Aaron Laughlin

Mead, WA, United States

I do have a milling machine but I'm not Machinist 

24 Dec 11:39

Hey sounds cool man I just joined up as well. I've been trying to keep questions flowing and topics in conversation on this forum because I want to learn to be a Tig welder myself. Glad your here it's a pretty cool site to post pics ask questions and see all of these guys videos. 

So you save them up and use em? I tried to tack some together it melts so fast got a trick for that?

Your whole table top is aluminum?  Man that is a killer idea. I have a steel table probably. But I have a bunch of large aluminum blocks I weld on thanks for sharing about the clips.

22 Dec 23:36

Was just looking at that new post on the aluminum cube you commented that pressure can build inside of a sealed aluminum project?  I noticed you have a small bung welded into your box was that last on the list and the box was open with that bung left till the finish so the structure could breath?

22 Dec 23:32

Nobody commented on the yellow there is that a normal color for porosity on aluminum?  

22 Dec 23:29

Threaded table holes is pretty cool. I have been building my own brackets and using bolts and nuts underneath to hold down parts. Where did those brackets you had in the video come from? One was different from the others?

It's got .30 wire 75 25 gas mix it has four heat settings I'm usually on two welding sheet metal but I was on three due to welding the bracket that's maybe 3/32. I ran a grinder over all the steel so it's perfectly clean. But this has been happening everywhere I noticed that yesterday I'm a bit low on gas but it has been acting up like this since I filled this bottle. The nozzle is dirty enough that I feel like the gas is not passing through like it should. I went to the weld shop and they didn't have the correct nozzle because it's an older machine. So I will have to research elsewhere. Anything else you want to know?

Thanks for the tip. I have a small go pro style camera. I am going to try to record some passes and see. When you say lit? Are you talking about the arc happening in the video or are you talking about the camera like the way we see all the videos on Tig shots?

18 Dec 23:10

What is that big flick of the torch on the end of the weld there?