Hello All,
I have bought my first O/A rig for around £250 here in the UK ($350 ish). I am new to welding such thin wall with my only other real world welding experience being stick welding material around the sort of 1/4" mark.
I have run a few practice beads and starting to get to grips with it though I am finding the torch rather clunky so the AW1A looks to be a useful purchase in the future. It seems that many Legal Eagles were built by newbie welders who spent 10-20 hours or so practicing beforehand which is reassuring. I just did a T join on some 35 thou wall tubing which looked slightly ugly but when cut in half shows good penetration... Is an ugly weld a bad weld if you have good penetration?
I have watched every single safety video I can find of Youtube and might have frightened myself to death over the idea of using it... do these bottles go up easily? I have check valves on my hoses and flashback arresters...
Any tips and pointers would be appreciated
I have bought my first O/A rig for around £250 here in the UK ($350 ish). I am new to welding such thin wall with my only other real world welding experience being stick welding material around the sort of 1/4" mark.
I have run a few practice beads and starting to get to grips with it though I am finding the torch rather clunky so the AW1A looks to be a useful purchase in the future. It seems that many Legal Eagles were built by newbie welders who spent 10-20 hours or so practicing beforehand which is reassuring. I just did a T join on some 35 thou wall tubing which looked slightly ugly but when cut in half shows good penetration... Is an ugly weld a bad weld if you have good penetration?
I have watched every single safety video I can find of Youtube and might have frightened myself to death over the idea of using it... do these bottles go up easily? I have check valves on my hoses and flashback arresters...
Any tips and pointers would be appreciated
