TIPS & TRICKS FOR WELDING THIN METAL WITH MIG

This video is a tutorial on welding thin metal with the UNIMIG VIPER 185

[IanVanKretschmar]

Thank you. It's refreshing to see good, honest advice without all the grandstanding.

[Max-csdn]

That aluminum heatsink and the use of more tacks with segmented continuous welds are absolutely ingenious! I wouldn’t have figured those out without watching your video. Thanks heaps!

[FPS-tcns]

You gained a subscriber, absolutely great advice. I just welded up some holes in a thin motorcycle gas tank. Would've been a lot easier to braze, but I don't have a torch.

[benjaminnall]

Thank you so very much for making this! I’ve struggled for years when I weld thin material constantly trying to fill in the empty spaces that I make with too much heat! I can tell this will be a game changer for me! Keep up the good work and have a good day! 😊

[crewzincool]

Love the tips mate. I just bought this welder after watching your videos

[mattangell]

You're a great teacher to the layman, John

[daiiahi]

Having the Aluminum as backing is the best technique I've seen so far.

[Stickerz-]

A couple of minutes in an he welds and then says you can see it doesn't look very good but it'll hold. guy those are some of the best thin metal welds i've ever seen with a mig. I touch it and it bleeds through. I'm going to give it a try. Thank you

[scoyle]

Good upload i now understand why i am blowing holes when mig welding

[markgilbert]

Great video, thank you. Your accent alone is worth hitting the subscribe button 👍👍

[gordonclark]

Well thank you very much. I just found your channel and you wouldn't believe how much I have learnt just watching this episode. The start of your video was a picture of my welds. I have watched many videos trying to learn but so many are American and because they use different measurements it is difficult to apply to how metric system. I hit the subscribe button as quick as I could. Thanks for the information, now I can practice with hopefully better results.

[seenonyoutube]

Nice video. Like most people, I got my MIG to weld thinner materials so this has been very educational. Tomorrow, I'm going to the scrap metal yard to find a good piece of plate aluminum to use as a heat sink. Whenever I need to turn up the heat and make strong nice-looking welds on the thick stuff, I turn to my faithful Lincoln Idealarc tombstone welder and a 1/8" 7018 low-hydrogen rod. That old welder has copper windings and probably burned a million rods before I got it.

[Mark_will.]

Thank you for the advice! Welding down vs vertically was a big one for me!

[petergoodwin]

Great video John, cars are always hard to weld . In panel shops we slowly tack and cool it with air to stop distortion. The whole job is always slow but it's the only way. So true it's experience and yes the reading glasses are a must for old buggers like me. It's really amazing how far these welders have come. When I was in trade school tigs and spool guns didn't exist. Welding alloy was a black art and the wire would always jam in the wire feed . They spent more time fixing the wire feed than welding. These Unimig welders are top quality and last. My old 210 is 30 years old and nothing goes wrong with it, mate is a fitter and his is even older, same thing just goes forever and it's got thousands of hours of heavy work on it. These videos are great, good work John.

[graemezimmer]

Thanks very much John. I've been practicing a lot before I have a go at some rusty body panels.
Most of my early attempts were terrible, but I'm beginning to make progress.
Your tips are very useful.

[Laurie-ug]

Great video! Complete newbie to welding and trying to do a few bits on my 48 year old car. This video gives me confidence to have another crack at it as I was blowing holes before.

[WalkOverHotCoal]

Thank you Sir for your efforts. Your video is just right for my level of welding skill...rudimentary. I use a flux-core MIG welder for the fact that having a gas tank is not economically viable for the occasional jobs. I am going to weld up a leaking water tank. I tried all sorts of repairs, from epoxy resin to silicone. But the gap at the seem at the base is too big for these to work. As soon as the tank is a quarter full, it leaks. So I am going for the MIG option to fix it for good.

[ChileExpatFamily]

Thanks for this John. I welded up a wheel barrow today and still need to do some fixing. This is a great video for my job at hand. Jim in Chile.

[mojkanal]

John you show to some peeps, how can be done, the usual not even need to get that, usual they need HOW to tack usual material 3 or more mm, but we (at least me) Im really greatful to show that trick :)

I try to say, there is no task that you cannot solve if you dedicate yourself to the task.

have a nice day John

[Chucky-bv]

Thanks, John 👍🏼. That was a very informative video, cheers.