[AT] TIG welding--a little OT

Grant Brians gbrians at hollinet.com
Thu Mar 16 21:20:53 PST 2006


John, I love TIG welding. It is much harder to learn, but the results are 
great. The control possible of the heat is truly useful, especially on thin 
material. Most of my experience is with aluminum, but I found that it works 
well on rusted sheet metal too when you use a silicon steel welding rod. I 
can actually repair a galvanized welded sheet steel elbow for irrigation 
pipe that has metal that is paper thin and rusted holes.....
    It does take some time to do jobs like this though.
        Grant Brians
        Hollister, California
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron D Haskell" <rdhaskell at juno.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] TIG welding--a little OT


> 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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