MIG Weld Thin Square Tubing: 5 Tips to Crush It!

Great video, as always!
I'd love a detailed video on distortion.

Nicely shown. You make it look easy. People simply refuse to practice, I find.

Fanstastic work 👏👌 thanks my friend👍👍👍👍

Great info as always Tim, I use heavier tubing for my smokers and forget how easy thin wall stuff blows out lol. But that's where the practice welds come in like you mentioned, no shame in laying down some practice welds if you haven't welded a certain metal, joint, thickness, etc. It's actually silly not to in my opinion. 👍

I would love to know more about figuring out the best welding sequence Tim!

What about shrinkage!? The parent metal you weld the butt to is going to shrink into a banana. How does one combat shrinkage? Clamping it down, prebending it? or I just watched a sweet video on flame straightenin. I'm sure a tig torch could be used just to heat metal with some practice

Another fantastic video all ways look forward to seeing them you all ways explain things so clearly 👍👍👍

Tim, as always, l love these instructional videos of yours. I'm a diy welder, actually a diesel mechanic by trade, but love to work with steel. I have a cheapo MIG welder, that really do a great job for my kind of projects. Especially for thin gauge steel tubing like you have shown here. Great tips that I definitely will use in future.

That said, my welder can do scratch start TIG welding that I really would like to try out.

Can't you do some videos on that for us?

Thanks in advance.

What size wire are you using for thin wall projects? I find that 0.030 flux core is very difficult to keep from melting through, but I don't know if it is my settings or maybe worth trying smaller wire?

Thank you very much, all your points have been helping me to understand lot more, all the best to you and your loved ones

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👌🏼🍺😎

Great advice thanks again👍👍

I’m new to welding. Building a few side gates out of 16g square tubing. Thank you for putting these most informative videos on your channel.

Bro! this channel is one of the best for us beginner welders

Wonderfully clear!

Some great tips in this video

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Simple and to the point I love it

I am new to welding. Only took me 74 years to get it around to it.
Bucket list.
You are a great teacher.

Thanks

Great stuff thank you. One question, why do you have to 'go ahead and weld' rather than just ... you know ... 'weld'? :)

cool as, cheers

Fantastic

Hi Tim, an excellent and TIMELY video. I have just started your course, and once I get proficient, my first project will be a welding table/cart made out of square tubing. I notice that your tubing is very shiny all over, not just at the joint. Did you get it that way, or did you clean it? My stock is almost black in color. Any tips on how to clean it? I assume that to eventually paint it, I'll need it very clean. So, I should probably clean it completely BEFORE any welding? Thanks.

Thanks again for a great video!

Hey appreciate ALL the videos, Thank you! One quick question on a project I am working on. We have a steel, metal screen door, 8 feet tall and 50" wide, weighs about 150 lbs., 1 3/8" square tubing frame around it. I am looking to mount on our backyard entry with a 2" square tube, 1/4" thick wall, and 13 feet long. So I can burry 5 feet of tube in cement and 8 feet to weld the door on. Will it work, or is 5 feet in the ground over doing it? Thank you !

Tks for your tips and videos

Good job

great video! lots of information in only 6 minutes

I actually built a new grill rack for my brother in law’s smoker the other day with that 1” 1/16th square tubing. It turned out good but it wasn’t easy with the titanium flux 125…😅 Those gap welds were not fun… lol But overall I was proud of myself considering I’m a rookie. It burned in good I had to turn it down a little bit though… Thanks for the tips luckily I did it the right way I saved the inside welds for last and moved from one side to the other so I didn’t put to much heat in it…

What would be good settings to mig weld thin square pipes

Thank you Tim very helpful for me as I’m a novist

I really appreciate the guidance on how to minimize distortion. Up until now, I had been doing multiple tack welds and then doing short welds moving from spot to spot on what I am making.

I want to convert a utility trailer into a small camper trailer. Would 1x1 tubing be ok to build the framework?

“You wanna talk about practice?”…
Allen Iverson 😂

Beginner gasless MIG welder here. Great channel, thank you.

Beyond thank you for this!

Beginner here. I have seen some videos that recommend chamfering the tubing at the joint to create space for filler metal, especially if you intend to grind things flush. Is that correct, or unnecessary?

so what amp should i start with 1x1 tubing ?

As a beginner Tim is my go-to guy to get me started. Gets right to the point and makes it clear and easy to understand.

Thank you so much for these videos. I'm rewatching this one after welding a piece like this for a job and was just offered it. I haven't worked with tubing before and can't wait learn to do these better.

Great video,So when it’s thin metal just weld across and not do the cursive e?

Thanks for the sequencing tips! 👍

Thanks Tim for another excellent video. I'm still learning and slowly getting better with your help.

What is the best way to measure and cut a 45 angle on square tubing?

Thanks for the video.i prefer pushing instead of dragging with mig.

Toy Fords

What's your voltage and wire speed?

0.6mm .023" wire makes it easier to weld thin wall stuff