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I use a 4” Diamond disk from harbor freight mounted on a dedicated angle grinder clamped in a small table vise. You can use the edge to cut your tungsten and the flat side to sharpen. Perfect grind every time

@YT-User1013

3 ай бұрын

Ditto

not once have i seen someone destroy a tungsten with a hammer and ive never even thought about it

I taught myself this when I first started out, seemed like a common sense simple method. The second step in running it over that stripping disc is something I'll have to try though. Good video, as always.

Always great information Dusty. Thanks again. Always enjoy watching you videos.

Wow, I had no idea, I always just resharpened it. I will definitely do this from now on.

i have NEVER snapped, smashed or cave-maned my tungsten, 100% of the time, grinder 120 flat disk, even if i had a HUGE GLOB on the end, just bring it back. If its for aluminum, i keep those a bit more like you have done.

@77Avadon77

10 ай бұрын

I've been tig welding for 21 years I've never heard of anybody hitting the tungsten with a hammer. That's a great way to fracture the the tungsten and create micro fractures that you can't easily see but will deposit impurities into your weld.

@timothywhieldon1971

10 ай бұрын

@@77Avadon77 SAME.. this video is the 1st time i have heard of it as well

Never ever ever smack, cut with pliers or break the tip of the tungsten to get "fresh" tip... cut or grind it.

I thought it was always just a bad idea to break it off. Lots of good advice on starting a Tungsten this video. Thanks bro

Wow hitting a tungsten with a hammer is brutal, i bought the cheapest bench grinder i could and swapped out the course wheel for a fine diamond cup wheel.. i use the fine aluminium oxide wheel for rough grinding and polish the tungsten on the diamond wheel.. with a nice polished point it makes a really nice stable arc at low amps

Comme d'habitude,super instructif. Merci Mr Dusty

Thanks for the tip have a great day

Good stuff as always!

Thanks Dusty very helpful information in looking after my tungsten Excellent Thankyou Love your videos Take care Ulladulla NSW AUSTRALIA 👍👍

I have never smashed or snapped an electrode, always cut it if needed as when you snap you can get small longitudinal fractures up the length of it and arc instability and at super low amperage starts, funky arc initiation. If I have needed to fully start over, a diamond wheel cut off as on my electrode grinder works great as it has a spot just for cutting. In the ship if I don't feel like using dedicated electrode grinder, I'll use a dedicated belt grinder with two grits and sharpen longitudinally while rotating. Works a treat.

@kevintimoshkin1470

10 ай бұрын

smart man

@MrCantabrigian

10 ай бұрын

​@@kevintimoshkin1470 thanks. I was fortunate to learn from a couple of guys with 35+ yrs in the trade. Have a great day!

Great suggestions.

I thought using the scotch brite would’ve added radial grooves. Stoked to try it not that I know it doesn’t

Thank you.

So how do we ball the tungsten? I’m using the PrimeWeld TIG 225.

Have you used the typhoon enough to have an opinion and if so would you share

As far as aluminum goes, our piranha tungsten grinder doesn't go up to an 1/8" tungsten so I go over to the bench grinder with a diamond disc and just taper the tungsten almost to a point and then I'll go back and just barely hit the tip to flatten it. That's always been my go to

I have never heard of smashing your tungsten with a hammer. Seeing that hurts my soul. I don't weld enough these days so my skills are not great. I have 3-4 pieces of tungsten to cycle through before hitting the grinder to sharpen all of them. I have a coarse grinding wheel on my bench grinder to get the dipping contamination out then switch to a diamond wheel to give a perfect finish similar to the scotchbrite. This may be inappropriate, but there is a joke in the preferring a small ball comment. Sorry, I couldn't help it.

Nearly all of the tig work I do is thoriated tungstens. So im not sure about the hammer trick. They split and crack way to easy for that. But im curious if anybody has any great ideas.

Great content dude. Trying to decide for my first tig machine and I’m stuck in between the everlast power tig 185dv or the prime weld tig 225. Any thoughts?

@carpediemarts705

10 ай бұрын

Yes

Anyone use a square tip when they tig straight out the gate?

Your belt sander is contaminated from the tightening ring on your drill!

I have literally never seen anybody smash tungsten with a hammer, nobody does that. I have and have seen people hit it with the edge of a file to cut it in half though.

I can’t say i have done a lot of TIG welding in the last 54 years of my fabrication career, but i have never heard of breaking off the end of the tungsten with anything. I have always re-ground the tips and have a little 1/4 hp bench grinder that is only for tungsten grinding. Most unusual. I think the fly beat you on points.

Nice tip 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 (pun intended 😂😂)

Dusty, before you fix that tungsten, strike an arc on scrap, let that fly see the light! Was a random contamination lesson! No chop sticks were harmed!

Bro just use the diamond plate, flex and aku

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Seriously. Do people really do this ??

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My friend maybe you can answer this question. I have an Everlast ex250 and everytime I try to TIG weld mild Steel the tungsten instantly balls and it will not weld I haven't changed any settings and it used to weld great