Tig Welding Aluminum Bicycle Frame

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

Tig welding aluminum bicycle frame.

Aluminium bicycle frame repair using tig aluminium repair welding equipment. Torch got you down. I visited with mike zanconato of zanconato custom cycles and filmed his process for notching tubes and tig welding aluminum bikes. Aluminum is a very popular metal for bikes.

This video about tig welding an aluminum bike frame was filmed at zanconato custom cycles shop in sutton ma. Tig welded joints are the most common type today found on lots of bikes and lots of styles. 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 welding is one of the most difficult of all welding procedures. Bicycle fabrication supply keeps in stock inweld tig welding alloys for steel stainless and aluminum. Today we re tig welding the front triangle of my hardtail mountain bike. Another mission powder coated blue.

In the last video we tack welded the front triangle together in the frame jig and. 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. Manufacturers use two types of welding to build bike frames tig and mig.

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. Above is a mission frame made of 4130 chromoly steel that s been tig tungsten inert gas welded. Inweld has been providing the welding and fabrication industry with quality products since 1970.