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Tig tungsten
WeldingRod:
I'll look at true color!
The key thing is to get an adjustable shade helmet! Huge help there!
Another good trick: put lots of light on your work to reduce the contrast between the arc and background.
I'm definitely a TIG enthusiast, and recently discovered TIG brazing; way cool!
The photo is a hand pump I did for the kinds school, based on the Watt linkage, and designed to be safe for little kids. It looks better with the deck around it. My kids are a lot older now ;-)
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tom osselton:
That’s quite the pump!
Auskart:
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--- Quote from: WeldingRod on December 10, 2018, 08:49:44 AM ---Yep, that's it! I'm 99% sure mine isnt 3800 rpm. I put one in at work too, so I've run two of them. It's a brush motor, so you could drop the speed further by going to half wave rectification of phase control.
If there's interest I could publish my sliding table for it.
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There is enough interest for the sliding table. Please, publish something.
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Details of your sliding table would be nice.
Alphawolf45:
John , Now that I have the true color helmet ordered I am like a child waiting for Christmas morning - really looking forward to giving it a try as most of my TIG jobs involve adding a tiny bead to fill in a dent or the gouge made from bad move with an endmill. And often I have to make the weld while unable to see the work.. If I have drilled hole in wrong spot and need to fill it in and recut I'll generally just use the MIG...……………….Nice thing about TIG is the very wide veriaty of available filler rods.... Only recently I have played with TIG brazing as has Weldingrod… However the most recent time I needed to add brass as a bearing surface I used a torch with flux coated brass filler rod because I think-unsure- but I think with the gas torch that I can add the braze using approximately 900F less heat to the workpiece than when using the TIG ?? . Trying to minimize heat distortion... I weld , I am however not to be confused with a real welder.
I want to mention that I often get shocked using the TIG unless I am wearing a welding jacket and gloves but not once ever has a MIG bit me...I did also get zapped pretty bad when using an arc welder while laying under farm machinery and stick welding.....Welding can be a lifetime of learning all by itself , I will never be a great welder though I learned to weld in a class in 1973 .
vintageandclassicrepairs:
Hi Alpha,
If there is any zinc in the brazing rods as a lot of the gas brazing rods have in them
they will not work with TIG,
I'm sure you know this but thought to say it anyway
John
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