Gasless

[andypocock]

I spent about 30 mins welding bits of metal together this afternoon for a mate when he said

"Ere both your gauges are saying empty".

"Just a second" says I "I'll have a listen to the tourch"

Silence

"That's strange" I said "I can't have used all that gas up." After a think "You did turn the gas on earlier when you got the welder ready for me didn't you?"

"Turn the gas on? Where?"

I'm so new to this that I thought it must be the crappy metal I was welding causing the splatter. The welds didn't actually look too bad.

So I'm half pleased that I managed to weld but half mad at myself for not realising straight away what was wrong.

Boy did it seem nice and easy once the gas was turned on.

Next time I know.

 

[Rick]

Pic's?

It's far worse when you look at the Argon bottle when tigging and the gauge says full but the bottle is turned off and it's just whats left in the pipes. After about a second of welding it looks like your using a mig with no gas and your work is knackered along with the tungsten.

Still do it though

 

[andypocock]

I didn't think it merited a pic.

I ground the welds back flush and redid them with the gas on. They had certainly penetrated but better safe than sorry.

Andy