:lol: stack of dimes with a stick? Anyways sounds like you may need whip it a bit in the direction of the weld may help, you know lay some weld move forward a bit and smoothly whip it back on itself and so on. 6010s would not be choice for that. 7016s or 14s would do that nicely. If you can find som...

Morning, yeah research is always a good idea, titanium is a little ways off yet. Aluminium filler I use is always 4043, I dont use 5000 series much, nothing wrong with it, I just dont. Tungstens: I use red for dc and now ceriated for ac. I get a small amount of arc wander from ceriated. Mind you I a...

https://www.esabna.com/euweb/fm_handbook/577fm8_6.htm
There may be some useful tools here as well

So MTS are a quality supplier, I will get an order in then.
Thanks

Yeah thats cool, I get it. The mask Oscar suggested will be a bit more comfortable though, but that one will do.

Just curious if anyone has any experience with MTS (midwest tungsten supplies) All three of my go tos dont stock 2 percent lanthanated, one suggested 1.5 percent but I have found them to be useful but not great. Amazon has MTS and patriot metals, MTS seem more legit as I cant find any non amazon inf...

On coupons, that seems ok.
Try metalshops in your area aswell if you want, especially aluminium stainless machine shops.
They may have free bits..........and great tips.
But those coupons seem ok and aluminium is a dangerous bugger to cut without the right gear.

Yeah defintley Get a big tank if you are practising. Those little tanks go in a day. The tig setup you have is fine to get started but I would look at a gas lens kit. I would only suggest weldmonger cause they are all that Ive tried from the states. And they are good to thier customers. They have st...

Voestalpine have an app for android. In metric apparently. No app is going to be perfect though. Gas use you may have to work out with a pen though. For example 300cf tank at 15cfh 300 ÷ 15= 20hrs And you only use gas when arcing so whatever percentage of the hour that is. I dont use the apps any mo...

Work out what you can take photos of aswell. I only take photos of stuff I knock up around the house cause most of "work" is subject to intellectual property. But having a portfolio of your work speaks volumes when quoting at other companies. Spend time in you local welding supplies mainly...

https://welding.org.au/calculators/weld-consumable-calculator-butt-and-fillet-welds/ Something like this? Aws may have something similar, same with miller. You will have to set a price though, you know something like what you expect to take home plus insurances, tax, uniforms/apparel, wear and tear ...

Im going to assume you mean a weld deposition calculator? In order to order the right amount of consumables? Hobart has some good tools, miller as well. Whatever they say add 10% if ordering to cover real world conditions cause the programs only do perfect computer calcs. Fronius has some too but th...

Oh I forgot, I saw a multi tool spanner in gasweld yesterday. In the welding section. $ 9.95 I have too many shifter to bother but yeah it's out there. :D Sorry, I don't know what that means either. Multitools at Gasweld are not spanners. Jack Yeah right. Oh well I will leave it up to you then. Hav...

The holes are plug welds, I dont think you would need them on that we use them for repairs on things like cat 777, D10, D11, bridges or such. But only when engineer specs it. Otherwise restore as original, flawless finish and needle piened. The idea is that you dog and wedge plate down to a repaired...

Hey mate, thats a very patient model you have there, he wont need that, at least I dont think so. Its still gotta be fun, tig is good for not much fumes, stay away from galvanised stuff and some electroplated stuff. Dont spray stuff on metal you intend to weld etc Otherwise just have a ventilated sh...

Hugong are excellent welders.I have a couple of em and they are really good. All my mates own at least 1 of them too, but I wont tell them that they do though, cause all of our hugong gear are WIA yellow in Austraila.

Oh I forgot, I saw a multi tool spanner in gasweld yesterday. In the welding section. $ 9.95
I have too many shifter to bother but yeah it's out there.

".I have large oxy-acetylene tanks for plenty of heating,i am friendly with those,we use them in farming allot ,on machines some bearings require pre heat to get out ,some rusty bolts ,etc etc,been using that allot. My plan was first to finish up making V grove where that crack is on that frame...

I find a 1 1/8 spanner for reg to bottle and 3/4 spanner for lead gets me out of trouble but you can use a mobile lathe (shifter) for it.

Hi mate. The correct term for that steel is C channel or Parrellel Flange Channel PFC. For short, this is not a correction of you it just makes it easier to order if you need to. What type of machine is it? Brand. ISOLATE BATTERY. Otherwise you will be chasing electrical gremlins forever. Earth as c...

Thats cool mate, it is a great idea to teach em just make sure the helmet lens and safety gear is ok they dont seem to like flash and ray burn much and it probably would be worse for them than us at that age. I teach a couple of mine, I spent years in industry and they hand me my backside quickly re...

Possibly a dodgy potentiometer, shouldnt be hard to change out mark wires before taking off etc. Getting the right resistance would be the trick or maybe get a better one might give fine tuning a new meaning ;) Can't honestly say I have ever used one, or evena manual filler dabber for that matter, I...

Hi mate what torch came with the welder or do you have one that fits it?

Not much more than a bee's d$%k under that Any quicker?

Yeah sorry, inductance is a setting on some mig machines that basically takes the sputter out of short arc. Most machines are set at factory anyway but other can be adjusted. Up for smoother etc. Its a feature thats helpful if you have it but not essential if you dont. Only 1 of mine have it. Does t...