so dig or MIG that's the question right which one do you want well the answer is
you can eat both it depends well I know we've been doing a lot of TIG welding
and it really does fit the bill and you're doing something thin we got to do
some assembly now just one person so MIG welding with a spool gum like the one I
got here rigged up to this hobart machine is a cat's meow and this is just
a six hundred dollar Hobart Iron Man - ten out of uh I think I bought it at an
auction and it's been modified to do this spool gun things flip switch move
the gas hoses around switch out the trigger control from one gun to the
other I've rigged it to be water-cooled with that copper tube we're not doing
big well you only need the water cooling if you're gonna do you know eight inches
or more and all the water cooling is the jungle Warner and a little circulation
pump down there see there's a bracket it's a piece of pipe maybe schedule 20
and this is a three sixty two in place so that will dry there could have been
done with with MIG but then going around in a circle with a MIG gun if you're not
really good at it in practice is a pain so going around it slow with the TIG gun
makes more sense for an amateur you know and I'm not gonna take the fun out of it
I'm gonna let you guess at what the brackets for for a while now Liam built
me up a little bit of weld here on the hull with the TIG gun and I wouldn't try
that with a MIG but now that it's there I can bridge that because it has a mass
to it
yeah forgot to set up my will derp lots of water speed and more heat there's a
nice little attack in there and in just a couple of seconds so which is faster
Oh bull gun hands down but which can do really thin metal TIG you need a lot
more controller for thin stuff so having both best of both worlds and if you're
interested in building an aluminum boat go watch a what's channel he's sv secret
crew welcome enjoying he's a fantastic guy i would love to have him on the boat
a fact i'd let him run my boat i'd go watch him he's building a purlin
ocean-going Perron he's he's just the perfect adventurous type of spirit love
him he he's an amateur doing it he has no fear about all this stuff so if you
want an example for what you could be gonna watch a what he's the guy you know
even if you want to finish it off with TIG and make it look pretty
that's great but this the tack cop stuff much is here with me i don't need three
hands maybe you're thinking or a lock no they'd work but nope okay just question
big or TIG weld you tell me huh I even clean it up a little bit take a
good look there's some clues not many it's big that little ripple
effect gives the idea that it's TIG but it's not it's just taking the MiG torch
and backing up a little bit every once a while and it puts that pattern in there
the clue is here is a cold start so McGwire doesn't have any choice but to
put wire down as it starts it's heat whereas TIG you get with the tungsten
down first get to heat it up nicely now you can preheat and get rid of some of
this but you see this is more bulbous and it doesn't have the nice fusion here
at the toe of the weld and that's not that's called a cold start and at the
end here it's a fill and if you filled with a TIG
you'd have a much more rounded pool here but when you get to the end you kind of
pause a little bit to put a little more well down that just helps prevent cracks
but structurally hell they're both just fine the reason I use MIG here is
because this is 3/16 and this is 3/16 so I got no problem using my MIG gun across
there it's not gonna burn through
there it is now you're not gonna get better aluminum welding watching
somebody aluminum weld go out there do it yourself get a project get a welder
go to town do it
then went to just the right temperature flows in beautifully so knowing about
how to get it to the right temperature I suppose now I can do this with MIG - but
I tell you what it's safe for doing it with this and I'll learn me how to do it
if it didn't have this heavy piece of metal here there's no way I could I I
couldn't make well done just then when I have something that's a mass I can hit
an admit that with a million washed over that's how I did these tacks but this is
impressive for thin metal I'll tell you why there's nothing like it you can
certainly do a prettier job but that's a good enough one to do and remember with
any welding process or basically anything you do it's not going to look
like a professional did it right off the bat you're gonna have to put a lot of
time in to get good but you'll hear people say wow you don't leave that to
professionals that's just horseshit don't leave it to
a professional you could have bad skills at this in an hour that make you just
fine with it now is it gonna look really pretty
no but you're gonna get the job done and you're gonna one that's gonna have the
skill
now and yes we thought about rivets - we could just welded some metal up you know
what the make of that a piece and rivet it through but where's the fun in that
right I wouldn't be learning - yeah I'll tell you what it's better to learn TIG
on a little bit heavier metal where I got heavy and light weight and then
learn it on just light weight I blew a hole through over there and had to patch
it it's a whole new game when it's nothing but thin stuff no kind of make
it easy on yourself I guess
don't use the sewing scissors for cutting stuff you know my mother
grandmother boy they used to get on you nothing else
they're worried about it there's their sewing scissors and now I understand why
these need to be shark always this you get them from Harbor Freight who cares
so I'm going to try to make myself a pattern
all right well that's a lot better you know when I did this the first time I
built another boat like this I had much less crown in it and that just made it
easy because it was just flat at this point you know strips of fiberglass you
know you could put them across here and they would fill in and make a nice hard
shell and that's something we may do in the future but not right now I want to
try this first it looks like I could do two seams or maybe just one you know I
was in college there was a Viennese girl that made all her own clothes by hand
without patterns I wish she was here now
further away I put a washer on it yeah let me see if I can find some work but I
hate spending the money on washers I'm just cheap huh okay that's what we do
again de they done weird it well they've done away with their opinion quarter
inch washer costs about three sent to the pennies a penny and this is Li back
with us he and Carolyn have been working the fishing industry for generations now
I think up in Canada so if you guys want to know what I know about fishing it
comes from guys like this another drifter Harbor Freight another Harbor
Freight tool God for the pennies there's a manual
rivet gun I have and it's actually a good one but we've got a lot of rivets
to do that is quick arabela rebuilt their shed yeah it was much nicer I love
each it now they got tons of room up above seems like your building is right
size for most thing that's not what you want oh yeah but you been out on the
water I have it so I hope there's so many different types of purposes for
boats I think that's what people get confused about you sit down who do any
boats around home I gotta see her on your home yeah somewhere around 11:00
these are just the other boats not the fishing anywhere in the 45
yeah till I got two of these 24-foot town halls yeah
did I won this geared up for dragging up oysters and working my oh shoot the
other one isn't finished that by the time I bet Dory's that I built for
fishing over with my hand I get three or four though use the door for commercial
fishing yeah the payment is what they would down then here in the states with
hand rakes tongs
it's perfect and he rattle with the plastics then we need a pin to hold it
in we need to drill for that