Went to the welding supply. They put me in touch with an ace welder that is their customer service rep. He said I am not using enough amperage. Also that I should use a bigger tungsten. I am using a 3/16 and should use a 1/8th. The amperage should be up around 180 and negative DC. He also said prehe...

LOL Guess he needs to read up on this site. Don't tell him about it and see how long he is around. lol You may get a promotion in your near future.

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delraydella wrote:Detroit, across the river from Windsor ON. My grandfather is from Tilsonburg, about a half hour east of London.

A lot of my Family is from the Windsor area. Chatham. Love going to Mexican town when we go down there. El Pocotel is the best Mexican food around IMHO.

Me I am from K/W. Or Kitchener Waterloo, Ontario Canada. It is one hour south east of Toronto along the 401. To give you an Idea. Where are you guys from?

That's too bad. Sorry to hear that. I will see about uploading the material for mine for you. It may be similar to mine in concept. Perhaps it will help you out in a pinch. If need be you could see if an electrician could help you navigate through the problems with it. Sorry it won't let me upload a...

google the company. I emails Forney and they sent me pdf's of the manuals. I haven't had time to look through them yet but I think that they have a full schematic of the electrical. Might be worth it if you can get hold of them.

I really hate when someone else finishes your work buy sanding it down smooth and winds up burning through the sheet metal after you did a really nice job. I also hate when the guy bending up your parts can't be bothered to bend them right and the gap is too large to weld up properly. Making you wor...

Really wish the guy I am working with would stop grinding through the sheet metal on the corners after I do such a nice job welding them up now. Its a real pain to fill them in when the metal disappears under your torch. Most times I am able to fill them in but what a PITA.

They don't have oxy acet or I would. I tried a copper backer I laid in a pretty yucky bead. They guy could only cut me 1/8th pieces though 1/16th would be better. I put the machine up to 105 amps and it went fairly ok but the joint wasn't filled entirely when I ground it down. I will have to try aga...

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I would do it that way. Sheet steel used to be only joined with brazing rod in body work why not to brass or copper? Now it is done with a mig welder.

Being able to do something that no one around you can do themselves. Finding a site like this that makes your skills improve drastically over night. Finding little things the next day that you didn't think about before and finding it improves your ability a little but makes your job so much easier. ...

I am using DC power so you where right. The copper trick worked out really well. The backs of the welds are just as nice as the tops are now. Thanks for that tip guys. Oh ya special thank you to Jody for all the videos and I got my tig fingers today. Ordered 3 of them. Can't wait to try them out tom...

I will check that out. I wasn't sure 100% about that. Thanks for the info though. What about the colour of the welds? Is that a concern? I thought they should look cleaner than they do. What would cause that grey look?

Ok forget the question about the copper DUH I found it. Someone slap me.

Ok thanks Nova. Much appreciated. I will give that a try.

Here is the weld I have done. Out side corner stainless steel. Notice that the weld is grey looking and that there is a dark brown or black substance on each side. I turned up the balance on the welder to about half way. It seamed to go better. I tried to turn it down 5 amps and I kept loosing the w...

Ok I will look into that stuff. I will get some pics of them before the grinding takes place. No problem there. Purging isn't possible to do but I think that the paste will help out. I run my tank at 25 so I think that should be lots of argon for what I am doing.

Ok I have viewed a few of them. I will check out some more. Also the gel do you just smear some on the back? I think that is what is going on. Its 16 gauge metal and I am welding it at 49 amps. I would throw it up a little more but I am hesitant to raise it up much more. Perhaps by 5 would maybe hel...

Carbide who is talking about carbide? Its Tungsten he is talking about not carbide any grinding wheel will do.

I am tig welding stainless and haven't had much problem. I should give some details about what it is I am doing. Our company does Elevator control systems. I am welding the surface plates. I weld up the corners of the panels. After that they are ground up and the panels are sanded to give a finish t...

Oh and if he needs help to clean that idiot out of here I would be happy to help out in any way I can. PM me no problem at all. I would be happy to help out around here. Just let me know.

And blurry to boot. I will get a couple better pics tomorrow for you guys.