This is made with .028 wall 321 SS with .035 filler. I can't show the pictures of the actual product because I work in aerospace and they like that to be confidential. I'll probably take some pictures of my Ti work and Inconel whenever I have time. As far as my background goes, I have 7 years of welding experience in the aerospace industry and spent a little bit of time in auto fabrication building race car safety equipment such as roll cages, harness bars, custom one offs and etc...



Partial pass showing a bit of fit-up and ball drop technique.




All cleaned up.



little less filler, slight ball drop into puddle.

I'll have more pictures when I can find the time to snap some. Let me know what you guys think.

CPTi .035 filler, some ball dropped some not...

 

Looks great, what filler are you using? Any inside shots? Keep the pics coming!

 

347 Filler metal, Spec: AMS 5680, I haven't took any inside shots yet but I'll tell you that the inside of the weld looks exactly like the outside except with better purge, I'm running a size 12 gas lens with 1/16 thoriated tungsten ground at a 30 degree point, about an 1/8 inch away from the work piece to provide consistent amps/voltage while angling my torch at about 20 degrees. Feeding wire and letting it ball up to the correct size and dropping it in. Went a little fast because it is production and that's why you see color on the HAZ. Purge is set about 20 CFH for pre/post flow, and back purged at about the same also using neoprene plugs. That's more information than you asked for but hey...

 

Interesting way of adding rod...

 

It almost looks pulsed? One way or another its clean!

 

Looks very consistent. That is similar to how the old guys like that look for aluminum.
It has a "classic" TIG look, and is appealing to the eye. Nice job.

 

Looks very professional. What position was this welded in? And roughly how long does this weld take you start to finish?

Interesting welding style also. Very consistent.

 

very sick!!! been a while since I've TIG welded. that definitely makes me wanna get a welder and start practicing again!!!

 

I welded this in a 6G position and it usually takes me a minute or two to weld it freehand, if I used a positioner on a tube that is more true to the joint itself it would just take about 30 seconds. Welding on a positioner takes a bit of skill also, but if you have a consistent way of feeding your wire it will look like a robot did the work. All it takes is one pass since the wall thickness is .028" and this is a 2" tube. I have some titanium I took a snap shot of on my phone I'll post those in a few minutes.

 

Thanks

 

I'll show you what a pulsed weld looks like, the correct way at least... I hear people say it's cheating but if you understand how to set up the weld parameters and what it's useful for then you're golden. Most of my fillet welds I do with Ti are pulsed, but I just don't pulse the parent material itself, but the filler rod. Just imagine how someone would braze something, or weld with silicon bronze. Melting filler right onto the material with minimal HAZ.

Try this, lay your filler rod flat against a plate, if you have a pulser set it like this:

background amps 25%
peak amps 75%
pulses per minute 1.3 should be sufficient
amps: your call

lay your wire on the plate like your creating a concave shape at 45 degrees. Point your torch towards you roughly 30 degrees and ball up your filler until it begins to wet and adhere to the plate, and slight pressure on your filler wire (pushing foward) and pushing it down to the work piece and move every 1/16 of an inch or so with every pulse. This works great in 2F positions, vertical. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

oh btw those are not pulsed welds

 

looks like we have yet another Engloid.... welds look gorgeous, you put some robots to shame..

Please come weld all of my fabrication stuff lol

 

Thanks, I doubt I'm putting robots to shame and Engloid is a name I heard of, never actually talked to the guy... if he's around hopefully we can talk about welding techniques. I got some more pictures of my welds from work, these are fillet welds, stainless 321 and CPti, I'll explain why I did it this way.

CPTi .020 wall, 2" tube using .045 filler. Pulsing the wire with set schedule I found that works well.

42 amps
33% peak
25% background
2.0 PPS

Using a positioner set at 20 RPM



Why using the pulser is an advantage in the aerospace industry and how to use it properly... I lay the filler in the joint at 45 degrees while slight pushing and bending it into a concave shape while maintaining control of the filler, sometimes it wants to walk away from you if your slightly off on your angle of how you feed but the advantage of something like this on a real thin wall and the use of a heat sink is that it offers a smaller HAZ and no suck back here's an example:









Also as you can see there's plenty of positive reinforcement, pulsing = cheating? I don't think so...

Here's another picture of SS 321 flange/tube weld, no filler added and I will tell you why so you can get a better understanding...



Now picture the flange onto the tube with a lip, simular to a lap weld, the reason I didn't use filler is because I decided to consume the edge of the lip as another option of adding filler, I also did this on the positioner with my torch set at 90 degrees above the work piece and 35 degrees towards myself, once I began my arc the edge of the lip begins to wet while using a pulser, just imagine that edge of the lip melting and kind of sliding over to the parent material creating positive reinforcement, therefore the throat, toe, and face of the weld is all good according to whatever the specification I welded to. Is this cheating? Or is it an advantage when you need to make sure you don't penetrate through the parent and have absolutely no suck back, you tell me...

Tell me what you think guys ;p

 

id pay good money to come watch you and ask questions for a day. bravo good sir. i would love to know how that can be topped.

 

Most specs I've seen allow melt thru on a fillet. Suckback is not. So why try so hard not to get any penetration? Also does the spec you welded to allow you to do fillet welds without any filler? Just curious

 

Per D17.1 AWS specifications, we're not allowed any penetration on the fillet welds and a minimum of .005 thousandths suck back which is not much for a tolerance, it wouldn't be called a fillet weld if I penetrated 100% and if I did have penetration I think it'll affect the overall outcome of the part. If I am trying to get end points true to the fixture and a flat surface with a .030 tolerance and .015 max for angularity then the technique I am using I think it should be sufficient. Talking about overall outcome of the part, if I got full penetration once the welds cool down it constricts depending on how much heat input I put in the weld and how much filler I add probably would distort quite a bit, also depending on which way I weld I have to take account of gravity because that affects the weld too.

yes I can create an autogenius (fusion) weld, as long as it fits within spec. There are thousands of specs out there but if you're in the aerospace business and you want to build/weld to customer standards you'll have to build to there standards. I think I got it down and I love to provide quality over quantity good thing I can balance those two well together.

oh and we are allowed melt through but not much, forgot to answer that for you

anymore questions you might like to ask?

 

Yea 1 more. Are your coworkers as good as you are? lol

I have a little over a year in the aerospace industry as a welder. Worked at Bombardier Learjet for 5.5 months then got layed off. This new place I'm at I had to certify to d17.1 specs, and I'm still learning a lot all the time. Learning the specs and making sure my welds meet/exceed the criteria has helped me become a better welder. Experience helps too

 

Pulsing is not cheating when used properly. So the very first pics, arnt pulsed? Looks like it is? One way or another it looks great!

 

The first pictures I posted were not pulsed but manually welded with me feeding wire, but the newer ones on the bottom is pulsed and I decided to post it because I wanted to show people the advantages of pulsing.

 

Nice, at least you know how it is to be an aerospace welder and how much quality is involved. Yes there are better welders at my company and I consider myself sub par. I think it's mainly because they've been welders for over 20 years which means more seat time and experience welding different configurations. I'm learning constantly and it will never end. Great thing is that when working with so many great welders they're always willing to teach you a thing or two. I hope everything goes great for you career-wise. I'm trying to get out of the industry and start a business by next year.

 

no foot pulsing? lol sorry to keep asking. even when i "ball drop" i dont get a weld that looks like that, now if i use, say .08-1.2pps i get a weld like that. mad skills bro. keep it up

 

No foot pulsing at all, I think it's because you're welding thicker schedule pipe so overheating can be an issue. I recommend trying to find the least amount of amps to penetrate through your root, and ball drop on the cap see if that works well... make sure you're consistently moving your torch though.

 

i cant see pics right now but it sounds like ur pretty damn good, ill be sure to take a look when i get home.


mike

 

fixed

 

whats ball drop? and whats a positioner?