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   / Let's see your welds... #172  
A t-joint of 1/4 aluminum made with a Millermatic 210 with spool gun.
 

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   / Let's see your welds... #174  

If you weld a Pepsi can to a Coke can, do they break each other down like dissimilar metals? Perhaps you need to weld a piece of a RC Cola can in-between to prevent electrolisis?
 
   / Let's see your welds... #175  
OK, so how in the world did you do that???
DETAILS!
 
   / Let's see your welds... #177  
HF TIG rig set at about 10 amps would be my guess.

Inverter with all sorts of wave balance and pulse features is more likely.
 
   / Let's see your welds... #178  
I tried the cans with our dynasty. HF, I thing 5 amps, and triangle wave with pulse set to not deliver much heat. Now granted, we didn't have a small enough tungsten or filler, but I still kept burning through.

If that was done with a conventional gig, m
y hats off to you.

Are you sure those aren't solid slugs of aluminum with. A can body over it???:)
 
   / Let's see your welds... #179  
Welded thoes with an old Miller syncrowave 300. Have welded others with syncrowave 250's and Lincoln square wave 225.

It can be done with a normal cup and a 1/16 electrode (prefer 2% to pure as you need to keep the tip sharp vs the normal ball for aluminum) but its a bit easyer with a .040" 2% electrode and a gas lense.

Never tried it with any of the inverter machines I have but I bet they would do it.
 
   / Let's see your welds... #180  

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