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Mild steel parts and  1/8 filler rod . Attached Images"after a long day of doing nothing...its gooood to kick back" Pumbaa
Reply:Looks pretty good, can you provide any details?
Reply:Junk this picture shows practice pieces that started out as two separate tee-joint horizontal position practice pieces that became one piece turned into a Fillet weld outside corner joint flat position w/filler, practice part.The tig bead in the middle is the outside corner joint. Attached Images"after a long day of doing nothing...its gooood to kick back" Pumbaa
Reply:Here is a close-up of the 'outside corner joint' showing that I used filler-3/32 e70s-2 I think. Attached Images"after a long day of doing nothing...its gooood to kick back" Pumbaa
Reply:This picture shows same practice part, but shows closer view of the two tig beads. The one on the bottom was done in the T-joint horizontal position with smaller filler electrode than the corner joint. Notice the bead quality-yep too bad I cant' design fabbed stuff that only has outside corner joints Junk my machines controls are really simple-and since this is just steel you only need one main control that is Amperage. Everything else comes down to the weldor- that is why I am practicing, I want to use some tig on a couple of projects, but the beads are not where I want them . Attached Images"after a long day of doing nothing...its gooood to kick back" Pumbaa
Reply:Originally posted by Junk Looks pretty good, can you provide any details?
Reply:Looks good. Can you post some aluminum ones? I am still fighting too large a bead on a fillet weld.
Reply:Originally posted by Mike W Looks good. Can you post some aluminum ones? I am still fighting too large a bead on a fillet weld.
Reply:More practice: T-fillet                        Horizontal                        3/32 tungsten                        3/32 er70s-2                        1/4 mild steel material Attached Images"after a long day of doing nothing...its gooood to kick back" Pumbaa
Reply:All tig pics posted  are done with air cooled torch, gas flow-20-25/ argon 100%. Attached ImagesLast edited by Planet X; 01-22-2004 at 11:41 PM."after a long day of doing nothing...its gooood to kick back" Pumbaa
Reply:Looks pretty good! I haven't been able to get my beads as uniform as that yet but as they say "practice, practice, practice"T/A Prowave 185 TSW
Reply:Originally posted by Planet X All tig pics posted  are done with air cooled torch, gas flow-20-25/ argon 100%.
Reply:Originally posted by Dan PlanetX,It looks like you were running a tad bit on the cold side. Increase your current a little bit and the weld puddle will flow a little better, which in turn will make the addition of your filler rod smoother.BTW, Im refering to the 1/4" mild steel Horizontal T joint.
Reply:Originally posted by redlineracer Looks pretty good! I haven't been able to get my beads as uniform as that yet but as they say "practice, practice, practice"
Reply:Originally posted by Planet X Yeah, I'll give it a go, these t-joints give me fits with tig. Undercut is my norm on the horizontal plate. Did you see the pic I put up a few days ago "some tig beads" post? That first picture though blurry was with filler I know it looks like I was just fusing metal , but that joint got nuked- got impatient and had the 'edge' working against me both there.Could you post up some tig beads on some steel parts? I like using your pictures as a sorta target acquisition thing.
Reply:Here is one more with the same set up. Attached Images
Reply:Originally posted by Dan Here is one more with the same set up.