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Well I bought an eastwood tig 200 ac\dc machine last week. The goal was to learn tig welding for my personal hobbies, as well as making myself more valuable to employers.
Now, I have messed around with a tig welder about 13 years ago. Let me tell you it was a disaster. The machine was a snap on muscle mig 220v welder with a scratch start dc tig torch and panel control only for the amperage control. After a few hours of welding tungsten to steel and never actually striking an arc I gave up and haven't touched a tig welder since.
So I was very surprised at what came about next.
The new eastwood tig came in friday. So Saturday (yesterday) I put it all together and started welding. Here is what happened:
This is my first ever joint in aluminum.
This is a t joint in 1/4" mild steel.
This was just messing around with 20 gauge stainless running the torch with no filler trying to practice walking the cup.
So I'm not sure how much of this is the machine and how much is me. But I'm extremely impressed by this thing so far.
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Now, I have messed around with a tig welder about 13 years ago. Let me tell you it was a disaster. The machine was a snap on muscle mig 220v welder with a scratch start dc tig torch and panel control only for the amperage control. After a few hours of welding tungsten to steel and never actually striking an arc I gave up and haven't touched a tig welder since.
So I was very surprised at what came about next.
The new eastwood tig came in friday. So Saturday (yesterday) I put it all together and started welding. Here is what happened:
This is my first ever joint in aluminum.
This is a t joint in 1/4" mild steel.
This was just messing around with 20 gauge stainless running the torch with no filler trying to practice walking the cup.
So I'm not sure how much of this is the machine and how much is me. But I'm extremely impressed by this thing so far.
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