[AT] TIG welding--a little OT

Ron D Haskell rdhaskell at juno.com
Thu Mar 16 13:14:54 PST 2006


Hi John.
There is a special filler rod for mild steel when you use tig.  A this
strip of the parent material cut on a sharp squaring sheer will work
also.  The inert gas is the flux.  It is much like oxy acetylene welding,
except the electric arc is the heat source.  Takes lots of practice to be
good.

Ron Haskell
rdhaskell at juno.com
Riverside California USA
http://www.oldengine.org/members/haskell/

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:46:21 -0800 John Wilkens <jwilkens at eoni.com>
writes:
> Thinking about a new tool--TIG welder.  What kind of filler rod would 
> you 
> use for thin steel?  Just regular unfluxed mild steel wire--or 
> baling 
> wire--or??
> I'd like some general feedback on TIG welding (thin steel, aluminum, 
> 
> etc.)--any thoughts.  What got me interested was a program I watched 
> on the 
> Speed channel about a fellow building a custom motorcycle.  He was 
> always 
> using a TIG welder and it sure looked like it worked slick--and the 
> guy 
> wasn't a pro welder.  I've had zero luck trying to weld fender-thick 
> steel 
> with a small (probably too cheap) wire feed welder.  Just couldn't 
> control 
> the heat good enough.    John
> 
>                     In the wide-open spaces of NE Oregon



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