geemoney Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ognib Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Any more progress I have ben enjoying foklowing this build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ognib Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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