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Thanks guys going to practice little more then build me a rear bumper.

 

make sure you post pics

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Just started welding today. My beads sucked but im not giving up. I cant wait until I can lay some beads half as good as some of you guys.

 

That Jackson looks better than my Miller though they have all the same adjustments.

 

Here is my latest, still learning so let me know what you guys think

 

battery>solar any day IMO

I've been using a gold tinted fixed shade lately with the TIG. The gold is really cool because you can actually see the metal get red.

Here is my latest failure. 1/8" aluminum, I tried one of the butt joints with filler but I just don't have the skill to make it pretty yet, so I just fusion welded the rest of the butts. You can see my terrible outside corners because I had to use filler.

 

The solar helmets usually have a battery too.

 

ah ok didn't know that. I've mostly been looking at fixed shades.

 

I would totally go auto-shade over fixed. Much easier to get started. Plus you have different levels of shading too. I think it's a definite advantage.

 

Oh for sure for MIG, but for stick and TIG I find the fixed shade to be just fine. I tried the fixed with MIG the other day and just got frustrated.

I may be paranoid but I wouldn't use an auto shade unless its a quality unit, I just don't trust those cheapies to dim fast enough.

 

I was hesitant too. I mean it's your eyesight but damn, it's so nice being able to see your work before arc strike (regardless of process).

 

agreed, Im just cheap

Nice sounds like a good deal.

 

Awesome!

 

So I'm at Air Force tech school for Metals, and right now we're doing oxy welding. My class is the newest, so we're just getting started really.

We started with brazing and we're almost done with oxy. We've been doing t-joints the past few days. Here's one of mine that I was happy with.



We do our practical tomorrow and then start butt-joints. Then silver-soldering and then we'll be going into arc welding which starts the next block of instruction.

Fun stuff, I could stay all night and weld. I'm so lucky to have landed this job.

 

nice, oxy is the one type I haven't tried but I've heard it's really similar to TIG.

 

Oxy/acetylene is similar in that you're adding material with a hand held rod. Otherwise, I don't think you get nearly the control over heat you do with TIG.

 

Nice! Great way to learn a skill you can use later on.