Very well done. I appreciate the unboxing AND your genuine amazement of the fiberglass scratch pen...brilliant! (It's a cool tool.) Please, post a project with welds you do with the Micro TIG. I've thought of using one to tack weld pieces before sweat soldering. Could also be useful for fusing... Very inspiring. Thx!
Hi, I would be very interested to hear how are you getting along with the welder now you've had it a while?? I'm very keen to get one of these for jewellery work even if it's just to get rid off the third hands. Some of my work has 20 or 30 joints in it, all very close together and I would be great to not have it all fall apart when I lose concentration and over cook it!! Bet you've done that! I'm also interested in making a rolling ball sculpture, maybe out of 2mm diameter brass or stainless steel wire. I can't imagine this welder being powerful enough to weld 2mm wire end-to-end, but do you think that it would be powerful enough to tack weld 2mm brass or stainless to hold it for hard soldering?? I was going to ask if the welder was foot switch operated, but from what you say, it sounds like making contact with the electrode initiates some timing process, maybe opening a gas solenoid to flood the joint with argon before actually discharging the capacitor to make the joint? Sorry I don't know your name but thanks for the video. All the very best and Happy New Year. Kind regards . . . . Andy in the uk
It's meant to run with and without argon. It actually says in the manual. With argon you will have very clean welds. Yes you can use filler rods but it is difficult. It doesn't hold a constant arc like tig but the ability to go very small is where this shines. There is someone on UA-cam that has a video using sterling silver wire as filler. I can't wait to try it!
Very well done. I appreciate the unboxing AND your genuine amazement of the fiberglass scratch pen...brilliant! (It's a cool tool.)
Please, post a project with welds you do with the Micro TIG. I've thought of using one to tack weld pieces before sweat soldering. Could also be useful for fusing... Very inspiring.
Thx!
The scratch pen is fiberglass. It cleans so well because it’s really only soot.
Hi, I would be very interested to hear how are you getting along with the welder now you've had it a while?? I'm very keen to get one of these for jewellery work even if it's just to get rid off the third hands. Some of my work has 20 or 30 joints in it, all very close together and I would be great to not have it all fall apart when I lose concentration and over cook it!! Bet you've done that! I'm also interested in making a rolling ball sculpture, maybe out of 2mm diameter brass or stainless steel wire. I can't imagine this welder being powerful enough to weld 2mm wire end-to-end, but do you think that it would be powerful enough to tack weld 2mm brass or stainless to hold it for hard soldering??
I was going to ask if the welder was foot switch operated, but from what you say, it sounds like making contact with the electrode initiates some timing process, maybe opening a gas solenoid to flood the joint with argon before actually discharging the capacitor to make the joint?
Sorry I don't know your name but thanks for the video. All the very best and Happy New Year. Kind regards . . . . Andy in the uk
we need the link!!!
I'll find one and put it in the description.
Looks like a micro TIG welder. I wouldn't run TIG without the argon. Can you use filler rods, or you just point the tip and that's that?
It's meant to run with and without argon. It actually says in the manual. With argon you will have very clean welds. Yes you can use filler rods but it is difficult. It doesn't hold a constant arc like tig but the ability to go very small is where this shines. There is someone on UA-cam that has a video using sterling silver wire as filler. I can't wait to try it!
yeh they are ment to be used with and without. Tip and piece gets less messy with argon, I believe.