Welding Tips and Tricks

Anybody have experience with these for passivization? Customer today recommended it, but boy are they big $$$. About 4-6 times what I was expecting, and I was expecting a lot.

https://tigbrush.com/

Pretty sure Walter has a machine that does that too. No idea how pricing compares though. Definitely neat what those machines do.

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Jonathan of Superior welding has the Walter Surfox which I presume is similar, he has talked about this on the WTT podcast

So I've been working on getting the Instagram-level colored TIG welds just to have you brush them away for fun?!?! The audacity!

Spartan wrote:Anybody have experience with these for passivization? Customer today recommended it, but boy are they big $$$. About 4-6 times what I was expecting, and I was expecting a lot.

https://tigbrush.com/

they are ridiculously overpriced for what they are. a case of pricing to what the market can pay than what it actually costs to make.

Thanks, I'll take a look at the Walter offering as well. I've seen similar "etching" passivators, but never quite like that with a full on brush. I think the ones I've seen had cloth ribbons, or something similar.

Oscar - Yup, the colors do indeed represent an irony, and Instagram highlights that well. All show and no substance. I despise that mentality. It's all fake. It's all BS. I've found that it's not uncommon for folks on Instagram to cut deals with TIG manufacturers to credit welds they didn't even do to machines that they don't even own (nor does the person actually doing the welds for them). It's really quite sad, but also laughable at the same time. Instagram...

Sorry for the rant!

I'm not sure if that qualifies as a true rant. Pointing out a disgusting truth is more like a public service.

LtBadd wrote:Jonathan of Superior welding has the Walter Surfox which I presume is similar, he has talked about this on the WTT podcast

There is a local company that builds large industrial microwaves. They use one if these on there SS frames and bodies. Watched them use it, seems to work well, especially on there inside corners and confined spaces.

Looks like a very cool toy, but yea, you'd better do a boatload of passivation to pay for that thing.

What is the cost? I didn't want to fill out a quote request just out of curiosity

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JayWal wrote:What is the cost? I didn't want to fill out a quote request just out of curiosity

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from what i can google, about $2500us for the budget model.

I had seen about $4k. May have been for one of the higher-end models, though.

Yea, the entry level model was $2500. But if the mood strikes you, they'll relieve you of just about as much money as you can scrape up. They've got models they're way more proud of than that starter one.