Well I've been tig welding for a couple months now, and finally got through all the mild and stainless projects at school. Had about 30 minutes left in class so I grabbed a piece of aluminum, balled up my tungsten and went to town :D Here's what I ended up with...



It's a little dull because silly me hit with the wire wheel :eek: I had a brain fart...

Machine was a Syncrowave 350, set to 120amps, 20hg argon, 7 on the a/c balance, 3/32 2% pure tungsten, 3/32 filler. Material was 1/8" thick 6061.

Anyways I got the feel for it at least and I'll put in a few solid hours tomorrow probably...all comments and suggestions are welcome!

Here is a stainless one I had laying around as well...feel free to comment on this also...

 

very very nice for an intro welder!! im in classes too right now, im mostly doing brazing and arc, my tig is coming to my house in about a month so ill be posting as well, good Job man hopefully someday we will both be AWS cert.ed

-Jon

 

Thanks for the compliments!

I took oxy-acetylene cutting, welding and brazing for a quarter prior to tig. That helped ALOT when it came to switching over to tig. I scored my own machine about a week ago and just got done building my table and everything...I'm having alot of fun Expensive fun...but definetely fun

 

Nice job! A little too much on the start of the stainless, but the rest looks great.
What classes are you taking? Community college / boces / trade school?
Keep up the good work, and enjoy the TIG when it gets there!

 

Community colllege...not a bad program. Biggest thing is I have all the metal and rod I want to burn for 4 hours a night, 4 nights a week

 

Which community College? Just wondering because Triton is my CC and I can also get to COD if I wanted. I thought about taking something similar in the summer. Just so i can TIG a new turbo mani .

My personal mig welder i don't think can do the job.

 

COD is where I go...Triton I've heard has a very good program also. COD requires a quarter of Oxy-acetylene and Welding Theory to get into the advanced courses. I think Triton might be the same way. If you plan on going to COD I would hurry up and get into the summer quarter, in the fall they are changing to trimesters or something and you'll be stuck in oxy and a classroom for that much longer.

 

I go to HFCC, in dearborn michigan, im getting my AWS soon

 

ahh.. sucks. Screw it, I'll just end up taking some gen-ed's in the summer instead. MIG will do for now. I know a bunch of guys @ COD though, pretty kickass community college. I guess if i can take a few hours over the summer I can get into a welding class here @ UofI haha... with the rest of the farmboys.

 

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Whoa- that's some crap tungsten. What's the other 98%?

 

Hahaha yea i posted on another board the same thing and someone already caught that...DOH!