Thanks, Don and Gunner and Wayne.
I will take your advice. I DO want to stop shopping and get to welding but
I can't pick up my machine just yet.
k.o.
"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:07:48 GMT, "knowone"
wrote:
Thanks for the input, Don.
Well, I love bells, whistles, lights, knobs, switches, etc.
I GUESS neither of these machines are squarewave. I don't even know if I
would want squarewave never having drawn a tig arc or seen anyone do it.
I hope that I can find a how-to video on tig so that I can have some idea
of
what I may be doing.
Are all tig torches (water-cooled) pretty much alike? I may can get a
Profax unit cheaply.
What would you recommend as far as consumables, etc?
My only experience is with the Weldcraft WP-20, which I have found to
be completely satisfactory. I have no experience with Profax but
the model 20 looks very similar -- nearly identical.
Only consumables I know of are tungstens and filler rod -- and stuff
to practice on. I suppose collets, cups etc are consumables but they
are torch-specific.
I get my tungstens from:
http://store.aglevtech.net/index.html
They also offer CD's and videotapes on TIG (GTAW) welding. I've not
reviewed them.
I think you should quit shopping and start welding!