Tig Welding Aluminium Bike Frame

What you re seeing is raw steel tubing with a clear gloss powder coat.

Tig welding aluminium bike frame.

Another mission powder coated blue. I m not sure about the deadly aluminium fumes your. 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.

I specialise in bike frame welding welding bike frames to improve strength to the frame repairs to prevent future frame cracks after the bicycle frame welding has be done. 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. Aluminium bicycle welding is one of the most difficult of all welding procedures. Above is a mission frame made of 4130 chromoly steel that s been tig tungsten inert gas welded.

Bike frame fixtured on a stronghand tools welding table and welded out using both er70s 2 tig rod along with weldmold 880. Inweld has been providing the welding and fabrication industry with quality products since 1970. Tig welded joints are the most common type today found on lots of bikes and lots of styles. Manufacturers use two types of welding to build bike frames tig and mig.

Generally tig welding creates a stronger cleaner looking weld. Welding melts the frame tubes with a filler metal to create a single solid piece of metal. For something like a bike frame i would allow funds in the budget for a flexible lightweight tig torch and some form of grinder for getting a nice sharp point on the tungsten as well as the welder and probably some equipment for gas purge. Tig welding a bike frame with 032 wall alloy steel tubing and with weldmold 880 tig rod and then smashing it with a hammer.

Steel aluminum and titanium bikes can be welded. Bicycle fabrication supply keeps in stock inweld tig welding alloys for steel stainless and aluminum. This video about tig welding an aluminum bike frame was filmed at zanconato custom cycles shop in sutton ma. Torch got you down.