Brad93
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i watched a video of a guy doing this to put a bend in his tungsten to get into a hole/recess.
Shorting the machine to the table, the tungsten glows white hot, then bends easily with pliers to hold it steady.
Now when I’ve had to do this I’ve always had the tungsten to be bent in a pair of vice grips and heated the spot I’ve wanted to bend using the tig arc with the protection of the inert gas shielding it.
A transformer/rectifier I can imagine would put up with the abuse, but what about a fancy inverter? Most SMAW (stick) inverters have anti-stick so I guess it doesn’t get tested out a lot.
Shorting the machine to the table, the tungsten glows white hot, then bends easily with pliers to hold it steady.
Now when I’ve had to do this I’ve always had the tungsten to be bent in a pair of vice grips and heated the spot I’ve wanted to bend using the tig arc with the protection of the inert gas shielding it.
A transformer/rectifier I can imagine would put up with the abuse, but what about a fancy inverter? Most SMAW (stick) inverters have anti-stick so I guess it doesn’t get tested out a lot.