Hello Kleatus! I understand your aggrevations all to well. I am also a fresh beginner at welding and had a hard time finding a job, since, like you say, companies across the board want workers that are masters at their job; they have no interest in taking in a beginner and helping him become a skill...

Hello! GreinTime, sorry about misspelling your nick name, probably done it before to, only today have I realized it says grein and not green, must be geting dyslectic or something. Congratulations on your paper score, guess some people just function better under stress... I now I do, waiting till th...

Hello! Well the tiny fuel tank job is half done. Yesterday I welded the holes where rivets used to be and then I told the owner to fill it up and check for leaks before I weld the holder back on... As for safety, Im somewhat ashamed to say, I dont practise it as strictley or as often as it would be ...

Hello Danny and Jonathan d! Thank you for the welcome, happy to be here. You got a good point there Jonathan and I undrstand what you are saying, Things are never clearcut as there are always two sides to the coin, so i hope you also understood my point of view for what it was and which i think to b...

Hello! @ Steve S - Yeah, got to much ideas, they just keep piling up, but never enough time or funds, working on many projects silmuntaniously and new ones just keep poping up... Right now, besides the job, and the welder I bought, Im restorating a small ( 2 person) fiberglass boat for my fishing tr...

Hi! Thanks Len... any input is welcome esspecially if it helps to improve the final concept. So the active charcoal comes first and silica gel comes last. The piping should reduce in size towards the exit point. Im not familiar with Joules-Thomson effect, will look it up on wikipedia. But I thought ...

Hi again! @Otto - Just about to ask you, and you allready answerd, thanks... I get it now. Sure hope it works. How and with what would you plug that gas exit hole in the machine. Could I just plug it with a cylindricaly shaped rubber? Here is the upright sektch with additional one with copper coils,...

Hi! Thanks for the replies guys. Im a bit slow with typing, since English isnt my mother tounge, if that is the correct term? And I see the sketch is upside down, sorry about that. Ill try to repost it the right way up. @ Otto - refrigerator is a good idea, unfortinabley My work shop is a small gara...

Hello! I drew a sketch of what I had in minde regarding the compressed air preparation. Its a crude sketch but I hope is clear enough for understanding the basic idea. Instead of the U shaped inverted column and radiator plates I could also just make a coil out of the copper pipe to increase the sur...

Hello! @noddybrian - Thank you for the info... before you mentioned it I wasnt aware of this, so you saved me great deal of frustration in the future... thanks again. So ideally, the air (or any other gas for that matter) entering the machine should be free of all contaminents, like water wapor, oil...

Hello! @GreenTime - Thanks for the advice, been doing that for a while now (seen most of Jodys videos, cant say nothing about his stuff that hasnt been said before, just excellent) Im wearing gloves as well and passing wire between my fingers while watching the TV or wt&t videos... And one of th...

Hello! Thank you for the welcome guys, I appreciate it. Been around for awhile now and only registred because I couldnt find the info I needed. Dont really like to ask questions before I fully utilize the various search options, and really dont care much for people who clog the forums with the same ...

Hello! First of all, thank you for your quick replies guys.. and second, I am happy to say I managed to sort the problem out. Yesterday I was searching the web for a solution and was lucky enough to stumble across a video in which the guy is using a similar machine to mine for welding beer cans toge...

Hello! I am new to this forum and to tig welding as well. Only this year have I finished a tig welding course at a local school and then passed the EU certification test for tig welding. I allready have expirience with stick and mig/mag welding. Currently Im working as a mig/mag welder at a small co...

I am a beginner at welding... and my ultimate goal in this field is to become a professional tig welder. My first encounter with weldnig was many years ago with a simple stick welder and it stayed that way until recently when I took two welding courses first for MIG/MAG welding and in the beginnig o...