I went to Tulsa Welding school on my first shore duty, but the wife spent the six grand I saved for a welding setup on her first time without me on deployment. I am ‘on the mend.’-
1. A/C for tig welding aluminum? What current would you run?
2. Stick welding automotive sheet metal: what current would you run? How much space between each weld run? How long to let an area of sheet metal cool off before another run? What stick for tack welds, what stick for the welds? (Automotive sheet metal)
3. Recommendations for entry level tig machine and inert gas recommendations.
4. Have you ever welded with a torch? Advice?
5. At school I loved stick welding and could match my instructors’ perfect weld beeds in tig welding EXCEPT, I ran too hot and got the rainbow metal sheen-we did not have a foot feed for the current level-just set and go-recommendations?
6. I got shocked allot from standing in my own pool of sweat or holding my tig gun ( set at 400 amps D/C and grabbing my A/C grinder (inductance). I took that across the heart but not nearly the set amps.-experience/recommendations?
7. How much are tig sticks running?
8. Welding chrome-moly roll cages-the backside? How do you recommend welding around it?
