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Anonymous01/26/26, 06:37No.2972986/wg/ - Welding General
A place for anything to do with Welding.
Post your welds, ask questions and discuss sticking metals together.
IDK I just want a place to talk about welding.
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Anon01/26/26, 16:43No.2973045
Tell me why I shouldn't just do straight line
They all look the same
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Anon01/26/26, 17:51No.2973061
Haven't welded in about 2,5 years now. Ever since I moved and got an office job.
I'd like to buy a TIG but I know I won't use it often. Not enough projects around the house :(
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Anon01/27/26, 21:26No.2973207
I want to make a test sample for dye penetration.
I was thinking doing a weld bead that cracks for sure (preferably invisible that only comes up with dye), grind and polish to flat.What would be an "ideal" way to do this? What filler what settings would work?
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Anon02/09/26, 06:22No.2975448
The third one is best right?
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Anon02/11/26, 06:06No.2975830
>use 6014 rods
>hate it and they suck ass>get 7014 rods
>works great
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Anon02/16/26, 18:27No.2976891
muricans cannot fathom the 7018 open root
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Anon02/16/26, 21:35No.2976930
>297692aight
>the helper thinks its allowed to talk
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Anon02/20/26, 06:01No.2977537
>be lowlife scum dropshitter
>wait 22 days to dispatch my fba order
>send chinkshit instead of genuine as ordered and paid for
>get negative feedbacks removed because they were all fba orders of garbage middlemanned through amazon delivery
>continue doing monkey behavior for peanuts margins
and here i am being fucking retarded just trying to make an honest buck melting metal together
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Anon02/24/26, 22:20No.2978303
>he doesn't decant acetylene because big gas reddit bots say it's a bad idea
oooOoooooOo scary
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Anon02/25/26, 17:44No.2978446
Why do my welds don't scab? I got 6010 and 6011 and neither form a crust after welding like I've seen in all the welding videos I've watched.
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Anon02/27/26, 04:57No.2978630
Corkscrew ftw
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Anon03/02/26, 19:44No.2979228
Yay! My people! My brothers!
Pictured: Cross Section of GMAW corner joint.
8"x1"x1/4" flat bar mild 2x
.035 ER70S-6
20.5v 370WFSI am a new welder, just in the middle of my cert program.GTAW was invented by retarded masochists and I hate it.
MIG is God's gift to Earth.
SMAW is easier than people think, but not all rods are created equal.Lastly:
Fuck aluminum.
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Anon03/05/26, 02:44No.2979594
I am tired of this bullshit.Some ass hat hooked my MIG contact tip up backwards, and melted the fucking threads.I'm so pissed, who the fuck does that, why?!?!?!
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Anon03/05/26, 02:49No.2979596
Also, let me ask you expert welders.Why hasn't PIG taken over TIG?Plasma Ionized Gas welding.Take a plasma cutter, down the input energy so you don't punch through, make a plasma weld pool and add filler metal.
Fuck sharpening Tungsten.
Why aren't we just using plasma instead?Modern plasma cutters and TIG torches are almost the same fucking thing.Is the plasma cutter energy output too high? Is it the gas flow rate?Someone can engineer TIG into obsolescence if you can configure a plasma cutter to maintain the pool.
We won't even fucking need Tungsten anymore.Why isn't anyone doing this?!I'm going to. I'm going to patent it.
Fuck you.PIG > TIG
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Anon03/05/26, 11:05No.2979651
God welding is the most beautiful hobby in the world but the shittiest real job you can have :/
I'm gonna go drive a truck I guess
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Anon03/11/26, 16:14No.2980707
Hello anons, I've been thinking of hardfacing and got an idea:
Could spring steel wire (or music wire as some call it) be brazed/welded on with tig on an edge of mild steel piece to create a hardened edge for a diy knife?
I've once managed to do this with a drill bit on an axe head and it worked but drill bits but it's not reallu cheap and easy to burn through drill bits like that
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Anon03/11/26, 19:09No.2980733
I have an old Lincoln Electric SP100 that works fine but I'd like to get back into TIG. Would a multiprocess welder be an upgrade or will I end up with a shittier MIG machine? I'm looking at the Omnipro 220 or the Power MIG 215. Light fab/hobby use.I'd get a dedicated TIG box but I'm pressed for space.
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Anon03/12/26, 02:25No.2980792
I can't get the hang of tig. All my pieces have suckback.