Real-world welding guides for the home shop — MIG, TIG, stick, and everything in between.
A purge, or backing gas, is argon flooded into the inside of a tube so the back side of the weld root has no oxygen to react with...
Aluminum MIG welds crack for two main reasons: the wrong filler for the base alloy (hot cracking from bad chemistry) and unfilled craters at the end of every...
Visual weld inspection is examining a finished weld with your eyes, good light, and a few simple gauges to judge whether it meets acceptance criteria. It is the...
Run by Kenny Nyhus Fadil. Welding at home for several years, currently working out of a small home shop. I got tired of sorting through generic, SEO-spam advice trying to figure out settings for my machine.
This site is built differently. It burns enough rod to keep the advice honest. No fluff, no fake tests. Just real-world techniques that work.
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