Little test to myself.

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Just some offcuts next to the shear so i thought i would do an outside joint and fillet.


Not a good demonstration of best welds but a fun challange.

2mm ali less than 2 inches long and a real ass to tack. Also moved as i added filler, still no Tungsten contamination.

 

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Thing is don’t get dis heartened, keep at it, you’ll get there in the end

 

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Thing is don’t get dis heartened, keep at it, you’ll get there in the end

Thing is practise practice and then even more practice

unlike mig if you don’t use it you certainly lose it

 

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Thing is don’t get dis heartened, keep at it, you’ll get there in the end

Its taken a good amount of time to learn what my welder likes as the balance settings are not like other brands,

The balance is "-10 penetration 0 +10 cleaning" turns out it wants +2 cleaning and 60-100hz it also has an extra fusion setting that off-sets the wave form with reference to 0 this works best at 8-10%

Before playing the arc was completely all over the place on outside corners @Richard. has witnessed this was very frustrating.

pedal had a decent amount of attention ended up re-tempering the spring as it was far to stiff (would really like an ssc), ive also had to replace the torch switch as it was getting very unreliable making dc welding hard to manage much more than and inch before the arc would stop


But at the end of it ive good a very good welder with cooler at not alot of money

 

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With TIG more than any other process, arc dynamics vary massively from machine to machine and the set up is very much down to personal preference. We had 4 identical machines in the training school, when they were all set up exactly the same they all welded differently, I’ve always been a great believer in setting the machine to what you see through the screen and not what it says on the dials

 

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With TIG more than any other process, arc dynamics vary massively from machine to machine and the set up is very much down to personal preference. We had 4 identical machines in the training school, when they were all set up exactly the same they all welded differently, I’ve always been a great believer in setting the machine to what you see through the screen and not what it says on the dials

This has become my conclusion. The manual is no help either, damn Italians.


Just to make sense of job save settings

 

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This is the same item but i hadn't wire brushed it.