Tig Welding Aluminium Bike Frame

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Tig welding aluminium bike frame.

Tig welded joints are the most common type today found on lots of bikes and lots of styles. Nice high quality dc only set for the same brass. Aluminium bicycle welding is one of the most difficult of all welding procedures. 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.

Manufacturers use two types of welding to build bike frames tig and mig. Inweld has been providing the welding and fabrication industry with quality products since 1970. Bicycle fabrication supply keeps in stock inweld tig welding alloys for steel stainless and aluminum. Steel aluminum and titanium bikes can be welded.

Tig welding a bike frame with 032 wall alloy steel tubing and with weldmold 880 tig rod and then smashing it with a hammer. This video about tig welding an aluminum bike frame was filmed at zanconato custom cycles shop in sutton ma. Aluminum is a very popular metal for bikes. I m not sure about the deadly aluminium fumes your.

Above is a mission frame made of 4130 chromoly steel that s been tig tungsten inert gas welded. 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. Welding melts the frame tubes with a filler metal to create a single solid piece of metal. We can help you keep joining tubes with masterweld tig torches replacement parts and consumables needed for bicycle frame.

Bike frame fixtured on a stronghand tools welding table and welded out using both er70s 2 tig rod along with weldmold 880. Generally tig welding creates a stronger cleaner looking weld. Aluminium bicycle frame repair using tig aluminium repair welding equipment. Torch got you down.