DavidVT
Gold Member
Looking for a sanity check here.
I used to do some SS tig work with a very simple inverter setup at a previous job. It was simple scratch start stuff and no one's life depended on my welding.
As to stick welding, I am a novice. I am interested in the challenge to follow.....
I have a SS outdoor boiler that is really leaking bad. My plan is to keep limping along with it until the weather warms up here in VT. I then plan to try and find the leaks which I assume will need to be welded. This is an atmospheric boiler so no pressure vessel issues at all. The last owner let if freeze up a few times so I have a good idea the bowed sides are a tell tale sign of seams having been stressed a tad.
If I am up to the challenge, do you think my stick welder with a TIG setup will be good enough for the simple welding I need to do?
Argon bottle setup
Tig torch
SS filler rod
tungstens
Am I missing anything?
Yes, I can probably hire someone to do this minor welding but what is the fun of that?
Then again I will have to make a longer power cord to reach the boiler...
Or will that old Y2K era 5KW coleman have enough juice for 100amps DC or so? hmmmm???
Thx
I used to do some SS tig work with a very simple inverter setup at a previous job. It was simple scratch start stuff and no one's life depended on my welding.
As to stick welding, I am a novice. I am interested in the challenge to follow.....
I have a SS outdoor boiler that is really leaking bad. My plan is to keep limping along with it until the weather warms up here in VT. I then plan to try and find the leaks which I assume will need to be welded. This is an atmospheric boiler so no pressure vessel issues at all. The last owner let if freeze up a few times so I have a good idea the bowed sides are a tell tale sign of seams having been stressed a tad.
If I am up to the challenge, do you think my stick welder with a TIG setup will be good enough for the simple welding I need to do?
Argon bottle setup
Tig torch
SS filler rod
tungstens
Am I missing anything?
Yes, I can probably hire someone to do this minor welding but what is the fun of that?
Then again I will have to make a longer power cord to reach the boiler...
Or will that old Y2K era 5KW coleman have enough juice for 100amps DC or so? hmmmm???
Thx