Protect Your TIG Welds with shop-proven shielding and prep

When your bead runs straw to chrome instead of gray and crusted, protection made the difference. TIG Welding Secrets distills the exact steps to protect your TIG welds—from torch setup to post-flow—so oxygen, moisture, and nitrides never touch the puddle. Expect tighter grain, cleaner color, and code-ready integrity on stainless, chromoly, and titanium.

Built by senior TIG instructors and weld inspectors, this guide removes guesswork with practical, repeatable methods: correct gas coverage, proper purge, disciplined cleanliness, and heat control you can hold from tack to tie-in. It’s the straight line from “almost good” to reliable, low-defect welds in real shop conditions.

• Shielding mastery: gas lens vs. standard collet bodies, cup size selection, CFH and post-flow timing that actually holds coverage.
• Inside/outside protection: fast purge setups, dams and dissolvable paper, trailing shields for stainless and Ti, and how to verify purge quality.
• Contamination and heat control: wire handling, solvent choice, glove discipline, amperage scheduling/pulse to minimize heat tint without starving fusion.