Nice weld Tinker! I bow to you

What do I need to buy to convert my Lincoln Weld Pak 100 to use gas? I think I found the limits of Flux Cored welding, lol

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haha cody has booger welds.....just kiding

looks good mang....I need a welding machine to post up some mad crazy titanium welds (6alv4 titanium is a BITCH to weld) and maybe even some Magnesium that I learned how to weld for the Coast Guard a while back

 

holy ish Tinker!! that is badass!! nice job man!

 

Anyone have a welder for sale ? Or know where a used one could be picked up for cheap.

 

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What type of welder are you looking for (Mig, Tig, Stick), what are you looking to spend, and what area of Illinois are you from?

 

I have a powercon 6000 tig/stick welder with mig suitcase with three mig leads and two tig torches that I will sell you for $2,100

it is a 220 two phase welder and welds like no other

100% duty cycle at 200 amps

 

anyone have any info/tips on making header collectors? im thinking about making a header and figured this would be the hardest part of making it. ideas/tips?

 

Here are my pics, I got a gasless wire feed welder from Sears for 200 bucks and have been practising for about 2 days now.

 

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hahahaaha......I remember those days....it sucks doing something soo bad when you try soo hard to do it right......don't get discouraged, you will only get better

 

eh, frogot to mention that ill most likely be using a tig on SS and its going to be a 4-2-1.

 

This post needs to be at the top, great post.

 

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Notice how your tungsten isn't pointing in the direction of travel? It's pointing at an angle towards one side. Thats why your ripples are offest to the side, instead of being symmetrical.

 

I'll just post the link to my pics since I've posted before:

https://honda-tech.com/zero...age=3

 

What's worng with that picture is he is going in the wrong way,he should be welding from right to left his tungten should be pointed at the root of the joint.

 

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He IS welding from right to left. The point I'm making is that the tungsten is angled more towards one piece of metal than the other.

 

Your right he is going right to left BUT from the wrong side, he has to be facing the root
he is just rolling the top plate over onto the bottom plate and will not have any penetration in the root ,he has a good hand though

 

Some of my first flux core welds, I know I need more heat.

 

i hate flux core... i stick, tig, mig, and everdo, but i refuse to flux core... its a pain!

 

Me, thinking you're nuts, I go back and look at the pic again...

And just then noticed that it's a lap joint instead of a butt joint. You're correct. If it were me, I'd be welding in the same direction, but pointing the tungsten in from the other side.

 

for the experts commenting on this pic


please read THIS thread in its entirety to see why the technique was used. Its not my weld and was posted to illustrate the use of a porous bronze block for backpurging.

 

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As MXNUT stated, this angle will likely not get the same penetration that you would if welded from the opposite angle.

You can weld something standing on your head if you want to, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to do it standing on your feet.

 

Dam flux core is ugly, anyways just practicing a little how do these look ? Does it look like I'm getting enough penetration ?

 

Looks to me that you're way too hot or holding the nozzle too far away from the metal. Flux core is best run a little colder than solid wire.

And don't worry about penetration on it so much. For exhaust pipe, most joints are slipjoints (aka socket welds or lap joints) where penetration isn't very important since the strength is obtained by external reinforcement. Just get a smooth bead that ties into the base metal at a gradual angle and you'll have it right.

 

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I thought the only way it would be to hot is if I was blowing threw the metal, I guess this is not true then ? Also what determines that its to hot, I just want to be able to look at a weld and know from the looks of it what needs to change. Also isn't flux core solid wire ? Got a little confused with that statement.

Here are some other ones I just did

Weld is right next to my thumb