Captain Bondo

It's not like his house is going to blow up or he'll get AIDS by trying it- some people have good results with it.

Maybe you mean you can't fill a groove with it. :P I do just fine. See posted weld. Lots of very capable and certified weldors use it in such an application, it is a personal preference thing. You can certainly get away without it, but IMO it is worth a try just to see if it suits you. No point in telling a boob to flat out not try something that many people do find helpful.

Also it has nothing to do with walking the cup.

Toysrme

its not life or death. but you're ------- stupid. hell never fill a groove well with it for a reason you dumbfuck. what's going to happen even filling a second pass on a junk piece of schedule 10 He's going to weld for less than half an inch and need to advance the filler through his hand. his filler angles, and overall technique is *relatively* poor simply because he's never tig welded before.
guess what? now you've compicated what he's doing FOR NO GOD DAMNED REASON; along with wasting time and money taking longer to fill it, and wasting tungsten having a newbie having to deal with a stratch start far more often than he otherwise would need too.

im not engloid, nor am i a CWI. that said this is a prime why i got paid to teach brand new gtaw welders at the Honda plant outside of Cullman, AL how to GTAW their mufflers together last year. its a matter of i know more why and why not than you do. its not a personal attack. dont make it so, ill call you a douche bag and your feelings will get hurt.

Toysrme

and what's the point in saying anything about me telling him to learn how to dip or walk the cup?

i TOLD him to learn how to dip or walk properly period. what the ---- mucus did you think i was talking about

Captain Bondo

Ha! I also told him to practice some more first. :P

The thing to remeber though is even beveled sched 10 stainless does not require much filler at all. You can easily weld 1/4 of the way around the pipe without having to advance the filler, provided you hold it 4-5" back from the end of the rod. If you decide to be a dumbass and strike the arc holding the filler rod 1" from the end then then yu need to seriosuly re-think the process in general.

How much filler do you think it actually takes? :1

I can do a demo if you really want.

lilpooh21186

---- all that argon bs get your self some hf flux wire turn that bitch to high wire speed at 7 let that bitch splatter.

t_cel_t

proper tig'n=baller status

ComputerJLT

Another thing w/ the HF tig is gas coverage sucks *****

stuff a tiny bit of steel wool inside the cup of the torch; make an hmt gas lens if you will

my welds went form meh to decent when I did just that one mod...

Or get yourself a real torch w/ gas lens used for chheap if you can and be happy with that!