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shielding gas for tig
Pneufab
+1y
on your Syncrowave 200 you should use some 2% ceriated and turn your AC balance control up. You'll like how it keeps a point on aluminum and you can use it for steel too.
That's all I use with my Dynasty. I tried some lanthanated I didn't like it.
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That's all I use with my Dynasty. I tried some lanthanated I didn't like it.
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Pneufab
+1y
oh yeah as you learned you can't have any co2 in the sheilding gas for TIG. Lots of yellow smoke.
100% argon, 100% helium or mixures of the two (though you will never need anything other than argon with that power source)
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100% argon, 100% helium or mixures of the two (though you will never need anything other than argon with that power source)
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bdroppeddak
+1y
yea... go figure this guy has been in the welding supplies biz for 12 years.... wonder why he was insisting i run 75/25? and yea pneufab i cant wait to start playin with this thing on some aluminum ive heard great things about it.
NRChopShop
+1y
you should use gas with Techron then strike the arc
S10TooDamnLow
+1y
The c02 gives more penetration but not as much of a good looking weld...people use 75/25, 90/10 and other mixes like that. I've never heard of people using a mixture, just straight argon or you can also use helium like if you are doing big heavy aluminum. Helium is actually what TIG started out with, which is why a lot of old timers call it Heli arc instead of tig.
bdroppeddak
+1y
when working with a mig the co2 gives better penetration, but with the tig it makes a schitty weld i guess because if you break it down its made up of 1 carbon and 2 oxygens, and your goal is to have as little carbon in the weld area as possible...
Pneufab
+1y
Originally posted by S10TooDamnLow
The c02 gives more penetration but not as much of a good looking weld...people use 75/25, 90/10 and other mixes like that. I've never heard of people using a mixture, just straight argon or you can also use helium like if you are doing big heavy aluminum. Helium is actually what TIG started out with, which is why a lot of old timers call it Heli arc instead of tig.
show me a good TIG weld with 75/25 or 90/10 argon/ CO2 (not argon helium)it's not going to happen period, end or story
some people argue about the dumbest things on hereCris , your comment on some other thread about google being 87% correct but a minitrucker being 5% correct but said with such confidence or whatever, was right on.
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The c02 gives more penetration but not as much of a good looking weld...people use 75/25, 90/10 and other mixes like that. I've never heard of people using a mixture, just straight argon or you can also use helium like if you are doing big heavy aluminum. Helium is actually what TIG started out with, which is why a lot of old timers call it Heli arc instead of tig.
show me a good TIG weld with 75/25 or 90/10 argon/ CO2 (not argon helium)it's not going to happen period, end or story
some people argue about the dumbest things on hereCris , your comment on some other thread about google being 87% correct but a minitrucker being 5% correct but said with such confidence or whatever, was right on.
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bodydropped85
+1y
LOL thats a good comment lol.
wht01ranger
+1y
i use neon on my shit. my aluminum glows nukka