How To Tig Weld Aluminum Tubing. Well for aluminum, you might need as much as 1.5 amps per thou. Strike an arc and get to work.
Guys who do welding anodized aluminum on anodized tuna towers and marine parts can give you some tips on this. This weeks video is on tig welding aluminum tube.or more specifically, manual pulsing the foot pedal while tig welding thin wall aluminum tubing, i was reading an interesting thread over at our forum at forum.weldingtipsandtricks.com about coping tubing and welding anodized aluminum tubing.so i thought it might be interesting to tag onto the topic with a video about manual pulse welding some thin. For the 1/4 (6mm) lap joint shown in the video the mig joint took 45 seconds.the tig weld took 60 seconds.
Welding aluminum requires a thorough understanding of the tig welding process and also requires a tig torch.
I'm having trouble getting penetration on this 1/8th inch thick aluminum square tubing. Looking at it, it looks like i'm really not penetrating at all. I’m gonna compare 50 hertz to 250 hertz. The tig wins on speed.