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02-03-2008, 10:25 PM | #1 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Pennsyltucky
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| Cheapest way to get a tig setup
What would be the cheapest way to get setup for tig welding? I want to be able to weld aluminum with a tig.
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02-03-2008, 10:32 PM | #2 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Cotati
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If you wanna do aluminum....your gonna have to pay. Most of the cheapie machines are DC only and you need AC for aluminum. There are some exceptions but I won't get into that. A good machine would be the Miller 180sd, I think its around $1700.
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02-03-2008, 10:35 PM | #3 |
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Yeah I know I need AC. I been looking around. I thought maybe someone knew of a cheap setup. I have a couple of mig machines and Arc welding I learned when I was a kid. I want to learn to tig.
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02-05-2008, 09:58 PM | #4 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: westminster
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you could just spool a mig wit aluminum we do it all the time.
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02-05-2008, 10:20 PM | #5 |
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Not sure but I think he wants to make aluminum tubers. If so, It would be very difficult to do on 3/16 to 1/4" tubing with a spool gun.
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02-06-2008, 05:37 AM | #6 |
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Yeah I don't think a spool gun would work to hot on small stuff.
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02-06-2008, 11:15 AM | #7 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: westminster
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brazing would be so much easyer. tig it would take more patients,
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02-06-2008, 04:02 PM | #8 |
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02-06-2008, 04:26 PM | #9 |
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you can solder or braze aluminum just fine. just gotta make sure it is very, very clean.
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02-06-2008, 07:59 PM | #10 |
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i've seen people mig aluminum without a spool gun. so it can be done without one if need be.
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02-06-2008, 08:07 PM | #11 |
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I have a roll of aluminum wire and tried it once with my Lincoln but if you didn't have the torch line straight it wouldn't feed right. Guess I could try it with my trusty Hobart. I don't want to braze because I want to be able to polish it and make it look good.
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02-06-2008, 10:24 PM | #12 |
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Not sure what gun you have, but you can get teflon liners for Tweco's and if you keep your torch short you can push aluminum. I would not go less than .045 so it still will be tough on 3/16" material.
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