I also use the 2013 technique, I feed the wire to the puddle, instead of stopping then feeding. It's the only way I can keep up on alum. Because you dip so much. Have only been tig welding for little over a year now. Filler hand still freezes up for that first rod, then I get into a rhythm and thing...

I like the angles to trap the bottom of the bottles! Might have to steal that one

I run a lot of aluminum mig at work hopefully I can help. Your on the right on to preheat your parts to deal with the cold start issues. I use a miller 252 with a spool gun as well as a 350p with a aluma pro. Our spool guns run the best with a mix gas of 25% he 75% argon lots less soot than straight...

I've not welded it yet, but found THIS today, in a vessel head. GEDC1225.JPG GEDC1229.JPG Waiting on information from engineering. There's a cause for this, and a fix that must be applied before I repair it. Steve S I have to tell you I'm getting a little jealous. Your job looks and sounds like fun...

As the others have said not too bad, especially as your fairly new to it. I agree with getting some lanthanated tungsten I prefer the 2%. I am no ace at tig, but I'm a far cry from where I was a year ago. Doing the Alum. drill helped me tons made me a better welder because it shows you where it went...

Will do! The guy I'm doing this for did offer to pay for it... maybe I'll charge him half the cost of the rod if it turns from a hopefully easy job into a nightmare. And it just might now that I've said that

Thanks for the info. Some good stuff in there. I ended up ordering a pound of the 4145. Just to be on the safe side, ended up around $55 but I didn't want to need it and not have any. Doing jobs on the side, trying to get some feelers out to see of I can make a go on my own. Don't want crappy work r...

Guess I should call up and see if I can get a bit part on the walking dead

BTW, Chinese hand tools are junk!! Am I out of line??? ~ :roll: John LMAO!!! :lol: never fails that when I have a crummy day I can get on here and find something that makes me laugh. My girlfriend thinks I'm nuts because I spend so much time watching Jody' s videos and reading as many posts here as...

Thanks for the heads up. I use that stuff at work to clean up our drain pans after leak checking them. They only allow two departments to use the stuff cause like you said it's pretty nasty. We use gloves and respirators the whole shebang. Generally no welding needs to be done after because the pans...

Hi all. Need some advice doing a side job for a friend. He wrecked his Triumph Thunderbird and cracked the cast Alum. oil case where the kickstand attaches to the bike. I have repaired a cracked oil pan before, off some kind of chevy truck with no problems over two years ago.. still no leaks :D The ...

BSX Goatskskin f/r long cuff gauntlet velcro closer jersey liner extra leather pad on little finger extending to heel of hand and a tig finger X2. Those or the tiggster gloves in large. They both hold up well, good fit. Some gloves seem to have the one finger that has an extra inch at the end. The ...

No problem Glad to help. Hope it works out well for Ya! Let me know how it goes

316 SS is supposed to be have better corrosion resistance than the 304 SS. Use quite a bit of both for drain pans at work. The high end customers go with the 316. After seeing lots of older units in the field for our application don't see much difference. But for a grill grate I'd probably go for th...

Do you have a web address for Champion? I did a Google search and didn't see anything for passivation equipment. The Surfox unit I was looking at was $3000.00 The name on the passivator is capital not champion. Unlike the DOS XX GUY... Sorry my bad :roll: Capital weldcleaners.com should get you the...

Don't have a web address . If I can remember I'll talk to our lws rep that we got them from and see if I can get something you can look up. He should stop in tomorrow.

We use a Champion passivator at work. Quite a bit more heavy duty than the surfox. Tried one of those, they tended to go through the pads rather quickly, and the electrode was a lot smaller. My compamy got a big job making HVAC units for a micro chip company, to supply the air for clean rooms. Needl...

[quote="Infotig"]Mike, Jim Bob, Thanks for the reply to my posting. Jim Bob, you have me curious in regards to welding on pop cans using 3/32 " Tungsten. At what amperage are you welding at when you weld this? Also, do you ever have issues with the arc popping out on you in addition t...

I've welded plenty of beer cans with my inverter machine using a 3/32 sharpened to a sharp point. Biggest problem I've had is a getting some arc wander but that goes away at about 10-15 amps

I have welded chro moly with just the normal set up 75% 25% argon, C02, er70s6 wire. Welding some bike forks to some 1" sch. 40 mild steel tube. To make myself a deer cart. There is a lot of opinions of the use of Mig on chro moly. I've heard that some race teams weld this way. But not sure if ...

Nice work man! I'm fairly new to tig welding been doing it for a year off and on. Wish I could tig at that pace. But work is a 99% mig place. Get to tig on occasion, but mainly at home. Used your masking tape trick for the torch switch worked like a charm. My boss kept saying electrical tape. I just...

I totally agree with coldman. I bought a dynasty 200dx from my LWS used about a year ago. It came with a remote foot pedal and I love that thing :D I would take the dial setup back to your LWS and see if you can get a credit towards getting a foot pedal. I think it would solve a lot of the problems ...

Not all that good my shop stopped using that. Our solution was PAM. ;) just needs a good wipe with acetone before any painting. PAM works for lots of stuff, spray it on my English Setter before I go bird hunting and when I get home all the burrs and stuff just brushes out without getting all matted ...

Back in my school day from memory we were told that the addition of a little oxygen in the Agroshield Lite and Universal helped stablise the arc or some such thing. I find it a bit weird though because one of the contaminants we want to keep out of the weld pool is oxygen. Maybe someone out there i...

very nice man where did you get the axle from, could you give me some suggestions. I am looking to build projects on the side myself to make extra money any advice I purchased the whole kit online. Comes with all the stuff but the steel for the frame and what ever you use for the deck. Truckandtrai...