Gazz292
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I must admit i haven't been practicing with my tig much at all, been rebuilding my mini lathe, working on the bus simulator cab and stuff like that, i haven't even welded the legs to my welding plate things yet (not sure what to call them, 2 plates of steel 500mm square, that will have about 2 inch legs and sit on the workbench when welding)
But today i did my first weld that actually had a purpose, ok it's a very very simple weld, and not very pretty, certainly no stack of dimes pipe type weld, it's more of a 'wash the molten steel together' thing.
It's just an M14 long nut and a polishing mop screw thread welded together,
Both items were supposedly bright zinc plated, i did try and take that coating off near where i was to weld, but i obviously didn't get enough off as the nut had soot all over it when i was done... and more worrying the screw thread had a yellow coating on it,
Probably some highly toxic gas i'd created that's knocked 5 years off my life,
I did have the shed window open to let the smoke out from hot cutting oil on another item i was turning down on the lathe earlier, so maybe that helped... maybe 4 and a half years then.
This is what the nut / mop thread was for:
I was fed up of having to remove the grinders side guard, then the wire wheel to put the polishing mop's adaptor on when i wanted to clean and polish some metal,
So now the nut that holds the wire wheel on pokes through a hole in the side guard, with the mop thread there ready to wind a mop on when i need it.
But today i did my first weld that actually had a purpose, ok it's a very very simple weld, and not very pretty, certainly no stack of dimes pipe type weld, it's more of a 'wash the molten steel together' thing.
It's just an M14 long nut and a polishing mop screw thread welded together,
Both items were supposedly bright zinc plated, i did try and take that coating off near where i was to weld, but i obviously didn't get enough off as the nut had soot all over it when i was done... and more worrying the screw thread had a yellow coating on it,
Probably some highly toxic gas i'd created that's knocked 5 years off my life,
I did have the shed window open to let the smoke out from hot cutting oil on another item i was turning down on the lathe earlier, so maybe that helped... maybe 4 and a half years then.
This is what the nut / mop thread was for:
I was fed up of having to remove the grinders side guard, then the wire wheel to put the polishing mop's adaptor on when i wanted to clean and polish some metal,
So now the nut that holds the wire wheel on pokes through a hole in the side guard, with the mop thread there ready to wind a mop on when i need it.
