im just curious as to who on here can weld together 2 pieces of aluminum foil........ and if you dont think its possible i know it is..... my gran-dad, who died a couple years ago, could do this and used to win bets at work all the time betting people he could do it...... otherwise i would show you a pic of it.... he was a fabricator his whole life so he was VERY good at welding

i have no clue how to use the tig we have as he never tought me so i cant even try lol

anyways if any of you can do it post up some pics

i dont have a prize or anything just bored and curious to see some of you guys skills

--chris

 

I'll give it a go later tonight or tomorrow, just got to go buy the foil.

I've done .020, so hey, .005 should be a snap

Oh, and teach yourself, I did. Just pick up some scrap and the torch and make it hot.

 

i wanna see some pics of this one.

 

One of the people I went to school with used to weld razor blades together...tin foil might be pushing it

 

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I've done .020, so hey, .005 should be a snap

Oh, and teach yourself, I did. Just pick up some scrap and the torch and make it hot.</TD></TR></TABLE>

haha ok im interested to see how this comes out........ and as far as teaching myself i would have no clue where to even start with the welder. ive got the mig down but have no clue where to start with the tig its got everything there..... tons of rods, pedal, gun, etc......... but i do know that its out of gas i will need to get it filled before i do anything

 

fill it with gas and just start using it. it will all make sense once you put it into practice. tig scared the crap out of me for about 1 min until i pushed the pedel down and formed my first puddle.

 

Sweet idea. Keep this on top.

E-beer to whom ever can do this.

 

My TIG doesn't go low enough. I just blast though on the smallest setting and practically no pedal.

 

im not sure what tig he used to use but i think speed played a big factor....... gotta move fast

 

just use a stapler and save the trouble

 

There is special welding machines for that kind of thing.Like mold repair and aircraft parts.The highest amps is 75 and goes down to .5 amps.And you have to use .40 or .60 tungsten.The ,40 is so small that you can't sharpen it.There is this
stuff that you dip the tip in when it is hot and that sharpens it.And when you start ,start on another piece of metal to get the tungsten hot then move over to
your work and it starts lower.

 

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stuff that you dip the tip in when it is hot and that sharpens it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Chem-sharp, I think it's called.

 

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stuff that you dip the tip in when it is hot and that sharpens it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i never knew this... u cant sharpen .40 with a grinding wheel?

 

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i never knew this... u cant sharpen .40 with a grinding wheel?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think there might be some zeros missing, since I've never seen a half-inch tungsten.

 

OOPS .040 .Hows that? lol And yes thats what its called.

 

I wanna see some tinfoil welded together also!! I think it would take one of the smaller model tigs to do this also.

 

i bet i could solder some together...

and yes, i've seen aluminum foilk TIG welded before... interesting work...

 

They don't weld allum.foil together and they haven't for a long *** time.There is a machine that fuses it together.And when they did weld it together it was about .015 to .020 thick and they backed it up with a big *** heat sink.

And I will bet you a million dollars you can't solder it .Because you can not solder allum.But you can try if you want.Some times this Text **** sucks.Because
you can't tell if I'm being a smart *** or not.Well I'm not. LOL . See

 

jb weld

 

yeah... it does get hard to detect sarcasm...

that was sarcasm, my last post...

 

Well boys and girls, after much error, I successfully tackled the foil for exactly one quarter of an inch.

I did cheat...slightly. I consider it bending the rules. I had to fold it. I tried it unfolded at first, and even the slightest arc would splatter a hole the size of a dime.

Picture (of very poor quality) can be found here -

http://www.we-todd-did-racing....D.jpg

 

wow......I CANT SEE ****!

 

Yeah, like I said, the picture really sucks. It's there though, albeit small.

 

haha interesting.......... anyone else gonna give it a go?

 

I don't know how low my Syncrowave 350 goes...It's 100 miles north of here at home...