[TheForge] argon vs argoshield for tig

Fri Mar 15 09:40:11 2002

        Ray,  Your always thinking.

Ralph


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Miller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] argon vs argoshield for tig


> What is argoshield? If that is 75/25 argon/CO2, then no, you don't want
> to use it for TIG. You will get better results with
> 75/25 than straight argon on MIG. But 75/25 on TIG is not recommended.
> An alternate for thin guage MIG is straight CO2, and then you could use
> it for your beer tap as well........;-)
>
> Ray Miller
> Cincinnati
> Shannell wrote:
>
> >I Asked this q? a while back and thought I got an answer of yes, you can
use
> >argoshield with tig, I was just down at my welding supplyer and they were
> >adamant that no you couldnt, I have mig and tig and wanted to save on an
> >extra bottle as the tig is really not used a lot. Ive been using argon
with
> >my mig for about a year now but thought its time to go to argoshield.
> >
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