Tig amp range question

Good question....

Mild Steel or Stainless steel???...... it makes a diferance, as one needs more amps than the other

I Tig weld surgical instruments, but am unable to answer your question without first looking at the settings i use for similar welds, i have been using the welder for so long i just take the amps for granted without looking. half the time i just move the dial without looking as feel is far better than any amp settings that may appear on the machine.

I will look at work tomorrow and report back to you, but i think you should be ok for a closed butt weld, i will let you know my findings.

The old tig welders are the best, i use a very old Rowan Arc (BOC) welder at work and it has outlasted 3 "new" ones purchased by a company next door to me in the past 10 years, this is a case IMO of technology being a bad influence on what was a good design to start with, nearly all the modern welders i know of have problems with over heating or circuit boards either blowing up or blowing chips if they are used for any period of time (more than 2 hours)

HTH

Tim

TIM WROTE Good question....

Mild Steel or Stainless steel???...... it makes a diferance, as one needs more amps than the other

.......mark says..BOTH

I Tig weld surgical instruments, but am unable to answer your question without first looking at the settings i use for similar welds, i have been using the welder for so long i just take the amps for granted without looking. half the time i just move the dial without looking as feel is far better than any amp settings that may appear on the machine.

I will look at work tomorrow and report back to you, but i think you should be ok for a closed butt weld, i will let you know my findings.

The old tig welders are the best, i use a very old Rowan Arc (BOC) welder at work and it has outlasted 3 "new" ones purchased by a company next door to me in the past 10 years, this is a case IMO of technology being a bad influence on what was a good design to start with, nearly all the modern welders i know of have problems with over heating or circuit boards either blowing up or blowing chips if they are used for any period of time (more than 2 hours)

HTH

Tim

very good advice Tim...its built my confidence up,before I hand over my dosh tommorow.......just worried that, because of its minimum aperage of 20 amps maybe,it will not be able to do "SOME OF" the jobs I want it to do. all the best...mark

Mark

hope my reply is not too late

Regards