I went to a friend's shop and the are a full welding shop. They had a miller synchrowave sp? TIG machine so I asked if I could give her a try.

They are really bad in my opinion. First time attempting to tig. He gave me 5 minutes worth or pointers. I'm slowly understanding the "puddle" I got the thin stainless to get some color TWICE, and the rest I got impatient and started to burn through.

Anywho. here goes

First off was some THICK carbon. He said it wouldn't turn out "cool" so I just played around with getting the puddle.



Then I tried on some spare cuts of schedule 8/10 (can't remember) I can't weld straight for the life of me



Then I grabbed some thin stainless pieces I was trying to weld 90 degrees together.
This is the stuff that I started out looking "decent" then I just started burning through it....



More of the thin stainless that I got some cool colors out of. Then I was never able to reduplicate it.




Just thought I'd share my crappy welds. He said it wasn't bad for just playing around with the machine for about 45 minutes. I ended up using 3 filler rods. I think 1/16th

What does HT think?

 

well for someone who has never tig welded before i dont know how you can start off by giving the most popular wwelding machine a bad rating. Your welds look ok for a starter, far better than mine did. A welding machine doesnt make good welds, the person running the torch does.

 

No no no. You mis understood. I used the miller welder.

I meant it (my welds) sucked Not the welder.

 

holy ****, its blake ******* stiller.

hi blake. have fun at pacific? the express lanes were fun.

to the OP.. i came over cause you linked me from clubsi. i don't know a damn thing about welding. i can barely tack with a wirefeed.

 

To hot, and to dirty, clean , clean, clean.

 

Do you guys wire wheel the metal before welding? Then what do you clean it off with?

I'll go try again

 

Where does dester223 come from....4doorEG ...lol...

Post up some flux core...then well see who's ball'n....

 

yeap, looks crappy to me. lol jk, good job with new stuff

 

Wire the metal, then use acetone