I have been so busy with work that I hadn't had a chance to try anything new until a few days ago. I bought a gas lense and a couple more cups, a 7 and 8. I'm not having anymore soot like material showing up on the welds but on mild steel I'm still having some issues with adding filler and getting t...

Thanks for all the tips. I'll make a couple small changes and practice practice practice. I didn't know you needed arc lengths so short. I'm going to need a maginifying glass to see that..lol. I only used a 100amps because I was only running beads and not connecting material, seemed to hot already, ...

Bad gas? Or leak I can't find? Not to sure, anytime I try to run a bead I start with a clean electrode, sharped parallel to the tungsten rod. I was going to buy 2% lanthanated but they didn't have it so I bought 2% ceriated 3/32". The machine is a brand new Everlast250 and everything I'm using ...

Mike wrote:Welcome to the forum.

Thank you

Thanks Steve , I'm looking forward to the learning curve, and hopefully concurring it.

I'm from Red Deer Tom, best of luck honing your skills as well

Howdy, I'm just a hobby welder who has only been using a 110v Lincoln mig so far. I've gotten pretty good with it over the last couple years, although it's pretty limited. For the last couple weeks I've been thinking its time to go Tig, better welds, more versatile and my garage won't be so full of ...