what kind of welding do you prefer and why?

 

really depends on the application but love tig

 

addicted to TIG....but still use the MIG for tacking and quick jobs.

 

Tig.


Mig is only for ghetto rigging stuff.

 

Tig and backpurged at that

 

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hey elusive,

what do you use for back purging? I mean what is your setup?? do you have two tanks and two regulators or one tank and a dual regulator??

thanks,
hb

 

tig!

 

TIG

 

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what do you use for back purging? I mean what is your setup?? do you have two tanks and two regulators or one tank and a dual regulator??

thanks,
hb </TD></TR></TABLE>

Tee one tank.

 

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this is the story of my life.

when my car is done it will sport a huge home depot sticker over the hood

 

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when my car is done it will sport a huge home depot sticker over the hood </TD></TR></TABLE>

That will be hot.

 

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Tee one tank. </TD></TR></TABLE>

how do you TEE one tank??

do you have a picture to show?

Thanks

 

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TIG is wonderful. But plasma arc welding is even more so. :D

 

MIG....that's the only weld that my machines does..

 

prefer Tig, but highly depends on application. MIG for the tack welds and crap i don't really care to show off. but I can sit there and play with TIG for hours on end, just to see how well I can lay rows of dimes.

 

stick, because i can go out into a windy field and stick weld and not have to worry about some little breeze causing porosity and ****.

it is by far the most versatile welding method.

tig is nice for in-shop finishing welds, but for everything else there's mig and stick.

 

I agree that stick really is a versatile and sane welding method. People automatically associate stick with the old man in the garage welding his broken tractor shovel, but it is way more. With the right rod, you can make beautiful, strong and sane welds in any position on almost any metal.

 

When the poll says arc does that mean tig wilding? so arc welding is essentially tig welding?

 

in general terms 'arc' is usually referred as 'stick', but in tech terms 'arc' applies to both tig and stick.

tig (gtaw=gas tungsten arc weld) and stick (smaw=shielded metal arc weld) are both arc. tig uses a non consumable (tungsten) electrode for the arc and you feed the filler rod into the puddle. shielded metal arc (stick), you feed your consumable electrode/rod as it arcs.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by not so civic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">shielded metal arc (stick), you feed your consumable electrode/rod as it arcs.</TD></TR></TABLE>


hmm, I sortof get it now, so Stick welding is more like mig (the electrode arcs as its feed out of the gun). But are you hand feeding a stick of consumable rod as your arcing with a gun? (in otherwords, does it look like your tig welding?)


Modified by 4gotpasswordAGAIN at 12:20 PM 10/5/2004

 

Arc welding means that the heat comes from an electric arc. So MIG, TIG, STICK are all forms of arc welding. Even plasma welding is a form of arc welding, except the arc is a plasma arc. Submerged arc is also a form of electric arc welding.

 

Yes, I know what an arc is, but this doesn't realy answer my question. (talking about Stick aka Arc welding)

 

yes, all welding is arc except acetylene gas welding.

-mig is automatic by trigger. usually used with gas shielding. gasless mig is fluxcore which shields when it burns. the wire is the consumable electrode fed to the puddle when you pull the trigger.

-stick has flux covering on electrode which burns and creates your shielding and creates slag which just protects the hot metal from oxidizing as it cools. welding with any flux involves cleanup of slag. you basically hold the electrode and melt it into the weld area.

-tig you are going to be making your arc with a torch and electrode tip which does not feed or touch the puddle. your torch has a gas cup that flows around the tungsten and shileds the puddle. you use one hand for the torch and use the other to feed the rod into the puddle.

with mig, it doesn't look like your tigging. mig does all the work pretty much you just one hand or two hand the torch and pull the trigger and control your puddle. tig sort of looks like you are soldering...using one hand to heat and adding metal with the other hand. brazing, soldering, gas welding, and tig welding are all the same concept using both hands.

consumable electrode is mig and arc because you are feeding the puddle from the arc with your electrode. mig, the wire is added to your puddle. arc, you add the metal from your stick.




Modified by not so civic at 12:52 PM 10/5/2004

 

I get it now. thanks man!