There's some aluminum i brought home





Stainless lapp, and T weld.

What do you guys think. Sorry about the horrible camera.

 

Gas is around 25 psi.
aluminum amps is around 85
stainless is 60.
not Full pedal tho.

 

I like the aluminum more than the stainless.

In the top bead on the aluminum, it was a bit hotter than you need. The bottom bead looks nice. Nothing needed but practice to get better consistency (bling factor), but nothing really wrong with it.

On the stainless, it looks a bit hot, or poor gas flow. Do you have a gas lens? Other than that, same thing stands for the stainless as the aluminum.. very acceptable, just practice to get the bling to it.

 

No gas lens. Actually it was done with a broken ceramic cup. I need to get a gas lense really bad.

 

Been tig welding for about 4 weeks now. I have a long way to go, but its my major in school, along with machine tool technology. I love every second of it.

 

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You won't regret spending a few bucks on one.

 

Thanks for the advice, I'll just keep practicing.

 

I don't know anything about welding but the beads sure look nice

 

Thanks indo.

 

Nice welds.

I have a question when I weld Aluminum I get that white stuff around my welds also. What causes that?

Cause I seen some guys like fabman, tony1, ETC.
that dont have it.

I clean and wire brush my aluminum before welding it.

Thanks

 

white stuff = cleaning

 

Yes sir...I have since gotten better at aluminum, those are some of my first. You can keep them to a minimum if you watch your heat. But aluminum heats up so fast its kind of hard.

 

Nice looking

 

I'm wondering just out of curiosity....do you go to OCC?

 

LOL! no way man, but i do weld without a mask all the time. Waite. Just kidding again.

 

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Isnt the white stuff just oxidation from the metal? Like the top layer, when you heat it up it causes it to flake off?

 

that looks good man

 

OH **** YEAH!!!!

 

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Looks good man! I didn't know such welds came out of the KVCC booths ;p What machine are you using, and where are you getting the stainless? From what I saw, it was empty

 

Stainless steel was always availabe for me. Wasnt even an issue. I used all sorts of different machines. Aluminum was a lincoln air cooled, and the stainless was on the older miller that they have there. I used it cuz i thought it would challenge me more due to being an older machine, and it turned out to be my favorite welder there.