[TheForge] TIG welding

Sun Jan 26 20:39:01 2003

I've got a Lincoln square wave 175 it is a great welder the only real
complaint I have about it is there is no way to control the pre and post
purge it uses alot of gas'
post purge is about 10 seconds which seems a little long for some of the
welding I do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howell Steve" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] TIG welding


> Hi Rich- welcome to the show.
> I'm surprised how quiet the list is lately so I will step out on a limb
and give people ammunition with which to shoot me down (smirk)~!
> I know some folks are tig welding alum. with DC but for most applications
you will need an AC machine with HF (high freq.) An AC capable machine is
not cheap. The AC package for the little Miller Maxstar machine I have ups
the price from $1600 to 2800$ That's alot to pay for the occasional aluminum
session.  Air-cooled torches are cheaper but give less duty cycle. Heavy
duty TIG units ( > ~200A) should have a water cooled torch and for that and
the cooler you can add about $400. Get's spendy in a hurry.
> Although it will cost $$, I can't say enough about the new inverter
welders that are being made out there. My last stick/tig box weighed 650lbs
and the new equivalent is near ~37lbs. The site work you can do with one of
these will pay for itself. best of all they can run on anything from 110 1
phase to 480 3 phase without doing a thing.
> Oh yeah- the three best selling 'economy' models of TIG boxes:
>
> linclon square wave 175
> Miller econo-tig
> Miller syncrowave 180SD
>
> Would any owners of the above care to speak up about features, etc? I'm
not sure if they are all DC machines.
> hope that helps
> Steve
> Seattle
> *********
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just to briefly introduce myself - I'm a UK teacher, who does a bit of
metalwork manufacturing and design in my spare time.
>
> I have a 250 amp MIG welder that uses Argoshield as a shield gas at the
moment, and access to a gas welding setup as well. However, I can't help
feeling that TIG welding might produce neater results and make for less
grinding afterwards, as well as offering the option to weld aluminium as
well.
>
> I don't really know much about it, though, and would appreciate some basic
info on the subject. I've had a look around at some machines in catalogues,
and one difference between the cheaper models is 'scratch starting' and 'HF
starting'. Would this make a huge difference; is it worth the extra cash?
Could I weld aluminium with the cheaper scratch start models?
>
> Any info would be appreciated,
>
> Rich.
>
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