Tig Welding Aluminum Bicycle Frame

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.

Tig welding aluminum bicycle frame.

Another mission powder coated blue. Steel aluminum and titanium bikes can be welded. Aluminum is a very popular metal for bikes. Today we re tig welding the front triangle of my hardtail mountain bike.

Manufacturers use two types of welding to build bike frames tig and mig. Aluminium bicycle welding is one of the most difficult of all welding procedures. 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. Tig welding a bike frame with 032 wall alloy steel tubing and with weldmold 880 tig rod and then smashing it with a hammer.

Bike frame fixtured on a stronghand tools welding table and welded out using both er70s 2 tig rod along with weldmold 880. 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. Above is a mission frame made of 4130 chromoly steel that s been tig tungsten inert gas welded.

Welding melts the frame tubes with a filler metal to create a single solid piece of metal. I visited with mike zanconato of zanconato custom cycles and filmed his process for notching tubes and tig welding aluminum bikes. Aluminium bicycle frame repair using tig aluminium repair welding equipment. 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. What you re seeing is raw steel tubing with a clear gloss powder coat. In the last video we tack welded the front triangle together in the frame jig and.