Welding Tips and Tricks

hi guys would u mind if were can i buy this machine? my location is here in ABU DHABI AL AIN.its hard reall hard to look for a best machine for tig welding aluminum here.

http://fore-shore.com/contact-us/

Call this place mate.

You will find a huge industry in your country for welding because of the oil industry. This company will at least know where to start looking for a machine.

Kind Regards, Mick

thanks mate,coz yesterday i went for a place they call industrial area, almost all people thre doesnt know tig aluminum machine...they know only stick welding.

Fair enough, more heavy construction than light work. If possible, go to the harbour or boat area. Someone there will know about welding aluminium

weldin mike 27 wrote:Fair enough, more heavy construction than light work. If possible, go to the harbour or boat area. Someone there will know about welding aluminium

In Dubai, the harbor is filled with >50m yachts, and they don’t have much ally exposed, almost exclusively 316L. “That market” of boat runs about $1M/Meter. Stainless only, welds ground smooth and polished to high standard.

Tamjeff would beat them all

weldin mike 27 wrote:Tamjeff would beat them all

I was in Amsterdam last fall, with a special access to tour a boatbuilder's facility. They were constructing 3 boats side-by-side each in a slightly different state of finished. I will tell you that most of the stainless and aluminum welds for the superstructure were MIG welded and each and every one looked like someone had TIG welded the darn things.

Then I toured their stainless shop for railings, grab bars, hinges, etc. Geez, humiliating to see the quality of these guy's work. And every single weld they made was to be ground and polished away afterwards. EVERY ONE. I guess for $1m/M, you get that quality. The fit and finish on these boats is beyond spectacular and the engineering that goes into their infrastructure is mind-boggling. Even their engine rooms are 316 polished, bolts and nuts too.

These yards must consume more Ar per hour than the entire membership of this forum does in a year. I was told that on average a 50M vessel has over 1.2M man hours of labor in it. It certainly showed.

***Apologies for the hijack/sidetrack. Point being there's little ally welding done thats still "accessible" and very little to none (aluminum) on these vessels. Sportfishing, yeah, but not on the Fancy Big Boats.

Fair enough. Any leads on where to find a tig machine in Abu dabi?