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been TIG welding for about 6 months now with a miller maxstar DX. Does 200A, DC only. mostly been playing with 304SS scrap I get from work (I work at a brewery and we have a lot of it) the #1 thing I can recommend for tig welding: FITMENT. spending the extra 15 minutes to make sure the parts fit nice will save you a lot of headache and ugly welds.
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hrm, check the fitment? should get a nice puddle going on the thicker material and put some heat in the thinner material to get it to flow. strangely enough, sometimes upping the current here helps. get the base puddle started and kind of push it towards the joint if there's any gap between the two, getting a puddle to flow between them is going to be near impossible it's something I've struggled with at times. i feel your pain 
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Jul 29, 2008 03:17
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SmokeyXIII posted:I don't know if we care about this in this thread but today I went to Syncrude, which is a different plant than the one I work at, and we checked out all the old mining equipment. I stood in the shovel. It's huge but compared to the new ones its so tiny. They've got all kinds of huge equipment up there, it was just so amazing to see the gigantic metal monsters up so close. Pretty neato! where are you working at? that looks eerily familiar to some steam piping we're having welded up here at the brewery
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Aug 28, 2008 04:53
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