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I am welding for the 4thy timewith my Miller EconoTIG and I am getting shocked. I am welding stainless steel on a welding table that I recently made. I am wearing the proper welding coat and thicker than normal gloves but I am still recieving some shocks. What is wrong???
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i am not an electrician, but the instruction manual probably has a step for driving a copper rod in the ground to make sure the frame of the machine is properly grounded to prevent high frequency from bleeding out everywhere... that might be the problem.
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    Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:24 pm

Make sure you are not between your ground and workpiece. Or if you can ground right to the work . Also to narrow it down try wearing a pair of the latex gloves under your reg gloves.Sometimes you can get a jolt from just a hole around the stitching as well in the fingers of the gloves.
Hope this helps
Gary
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