Author Topic: Tig welding (Read 6168 times)

hophead636 · « **on:** February 12, 2015, 07:59:00 pm »

Well the boss at work is finally teaching me tig, I had a small touch of it in a welding class about 6 or 7 years ago but nothing after that. I'm excited can't wait to get good and beable to sanitary weld some of my brew gear. Think I might run something by my boss since we have a crap ton of tubing for scrap if he would mind if I made a project out of learning and put together my single tier brew stand once I feel alil more comfortable. I'll keep updating this thread with progress pics of my welds, so with out further adieu pics of me chicken scratch for first time on a tig torch in a long time lol

S. cerevisiae · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2015, 08:24:18 pm »

Did you back purge with argon? Or did you use one of those fluxes that is designed to prevent sugaring?

hophead636 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2015, 08:40:10 pm »

No back purging at all just regular
Flow of all argon, just some scrap steel we had laying around the shop, regular filler rod and red wrapped electrode, Think i might buy a set for my own personal use of the purple or grey wrapped electrodes we will see. Going to keep working to get some beauty dimes going in my future

hophead636 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 12, 2015, 08:43:38 pm »

This is what I strive to be laying down one day

Stevie · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2015, 07:25:05 am »

Weldporn? There truly is an Instagram feed for everybody.

hophead636 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 13, 2015, 02:17:23 pm »

You can't tell me that nice colorful weld isn't sexy lol

HoosierBrew · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2015, 05:54:51 pm »

Quote from: Steve in TX on February 13, 2015, 07:25:05 am

Weldporn? There truly is an Instagram feed for everybody.

Yeah, evidently .

hophead636 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 13, 2015, 07:30:40 pm »

More practice

mbalbritton · « **Reply #8 on:** February 14, 2015, 07:29:40 am »

I have a buddy on my local off-road forum that's a fabricator. He does stuff like the Weldporn image above.

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hophead636 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 14, 2015, 11:16:45 am »

That's some skills right there my mig work isn't that pretty but

mbalbritton · « **Reply #10 on:** February 14, 2015, 02:12:42 pm »

I'd say your mig work is pretty damn good!

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jimmykx250 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 14, 2015, 04:40:33 pm »

I have mig welded structural and misc metals for the last 25 years. Never did get into tig- not in our industry but the welds photographed are nice and the author should be proud!