Pulse Arc Jewelery Welding (TIG) Burning Tips Constantly! Help Appreciated!

[Sinrev]

Hey All!

Running into some problems with our new pulse arc (argon) jewelry welder. If I grind up a new sharp tip on the tungsten, gas running, and start welding - about 10 spot welds down and the tip has burnt (exploded) off. Even on the lowest power setting and least about of milliseconds on weld.

Additionally, it seems to stick to materials a lot. The welder naturally pulls the electrode back when it welds, but some how it seems to stick still quite often.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[Brad93]

What tungsten, settings, metal and machine?

 

[Sinrev]

Hey!

The welder is an Orion 100c, you can see a video of how it works here:

On every setting it blows out the tungsten in a few short welds
Material when welding also doesnt seem to matter, all blows out the tungsten


Thanks!

 

[hotrodder]

You've got to give us more to go on... you say it's new, is that new from the manufacturer or new to you but used? If the former is there no back up from the supplier?
Do you have the user manual which covers most of the usual suspects you're experiencing? Gas leak, not enough pre flow time for the tungsten stick out, wrong size tungsten, too much pressure applied (electrode damage and sticking), improper tungsten prep etc. Wrong polarity is another usual suspect but from a very quick scan of the manual that doesn't appear to be possible http://www.orionwelders.com/resources/orion-c-series-resources/

Some pics of the tungsten after say one weld cycle, 5 weld cycles and 10 cycles may help us see what's going on. Obviously given that they're only 0.5 or 1.0mm diameter the pics need to be very good quality macros at the very least and ideally cropped rather than resized to fit the upload size limits

 

[Sinrev]

You've got to give us more to go on... you say it's new, is that new from the manufacturer or new to you but used? If the former is there no back up from the supplier?
Do you have the user manual which covers most of the usual suspects you're experiencing? Gas leak, not enough pre flow time for the tungsten stick out, wrong size tungsten, too much pressure applied (electrode damage and sticking), improper tungsten prep etc. Wrong polarity is another usual suspect but from a very quick scan of the manual that doesn't appear to be possible http://www.orionwelders.com/resources/orion-c-series-resources/

Some pics of the tungsten after say one weld cycle, 5 weld cycles and 10 cycles may help us see what's going on. Obviously given that they're only 0.5 or 1.0mm diameter the pics need to be very good quality macros at the very least and ideally cropped rather than resized to fit the upload size limits

I'll get some pics tomorrow! Much appreciated on the help!

Also, brand new - same tungsten which is supplied in box.

 

[ben8vgte]

Have you got the correct gas in the cylinder, might of been filled wrong ?