Started Welding Late July. Getting to the point were im perty comfortable. All Purged with 2 passes with .045 filler.

 

wow thats pretty good progress (assuming you laid your first bead in july)....

i just ordered a syncrowave 200 runner so hopefully in 3 months i'll be where youre at.

got any specs on the welder/material/tungsten/filler/gas/amp used? and what areyou using to prep your material i like the brushed/polished finish

lookin good so far.

-alan

 

I just bought a syncrowave 200 I love it you just cant beat in for the price.

 

doesn't hurt when Jesse is showing you what to do!

 

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Showed me the basics of tig welding. After that it was on my own

 

that's damn good lookin man!!

...skeeter...

 

nice work, you clearly have some talent.

 

wow good job!

 

I started a war last time I asked this, but, you did say it was purged so lets see the penetration pics!

 

You using food grade stainless or what?

 

Three months experience and your welds look that good! Nice work, keep it up!

 

inspirational

 

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Yeah, that's how it works. When you have someone experienced tell you all the key points of what it takes to weld correctly, it has a huge impact. When you buy a machine at your house, and your best teacher is reading on the internet, it's not so easy.

Good work though, the welds are nice. Pretty pipe helps....

 

Beautiful welds, I'm glad your instructor showed you how to prep your work and do it right. You definately have the talent.

 

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I'll go ahead and end this war and call you an *******.

just kidding.

 

looks super! I still dont get how to achieve all that color at all... i have set the argon to flow 15 up to 40... no luck. Tried diff tungstens, tried a huge gas lense and cup, different SS filler sizes and grades, different torch angles, etc.... and I get color, but not like that.... its killin me.

 

great progress man!

 

thats awesome man....makes me want to start welding again. i havent tried tig in 2 years.

 

damn good. i've been welding for 5+ years. beats the crap out of my stuff. your teacher must have given you some pretty good tips. i taught myself and it took years, not months.

you have pics of the inside?

 

Clearly pedal pumping helps alot.

 

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Basics are the key to success... Without them, you would really have no idea where to start except to try it out yourself... Then you start learning a bunch of bad habits, and then trying to "unlearn" them as you move along with more experience. The "unlearning" is the hard part

 

That is fair progress for that amount of time. Are you welding every day, once a week, or what? Just be careful and watch what you read on the car forums. There's a lot of bad habits and bad advice on them.

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Crutches are helpful if you have a broken ankle...but only hinders the movement of a healthy person. Pumping the pedal is the same. Pumping the pedal is an absolute waste of time. It's like putting a bandaid on a bullet hole. In over 20 years of welding, I have not yet seen anybody do this at a papermill, food processing plant, chemical plant, nuclear plant, or anywhere else. It is simply improper technique.




Modified by Engloid at 11:53 AM 10/19/2008

 

Nice Work.

 

Looking that good in a short period of time? very impressive.

 

I hope you wear a respirator when you weld. You can cause some serious damage to your body breathing in that ****.