Ya im thinking based off other posts that your gas could be low as in tank near empty or....your flow is bad are you walking cup or no, are you getting all the mil scale off the metal or no, also even with all this i have never seen this happen that bad without obvious distortion on the arc.

My Dynasty can do that, with out preheat its the 200 dx model just set it roughly at 70/30 and burn it i did 3/8 plate just the other day at 150 and welded across it so fast i almost had to keep the rod in it continuously but i had my machine at max penetration at 150 hertz

Now thats what i am talking about lol

No its not going to be like a bright light, but if you can see any light coming from anywhere other than the lens than its probably also messing your sight up.

Ya i would run a y with two flow regs for your torch and one for the purge off the same tank. I would then to save money just use tape as the dam and use tape on the other side with a few holes in it....last i would have tape around the bevel minus where i was welding so 3/4 of the pipe taped removi...

Well that will be based on how you tig weld, free hand or walking and even cup size. When i was doing a lot of food grade i would fuse root and use a 1/8 rod to make a one pass cap. I would use a number 10 or 12 cup at around 85 to 90 amps and haul.....saying this means nothing as each machine is di...

Also look to see if you are getting internal reflection, it really jacks me up so i now look like predator

prebres wrote: Yeah, I was horribly uncomfortable. He had me welding with my arms cocked all weird and the rod coming 90 deg out the side of the stinger. Another student suggested I hang the whip up and have the rod come out the tip of the stinger. Night & day! Something else that helps is to th...

Well some ppl cant pass the test but to my point not all x-ray welders pass on the job welds, but i know people who have been looked out just on tacks lol

Anyone can pass a shop test especially an x-ray, why do i say this well because its a shop test and all variables are in your favor thats why the on the job welds are trash they are not shop welds. Like most of us here we have welded upside down with mirrors with our hood laying on a pipe and still ...

For schedule 10 stainless its thin enough to butt it up fuse a root and single pass cap, there is no way to run root filler and cap its to thin. I have never seen a gap in one unless i had a bad fitter lol, but all in all do what the wps says