Thank you for those words... It is always nice to hear that I am doing something good and folk are happy with what I do. and yes, your video is next, already shot and just waiting for next Wednesday to upload.....
@KevincaronSculpture
11 жыл бұрын
Worked like a champ, I was really pleased with how easy that was....
@KevincaronSculpture
11 жыл бұрын
Yes it really is welding. Melting the two metals and letting them flow together. Brazing is more like gluing then welding. The guy that requested this video was brazing and was looking for a better, cleaner way to do his art work. Great question, thanks for posting.
@mtyote
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for calling me a gentleman Kevin. Your the gentleman for doing this video to help me understand what I was missing. That did help alot. I have tried the AO method and it was just too frustrating. Copper to steel and brass to steel each had their own different requirements to braze on. I'm hoping the TIG will work better for me. I was using a Meco Gas Torch to do the brazing. A great torch. But I have big expectations from the TIG. Thanks for the video.
@DrewDiaz
11 жыл бұрын
ive had some pretty good experience using silicon bronze mig wire to join copper, bronze & brass to steel recently.... pure argon, full amperage & be prepared for a very limited duty cycle... I also repaired a cast iron knob with the same set up a year ago on a piece of woodworking machinery and it is holding...
@tsbrownie
11 жыл бұрын
Had to watch the video again. I really like it. OK, had to try the dissimilar metal corrosion test. Welded Cu tube to steel and dropped it in water for 36 hours. There is significant corrosion, but don't have the equipment to tell how fast it's going. Like you said, it works to make stuff to hang on the wall and makes the steel a cool color.
@ruuman
11 жыл бұрын
house hold wiring, brilliant, I have a ton of off cuts under the bench. Great video Kevin and Co.
@KevincaronSculpture
11 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help. Please let me know how it works for you.
@Fullchiselchainsawartistry
5 жыл бұрын
Very cool of you to do this
@KevincaronSculpture
5 жыл бұрын
And even cooler that you watch!
@ikifkif
Жыл бұрын
great tip about house wiring. i have heard concerns about toxicity of arc + copper though,
@KevincaronSculpture
Жыл бұрын
Great point! Thanks for watching and posting.
@spelunkerd
11 жыл бұрын
Cool demonstration, I like it when you use discarded wire from another use, like the ground wire from some old Romex. Wyatt from MrTig here on KZitem recently showed how to do copper-silicone brazing, with a fabulous result. It's way less messy than my gas brazing. What puzzles me about linking copper and steel is my memory of possible redux reactions that happen when the two metals contact each other. To prevent that they want you to use copper nails rather than steel when affixing Cu pipe.
@KevincaronSculpture
11 жыл бұрын
True and make sure the piece stays dry. Seal it with something to keep the moister out and you should be fine..
@walterforsiethe2567
7 жыл бұрын
Welding copper to steel would make for some very interesting looks for art. I will try this with my powertig!
@KevincaronSculpture
7 жыл бұрын
Was fun to try, just hit it hard and back off like aluminum.
@trusso2614
10 жыл бұрын
I'm impressed... not to many people are humble enough to admit they don't have enough experience...good to see honesty and hard work,unlike all the fakes that "talk the talk" but trip into their own S%#+ when they try to "walk the walk" keep it up fellow rod burner!!
@benjaminmoore4592
8 жыл бұрын
Really really cool. I will have to give this a try myself. I've got an Everlast MIG welder that can TIG weld as well. It would add a lot of nice color to my work.
@johnnyd1678
7 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. Great sense of humor, bud.
@KevincaronSculpture
11 жыл бұрын
Yes, you can use O/A for this type of job but it is alot harder to do IMHO. Mary was working on this video till 10:00pm getting it ready to upload this morning...I have got to give her a bonus or something....
@tsbrownie
11 жыл бұрын
I'm from Missouri so I had to try for myself ;) I used a flattened piece of 1/4" copper tube & 6mm steel plate. Worked well. I don't have your skill, so putting in the copper wire I ended up with a blob, then void, then blob... I tried a Yawata FT51 2.0mm mild steel rod without the copper wire & got a good result (not great, but better). I can weld the unflattened tube also. It's not structural, but will work well for decoration. Not sure about corrosion, will have to try that.
@KevincaronSculpture
11 жыл бұрын
Water cooled is available for an added cost of course. All told, if you were to get a 200 amp ac/dc tig with the cooler you are looking at about $1500.00. Go look at a Dynasty® 200 Series for $3,744.00. And that is without the cooler. Longevity also has a try before you buy program. Check out their forum or call them for more info. on that. If you are looking for a MIg welder than look at the MIgWeld 200s. 220 volt and spool gun ready. That's my 2 cents worth.....
@basspig
Жыл бұрын
I used to have a boat trailer that had a copper wire welded between two sections to make electrical ground for the taillights.
@KevincaronSculpture
Жыл бұрын
I fixed a buddies trailer by doing that. The ground behind the lights was so rusty from being underwater that the lights won't work.
@basspig
Жыл бұрын
@@KevincaronSculpture I was going to try welding 10AWG copper wire to a copper clad steel ground rod, but I decided to order the clamp instead. I don't have a TIG welder. I have a flux core welder.
@rodneyhillhouse7956
7 жыл бұрын
outside the box... Too funny when he co-hosts other shows with the By the Book types.. Experience learned thru work is invaluable.
@stevefriedlander7053
7 жыл бұрын
Love these types of videos
@KevincaronSculpture
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks, have fun making them
@GregsGarage
11 жыл бұрын
Great lesson Kevin. Thanks.
@Golgi-Gyges
7 жыл бұрын
it's awesome that you are self-taught.
@KevincaronSculpture
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks, been a fun ride learning this stuff and I have a lot more to learn!
@KevincaronSculpture
11 жыл бұрын
That is a Miller pro helmet.. I like it for TIG. Got several others floating around but this one is always hanging on the bottle waiting for work....
@Aboukalley1
8 жыл бұрын
Very mesmerizing.
@jediglacius
10 жыл бұрын
Kevin i agree with Joseph Dixon you are Awesome i have been watch your videos for about year 1/2 now keep up the AWESOME work!!!!!
@jediglacius
10 жыл бұрын
i'm the same way Kevin.
@tsbrownie
11 жыл бұрын
Like the vid. I'm just a hobbyist too. Just curious, is it really welding or a fancy way to do brazing? Would not brazing be easier / require less skill?
@darthnegativehunter8659
5 жыл бұрын
i used a pcb soldering wire, and a gas stove to solder endings on a copper pipe so i could use it as a radiator for a specific project, and it worked.
@KevincaronSculpture
5 жыл бұрын
Getting the job done with what you have on hand is the best feeling!
@brysonalden5414
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the reminder that I'm not skilled enough with my new TIG welder not to burn through the thin steel I want to attach copper wires to! I will have to find another way.
@KevincaronSculpture
11 ай бұрын
I have total faith that you can do this! Just have to go slow and practice before you do the real job. And have a copper or aluminum backer plate on the back side of the weld to keep the steel from blowing through.
@Rosasboy
8 жыл бұрын
Silicon Bronze rod should work also.
@donyboy73
11 жыл бұрын
nice job!
@CharisWilliams
7 жыл бұрын
Nice work!
@vin4sin
Жыл бұрын
Another technique is to rivet weld using Mig welder it is not the solution for everything but has its applications simply drill a hole in the copper piece turn heat up slightly so you get a good zap when you initiate weld place item into desired position in this case over horseshoe and basically plug weld the hole in the copper, you are not concentrating on the copper as much as you want a good tac to the horseshoe, the heat required to make the tac is more than adequate to form the rivet you can also use another form of this process by placing a small tac around perimeter of a sheet of copper placed over a frame of ferrous metal imagine you make a picture frame of mild steel and you want the copper to be the background of picture cut copper slightly smaller than outside dimension of frame and clamp well and place welds right at edge of copper every inch or so around entire perimeter copper and you have rivet welder the non ferrous to ferrous and it will be structural.
@KevincaronSculpture
Жыл бұрын
I will have to give this a try!! Thank you for watching and posting.
@vin4sin
Жыл бұрын
@@KevincaronSculpture The same Smith that showed me this technique also demonstrated a pretty crazy but interesting process he would descale a piece of flat bar with a flap disc then he would heat to cherry and quench in muriatic acid the results are inconsistent but one out of ten would resemble Nickle when he quenched, it would be a series of dips not full emersion he was a Master and these two techs I've posted have been the most unusual and effective, of coarse the acid quench is for small projects but knowledge is knowledge.
@cmariaccia
Жыл бұрын
Hello from Paris, I enjoyed your video. I tried the method with a direct weld with an oxy-acetylene torch. She asks me a lot of heat because my copper block does not come into fusion. It is a hassle ! I have over 40 stylized leaves to put on a stair railing. Indeed, to have a green leaf effect, I can only use oxidized copper. So I want to solder a stylized green leaf of copper (10mm thick block) to the end of a 10mm rod of soft steel. Will I have better weld resistance over time? Thank you for your reply.
@KevincaronSculpture
Жыл бұрын
You will need a tig welder to do this correctly. I am not sure if you will be happy with the results if you try to solder copper to steel. Use copper electrical wiring for your filler rod. I just strip the insulation off and get to welding.
@cmariaccia
Жыл бұрын
@@KevincaronSculpture Unfortunately, I don't have a TIG. So I have no choice and will try by bringing copper (electric wire) with a low voltage arc welder.
@cmariaccia
Жыл бұрын
It's OK !
@Jackmanis
7 жыл бұрын
I love your approach. Very funny. I'm trying to repair a friends little copper sculpture. I have a Miller-matic mig welder that came with what I think is a spool of Copper wire. Can I just load the wire and weld the copper. Or is there more to it?
@KevincaronSculpture
7 жыл бұрын
Haven't tried it with a jig. Don't think it will work, but not sure. The wire spool you have is most likely a copper coated steel wire. That is normal for mig. I was using a tig welder in this video, it's a totally different process.
@ARCSTREAMS
5 жыл бұрын
must say i never heard of mig welding copper,,you can tig weld it with copper wire i suppose but it is very difficult to get the part hot enough,you may need to be using helium gas or a mix of it although i did manage to once fuse two piece of copper sheet with argon tig but it was difficult getting it up to heat even small sheet pieces like that
@CharlesStruble
11 жыл бұрын
Very cool! However, for me and the other two people on earth who are trying to get by without TIG, could a guy oxy/ace braze those on? Just wondered. Also, Mary, I absolutely love the detailed text description of these videos! Thanks, guys!
@MrMinimalSWN
11 жыл бұрын
Hey what brand of welder would you recommend for low cost vs quality? It is meant to build up a block with lot's of wire and just welding more layer on top of each layer, so I guess watercooled, but what is the price range for all equipment together I should be looking after?
@314Chevelle
11 жыл бұрын
Who cares if your certified welder or not Kevin. Your self taught & pass on great helpful info to many. To heck with all the you tube bashers that always make negative comments. You help so many & it pisses me off when I read that crap. Keep it up.BTW Did you do the corner weld mig video yet?
@RODsDIY
5 жыл бұрын
Any idea of which would be the best way to solder Copperweld bars (a steel nucleus surrounded by a copper 1-2mm sleeve). I tried arc welding the steel but at 80 amps it doesn't get past the copper (would ruin the copper finish anyway); also tried silver brazing (6% for copperish colour) but it seems structurally weak (to make a copperweld table). Any thoughts. Don't have a TIG.
@KevincaronSculpture
5 жыл бұрын
Silicon bronze and tig welding is about the only way I know of.
@RODsDIY
5 жыл бұрын
@@KevincaronSculpture Thanks for your answer. Maybe someone else has a trick, TIG is out of my field for the time being. Maybe I'll just have to strip the copper off the ends and arc weld the steel, and then cover the welded parts with something to give it a nice finish.
@leonardpearlman4017
2 жыл бұрын
If all you see is copper, and the thickness is as you say, you should be able to braze it with "CU-PHOS", an alloy of copper and phosphorous. It melts easily and flows like water, bonds clean copper w/o flux. It's very strong!
@RODsDIY
2 жыл бұрын
@@leonardpearlman4017 It seems that somehow the steel core reacts with the phosphorous despite it is mostly covered by the copper sleeve, and so the brazing alloy (the weld) ends up brittle and weak. The best result I have achieved has been putting the ends of the copperweld bars inside a copper elbow and brazing them to the elbows, however that is as strong as a soft copper elbow can be (not much).
@patrickroy414
10 жыл бұрын
Kevin, love your videos, thanks a lot. Not having a TIG machine, could the "cheating" method be accomplished with a torch?
@basavarajpujar2171
3 жыл бұрын
Hi good I want copper pipe &ms plate tig welding how weld &which filler wire use
@KevincaronSculpture
3 жыл бұрын
Check description
@drkling259
5 жыл бұрын
just getting into copper steel and aluminum art also using wood. can you mig braze this? also what is the best tig to get for starting out. self taught as you.
@KevincaronSculpture
5 жыл бұрын
You can mig weld steel and aluminum. You will need tig for copper. You should look at the AHP and Everlast lines for tig welders. The AHP is better for new welders.
@Pavelpechi
8 жыл бұрын
Меньше слов, больше дела - текст я не понимаю
@adamhenry102
2 жыл бұрын
Are you kidding? A little basic Cyrillic and they are looking around scratching their heads. typical Americans ! Lost ball in tall weeds! Love it keep it up.
@KevincaronSculpture
11 жыл бұрын
The Cobra should be great for this kind of work.. Just practice some first.
@kellypatterson2537
6 жыл бұрын
Great vids, Kevin. Quick question. Do you switch gas or stick w argon?
@KevincaronSculpture
6 жыл бұрын
Just argon. No need to switch.
@KevincaronSculpture
11 жыл бұрын
Well, low cost vs quality, I would have to point you towards Longevity. I have been beating my three machines for over a year now with no problems. They continue to improve their machines and listen to the people that use them. Yes, they are made in China. So what!! They are half price compared to the red or blue ones. My TigWeld 250 is in my opinion a much better machine than the old Miller 200 syncrowave I started with. Uses less power and is more fine tunable than the Miller.
@kitfoxflyer
11 жыл бұрын
good info
@bunkstagner298
7 жыл бұрын
that is how i put copper contact points on the legs of my "third hand" works great
@davidrichards8639
10 жыл бұрын
Interesting, nice job, the electrical copper cable will be pretty pure and perfectly ok for welding and considerably cheaper than the regular copper alloys you would have to buy for this. Obviously you would never fusion weld copper to steel from a structural sense as it is a metallurgical disaster but for this type art work, great.
@ARCSTREAMS
5 жыл бұрын
huh what is that rod made from you are using? i thought you were gonna use silly bronze
@KevincaronSculpture
5 жыл бұрын
Romex house wiring.
@ARCSTREAMS
5 жыл бұрын
yeah i know but what is it made of? what kind of metal?
@leonardpearlman4017
2 жыл бұрын
@@ARCSTREAMS Just Copper!
@ARCSTREAMS
2 жыл бұрын
@@leonardpearlman4017 thx
@keithtraa
7 жыл бұрын
Kevin: I really enjoy your videos. Thanks very much. Is there any way that molten metal can be "poured" in crack area to form a weld?
@KevincaronSculpture
7 жыл бұрын
Only if you can also get your base metal molten at the same time. Sort of like welding,,
@leonardpearlman4017
7 жыл бұрын
That's a funny question! As it happens, this is about what welding is about, you're making a little casting on the spot. Thermite welding does what you're saying here. Some superheated metal is poured into a prepared joint, it melts the base metal a little, and when the smoke clears there's a joint.
@pipdeal8203
8 жыл бұрын
have you tried micro welding copper or other non ferrous metals. I am thinking of trying copper wire strands with a tig welder using .020 electrode.
@KevincaronSculpture
8 жыл бұрын
+Pip Deal Sure, Just have to practice first.. Easy to do..
@VisorBlue
11 жыл бұрын
Very cool! Romex? Nice.
@josephdupont
4 жыл бұрын
if you can weld copper to steel can't you make thermal couples.
@KevincaronSculpture
4 жыл бұрын
I guess you can sure. Don't know how.
@rmcmunoz2
8 жыл бұрын
1st off thanks for the videos! you said you're not a certified welder. do you make you living with welding out of your garage?
@KevincaronSculpture
8 жыл бұрын
+ruben munoz Yes, I do make my living as a sculptor working out of my studio. And yes, I am self-taught. I did have 2 weeks of "welding" classes in high school a loooooong time ago.
@GibClark
6 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍
@carlpenney901
2 жыл бұрын
Brazing with copper.
@KevincaronSculpture
2 жыл бұрын
Not braze, no flux. This is welding.
@carlpenney901
2 жыл бұрын
Ok did you melt the steel and then add the copper to the steel? Flux is a cleaner and to stop oxides forming on the molten metal. Your tig gas would have done the same thing.
@Bettinasisrg
5 жыл бұрын
Oxy/Acetylene works too.
@KevincaronSculpture
5 жыл бұрын
Yes it does.
@realtaur
7 жыл бұрын
Is it true Carson Studios began making silent movies in the early 1900S?
@KevincaronSculpture
7 жыл бұрын
Don't know, my name is Caron..
@CharlesStruble
11 жыл бұрын
Why, yes you should!
@ihavetofishable
9 жыл бұрын
What about the copper coated mig wire? Hmmm?
@statingthe_obvious6309
9 жыл бұрын
Joe Shmoe what about it? copper coating is thin, very thin and practically vanishes during welding. it's only there to stop the mig wire rusting to hell and improving conductivity for the welding process since the copper coating brushes through the copper mig tip instead of steel.
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