I was taught walkin teh cup in school but almost all my real world stuff is free hand. I will say what was told to me practice, practice, practice.

That is the brief of it but I am sure there are some way more experienced welders than me that will chime in.

CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN. What I had to do was wire brush make a cleaning pass with torch no filler to boil up crap and clean again. Finally added filler and ground the bead down and repeat till I get a clean base its a pain sometimes but it can be done.

hell yes it is

I am so excited I had to tell someone. I am self taught mig welder and bad at it. I finished tig school 4 months ago hadn't done tig in a long time. Needed to do some tig today and thanks to school and the understanding of heat and puddle control I layed down some nice stacked dimes. First time ever...

Well I shot myself in the nuts on this one. Spent all day grinding and cleaning finally tonight start to weld and it sucks. I have no puddle control the material spits and on up hill the filler will not flow it just blobbed and dropped no matter how much torch angle. I am so disappointed in it. So I...

THANKS EVERYONE for your responses. I have made my mind up for HIS safety I am going to grind out all of the critical welds and tig them all. It's going to be a lot of work but I would hope a friend would do it for me and it will be great practice and I will really feel so much better about the situ...

Economy is shit. Pardon my french I finished tig welding school and by the luck of the draw fell into good tig work with a customer we did maintenance on thier service vehicles. All of a sudden the tig work stopped and I made a personal aperiance at his shop to see what was the problem in fear I was...

My first suggestion to my friend was to grind out old welds but due to the amount of work and going backwards he wasn't to happy with my suggestion. I told him that was the only way I felt was a propoer approach to avoid a band aid situation. just thought some of the experts here might have a differ...

I have a friend who started a car project and alot of the welding he has done is with a 115V flux core mig. I just finished tig welding school about 3 months ago and I did some structural welding for him on some other things on the car. Since he has seen the tig welds he wants me to go over what he ...

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When I went to school my instructors had me use only a gas lense. I have a situation where I need to use a standard body non gas lense.I usually set cfh 12 to 15 with the gas lense what would be a good starting point for a standard body? Steel welding.

If I start a weld on steel and stop about 2 inches its beautiful. When I restart or don't stop it ends up grey. I know Its too hot. Is it a balance between speed and heat, am I going to slow? I try to concentrate on good penetration ,puddle flow, and eliminating undercuts. What am I missing? example...

work was on steel table ground was to clean steel part of table. Never had a problem this way before

It just spit a small piece of molten like metal from the joining edge of the t joint and went in the cup and basically fused i guess is the word my tungsten gas lense and cup to the point where they were all stuck together and I could not independently disassemble the torch parts.

17 hits and no answer or guess?

Long story short 5/16 flat plate t-weld and about 5 seconds after I lit up it spit a couple of small chunks out of the joint and welded my tungsten lense and cup together. Material appeared to be clean enough wiped with acetone clean tungsten and all that. What the hell it was no big deal just chunk...

From a noob do the aluminum tig drill alot. It helped me so much to learn pedal control.

I bought a Dynasty 200 just trying to figure out how to turn practice into real world knowledge since I don't know what welding job will pop up next.

How do you stay sharp? Went through 4 months of school to learn tig welding. I try to practice atleast 6 to 8 hours a week. My primary job at work is NOT tig welding. Sometimes a job comes around and I can't find my ass from a hole in the ground it is frustrating. I practice on different types of ma...

After I got out of school bought a dynasty 200dx air cooled out of my price range at the time but now worth every penny.

willing to help a fellow newb anyway I can.

The best advice I can give as a semi noob is practice, practice , practice. My main job at work is NOT welding but I try to TIG atleast 6 to 10 hours a week to try and get better. Usually I go in on the weekend when the shop is closed grab some junk and weld.Try different positions, thicknesses and ...

good to know.