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[Barking Mat]

LOL or my usual favourite, go to weld some stainless with a lovely newly sharpened tungsten, strike the arc and find you have forgotten to change to DC. Swear, resharpen the tungsten, put it back in and start again and find you have again forgotten to switch to DC

I found with aluminium, it's the hf arc maintained switch, which got me for a couple I years....

Then flip that switch and ahh, I see...

 

[Cheesie]

LOL or my usual favourite, go to weld some stainless with a lovely newly sharpened tungsten, strike the arc and find you have forgotten to change to DC. Swear, resharpen the tungsten, put it back in and start again and find you have again forgotten to switch to DC

Only ever hapens on the run that will be seen

 

[Hood]

Only ever hapens on the run that will be seen

The other one I have done is weld some aluminim and think, why the heck is that rod not running in to the pool nicely. Then it dawns, some idiot is trying to push a stainless rod into the aluminium pool

 

[Edward Teach]

You are too late, in post 2 I put up the worst anyone could do

I thought my effort further up the page may have been entitled,
My first weld at Aluminium came out better though.

 

[angellonewolf]

Where's the show us your failed / crap attempts at welding thread...

id overload the server if we had that thread

 

[500e]

Tried that last week @Hood strange I thought

 

[Macfun]

Can you TIG weld concrete and earth ?


Yes, I can :

 

[Barking Mat]

Can you TIG weld concrete and earth ?


Yes, I can :

Deep pénétration?

 

[500e]

We need a cut & polish am suspicious of penetration

 

[Macfun]

We need a cut & polish am suspicious of penetration

Your suspicion is probably right ...

 

[Liquid Metal]

This one was a bit of a fiddly one. All 1/2" s40 pipe, the drilled blank they pass through being an 8". All socket welds and fillets thankfully lol

 

[Tigman]

I thought socket weld fittings was an American thing ? Never had the pleasure !

 

[mechman]

This one was a bit of a fiddly one. All 1/2" s40 pipe, the drilled blank they pass through being an 8". All socket welds and fillets thankfully lolView attachment 289528View attachment 289529View attachment 289530View attachment 289531

Did you use gap washers on the socket welds? Never seen them for a good while. Think we used to settle for a 2mm gap from the end of the pipe.

 

[zeppelin builder]

we always used to bottom the fitting mark it then pull the pipe out 2mm ,sent a plumber round every store and rig in a big yard for a box of thermal gaps

qa would x ray at random to check a gap was used if not chop it

 

[Mullet52]

Some fillet welds from today

 

[Barking Mat]

Some fillet welds from today

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Ooh, pretty welds.

 

[ghostdancing]

Some fillet welds from today

that's a piece of art..can you state details of this masterpiece?

 

[Mullet52]

What do you want to know?

 

[Tigman]

I think he would like to know your settings , pulse or not , cup size , filler size and all that kind of stuff , nice looking welds !

 

[ghostdancing]

yep, just that..