[TheForge] Welding advice needed pronto

[Woolley]

>
>     With TIG I use straight argon all the time with great results, but on
> Mig I find it a bit different.  With the CO2 you get more penetration so
the
> bead is lower - but I get a lot of distortion.  Does straight argon allow
> more of a layover bead at lower temps and less distortion?  This is a good
> question I don't know the answer to, if you've got any input I'd like to
> hear it before trial and error time starts in the shop.
>

I don't have enough experience with Mig to give you any real insight.  I
went with a mix cause that is what was recommended when I bought my Mig
machine.  After paying what was alot more than I had been paying for argon I
asked  some other weldors what they were using and they all said argon, so I
never bought another bottle of the mix.  In field construction whenever we
Mig welded carbon or stainless steel we always used strait argon.

Regards,
Bill Woolley