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  1. MaverickDan

    MaverickDan I wanna go fast!!!

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    Bought myself a tig welder, gonna pick up an argon bottle later this week and try it out. Hoping I'm not too terrible at it.
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    Mavaholic Growing older but not up!

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    Tig welding takes considerable more skill and practice to get good at it, compared to mig. But once you get it, its a much cleaner weld.
     
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    MaverickDan I wanna go fast!!!

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    Tested it out today. I'm really bad at it as expected, didn't help that my scrap metal isn't the best. Might go to lowes this weekend to get some new metal to practice on.
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    mav1970 Bob Hatcher

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    Not bad for just testing it out :thumbs2:
     
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    As stated above tig does take more practice than mig. With tig it is important everything is very clean to get a nice weld .
     

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