I really enjoyed the tig welding learning curve. Do yourself a favour though and get a bit of plate for your bench to weld on and attach your earth to that. The more comfortable you are the better your weld will be.
Definitely mate, I have that steel bench to the right of my normal one which I could set up on. If I get serious on a project I probably would. I am still just pottering here and there with it. I am probably using it once a month so not too much!
Hey mate we all start somewhere I'm sure eby now you have a good grasp of it. From what I could see you're immediately removing your torch tip from the puddle. You need the gas to cool the tungsten before switching the power off to the torch. You're burning up your tip each time leaving it to oxidise as well as the end of your weld. Just hol the torch with gas flowing at the end of your weld for a few seconds till your tip stops glowing. As others said just learning to create a puddle without filler rod is a great start then get the filler rod in when your puddle control is running.
Nice job for your first go, it's a big learning curve to get your head a round, so they say. Did you get a D size bottle or an E size ?. I am looking at buying the same tig and then comes the fun part. All the best, Cheers
Thanks mate, I use the E size bottles. May even go the G next time round hey. The good thing now you don't have to pay the monthly rent on bottles so may as well go the biggest so it means less swap overs.
alsao you should watch some videos on how to tig weld it is not easy and that is how i learned it ius a steep learning curve but definately take some time to watch some videos and do some reading first Then try your hand at it once you have kind of learned somwe theory and also learned how to set it up. and don't worry about filler right away learn how to makw a puddle first then worry about filler later. Just some small tips to get you started. if you want to self tweach do some research first
