Problem with Adams gas Argon.

[daveb789]

I got my refill bottle of Argon from the Manchester agent of Adams gas today and when I went to finish my project off the Tungstens melted into a ball no matter what I tried to the settings and gas flow, what do you guys think, Is this argon I have been given and/or could it be contaminated?

Dave

 

[backpurge]

What colour is the ball on the end of the tungsten

 

[daveb789]

These are the pictures of my Ipad, also when I tried to make the pool the arc would wander as the Tungsten melted and the weld pool almost seemed to "fizz" I just want to make sure its not something I done before I take it back to Manchester as its over 50Mile round trip.

Dave

 

[Paul.]

Have you disturbed anything else?, if you had shown me that without mentioning gas I would have said the polarity is the wrong way round. should be electrode negative.

 

[backpurge]

It is strange that one of the tungstens is perfectly clean and un contaminated and the other looks heavily oxidised.
As Paul says you haven't swapped the polarity by accident, are you using AC or DC, have you checked your gas line for leaks

 

[daveb789]

Thank you both TIG Paul and back purge, as the problem has now been sorted, In the absence of gas when I ran out my Farther set the machine to run as a Arc welder to weld some gates and then plugged my TIG torch back in but in the wrong terminal ( I feel a right wally now for not even thinking of checking) so I would like to say that there is nothing wrong with either Adams gas nor their Manchester stockist and it was just me being a complete tool
thank you both
Dave

 

[backpurge]

No worries mate, we've all been there, I've made a career out of it