leo A CALERO
Plastic
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- Nov 3, 2004
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- Michigan
Any tips on tig welding .050 wall titanium tubing
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Titanium Tube Welding
- Thread starter leo A CALERO
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PortPirate
Aluminum
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- Nov 16, 2005
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- Port Washington, WI
Have you welded titanium before?
Dave Haven
Cast Iron
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- Nov 17, 2004
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- Near Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Be sure to purge inside with shielding gas.
leo A CALERO
Plastic
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I've been playing with it a little bit. I made an adapter for my tig torch to add sheilding gas behind the puddle and I'm purging the inside of the tube with argon. Also when welding to flat stock I prop the stock up off of the table and run gas on the back side.Any other tips will appreciated.
leo A CALERO
Plastic
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- Nov 3, 2004
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- Michigan
I've been playing with it a little bit. I made an adapter for my tig torch to add sheilding gas behind the puddle and I'm purging the inside of the tube with argon. Also when welding to flat stock I prop the stock up off of the table and run gas on the back side.Any other tips will appreciated.
PortPirate
Aluminum
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- Nov 16, 2005
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- Port Washington, WI
Sounds like you are on the right track man, just keep everything clean.....I love the way the stuff welds, it is such a ****#y conductor of heat, the weld puddle is very easy to control
Michael Moore
Titanium
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- Jun 4, 2004
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- San Francisco, CA
Speaking of Ti tubing, I recently got to look at a flat-12 Ferrari F1 car, and the roll hoop reinforcing tube was shop-rolled and welded Ti, and not a piece of production tubing.
You might want to go so far as to make a small temporary box that you can flood with argon to ensure the hot Ti doesn't have any exposure to O2. That could be as simple as taped-up cardboard.
cheers,
Michael
You might want to go so far as to make a small temporary box that you can flood with argon to ensure the hot Ti doesn't have any exposure to O2. That could be as simple as taped-up cardboard.
cheers,
Michael
leo A CALERO
Plastic
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I'm in the procesese of taping togeather a box out of .09 lexan I have laying around I plan on using it to weld some of the small sub dets.I'll let you know how it works out.
GisMo
Hot Rolled
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if you could, post pictures if ithe "chamber" works well.
