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11-11-2012, 09:26 PM
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I now own a TIG welder and have measured my garage. With a bit of cleaning and rearranging I think I could have the room to build something. So I think over winter I learn to weld well enough to attempt to assemble a frame. This also gives me time to gather all the tools I will need to build a locost and continue research on the exact design I want to go with. Then hopefully sometime in the spring I could attempt to start a build.
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11-11-2012, 11:41 PM
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I now own a TIG welder and have measured my garage. With a bit of cleaning and rearranging I think I could have the room to build something. So I think over winter I learn to weld well enough to attempt to assemble a frame. This also gives me time to gather all the tools I will need to build a locost and continue research on the exact design I want to go with. Then hopefully sometime in the spring I could attempt to start a build.
Not to dissuade you or anything.
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11-12-2012, 07:41 AM
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11-12-2012, 09:02 AM
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I now own a TIG welder and have measured my garage. With a bit of cleaning and rearranging I think I could have the room to build something. So I think over winter I learn to weld well enough to attempt to assemble a frame. This also gives me time to gather all the tools I will need to build a locost and continue research on the exact design I want to go with. Then hopefully sometime in the spring I could attempt to start a build.
Build turbo manifolds which are easier. Sell enough manifolds to buy a frame. I've sold enough manifolds/downpipes/turbos over the last 3 years to buy one of these kits.
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11-15-2012, 05:37 PM
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I will be signing up for a tig welding class at my local community college tomorrow. It is a month long class in January and February. Hopefully after then I will have enough knowledge and skill to weld decently.
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11-15-2012, 06:12 PM
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I took a welding class at the local tech school a few Summers ago. For $400 I had as much seat time and materials as I could possibly consume, two days a week, all Summer long. I learned more in that Summer than I did in the ~6 years of semi regular playing with a TIG machine that i did before that. Worth every penny.
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11-20-2012, 05:17 PM
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I am officially signed up for the Tig class at my local CC. I will be getting proper lessons starting in January.
This past Saturday I finally got the outlet installed for the welder. I also spent most of the weekend cleaning my garage.
I can now fit a miata in easily so I should have more then enough room for a 7 frame.
Also how does these tungston tips look? Are they sharp enough?
This past Saturday I finally got the outlet installed for the welder. I also spent most of the weekend cleaning my garage.
I can now fit a miata in easily so I should have more then enough room for a 7 frame.
Also how does these tungston tips look? Are they sharp enough?
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11-20-2012, 05:29 PM
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They look sharp enough (I assume you're welding steel of some kind), but they also look like you held the tungsten almost parallel to the rotation of the grinder when you sharpened them.
I've was taught to hold the tungsten perpendicular to the rotation and spin the tungsten in your fingers as you grind it. This makes it so the tiny grooves left by he grinder on the sharpened part will all converge at the point rather than be concentric rings around the cone. This should give you a better arc pattern.
I've was taught to hold the tungsten perpendicular to the rotation and spin the tungsten in your fingers as you grind it. This makes it so the tiny grooves left by he grinder on the sharpened part will all converge at the point rather than be concentric rings around the cone. This should give you a better arc pattern.
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11-20-2012, 08:58 PM
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Nice job on the garage! Invest in a larger vice though like this one.
You want the head to rotate. When I have to weld at my dads shop with his fixed vice like yours, it is a royal pain in the ***.
Those electrodes look fat. I use .062, those look to be fatter. I do not have good luck with fat electrodes on anything that is the thickness of what you will be welding. On the max current my tig puts out .062 is fine. Fatter makes the arc harder to handle for me but I have never taken a class. Just my 2 cents.
You want the head to rotate. When I have to weld at my dads shop with his fixed vice like yours, it is a royal pain in the ***.
Those electrodes look fat. I use .062, those look to be fatter. I do not have good luck with fat electrodes on anything that is the thickness of what you will be welding. On the max current my tig puts out .062 is fine. Fatter makes the arc harder to handle for me but I have never taken a class. Just my 2 cents.
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11-20-2012, 09:07 PM
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And the red electrodes are nnnnice but radioactive slightly. I now use gold/lanthanted on steels with a needle tip and reds on alum with a rounded nose. I never had any luck with greens on aluminum.
But on a month you will have the instruction you want and teach me how to do it right!
But on a month you will have the instruction you want and teach me how to do it right!
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11-20-2012, 09:11 PM
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And what gesso said is right. I cannot see the grooves on my phone but yeah. Make them in line with the electrodes length. I also taper mine a little more than you on a shallower angle.
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11-20-2012, 10:08 PM
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They look sharp enough (I assume you're welding steel of some kind), but they also look like you held the tungsten almost parallel to the rotation of the grinder when you sharpened them.
I've was taught to hold the tungsten perpendicular to the rotation and spin the tungsten in your fingers as you grind it. This makes it so the tiny grooves left by he grinder on the sharpened part will all converge at the point rather than be concentric rings around the cone. This should give you a better arc pattern.
I've was taught to hold the tungsten perpendicular to the rotation and spin the tungsten in your fingers as you grind it. This makes it so the tiny grooves left by he grinder on the sharpened part will all converge at the point rather than be concentric rings around the cone. This should give you a better arc pattern.
You are saying I should grind them this way correct? I will regrind them then tomorrow before I start on my first welds.
Nice job on the garage! Invest in a larger vice though like this one.
You want the head to rotate. When I have to weld at my dads shop with his fixed vice like yours, it is a royal pain in the ***.
Those electrodes look fat. I use .062, those look to be fatter. I do not have good luck with fat electrodes on anything that is the thickness of what you will be welding. On the max current my tig puts out .062 is fine. Fatter makes the arc harder to handle for me but I have never taken a class. Just my 2 cents.
And the red electrodes are nnnnice but radioactive slightly. I now use gold/lanthanted on steels with a needle tip and reds on alum with a rounded nose. I never had any luck with greens on aluminum.
But on a month you will have the instruction you want and teach me how to do it right!
You want the head to rotate. When I have to weld at my dads shop with his fixed vice like yours, it is a royal pain in the ***.
Those electrodes look fat. I use .062, those look to be fatter. I do not have good luck with fat electrodes on anything that is the thickness of what you will be welding. On the max current my tig puts out .062 is fine. Fatter makes the arc harder to handle for me but I have never taken a class. Just my 2 cents.
And the red electrodes are nnnnice but radioactive slightly. I now use gold/lanthanted on steels with a needle tip and reds on alum with a rounded nose. I never had any luck with greens on aluminum.
But on a month you will have the instruction you want and teach me how to do it right!
Those are the electrodes that I have and planned on using for steal. I will start looking online for some gold ones in .062. Are the correct ones? I am sad that they are not prime items. Also if I switch to 1/16 electrodes do I need 1/16 collet and collet body?
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11-20-2012, 10:38 PM
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This was how I ground the tips. It was the first time I have ever done it so I just went with what seemed easiest.
[IMG]parallel picture/IMG]
You are saying I should grind them this way correct? I will regrind them then tomorrow before I start on my first welds.
[IMG] perpendicular picture[/IMG]
[IMG]parallel picture/IMG]
You are saying I should grind them this way correct? I will regrind them then tomorrow before I start on my first welds.
[IMG] perpendicular picture[/IMG]
Yes.
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11-20-2012, 10:47 PM
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Yep, just like in the second picture. Make sure you move the electrode back and forth across the face of the grinding wheel as it is very easy to make a groove in the wheel. Also, I generally sharpen the non-colored end, so as to make it easier to identify whats what later.
Yes.
Yes.
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11-21-2012, 12:14 AM
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180 deg from the second pic. Otherwise your electrode will end up inside your arm.
Gas lens collets/ kits work better. Or just start with what you already have. 10 electrodes should last you a while.
Gas lens collets/ kits work better. Or just start with what you already have. 10 electrodes should last you a while.
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