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Plug Welding is Fun!


Ulu

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Ok, I could have bought a spot welder, as I’m welding the edge of a floor pan. but I decided I should just plug weld with the TIG.

 

I only had to do two dozen, and though it is 10x slower, it would take longer to go buy and set up a new welder.

 

It did take me a couple tries to figure out the process and get really good welds.

 

But after I had made several of them successfully I started to get bored, and that’s when I noticed what happens in the puddle.

 

When I hold the torch vertically, directly over the puddle, for the final fusion, the molten steel spins.

 

Not rapidly but noticeably & it doesn’t really do it well until I get a good fusion.

 

It stops instantly when I release the button and the cold Argon chills the weld.

 

(I do not know why the iPhone decides to capitalize the word Argon, but since it is a noble gas I will continue to allow this.)

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