Your essential welding fabrication book: Everything You NEED to Know About TIG Welding

Built for fabricators who demand repeatable, inspection-ready TIG results, this welding fabrication book condenses years of shop-floor practice into precise settings, checklists, and workflows. Everything You NEED to Know About TIG Welding takes you from setup to finishing—machine tuning, torch control, joint prep, fixturing, sequence planning, and distortion management—so parts fit, beads stay clean, and rework drops.

Authored by an AWS-certified instructor and former fabrication lead, it pairs clear diagrams with step-by-step procedures for aluminum, stainless, mild steel, and titanium. You get practical recipes: tungsten selection and prep, gas choices and flow rates, cups and gas lenses, filler matching, amperage and pulse ranges, AC balance and frequency, plus travel speed and heat control for thin-wall tube and sheet. Fabrication chapters translate theory into production: edge prep standards, gap control, tack strategy, back purging and purge dams, weld sequencing to limit pull, inspection criteria, and finishing that meets visual and NDT requirements. Expect fewer variables, faster setup, and consistent, code-compliant welds that pass QA the first time.

• Dial-in parameter charts and setup “recipes” for common alloys and thicknesses.
• Fabrication workflows: prep, fit-up, sequencing, distortion control, and finishing.
• Troubleshooting matrix for porosity, warping, contamination, arc wander, and undercut.