I'm taking a MIG welding class, and so far I have about 15-20 hours of actual welding. The class is geared towards industrial so we have to do horizontal, vertical down, vertical up, overhead, thin gauge up to 3/4 inch, pipe, EVERYTHING. Tonight, my arms were getting tired after 3+ hours of overhead T-joints so I asked my instructor if I could give TIG a try. He said sure and set the machine up for me gave me a quick explination and showed me one example then let me try it for 5 minutes. I know my TIG welds would have been better if I would have properly prepped the metal, but like I said, I was just trying it for a couple minutes. The quality of the pics are shitty, but let me know what you think. THUMBS!!

TIG


TIG


Single MIG bead


3 MIG beads


And my new toy, Lincoln Weld Pak 100 with gas kit, I picked it up from someone at the school for $250, it's only had 1 spool of wire run through it.

 

puts out some nice mig beeds...
why's the tig look like ***?

 

Took the words out of my mouth, but on a positive note, we all start out like that, just keep practicing man, youll get there.

 

If you would have read then you would have seen that I have never tigged in my life, I have had about 2 minutes of explination on how to tig, and I didn't prep the metal. Also if you look close enough at the second TIG pic you will notice that the only thing that I tigged on that side is the left half, the right half just looks like ---- from the other side.

 

never a better time to become ambidextrous

 

not bad John, but keep practicing......i could use some practice myself......

 

looking good

 

thats some clean mig welds

 

badass migs kid

 

looks better than my first attempt at tig welding, i bought just about every book there is on how to tig weld and i study it like a bible but i still can't get top notch flawless welds.........i definetly blame my cheap tig and the ------- scratch start. i'd post up pics but digi cam is fubar