Rocky,
I remember you stating that for TIG welding thin material you used a #8 shade lense. Is this lense the larger 4 1/2"x 5 1/4 or the smaller size. Reason I am asking is because I have to do some repair work on some of the product buckets on our older packaging machines. The material thickness on these buckets is 20 ga stainless steel of course. The hardest part is that most of the repair work amounts to welding out side corner joints. I did three of them tonight, couldn t do anymore the strain on my eyes from trying to focus on the very small weld puddle using my #9 lense got to my eyes. So, now I need to find a #8 lense for my helmet. Actually, though everyone was impressed with the 3 that I completed, especially my new boss that the company just highered. He was shocked that I could weld an outside corner joint better on 20 ga then he could on 1/8". I was cheating though, I was using an aluminum ( don t have copper) angle iron as a heat sink and back up for the joint. This made it so that I didn t have to travel that quickly across the joint. Had the machine set at 30 amps, and was using an .045 308L filler wire. Anyway, tomorrow Im off work and need to go find a #8 lense. My shift this Sunday is a non production day so nobody will be at work. So Ill try and get a picture of one of these welds to post here.
I remember you stating that for TIG welding thin material you used a #8 shade lense. Is this lense the larger 4 1/2"x 5 1/4 or the smaller size. Reason I am asking is because I have to do some repair work on some of the product buckets on our older packaging machines. The material thickness on these buckets is 20 ga stainless steel of course. The hardest part is that most of the repair work amounts to welding out side corner joints. I did three of them tonight, couldn t do anymore the strain on my eyes from trying to focus on the very small weld puddle using my #9 lense got to my eyes. So, now I need to find a #8 lense for my helmet. Actually, though everyone was impressed with the 3 that I completed, especially my new boss that the company just highered. He was shocked that I could weld an outside corner joint better on 20 ga then he could on 1/8". I was cheating though, I was using an aluminum ( don t have copper) angle iron as a heat sink and back up for the joint. This made it so that I didn t have to travel that quickly across the joint. Had the machine set at 30 amps, and was using an .045 308L filler wire. Anyway, tomorrow Im off work and need to go find a #8 lense. My shift this Sunday is a non production day so nobody will be at work. So Ill try and get a picture of one of these welds to post here.
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