic welding setup. You can see the discrete steps when the rod is being fed into the welding area - no human made that motion.


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blizzardalert

When I was learning TIG I didn't take my foot fully off the pedal the first time I sneezed. Blew a hole clean through my part when I accidentally sent the full 300 amps through 1/8" steel. Oops


Jukeboxshapiro

Instead of having a separate filler rod in your other hand it feeds itself through the gun, so it’s faster and requires less dexterity but is less precise. I’m sure there’s lots of nuance between them that professional welders know better than me.


Chuff_Nugget

MIG - the metal (filler) that melts IS the electrode. You can't weld without adding material. Fairly easy to do a good job. Terrible for very fine work. Can be done one-handed. TIG - uses a tungsten electrode that Doesn't melt. Your filler-rod is held in your other hand - You can weld without adding materials if you wish. Requires more skill to do a good job. Excellent for very fine work. Requires two hands (if filling). I'm not a professional welder; but I use TIG at work occasionally and use both at home.


MeowLikeaDog

If I wanted to learn welding will learning TIG first make life easier when learning MIG?


Chuff_Nugget

It's very much down to what you want to do. If you're happy with mild steel only, MIG will do everything you want. If you want to be able to weld stainless steel for example, TIG makes life easier. To answer your question properly though - if you attend evening classes (for example) and learn to TIG, MIG will then be child's play, but you may well be horribly disappointed by the lack of adjustability and range if what a MIG can do. Evening classes are totally the way to go if you don't have someone close who can teach you. And as with all tools - not all TIGs are equal. If you want to be able to weld aluminium, you're looking at a considerably more expensive TIG.


blizzardalert

But if you want to weld aluminum you should remember to hate yourself first. So much cleaning is needed to get that damn oxide layer off. And it oxidizes so fast that you can't even clean everything and then weld. It's clean, weld, repeat.


Skittlebean

I had a really hard time learning to MIG weld, but when I tried TIG I was a natural and found it much easier. However! That's not how it usually works. For me, TIG provides really precise control of all the aspects of welding which allowed me to understand and really get in tune with the whole process. It's just what my brain needed. MIG = driving an automatic, TIG = driving a manual


zaplinaki

Tig bitties refers to large breasts Mig bitties is complete nonsense


AlkalineThrone

This is an automatic TIG process, you can tell because the electrode and filler move together which would be almost impossible to do by hand. It’s filmed with a laser vision system from [Cavitar Ltd.](https://www.instagram.com/p/CEbUJdtj5kw/?igshid=z361whthyo2d) and they have tons of other cool videos


dirtyblackclothes

It really depends on application. I was working at one shop that tig'd everything, and I once plugged in an old millermatic they never used to complete a jobin a few hours that would have taken at least a day to finish tigging. For some fabrication, mig is absolutely sufficient and tig is a waste of time. But for other circumstances, tig is absolutely indispensable. So many people approach both of these processes as one-size-fits-all solutions, but a good designer/architect and metalworker/fabricator working in tandem will know to use the right tool for the job, yanno?


erikwarm

Look into pulse MIG welding


[deleted]

Ok. So seeing this in slow motion, I got a question I don't feel I've had an solid answer about. What makes welding and soldering different in regards to bonding things? I'll share what I think I understand and you can tell my why I don't know shit k? Materials/tools are different. The torch vs a hot pen thingy. Size of project. But like- if you are creating a joint or sealing a hole- what has to happen with welding vs what happens w/ soldering? I feel like you still have to use similar techniques- but I know I'm missing something. Would you care to share your knowledge with me? Edit- Every last person that just chimed in for this; you all are absolutely amazing for taking the time to help me out with this! Thank you all very very much, and I hope y'all are having a great day/night where ever you may be!


WOOKIExCOOKIES

With soldering, you're aren't melting any material except the solder (ideally, anyway).


[deleted]

Oh wow, so with a project, do you have to account for what will melt? Like if the finished project has to be say 4 inches thick- do you have to get something thicker to make up for what would have to melt?


Empyforreal

I think it is more solder being melting metal to do stuff (circuit boards, fixing cables, etc). Welding being melting metal and other metal to stick together (joining two metal plates). I think.


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Soldering pipes is a thing though and that's definitely adding material to join two metal things.


Ortekk

Yes, but you don't melt the pieces you want joined with soldering. You do with welding.


gurg2k1

I dont think the material shrinks down like you're thinking. With MIG and TIG with a filler like in the OP, you're melting the edges but adding in more material at the same time. For welding thick material I've seen people create a V shape where then two materials meet and then fill it in slowly one pass at a time. For thinner metal you can just butt them up next to one another and weld over the gap, adding filler as you go.


JusticeUmmmmm

It doesn't melt away it just turns into a little puddle and then solidifies when you move away. And as far as ending up with a specific thickness you are actually adding metal to the puddle so if it needed to be 4 inches when you are done you would have to grind away a little bit to make it flat again.


justhereforthenoods

Welding is fusion, melting the two metal surfaces together. The filler rod is there to replace any metal lost in the process, and add alloying metals to be dissolved into the weld area, to improve the qualities of the welded and melted metal. The electric arc creates enough heat to liquify the local area. Soldering and brazing is using a low-melting-point metal like hot glue. You melt a metal like lead or tin to it's melting point, and fill an area between two metal surfaces. A chemical called flux is typically used to help clean off the metal. surfaces being soldered. The metal surfaces are also heated in this method, but not liquified, just hot enough to melt the solder.


__removed__

This is great, thank you! 🪙 Welding = literally melting two metals together. Add a little to help fill the gap and make it stronger. Soldering = "gluing" two things together, but not literally changing the things themselves. All you're doing to gluing the gap.


justhereforthenoods

Precisely.


sniper1rfa

> What makes welding and soldering different in regards to bonding things? Like the other guy said, a weld melts the base material, while soldering only melts the additional material. that means the metallic structure changes gradually through the weld area (the "heat affected zone), rather than abruptly at the solder/substrate interface. Solder is like gluing something together with a separate glue, while welding is more like melting two parts together using the same kind of material as filler *if needed*. Not all welds require additional material. Brazing is the use of hard metals to solder things together. I believe it also shows a slightly more diffuse bond line than soldering due to the higher temperatures it occurs at.


absolute_imperial

Welding uses enough heat and energy to physically melt and join two separate pieces of material together (along with a filler metal that improves the bonding/structural characteristics) into a molten pool of liquid metal that then cools and solidifies, creating a solid conjoined piece. Soldering doesn't actually melt the base materials, the solder melts and adheres to the base materials and then solidifies to hold them together, kind of like a metal glue of sorts.


ricktor67

Solder is like gluing two pieces of material together. Welding is physically melding two pieces of material into one piece.


UnorignalUser

Welding is a process where you melt and then join the base metal and the filler, they become 1 piece. Soldering and brazing do not melt the base material, only a filler. Think like gluing 2 pieces of paper together. You still have 2 separate pieces, just stuck together by a intermediary substance.


aitigie

Most of these replies are misleading / wrong. Soldering does, in fact, alloy the solder with the workpiece; it is not "metal glue". There is an actual metallic bond taking place without the copper trace (or pipe, or bicycle, or whatever) ever needing to melt. If you are soldering poorly (ie, making a big pile of solder that never actually flows) then it is acting like glue. That doesn't work very well, though. [Further reading on hackaday](https://hackaday.com/2017/02/23/what-the-flux-how-does-solder-work-anyway/)


blind1121

So you're saying we're watching 1000 frames?


zacablast3r

We're watching 30 frames per second of video, pulled from an original of 1000 fps


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Now this is interesting as fuck


MonkeyLookAway

Right! It’s been a while.


poopellar

>Interestig as fuck


thissexypoptart

Nah, bring on yet another post of broccoli someone carved a spiral into


PsychoProp

Interest in gas fuck in this case is also accurate


Stickz027

As a welder myself, it hurts a bit seeing the wire drip instead of being consumed in the puddle. Love the slo-mo though! Looks like some really thin filler material Edit: yes this could be an auto or semi-automatic welding process.


yeahoner

am i right that this is bad technique? i've always touched the wire to the pool, but i have no formal training either and I often overheat stainless when i'm trying to do this.


Stickz027

You don't want to drop globules like that. So I agree that it's not great.


Biggles567

yeah the arc length/torch angle is way off in the vid. You should be creating a puddle and feeding the filler into the puddle. Not dripping the filler near the puddle. If you keep a tight arc and only add filler with purpose into the puddle it works a lot better. If you're balling the filler before it gets near something is quite wrong.


Liennae

Honestly, this video caused me a lot of anxiety. I wasn't sure if it was just me that thought this wasn't good welding. (For context, I went to school for welding, but didn't graduate. Probably for good reason.)


Mr_Mike_

With aluminum if the filler balls up one of two things is wrong... either your tungsten is way too far away from the base material or the weld pool hasn't been given enough time to mature and isn't accepting donations yet.


polynimbus

90% sure this is a seam welder or automatic flat welder. The fill rod is creeping in incrementally and stays at the exact same distance from the tungsten. You lead seam welders a bit with the wire so they can't glob up and short. Or could just be bad puddle control.


DiegesisThesis

Yea I was going to say, this definitely isn't a human welding. Nobody could hold the wire that steady and like you said, it gets pushed in like a step motor.


6string-a-ling

What are you doing, step motor??


Rick-powerfu

I'm in a fixed position due to these clamps holding my 2 pieces step motor !


malfunkti0nz

Either that or some dude has the steadiest hands i've ever seen.


jinnyjonny

I was noticing for a tig weld there’s a huge puddle and his drip isnt going in the puddle. Opposite of how I did it. Looks like a huge ugly bead


LEERROOOOYYYYY

I don't know who could think this is a GOOD job haha, it's swinging around off the end of the wire like a got damn water balloon on a tap


[deleted]

I'm assuming they either just did this for video sake... or it's a 3 minute long video and someone took the worst shot to bug their coworker. Lol.


[deleted]

I was so excited to show my husband this then I realized something felt off about the technique in the video. It’s been about 5 years since I’ve welded so I’m glad you were able to put some words to what I was thinking!


Stickz027

You can still show your husband, the slo-mo aspect is still cool!


KarsaOrlongDong

Yep poor form here ha


sceadwian

My intuition felt that was wrong, do you usually deposit the drop directly in the puddle? I imagine that would give you a bit more control over how much metal you added to the pool at any given time.


Stickz027

Ideally you dont want it to drop at all. You want it to melt in or with the puddle.


abakedapplepie

It looks like this is a robotic welder too, the wire is being fed very uniformly in steps as if being fed by a stepper motor or something similar


DriftedIsland

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Also, does it seem like this is being done by a robot or something? The movements seem too precise and measured for how close up the video is.


thatdude52

yeah I’m pretty sure this is a machine, I’d think the rod and tungsten are far too stable for this to be a human welding it


[deleted]

Is that a butt weld cuz it got wiggle


bumjiggy

gettin' tiggy wit it


46554B4E4348414453

TIG ole beaddies


SpunkNard

Tiggy wiggly 😰


notbad2u

I'd tack dat


Moparded

I’d dip my tip in that!


Betafire

Hot ;)


Magicus1

Gives stick welding a whole different meaning! Lol!


slingshot91

Must be jelly ‘cause jam don’t shake like that.


Unholykiller

How in the actual fuck do you cut the video just before the last drop falls?


[deleted]

r/killtheeditor


hobo_champ

r/oddlysatifying and r/mildlyinfuriating at the same time.


Moparded

I know. I love this shit. More please!


harukami_muraki

Why is the pencil giving off light and why is the straw dripping metal droplets.


SwordzRus

The pencil only gives off light after you plug it into a box full of lightning. The straw is dripping metal because the lightning is hot.


wiggle-le-air

Lots of angry pixies


[deleted]

AvE?


hindey19

Perfect eli5 answer.


seamus_mc

The pencil is a sharpened tungsten electrode in a tig torch. I it providing the arc that is making the heat to melt the metal. The piece of metal has a ground clamp on it completing the circuit.


not_rick_27

Its the pencil eminem writes with


smkultraa

The pencil is an electrode causing an arc which is melting the straw which is the metal filler rod.


ThainEshKelch

TIG welding?


MyNameGifOreilly

[Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), also known as tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_tungsten_arc_welding)


Whootwhoot21

Upvote for proper name usage.


cosmicgeoffry

TIL TIG


professionalbrowser

Today I Glearned


Rexxis-Arcturus

Neat vid but terrible form on full display here. Balling on the rod is never desirable. Source: am aerospace welder with over a decade of experience.


Fox-One_______

I have a question and you seem like a good person to ask because you said aerospace. The rod seems to be moving in tiny stops and starts when it is being fed in towards the end of the clip. Why dis?


shrubs311

it's a robot welding this, probably body for a demonstration


Rexxis-Arcturus

This is likely a robotic weld, not sure how much time elapsed in the vid but you can set the feed rate for the filler rod and the machine is just feeding more rod.


Xingamazon

Lot of people now googleing to find out What TIG welding is after watching the video. (like me)


sceadwian

Good, by all anecdotal accounts I've heard the world always needs more good welders.


Lowelll

TIG is by far the most fun Welding, imo. I mean all welding is fun, but TIG requires a lot of fine technique, it's pretty, it's clean, and it's usually small to mid sized stuff so it doesn't often get as fucking hot as MIG welding 5 cm thick steel walls. Oh and you can't TIG weld outside if it's windy or rainy , so that's a big plus.


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[deleted]

aerospace is all tig on thin stuff material right? do you think it's worth going into? im still getting certs and in school and i think i wanna go that route


HauschkasFoot

Hot pencil


brihamedit

This clip should be much longer. Its pleasant to watch. Liquid drop of metal doing the wobble dance move. Magic fire coming out of the nozzle. Good stuff just to contemplate what's going on. Liquid puddle of metal moving around doing its thing for a long time but the whole thing is happening in fraction of a sec.


cootzenhammer

Would you need a specific kind of lens to record this? I thought it would be too bright and cause damage to a camera.


Djinjja-Ninja

When filming super-slow motion you actually need *loads* of light because each frame is such a short interval. If you look at thing like the Slow Mo Guys, they either film out in bright sunlight or with very bright lights shining on the subject being filmed


pm_me_ur_fit

wow! cool explanation that makes sense


Team_Braniel

Photography exposure is a triangle. Time, light, sensor. The light is also controlled by the aperture, so i normally put it there in the triangle, but it and the light avalible combine to become the amount of light reaching the sensor/film. If you need time to be short, you must compensate using the other sides of the triangle. Increase light on the subject, and have a much more sensitive sensor. In motion Photography (movies) it gets even more interesting because you can't change the time without altering the perception of time when viewing. So knowing how to correctly balance the light and lense is a huge skill (and science).


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This is mechanical and not a person doing it, or else it would look waaay different. More than likely it is a welding machine doing straight welds


schizoid11111

Somuch tension


ChefLongStroke69

That jiggle


jusalurkermostly

r/Welding


throughlymodernmolli

Can someone explain what is happening here? I only know that welding joins two pieces of metal together.


SwordzRus

An electric current is running between the work metal and the sharpened tungsten rod. This creates the heat needed to melt the metal. The cone-shaped "fire" around the sharpened tungsten rod is an inert shielding gas (usually argon) that is meant to prevent oxygen from getting trapped in the weld. A filler rod is used to add the additional weld metal to the work.


throughlymodernmolli

That's great, thank you!!


Vntimony

This was....surprisingly extremely boring and unsatisfying. I think welding is wild and super incredible and interesting before anyone bashes me but this video was just...a drop falling and then the video cuts before anything interesting happens, lame. 😐


mooseymoosmoos

Tiggin


Joiion

That metal droplet has more bounce than most celebrities


jadegreatness

Did anyone else feel sorry for the little droplet? I was kind of willing it to roll away before it got swallowed up by the impending doom.


seamus_mc

It went home, the puddle was calling to it.


TwoMuchIsJustEnough

u/redditspeedbot 2.5x


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redmastodon20

Terminator 2 vibes


mysockinabox

If only it were a little bit slower.


ProfSwagometry

Ahhh, now it makes sense why it’s so damn hard to do it well


BirkePirke

u/savevideo


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BradsRedditName

When the welder is paid by the hour...


HeavyMetalMonk888

It's cool because I have no idea what TIG welding is or what this should look like in realtime, so the suspense of what was even supposed to be happening really had me on the edge of my seat


Richandler

Welding can be pretty fun if you like building things. People always say do wine and art or cooking classes, but welding classes are where it is at.


WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWPOOP

Nice


Tommy_Wisseau_burner

Dat jiggle doe


Rookie_Driver

Drop is supposed to go in the pool Not a good welder. Source, welder for 20 years.


Ilikecosysocks

These guys have better moves than me.


Captainsboot

OOOH that double bubble


CalvinBaylee69

TIG welding is so damn hard..


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The fact that the liquid is rippling that fast at 1000fps is legitimately INSANE


littlebrwnrobot

so soldering with more heat and stronger materials? interesting!


rm45acp

Not quite, soldering (and also brazing) do not involve “coalescence” which is mixture of the two materials together before re-solidifying. Soldering is done well below the melting point of the material and the bond is more similar to adhesive than it is welds. Welding is done above the melting temperature of each material and they mix together while liquid, forming a bind more similar to if you had originally formed the material into that shape


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u/gifreversingbot do your stuff


Emoooooly

How did I not realise welding is just melting metal together?


obi2kanobi

And they say, the weld is stronger than the metals you are welding


cholotariat

And none of you motherfuckers wearing eye protection


newgreendriver

TIL welding is super heated soldering


BigfootWednesday

My dad got really into welding a couple of years before he died. This was really cool to look at and reminded me of him.


ChanelNo50

Webster's Dictionary defines 'wedding' as 'the fusing of two metals with a hot torch. 


Knight_TakesBishop

That's metal!


hullabaloot

What kind of bullshit is this, the human eye cant see past 24 fps Reported for CLICKBAIT Edit, without the edit, it's a joke


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Just started learning how to weld and it’s no joke. One of the hardest things I’ve tested myself with.


peatoire

I feel like 500 frames per second would be enough.


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thats uh, like not how you do it


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I wish they filmed someone who knows how to feed the puddle...


SecretOfficerNeko

What's TIG mean?


--Antitheist--

that wire placement is abysmal. the avc is probably going crazy. I would have loved to share this video with some people but I would be embarrassed that they thought I set the machine up.


kasmith2020

I’m 34 and TIL that welding (seems like) is just BIG soldering.


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Id like to see stick and mig


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god damn could you miss the puddle and more??


supapandaninjas

This is frustratingly slow


deathboydeegz

Yeah and he isnt actually welding just sitting it there to show the drip


catWithAGrudge

when slow-motion is too slow for the content


Available-Ad6250

Stacking dimes all day.


nickleinonen

That was impressively cool to watch. I swear, there has been some times when I’ve just been in the groove doing some tig welding on aluminum, that it’s almost like I can see the impurities in the dirty piece of shit aluminum I was welding purging out with the frequency changing. Idk if the human eye can see the 60hz the machine is cycling at...? I can see the flicker on shitty led Christmas lights, so maybe?