Yeah purging the pipe with another pipe off the flow meter on a y piece and masking up the end of the pipes and putting tape around the butt and peeling it off as i go along . done a few root passes today and they were ok better than my last ones

how do i get my root run in stainless looking like a single bead run on a piece of plate

Hi again now i managed to get a good root with my tig with carbon and managed to get it looking nice . I have now started to practise on stainless i know it closes on you and ther are ways of stopping this and also about purging the pipe . i have started with a feathered edge on 2inch pipe sch 10 as...

hi all been doing 3inch carbon steel argon root,filler and cap hunderd percent x ray butts. Five have passed no probs but on the sixth butt there was porosity picked up in the root. So repaired the butt by grinding it out and rerooting it filler and cap the affectted area . X rayed again and still p...

does anybody know if you can get tig finger outside of america or get it delivered

cheers guys for the tips gonna start getting that rod pushed through

THAT'S MY PROMBLEM WHEN I LAY THE FILLER WIRE INTO THE GAP IN THE PIPE AND START TO FEED IT IN I CAN'T TELL HOW MUCH WIRE I PUT IN OR HOW LITTLE HAS GONE IN I ONLY LOOK AT THE WELD POOL AND WIRE IS IT MY SPEED OF TRAVEL THAT IS GIVING ME A FLAT RUN ON THE INSIDE OF THE PIPE

HI CAN ANYONE HELP I ALWAYS NEVER PUT ENOUGH WIRE INTO THE WELD POOL GIVING ME A FLAT RUN OR A RUN THAT IS SUNK OR MISSED EDGES BUT WHEN I AM WELDING IT ALWAYS LOOKS ENOUGH WIRE WHAT AM I DOING WRONG