ok so I should be fine with what I have the... good to know, ill find the video from TFS and check that out too. thanks guys have a good week!

hey all, long time since ive been here, Ive got a quick question. I have a decent size stainless project coming up that requires some tig work. Jody's videos shows up to use Blue 2% lan always and I usually have. well this time the LWS rep at work brought me a pack of purple tungsten and I believe i...

no I didn't, I actually didn't think they would have parts to that old machine, if I can find an email address to show them those two pictures im sure they might just have it... I will do that tomorrow. thanks for your reply!

Hey all.. been a while since I posted anything. I had a friend who wanted to see if I could get this old welder to work for 115v GMAW use. I checked most things and it all worked fine with FC wire... then onto switching polarity and I noticed I don't have a nozzle for this diffuser. I contacted Cent...

Cool, thanks for the website. I have bookmarked it!

sorry all but good news, I think I just found it at airgas https://www.airgas.com/product/Gas-Equipment/Gas-Equipment-Accessories/Adapters-&-Fittings/p/VIC0911-0050?fo_c=306&fo_k=b2146a152aadceeaf70dc713ab86b768&fo_s=cstmc&utm_arg=SEM:Google:GSN_-_Items_-_Gas_Equipment-Adapters_and_F...

this is from a flowmeter.. female 5/16-18 and female 9/16-18 (not 100% sure on 9/16 size) I need to purchase just this part but I cant find it anywhere online. only matching sizes like both are 5/16-18. they are pretty common on most flowmeters and regulators I believe but like I said I cant find ju...

To the OP, where in NC are you? If you just want a couple of sticks, maybe I can help. Thanks but that's allright, Ill get some ordered soon. I don't have a lot of time to mess with it anyway right now due to high volume at work. I am central NC. near a little town called Star. Thanks very much for...

FYI, for the Al bronze you want A2 for welding, A1 is not for joining If you haven't been to the Harris website it is a very valuable source of info for filler materials, soldering, brazing and welding. The link will land you on the SilBronze page, on the left you'll see the listing of all their pr...

I looked on the website and 1lb of Silicon Bronze was 9.95 a pound but shipping was also about the same amount. So 20 bucks for 1 pound seemed kinda high to me. I was going to head to the Airgas store today which is about 35 miles from me but they're closed sat and sun. I am in NC and there isnt rea...

I am wanting to purchase a small amount of each of these rods for tooling around in my spare time and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a certain brand name to start with and perhaps where to buy.

3/32 blue tungsten #7 gas lens 1/16 308 filler I thought the flowrate was about 15cfh but come to think of it I didn't check. I know someone else used the welder prior to me welding this and that may have been changed. Good Idea to always check that as well. I didn't think about it not having enough...

this soot looking stuff, is it caused by flowrate too high or travel speed too slow or just too much heat? what can you tell me about this weld please. I believe it was welded with 110 Amps at nearly full pedal the whole run also

Just from what I have done so far on practice scrap material aluminum, carbon, and stainless.. it seem more useful than not. It has made up my mind on what the new machine I plan to buy must have. The slower pulse rate is what I think I have been playing with adding filler on the light up slope and ...

I thought as much.. kinda just wanted confirmation. Ive noticed the pulser has opened many new doors. I am going to save your settings and give them a try but first just want to make sure I have written down correctly 50/10/1.2 as in 50% BkGnd 10 PPS 1.2% Time thanks for your reply I’m unfamiliar wi...

Hello I have been studying and practicing all that I can with TiG welding and I noticed in the videos Jody's rule of 33. Seems to be a good rule to remember for certain thickness material and whatnot's but I seem to have found a problem with the machine I currently have access to (pictured below). W...

Fist off, those all look really good. Color is the presence of heat, the deeper the color, the hotter the base metal is/was. More gas shielding creates less color to an extent. For your fillet welds, the gas is covering more of the surrounding area than on a lap weld. That’s often why lap joints ge...

I am here to learn all I can about welding and specifically the GTAW process. I work for a manufacturing & engineering company as a Fabricator / Welder. We do lots of work for the military and also contracts on the state government level. Its a very exciting job and I am happy to be a part of th...

LtBadd wrote:

jbwelds wrote: …Now let me create a image hosting account

No need to, you can upload them from your desktop...

Gah I seen this a bit late... I just spent easily an hour resizing images and uploading etc... thanks for the tip tho.. I rather not use 3rd party code if not necessary.

With a couple weeks of practice... this is my Stainless TiG work so far. 3/32" (Red Band) tungsten, 3/32 ER316/316L filler, #8 Stubby Gas Lens, about 20 cfh of Argon and Amperage was set around 100 amps mostly but I dropped to 90'ish and upped to 110"ish on some passes. (Not sure which pas...

Thanks to all that replied. With the issue I am having using 1/8" filler sticking to the workpiece.. I just heard a guy say in a youtube video that dipping too far into the puddle will cause that. So I will try again asap and see if I can fix my issue. I use a standard 7 or 8 cup for everything...

EDIT: my cfh of argon is 20-25 and my biggest gaslens cup is #8 do you recommend a furic #12 and more cfh??? At the moment since we are in between projects at work all the material I am finding is left overs and digging in the scrap bin. I really don't know what exactly type SS it is. ( I will try t...

Thanks for the info guys... I was told to focus more on my stainless TiG and MiG process for our upcoming contract. I have already got sufficient enough to perform what's needed with the wire-feed portion of the contract using Lincoln Electric .035" Blue Max MiG 308LSi wire... but the stainless...

I am a bit more seasoned when it comes to the GMAW and SMAW processes but I have recently started learning my way around GTAW and I have noticed some things that are not quite right. I am watching the videos and have learned a lot in a short amount of time. The one thing that I cant figure out at th...