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Advice
I wasn’t just trying to make pretty welds. I was making some gaps, off height welds, cleaning with brush and acetone all the way to no cleaning at all. I had hertz high 170, down to 100. Amps stayed around 85-90 ish with some pedaling(1/16 coupons)Trying to get some tips for when they butt up to each other off height. Do you focus the arc toward the lower piece? Any advice appreciated
Advice
1 like • 7d
@Grant Pratt they were cheap Amazon pipes. I went home to try to trouble shoot the issue and came to the conclusion that this was the cause. The pipes aren’t round, it’s very weird. Also side note, everything was fit up before I got there. Just really struggled to weld it and haven’t had that situation happen before.
Cut it with a sawzall
Had to fill some gaps for sure but it’s at least glued together.
Cut it with a sawzall
Throttle body welding
Going to do a charge pipe on a g body. Fun stuff
Throttle body welding
2 likes • 20d
@Grant Pratt thanks, appreciate the feedback
Is this pipe junk?
I can’t seem to get this stuff to weld for anything, no white on the outside of the weld… been everywhere on settings. I had to run a few beads on a practice pipe after trying this just to make sure I could still weld.
Is this pipe junk?
3 likes • Mar 16
Spent a lot of time cleaning that pipe… ran these beads with minimum cleaning and the top weld with no cleaning and rod that was just sitting out for three weeks. Also touched tungsten and kept going… 🤷🏼‍♂️
3 likes • Mar 18
@Grant Pratt I made him bring me new pipe. It’s going alright now. Of course he brought me powder coated pipe 😂… got it cleaned up enough to weld properly. First arc strike poofed a black cloud
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Bryce Grant
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@bryce-grant-4338
I like to build cars. My goal is to become skilled with tig welding so I can build cold sides and exhausts for turbo cars.

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