Why is the shield off the tungsten grinder?


1/1/2019 8:25?

Yay I get to look at more camera footage

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looks like someone just preferred to grind their TIG electrodes horizontally. The problem is they didn’t put it back on when they were done. I saw they hold it back up a little but they probably forgot it is just clamped until we can get the plate off the wall and put the bolt holes in it.

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hmmm… well, that ain’t right. That’s literally the one of the two wrong ways to TIG (the other being no gas).

For anyone new to TIG reading this, if you grind your tungsten horizontally instead of the cutouts forcing you to grind vertically, then your arc will “bloom” and not have the “focus” that you want to weld. It may also wander about depending on the roughness of the grit of the wheel you used for grinding.

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