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Tig welding aluminium bike frame.
Welding melts the frame tubes with a filler metal to create a single solid piece of metal.
Aluminium bicycle welding is one of the most difficult of all welding procedures.
Steel aluminum and titanium bikes can be welded.
What you re seeing is raw steel tubing with a clear gloss powder coat.
Aluminum is a very popular metal for bikes.
Manufacturers use two types of welding to build bike frames tig and mig.
Another mission powder coated blue.
Tig welding a bike frame with 032 wall alloy steel tubing and with weldmold 880 tig rod and then smashing it with a hammer.
Tig welded joints are the most common type today found on lots of bikes and lots of styles.
Bicycle fabrication supply keeps in stock inweld tig welding alloys for steel stainless and aluminum.
Generally tig welding creates a stronger cleaner looking weld.
This video about tig welding an aluminum bike frame was filmed at zanconato custom cycles shop in sutton ma.
I m not sure about the deadly aluminium fumes your.
When you re getting started with bicycle framebuilding you have different options for how you want to join the tubes of the bike frame together.
Bike frame fixtured on a stronghand tools welding table and welded out using both er70s 2 tig rod along with weldmold 880.
We can help you keep joining tubes with masterweld tig torches replacement parts and consumables needed for bicycle frame.
Aluminium bicycle frame repair using tig aluminium repair welding equipment.
I visited with mike zanconato of zanconato custom cycles and filmed his process for notching tubes and tig welding aluminum bikes.
Nice high quality dc only set for the same brass.
Above is a mission frame made of 4130 chromoly steel that s been tig tungsten inert gas welded.