I've been practicing with my tig welder for about a year and I can put down a fairly consistent bead but now I'm starting on some more intricate jobs and my inexperience is showing.
I'm putting together an inlet manifold and I need to weld in an injector bung in the joint between the runner and the flange:
My issue is that I keep blowing away the top edge of the injector bung and getting nowhere near the root of the joint.
The runner is 3mm wall ally and the wall of the bung is ~2mm. I've tried using a 1.6mm tungsten to get deeper into the joint but even still the arc is jumping off the side of the tungsten.
Any advice appreciated, it may just be above my level. If all else fails I'm considering welding in a square bung first then drilling it afterwards.
Thanks a lot
I'm putting together an inlet manifold and I need to weld in an injector bung in the joint between the runner and the flange:
My issue is that I keep blowing away the top edge of the injector bung and getting nowhere near the root of the joint.
The runner is 3mm wall ally and the wall of the bung is ~2mm. I've tried using a 1.6mm tungsten to get deeper into the joint but even still the arc is jumping off the side of the tungsten.
Any advice appreciated, it may just be above my level. If all else fails I'm considering welding in a square bung first then drilling it afterwards.
Thanks a lot