JHodges558
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So I’m new here so hi. Be nice as I’m not new to tig welding but 100% self taught.
I purchased this welder some years ago from a welding factor. She’s an old girl but seemed like a good deal at the time.
However of recent I have been getting more experimental with settings as I became more experienced and started fabbing up some stainless pipes for a few customers and projects.
However I can’t help but feel in either missing something on my machine and or something is very wrong.
I find myself really struggling to routinely do a great weld. Sometimes I can weld 100% and it looks half decent the next time same material same process and it welds like crap…
Now I’m either not setting my machine up well enough and or need some advise to set up my machine better.
I have read everything I can read. Spoken to many “ I’ll just pop in and take a look and help you “ types of people but they never show and now I’m just getting frustrated.
The machine appears to have great potential but I’ve never had a base setting. I am welding very thin stainless piping and from what I have read once you find a setting you nearly never go away from that. But my issue is next to spending countless hours trying everything of which I believe I have I have to accept I may be missing the most obvious thing.
Hoping you are a friendly bunch and can advise accordingly and or someone on here has the same machine.
One of the things I see regularly is that there is some adjustments on the torch itself but this machine came with a standard single button torch so have I been screwed and not given the correct torch?
Sorry for all the questions 
I purchased this welder some years ago from a welding factor. She’s an old girl but seemed like a good deal at the time.
However of recent I have been getting more experimental with settings as I became more experienced and started fabbing up some stainless pipes for a few customers and projects.
However I can’t help but feel in either missing something on my machine and or something is very wrong.
I find myself really struggling to routinely do a great weld. Sometimes I can weld 100% and it looks half decent the next time same material same process and it welds like crap…
Now I’m either not setting my machine up well enough and or need some advise to set up my machine better.
I have read everything I can read. Spoken to many “ I’ll just pop in and take a look and help you “ types of people but they never show and now I’m just getting frustrated.
The machine appears to have great potential but I’ve never had a base setting. I am welding very thin stainless piping and from what I have read once you find a setting you nearly never go away from that. But my issue is next to spending countless hours trying everything of which I believe I have I have to accept I may be missing the most obvious thing.
Hoping you are a friendly bunch and can advise accordingly and or someone on here has the same machine.
One of the things I see regularly is that there is some adjustments on the torch itself but this machine came with a standard single button torch so have I been screwed and not given the correct torch?
Sorry for all the questions
