no sunburn with DCEN

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you all pretty much confirmed what I suspected. It seems people with short sleeves are also the ones that see a nice lookin' bead and don't care to actually check if they are gettin' good fusion. I think I'll stick with the long sleeves in the hot weather and save my skin for a couple more years.

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i have seen guys on Orange County Choppers, West Coast Choppers, ect mig/tig with short sleeves on and they seem to have no problems. I went to do a weld test at a company that primarily uses SS tig for most of their work and it seemed that I was in the minority group of people with long sleeves on....

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are you welding with the correct polarity? It should be DCEP. Something is definitely not set right in your set up. Hope you get some better results soon. Good luck.

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Is it possible to run vertical mig with 98% Argon 2% Oxygen gas?

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looks like a brand new machine, how did you find that? I think the syncrowave 180 might be a little small for your aluminum project depending on the material. I max out with my SW 250 on 3/8" aluminum.

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that worked, thanks!

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i thought only the new models have the crater fill option. I spent plenty of time messin' with the control panel and never saw it come up.

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I am helping out a friend's company with some aluminum welding and having some problems with their 30A spool gun. It is brand new out of the box but when I reach the end of a bead I get a big pit of black crap. I use a 30A push pull gun at my company and never experienced this problem before. There...

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I have used both types and definetly find 4043 easier to weld with. I've never had any issues with bird nesting either(just lucky I guess) and I use a 20 ft gun. If you can weld aluminum you should be able to get a nice weld with either wire.

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you could also use a small band saw

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I'd say 1/2" is probably the thickest you'll want to do with straight argon on the Syncrowave 250. I use ours at work and sometimes have to tig some 3/8" plate and it doesn't take long for that cooling fan to kick on. You can look into adding helium to your shielding gas to make you arc...

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at my job we have a roll of .045 in our MM175 and it works just fine. It welds 1/4" steel at the recomended setting with out any problems.

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I attended the first of two days of the American Welding Society's annual conference on aluminum welding in Seattle,WA. It was frickin' awsome, the level of speakers was way better than I expected. There were people from EASB, Lincoln, Alcoa, Alco Tech, Boeing, and a couple others. We also recieved...

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I attended the first of two days of the American Welding Society's annual conference on aluminum welding in Seattle,WA. It was frickin' awsome, the level of speakers was way more than I expected. There were people from EASB, Lincoln, Alcoa, Alco Tech, Boeing, and a couple others. We also recieved...

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source of clamps

do you have a website for those corner clamps? I've tried googleing it and can't find them.