Welding Tips for TIG Welding
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008TSince TIG(GTAW) welding can be difficult there is all kinds of information that will help you understand it better and how to do it more effectively. In order to do the most effective welding using TIG you will need to prepare several things before you start.
What to prepare
The first thing you want to do is prepare the area where you are going to do your welding because you want it to be kept free of contamination. This means that you will have to really clean the area to make sure you have no grease, moisture or dust. You will also want to make sure there are no air drafts in this area because this could bring more problems.
The next thing to prepare is the metal that you are going to use for Welding . You will need to make sure that the joints are as clean as you can make them and you do this by using a stainless steel wire brush. Many welders will dedicate one brush to whatever metal they have so they don’t have to worry about cross contamination.
If have slag on any of the metal you can remove it with a file. Next, you will want to clean the base metal. The reason you want everything to be so clean is that if contaminated, the metal can either break down or make a bad connection. Of course, it depends on the metal which it will do, so cleaning everything can stop this from happening.