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Thread: Beginning of my TIG experience, tips?

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    stick, tig, mig, the gaps are easy to fill, just very, very different techniques to do that.................... hopefully a lesson was truly learned, nothing and i mean nothing is more important that fit-up.... ive seen some pipeliners that can lay down the most text book perfect welds, garunteed to never leak and hold the world, but they cant build a square box (its why they have fitters) true fabricators can fit AND weld. in my experience, if i want it done properly, then i will do it from start to finish, that way, if it doesnt work, i only have myself to fault
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    Fastest will download with youtube downloader and have a gander.You're right they all amount to the same thing, with perhaps tig able to do a greater range of materials and thicknesses but with the costs these days you have to be pragmatic, alot of things I would love to weld to get the experience more tig but mig is five times faster, so I choose it more, wham bam get on to the next task.
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    I could definitely see where Mig and even stick would be much faster or the way I do it anyway. So far in TIG I seem to dwell longer or travel slower. I am not sure that it is necessary to go so slow, I just havent been able to tie it all together that fast yet. I also dont know why I enjoy TIG better, maybe the lack of sparks and splatter? Almost like soldering.
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