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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
Hmmm.... I always have a bottle of pure argon on hand connected to my TIG machine as I use my TIG for steel, stainless and aluminum so it has always been easiest to just have one bottle with straight Argon.
When I recently dug my mothballed 110 MIG welder out to do some "production" welding of some 1/16" wall tubing target stands, I was about to haul the old 110 welder to the dump and buy a newer bigger 220 unit when a friend asked me what gas I was using. When I said Argon, he said well there is your problem. So I bought a bottle of 75% Argon/25% Co2 mix (like we use at work for our big mig machines) and my little welder started working like a MIG should again.
Next time I have to weld some "thin" steel that is not "critical" strengthwise, instead of using my TIG, I will try straight Argon vs the Argon/Co2 mix with my MIG.
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Interesting. I was always using 440v equipment so stability was probably better right out of the gate. I recall having to up the wire speed significantly vs C25 gas.