Thanks dude… I was thrilled when I found the deal. well worth the 4 hour drive. Even got soem dirt cheap booze in NH on the way back!
Yeah I have been just sharpening my tungsten on a new stone drum in a dremmel so far. I was lookign today for a better way to do that as amatter of fact.
I read about the radioactive tungsten too, I will ditch the ones he gave whenthey are junk and get the other ones for sure.
Last night I made a nice edge weld with 2- 1/8th aluminum plates… I was happy.
Horiz. lap welds are hard for soem reason… I can get the arc to heat the face piece and move up and kiss the edge to creat a pool. I think I need to move up in tungsten dia?
I also tried to do the bottom of two soda cans. again, I think the 1/16th tungsten was too small and I could get the arc to hit both sides. The second can I got decent. I melted a little filler rod and used thatto move the heat to each can, and then I got a nice pool flowing and it worked out ok.
I also had to exten the tungsten farther out of the cup… which helped too.