New Tig Welder ,1st job

[Mikey D]

So my new tig welder /inverter arrived yesterday ,courtesy of weldequip
Many years ago at college i did a bit of gas and mig welding ,but all my tig is self tought , so its far from perfect

just thought id share with a few pictures the job i did today with the new machine . This is a milk reciever on a rotary milking parlour

The job was do away with the rubber fitting ,which has an elbow inside the vessel to wash the inside .when its on a wash cycle ,after milking .

Having cut out a short section of pipe, a new piece is cut using the excellent ( but chinese im afraid )evolution chop saw ,incidently fitted with a stainless cutting blade .

Then a new union is swaged on ....

Finally a large 'washer ' which i had to cut out using 2 hole saws was fitted up against the vessel (must get a plasma cutter when funds allow ) and welded round /cleaned up

close up please feel free to make any comments good or bad about the welding

Finally heres the kit i used .....

Cheers mike

 

[Baz-Cem]

Looks pretty good to me

How fast does the saw cut and how much noise does it make m8?

 

[weldequip]

Good stuff Mike, hope you are pleased with the new kit?
Watch it with that pickling paste... wouldn't want that stuff getting into the milk!
weldequip

 

[irondarren]

Nice welding, on a nice little machine. You will also find it does MMA rather nicely as well

 

[Mikey D]

Thanks for the comments guys

The chop saw is great ,much faster than abrasive disc(about 50 % quicker id say) and about the same noise level .it comes with a multipurpose blade but found it too coarce for the thin stainless tube ,so forked out for a stainless cutting blade .
the standard blade works fine on mild steel flat /box etc tho.

Steve the welder is great im really chuffed with it thanks for throwing in the tig gloves too

The sif hemet is great too , no problems worked fine on the tiging @ 60 amps , i will have to experiment to see how low an amperage it will work at .....

Darren , it is indeed a great little machine , that was its first outing so not done any MMA with it yet

Much better machine than the GYS inverter i prevoiusly had the use of , and that wasnt a bad machine !

Ideally i would have purged the inside but i expect there will be one or two more units that will need modifying the same way ,so i will probably get the stuff to do the purging ...
cheers mike