I am sharpening the tips to a point, and I'd say an included angle of 30 degrees is pretty close to what I have been getting. Of course, I'm sharpening them the correct way (lengthwise, not crosswise). I practiced more tonight. I did go back down to a 1/16th tungsten, and was doing OK. I'm going to ...

I made some progress tonight. I tried adding a ground to the anchors as suggested, and that helped. But actually clamping the anchors to the base metal helped more. I actually made up some of the actual spring anchors, and used a set of needle-nosed vice grips to hold them more firmly. I also tried ...

I use an additional light gauge (12)ground with alligater clips on the u clip, with pipe well grounded. Press the 2, tight together and light up on the heavier wire(heat wire/pipe) and then wash the wire on to the pipe. Good idea...ground both. I'll try that. Wash the wire on to the pipe...Do you m...

I have a new exhaust header for my motorcycle. It took forever to get it...and once it got here, one of he spring anchors had come loose, and a couple others don't look to be very solid. Kinda weird, actually, cause the exhaust is pretty well constructed otherwise! Anyway, I want to reattach this an...