So I'm finally back on the road of teaching myself to TIG, bought a Primeweld TIG225x and it seems to be working better than the Hyl I had that died. I'm seeing a lot of people on Youtube that should know what they are doing welding with short sleeves. Is this OK or am I going to burn? I've been usi...

Be careful with the C P abbreviation of anything, apparently is it commonly used in the child trafficking industry. Had a youtuber that I follow get shut down because he used it to abbreviate cross-plane crankshaft used in a Yamaha motorcycle engine. He eventually got his channel back up and the vid...

The Hyl welder is done! The importer has shut down their website, no additional product to sell, not answering anymore... Basically just stole my money and ran away. You can look up my review on Amazon, it's the only one with video for the Hyl AC tig welder. Got a Primeweld Tig225x that I need to fi...

Got the new flow meter, haven't taken it out of the package yet. Thanks to Jody for getting it to me fast (been sitting there for a while now). Got the part they sent, didn't fix the welder. Trying to coordinate with them to troubleshoot which is going to be difficult. Been dealing with lawyers, ins...

Took the pressure adjust apart to clean it out, this meter is just garbage, thanks for the recommendation on a replacement. Got 10% off and free shipping. Also this meter is metric, so I was going between about 30-40 cfh and about 6 cfh when it was not right. Uggg. Down to half a tank and not much w...

So they welder is broken. Every time I turn the power switch I hear the gas solenoid trigger, then my preflow timer expires and it tries to start an arc, then errors out. Waiting for parts that probably won't fix it, but have to work in the order they tell me. But what this allowed me to find was th...

The welder continues to work better than I do, got the cart mostly tacked together but had one major problem. I was much better with cleaning everything including the filler, and on more wire brush (stainless) to break up the oxide, but one joint really got me. I'm thinking that some of these are ge...

Watched it but will probably watch it again.

Apparently not clean enough, missing is the black crud on this mess: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/Greg_E/welding/0925182115_zps64t48lrh.jpg Also the number of electrodes I used last night to just tack 16 spots (one still in the torch), got some cleanup to do for the next phase of construct...

Let's see if I can embed some pictures... Welder cart build: [edit] only sort of, the full images are not showing, may need to right click and open image in a new tab. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/Greg_E/welding/0924182025_zpsptk4bhmp.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/Greg_E/weldi...

The obligatory intro post. Just bought a cheap HYL 200P AC/DC digital TIG and trying to learn to use it (mostly aluminum). Watched many of the video on youtube and decided I should sign up here for when (not if) I have questions. Building a cart for my welder as the first project, and making it from...