1:8 scratch deuce

[geemoney]

Found this

 

http://eastwood.com/tig-welders-eastwood-tig-ac-dc-welder.html

 

ac/dc, footpedal, high frequency start, square wave inverter.

Best price I've found with all the desired features.

Good user reviews on value & quality for price.

I have used this machine, Friday as a matter of fact!

it works nice.

as Comp1839 said...

aluminum MUST be hospital-clean!

when you think it is clean, clean it some more!

I have struck an arc on aluminum and it looked I had done it all my life, the next time I could not get anything right!

it is a fickle beast!

 

[Ognib]

Thanks for the review on the machine...good to know.

I've bought from them before & their product was always first rate.

The fact that aluminum is such a fickle beast is much of what makes this project such a worthy challenge.

[bobthehobbyguy]

Any more progress I have ben enjoying foklowing this build.

[Ognib]

Hey Bob, good to "see" you ...not a lot of visible progress...other than I'm just a week or so away from having the cash for the welder.

I refuse to use plastic for buying for my hobby.

I've located a local source for all of the mold making supplies as well as the investment plaster I'll need for the aluminum parts.

A new friend, as it turns out, is aircraft/aerospace cert on tig in exotic metals...is a small parts specialist, actually & has agreed to coach me in the finer points of doing a good solid "stack of dimes" bead on my parts.

Now what's the odds on making that connection at such an appropriate time?!

So, although nothing really to shoot & post for pics, good progress is being made.

Should be realizing aluminum parts to assemble sometime in the winter.

Work on the bucks is ongoing & very tedious & slow...short spurts on that as my focus seems to fry after 30 min or so.

Best