Extremely Difficult for a new person - you could just rivet through washers or bolt through washers. Or lay a 1/8" thick flat strip over the mesh and rivet, bolt or weld. "Extremely Difficult for a new person..." Yup, I suppose it is. I'm a stubborn old bstd though and will probably ...

Extremely Difficult for a new person - you could just rivet through washers or bolt through washers. Or lay a 1/8" thick flat strip over the mesh and rivet, bolt or weld. "Extremely Difficult for a new person..." Yup, I suppose it is. I'm a stubborn old bstd though and will probably ...

I think you're already on the right idea whats giving you the problem. You need to heat the 1/8" fast before the expanded heats up, which would probably be very difficult to control if you're new to it. I would try and pre heat the thick material up to annealing temp, which is quite close to m...

I think you're already on the right idea whats giving you the problem. You need to heat the 1/8" fast before the expanded heats up, which would probably be very difficult to control if you're new to it. I would try and pre heat the thick material up to annealing temp, which is quite close to m...

Well honestly, first welds on a first project = not a good idea, unless it is scrap-able in the end. It looks like you're having trouble with fusing the expanded metal to the sheet/angle/whatever. So what welder do you have, what settings, etc.? Machine is a Thermal Arc 186. For the 1/8th inch: Cle...

Hello all, Here are some pics of my first TIG welds on aluminum. The good, the bad, and the (very) ugly. The metal is mostly 1/8th inch, and most of the welds went pretty well, though not very pretty. The biggest problem I had was trying to weld 0.051 inch flat expanded aluminum to the 1/8th inch an...

Hello everyone, I recently bought a Thermal Arc 186 TIG welder. I've never TIG welded before getting this machine. I've been pouring over YouTube videos to learn some technique and have completed my first project, but not without several failures. Primarily welding 6160 aluminum so far. Looking forw...