TIG Welding Selection Recommendations
Thin Plates and Thin-Walled Pipes: For thicknesses of 0.3–3.0 mm, TIG welding can be performed without filler metal or with fine filler wire, resulting in low burn-through risk and minimal deformation.
Medium Thickness Single-Sided Welding with Double-Sided Forming: 3–6 mm,no need to beveling,used for root welds on pipes and containers.
Non-Ferrous Metals and Stainless Steel:
Stainless Steel (304, 316, duplex, etc.): Provides good protection against oxidation, resulting in a silver-white/golden weld with excellent corrosion resistance.
Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys: Requires AC TIG welding (to remove the oxide film), suitable for 2–6 mm thin plates.
Titanium, Zirconium, and Nickel-Based Alloys : Almost exclusively require TIG welding (or plasma welding), with extremely high protection requirements.
Copper and Copper Alloys: High thermal conductivity, requiring preheating and high-current TIG welding.
Applications requiring high weld quality and appearance: such as medical devices, food processing equipment, pharmaceutical piping, aerospace components, handicrafts, and display racks.
All-position welding: especially vertical welding, overhead welding, and horizontal fixed pipe welding, TIG welding offers a stable arc and controllable molten pool, superior to MIG welding and manual welding.
Dissimilar metal welding: such as stainless steel to carbon steel , copper to steel, etc., TIG welding provides precise and controllable heat input.
Small batch, repair, and root pass welding:
On-site repair, mold repair, and precision component welding.