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1988 Convertible for sunny day drives
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<blockquote data-quote="Tourmax" data-source="post: 182839" data-attributes="member: 5304"><p>Ah, ordered my TIG welder today!</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.everlastwelders.ca/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/e4d64343b1bc593f1c5348fe05efa4a6/p/t/ptig_250ex.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Tp6Uh9auumc[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>As you may notice, it's not blue or red, but that also means it wasn't $5 grand to buy. Everlast actually gets decent reviews, both in use and durability. </p><p></p><p>It will do stick welding (I suck at stick) but it will also do AC and DC TIG.</p><p></p><p>DC TIG is good for steels (stainless especially) and the AC TIG is what you need for aluminum. You can do aluminum with a spoolgun and DC short circuit, but you don't get very good results, unless you're a pro welder tat is. I'm just a "hobbiest", so I need an AC TIG for aluminum as the AC wave form punches through aluminum surface corrosion and pushes it away from the puddle for solid welds. The foot peddle also helps, as I can use the higher amperages to punch through the aluminum corrosion and then back it down to the amps needed to keep the puddle fluid (aluminum needs power to punch throught and then you have to back it down or the parent material will turn to liquid). 250 amps is plenty to blow right into those cast aluminum manifolds. As a side bonus, this unit will go right down to 5 amps on AC TIG. That's basically low enough to weld soda cans together, should I ever have a need to weld pop cans together.But what it really means is there's no end of ducting and piping that I can now weld.</p><p></p><p>When It gets here, I'll have to build a welding cart for it. Nice easy warm up project for the TIG and me.</p><p></p><p>I can also start building the water cooler for it soI can plug right in once it gets here and start working on the TIG cart. I'll still need to grab some "consumables" (ie: tungsten electrodes, gas lenses, etc), but that's all stuff I can grab local and it's not expensive.</p><p></p><p>Luckily, I've already got a tank of Argon, so that's a big chunk of cash I don't have to put out right away. The tank is 500 bucks and it's 80 bucks a fill. You have a choice to rent or buy your tanks, but there's a 500 deposit if you rent and you still have a rental fee every month. It just made more sense to just pony up and buy my Ar/CO2 tank and my pure Ar tank.</p><p></p><p>Hmmmm, I guess I'm getting my xmas present early.....lol!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tourmax, post: 182839, member: 5304"] Ah, ordered my TIG welder today! [IMG]https://www.everlastwelders.ca/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/e4d64343b1bc593f1c5348fe05efa4a6/p/t/ptig_250ex.jpg[/IMG] [MEDIA=youtube]Tp6Uh9auumc[/MEDIA] As you may notice, it's not blue or red, but that also means it wasn't $5 grand to buy. Everlast actually gets decent reviews, both in use and durability. It will do stick welding (I suck at stick) but it will also do AC and DC TIG. DC TIG is good for steels (stainless especially) and the AC TIG is what you need for aluminum. You can do aluminum with a spoolgun and DC short circuit, but you don't get very good results, unless you're a pro welder tat is. I'm just a "hobbiest", so I need an AC TIG for aluminum as the AC wave form punches through aluminum surface corrosion and pushes it away from the puddle for solid welds. The foot peddle also helps, as I can use the higher amperages to punch through the aluminum corrosion and then back it down to the amps needed to keep the puddle fluid (aluminum needs power to punch throught and then you have to back it down or the parent material will turn to liquid). 250 amps is plenty to blow right into those cast aluminum manifolds. As a side bonus, this unit will go right down to 5 amps on AC TIG. That's basically low enough to weld soda cans together, should I ever have a need to weld pop cans together.But what it really means is there's no end of ducting and piping that I can now weld. When It gets here, I'll have to build a welding cart for it. Nice easy warm up project for the TIG and me. I can also start building the water cooler for it soI can plug right in once it gets here and start working on the TIG cart. I'll still need to grab some "consumables" (ie: tungsten electrodes, gas lenses, etc), but that's all stuff I can grab local and it's not expensive. Luckily, I've already got a tank of Argon, so that's a big chunk of cash I don't have to put out right away. The tank is 500 bucks and it's 80 bucks a fill. You have a choice to rent or buy your tanks, but there's a 500 deposit if you rent and you still have a rental fee every month. It just made more sense to just pony up and buy my Ar/CO2 tank and my pure Ar tank. Hmmmm, I guess I'm getting my xmas present early.....lol! [/QUOTE]
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