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Orbital TIG Welding internal discoloration issue

vijayanathome

Plastic
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Dec 2, 2018
Material AISI316, outer tube diameter 8mm 0.8mm thick. Purge gas Argon 99.995 purity. However found discoloration at internal surface one direction. Strange to know happening only less than 8mm tube. We used same machine for diameter 10mm 0.8 thickness and observed no any discoloration. Kindly suggest any value. Purge injector is made of Mild steel. Is that may be a problem?
 
How close is the purge injector to the actual weld? The only way I can see it being an issue is if it's close enough to
the weld that it gets hot and starts off-gassing or breaking down. Only other thing I can think of is that the smaller
diameter tube may need a bit higher gas flow. On a larger tube 2 mil is nothing but at that diameter you're talking
about roughly a 25 per cent reduction...
 








 
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