let me start by saying I am NOT the original creator behind all of this buzz but I am the guy who is going to show you how to turn your big welder into a TIG welder or a very crude one at least you now a welding machine is essentially nothing more than a power supply some do it just a little bit different than others and some have a different process and output and all the rest of that good stuff but at the end of the day it is nothing more than a power supply you don't necessarily need a firown' you Stran steel 2200 do it in fact you could use any of the other ones you have provided that your consumables are the correct size to make it all happen but we don't want to hear about welding machines and consumables let's just show you exactly how to switch all of that stuff over and use your power supply to well basically make a different process here we go this is pretty easy but it does require a bit of precision so you might want a good drilling machine or maybe a mill or something that will actually accurately measure and drill it down because if we drill a crooked game over but you need you need a tip a big tip that will allow a collet to slide down into it after you board out speaking of boring it out we have to first to make sure we have enough room for our tungsten that's what this drill bit is for this is one step above our tungsten diameter which is 332 or 2.4 millimeter and I went one sixty-fourth of an inch over that now when it comes to drilling make sure you take your deer sweet time running through all of this make sure it's clearly lubricated nicely and make sure you clear all of those chips out of the flutes a lot and take your deer sweet time this metal would absolutely love to get a hold of the the actual drill bit snag it and snap it right in half so make sure you take your deer sweet time as soon as I have the bore for the tungsten drilled all the way through I'm going to start working on the collet now I need the depth of the collet to go all the way down with the exception of the shoulder the shoulder needs to stay just above that top section where the threads are so I'm going to just kind of eyeball and actually and there's a reason why which I'll show you why in just a second but again take your gear sweet time a good amount of lubricant clean the flutes well and as soon as you have it finished you should have something that looks just like this notice the shoulder of the collet is just above that thread now to give myself a little bit more compression on that collet when it goes in there so it can squeeze down the tungsten I'm going to take just a little bit off the top there and now the final assembly you should have a MIG tip that serves now as your collet body you can slide the collet inside of it and of course on the opposite end of it you should be able to slide your tungsten right into the new collet tip body and the collet itself so that way when you install it into the mid gun it should compress that tungsten slightly and hold it in place so that way it doesn't just fall right out now in order to install it there's nothing special about this just simply remove the nozzle insert your new MIG TIG collet tip body tungsten assembly into the end of it and stick your nozzle back on that's as easy as it gets as far as the torch goes make sure you give it a wiggle and it doesn't fall right out now on to the business end I have my fro nice trans steel 2200 set up to run in the scenario commode but I don't need to weld anything like that I'm gonna go to manual and I'm just gonna set this around 16 volts because I'd like to do a lap joint at 8 inch lap joint on some stainless steel just for fun here because that's what I have laying around now if you have a multi-process machine that has dual input gas solenoids make sure that you put it on the MIG side because that's what you're actually going to be using is the MIG side and speaking of gas we're gonna around 100% argon nothing no steel makes no nothing just a hundred percent argon to run TIG now this is the most important part make sure that you convert your machine over 2 DC electrode negative meaning the MIG gun itself needs to be negative and the clamp or the earth or the ground lead needs to be positive make sure you switch it over that way otherwise your fryin tungsten now you have essentially a scratch start TIG with a MIG gun this is pretty much what it looks like this is actually surprisingly difficult because it's so big and bulky but you know what this is a fun fact for you guys this is the very first weld that I ever laid down doing this process and I made sure to get it on camera so you guys could seriously laugh at what it looks like but let's get in close real quick and have a look here the very first MIG TIG combo weld that I've ever done on stainless steel definitely tricky got to work on that post flow and ya got to really pay attention however I'm pretty sure you guys want to know what it looks like behind the lens and this is it further proving that this is legitimate it's not a bogus or BS thing and if you really doubt it you know try it you'd be surprised just for fun I decided to run it just like a MIG welder this would be the equivalent of an autonomous pass on stainless steel and it's a lot more stable it's a lot easier to run but I'm sure with some practice you know it could be better now this is how I figured it would be actually easiest to run this and it takes a little bit more body motion and movement because the well because the MIG gun is a lot bigger than a TIG torch but you know what's surprisingly it it kind of made it a lot easier to do but again if you don't believe me just try it now you know how to do it this is just wild so I guess the question could I see this being useful you know what if you're in a jam or something and you need to get like some stainless welded or you just need like a tight precise more precise maybe than MIG arc and you have the stuff to make it happen sure practicality wise that's uh that's pretty tough but you know what it sure is fun how about that so yeah yeah maybe there is a use for it I mean if you maybe just want to fart around or you know enjoy it or something like that but either way hey it is what it is so that's about gonna wrap it up for this episode I want to thank you guys for watching as always if you need to get in touch with us you can hit us up in the fabrication series.com website Instagram at the doc fabricator or facebook.com slash the fabricator series info is down in the description and of course comment like share all the rest of that good good make sure you ring the bell I'm out of here we'll see you guys later