Noods
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If you wish to have a laugh or take the P it's fine, but, you have to accept your inabilitys when you have them and take the bad times along with the few good times when they come along in learning something new or newish..
It's just so dam frustrating though when you prepare a piece as good as you think you can you tack it ok and then try to lay a Bead but just end up wasting hours, gas and tig rod chasing holes..
I'm no hero but the one thing I don't do is give up trying..
I've read the forum guide on here over and over, prepared as best I possibly can, practised running flat sample runs with and without rod, which have not given me any real problems, but as soon as I try to construct anything of use!
Stuff of horror movies I know but I've posted the pics which obviously I'm non too proud of.. The truth hurts as they say...
Set up was...
Cleaned with flap disc then with acetone .. 3mm steel box sections new stock with just surface rust... Pure argon set at 6 lpm.. Amps varied from 40 to 80 and all in between.. Post gas 5 secs.. Slope 4.. 1.6 mm rod new stock.. Esab warrior lid Sen set at 10.. Tungsten needle sharp and clean..v clean.. Stick out.. Tried from 2 mm to 6mm gas ceramic 4up to 9.. Angle of esab torch to work 90 degrees and tilted back 20 degrees to push puddle along..
I have to say I do struggle to see as much as I would like.. I've got a magnifying lense also tried wearing glasses but it just seems too dark for me.. Attached lights which makes no diff as the visor just adapts to them .. I can hear what it's doing better, eh if I hear a nice bacon cooking sound I'm hoping it's all good, but when I finish and look I've a mother of a prob to try and fix.. I can't just cut it off and start again as its a measured length..
Enough said really...
Sorry for the struggle and bad news but that's how it is ....
X Noods
It's just so dam frustrating though when you prepare a piece as good as you think you can you tack it ok and then try to lay a Bead but just end up wasting hours, gas and tig rod chasing holes..
I'm no hero but the one thing I don't do is give up trying..
I've read the forum guide on here over and over, prepared as best I possibly can, practised running flat sample runs with and without rod, which have not given me any real problems, but as soon as I try to construct anything of use!
Stuff of horror movies I know but I've posted the pics which obviously I'm non too proud of.. The truth hurts as they say...
Set up was...
Cleaned with flap disc then with acetone .. 3mm steel box sections new stock with just surface rust... Pure argon set at 6 lpm.. Amps varied from 40 to 80 and all in between.. Post gas 5 secs.. Slope 4.. 1.6 mm rod new stock.. Esab warrior lid Sen set at 10.. Tungsten needle sharp and clean..v clean.. Stick out.. Tried from 2 mm to 6mm gas ceramic 4up to 9.. Angle of esab torch to work 90 degrees and tilted back 20 degrees to push puddle along..
I have to say I do struggle to see as much as I would like.. I've got a magnifying lense also tried wearing glasses but it just seems too dark for me.. Attached lights which makes no diff as the visor just adapts to them .. I can hear what it's doing better, eh if I hear a nice bacon cooking sound I'm hoping it's all good, but when I finish and look I've a mother of a prob to try and fix.. I can't just cut it off and start again as its a measured length..
Enough said really...
Sorry for the struggle and bad news but that's how it is ....
X Noods