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TIG welding tips and tricks
A friend of mine just picked up a Miller Syncrowave 180 welder. I haven's done any TIG welding since the crash course I had on it in high school and he has never done much himself. So any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I was playing around with some scrap aluminium and was able to get a few decent looking sections of bead, more by luck than skill.  Even the basics will be greatly appreciated. Torch angle and distance, where do you prefer to put the tip of the filler rod in relation to the puddle, machine settings, electrode protrusion from the torch, gas flow rate, ect, ect, ect. Here's a few pics of my first attempts. Thanks.
Tig Experiment
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