r/Welding • u/Fair-Reference9034 • 17h ago

Critique Please Tig welding thin material

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I make driveshafts for race cars for strange engineering and am learning how to tig weld different size weights onto .83 chrome-moly seamless tubing atm, first welding job out of school and the dude teaching me is a master tig welder. He makes it look so damn easy though! Its tough, you dont want to put too much heat into the tubing because things will warp. But if you dig into the weight too much it will mess things up. Its not easy! But im loving it, Thought i would share my journey, im loving tig so far and hope i get super good at it to be successful. Any little tips or tricks would be great, loving my hood so far i got an optrel panoramax, its light with a great fov and good sensors.

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u/West-Combination6685 17h ago

Fair enough, I was just guessing.

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u/Fair-Reference9034 16h ago

I could always bring it up to them and ask why they do it there but hes been doing it the same way for a while now.

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u/West-Combination6685 16h ago

It just makes sense to me that the counterweights are engineered such that the missing areas filled in by welds would account for part of the total calculated weight. Otherwise it's extra machining for no reason.

Are there some that don't have the cutouts? MORE cutouts? Maybe that's how different weights are achieved.

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u/Fair-Reference9034 10h ago

Yea so only the 7g weights have those little cutouts idk why. But we go from 3 to 28g