ok so today i was welding and i tacked my metal and i did one weld with filler rod and it looked like total garbage so then i decided to not use filler rod and the welds turned out much better looking than the ones with filler rod is this common in lap welds i have pictures but i cant get them off m...

Ok guys first of all i don't know if its aluminum or cast iron it was off of a small car and we took it out to take it apart and put it back together i have no idea how I'm gong to do it i only have a miller diversion 165 welder and a miller multimatic 252 i know i would have to heat it up with a ox...

Ok so i have to weld a engine block for a teacher at school it doesnt have to the the best looking weld he said but it has to hold up any tips?

thanks steve you really know you stuff

ok steve but what if i wanted to do the same with a mig welder what would i need to do that i got a millermatic 252 at school that i can use what would you or anyone else recommend?

so can someone explain to me why you would have to fill your tubing with argon in order to get a good weld? its just a question that i have been wondering when i was watching tig videos on youtube

Ok so i know how a foot pedal is supposed to work but how exactly do you start the arc at your wanted amperage? and then when you get the arc going how would you stop the arc?

Ok Steve so what if i wanted to weld stainless to steel would that work because you would use DC like you would use for both?

Cast is a beast. The only way to conquer some of them is to treat them like solder joints. By that I mean "tinning" the area with weldable aluminum by way of filler a little at a time. First pass may look like ass, but then you grind the dirt away leaving at least 'some' clean metal. It m...

so today I was welding some cast aluminum and I started with a practice piece and it welded fine and a fellow student brought in a piece of cast aluminum to fix a crack in so I thought I had it dialed in so I started to weld and I had to use the filler rod to start the bead because the arc was melti...

ok so today I was tig welding a steel stand to do out of position welds and I was welding a thick piece of steel to 1/8" square tubing and I did a single weld all the way around and just for a lets try this sake I decided to do a multi pass weld and I tried to do a just a bigger weld bead but t...

thanks Steve
I messaged Wes and I hope to hear back from him and thanks for all your feedback

Derek

ok Steve so due to the fact that I'm still in high school, their is a business near my house the manufactures stainless steal tanks would that be a good place to start even before I were to pick a welding school to go to? another question where would one learn to weld on exotic metals? thanks Derek B

I was just wondering if you can weld aluminum and stainless steal to each other and what kind of tungsten and filler rod you would need

Thanks Otto I'm not the best at stick but i would like to learn them all and i was wondering in your experience is a welder/ machinist more valuable to a company than just a welder who can do all the processes? also if you were to get into the aerospace industry what would be the best thing to as in...

Ok so i am looking for feedback on welding schools in Wisconsin i know i wanna go into welding but i don't know what job i would want to do in welding i like to tig weld and i don't know what good fields their are for that as in steady jobs and what other my options i have as in good classes to take...

hey everyone so the other day my boss told me to make a milk cart for when were milking cows and i was wondering if anyone had some good plans for a milk cart

Hey everyone i was wondering if anyone had some plans for a really cool looking front bumper for my 1999 GMC sierra i was thinking something like whats in the pics any feedback would be nice

Thanks TamJeff I will try that today in my welding class but when you reverse your torch angle does that mean you switch hands? and since I don't have a foot pedal just the torch that came with the diversion 165 ill try to use the finger adjustment

this is what was going on

Thanks Otto since I don't have a foot pedal ill try leaving some metal at the end and use it later thanks for the help

I was recently doing A weld to make a piece of square tubing and i tacked it and made a good weld but then at the end of the weld as soon as i hit the tack with my weld bead the aluminum just melted down and made a ugly u gouge in the end of the weld and i couldn't figure out what was wrong because ...

Hi everyone I am a High school student and I have been into TIG welding aluminum and steel for a month now and i think i got it down pretty good as in just flat welds and I am wondering if you guys could give me some good welds to do that you guys do a lot we don't have a lot of aluminum just a coup...

thanks for the help guys but i first replaces the cone and saw it was cracked and replaced it then I did one good bead and and then they did the same thing they did before so i checked the gas lines and turns out the regulator that was telling me how much pressure was in the tank was broken and i ha...

Hi my name is Derek and i am a welding student at my local high school and i recently had some people mess with my TIG welder I'm using and today i started to weld with everything prepped and cleaned just to run some straight beads and I got my puddle started and kept moving when all of the sudden m...