A glimmer of hope!

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Well, it's taken a while, but I'm finally at a point where my TIG welds look decent.  If you would have seen my past stuff... you would know why I say "decent".  LOLI know I need to turn the cleaning down still... but I was messing around.  Ended up practicing from 8AM to 6PM yesterday.I attribute my "betterness" to this: (And the 20 series torch)These were some of my first welds of the day, I filled that whole pipe (that I joined together) and another one.  Determined that right now, I'm pretty much diggin' 1/16th filler for my travel speed.  I should be up at the shop tomorrow, and I'll snap more pics of that same pipe filled with lines.Using 3/32" 1.5 lanthanated.  Going to try putting a different "tip" on the tungsten to see how that effects things.  All in all, yesterday was a fun day.  Dipped the tungsten once or twice... meh.JoeMiller 140 Autoset (2010)Miller Syncrowave 250 (1996)
Reply:OH yeah... and I need to work on the crater as well.JoeMiller 140 Autoset (2010)Miller Syncrowave 250 (1996)
Reply:Some more:  (To keep track of my progress... still got a long way to go in terms of consistency)This actually holds water, had to jack up to over 200 amps since it was so thick.  In the middle there I was testing to see how much amps I need, as I've never done anything super thick like this.That's all for now.  Still got lots to work on, but I feel a lot better about it all, more confident that I atleast CAN get pretty decent.JoeMiller 140 Autoset (2010)Miller Syncrowave 250 (1996)
Reply:It's weird, looking at those pictures makes the weld look cold, but it doesn't look cold when I look at it.  I think the guy I did that for brushed the welds...JoeMiller 140 Autoset (2010)Miller Syncrowave 250 (1996)
Reply:Originally Posted by joebieIt's weird, looking at those pictures makes the weld look cold, but it doesn't look cold when I look at it.  I think the guy I did that for brushed the welds...
Reply:I tigged better at school with a smaller liquid cooled torch, then I do at home with a bigger air cooled torch on my Diversion.. I'm going to change to a smaller air cooled unit and see if that helps me a little, if not, I'm going to figure out how to incorporate a liquid cooler to it.www.thefusionsolution.com