welding

[gemini5362]

Yeah,forgot where you was from there,,ok,,how far are you from at least two grocery supermarkets,,thats a good sign to,,we got a krogers about 10 miles away in that little town,,but they have no competion,,the next one is 45 min away.

Rolfo,,they was just trying to figure if you can take a plug in type welder,220/230 I guess,and instead of plugging it into house current,plug it into a generator to make it portable. thingy

The walmart supercenter is in a little town called alma that has the supercenter grocery store, Harps grocery chain and CVA grocery chain. The town I live in still has a country store where I have a charge account. I charge gas or sodas or groceries whatever and he puts it on a ticket and puts the ticket under a spring with my name over it. I pay my bill once a week. It is actually a nice feeling to go into the store and just hang out and talk as people come in.

 

[RedRocker]

I had a friend in Alma, had a lot of Hudson's and Moto Guzzi's. He passed a while back, so Alma is probably back to normal by now.

 

[thingy]

You got more grocery stores than me,and I don't live in any town,,but on the other hand,I don't get any bills in a spring,so that alone could make you the winner!! [maybe of all time],,thingy

 

[Rolfo]

Thanks all of you for advice, I really want to learn it (TIG) even if I must wait till retirement day to have time.. Any instructional site around?

Rolfo

 

[thingy]

Go to the american welding societys web page,they sell all kinds of educational stuff,might even try a welder manufactors web page,,have you ever oxy/act. welded?,,its same principal,,except heat source,,thingy

 

[Lynkage]

Thanks all of you for advice, I really want to learn it (TIG) even if I must wait till retirement day to have time.. Any instructional site around?

Rolfo

I have started to learn TIG and it really is very fun!! I got a Lincoln 175 pro so it is an ac/dc stick/tig machine. I have just added a water cooled torch to it as well. I made my cooler (no pics as of yet) and wow it is great. TIG is not all that hard to learn. I was doing it in less than 30 min. I would however recommend that you have a machine that will have the high frequency start to make things easy as scratch start will take its toll on the tungsten.

 

[Bytesmiths]

I have to be contrary and say that a MIG is a lot more fun and easier to learn than a stick. Those pushing the stick emphasize versatility. That's like saying you should get a huge 200 acre tractor with all the attachments when you haven't even learned to drive a car yet.

For what you want to do, the MIG will do faster and easier. When you outgrow it, trade up.

 

[thingy]

We was talking tig now,you may not know the difference? thingy

 

[Rolfo]

As a boy I stood for hours looking at my uncle welding, mostly stick welding but also oxy/acetylene. I understand TIG is a little like oxy/acetylene technically, still very different in other aspects. Making tractor implements and repairing was my motivation for learning welding. I am looking at the Orange bike buildings boys at TV, they are TIG'ing their bike frames I think..

Rolfo

 

[Nevadan]

Most tig toches can use multiple sizes of tungsten electrodes so you can experiment. To do that you would need a brass furule as well as the electrode. (It is red).
There is a high frequency box available that can be pluged into a machine to alow for the high frequency start instead of scratch start.
3/32 works alright, for me, down to around 60 amps but below that smaller is nicer. I have worked with 3/32 down <30 but that was not easy. I was working on a piece around 22 gauge or so.

by the way 15 mile to the nearest town with one grocery store.