promac850
formerly promac610
Thanks for the good advice, yep, I must admit, I need to clean before welding much better, I haven't any training from anyone, so any advice is welcome! Live and Learn is what I always say:msp_rolleyes:
In case anybody hasn't seen this about NOT using brake cleaner for TIG welding, I wanted to post this link:
http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm
I once used brake clean to pre-clean before using a mig welder with a straight Co2 setup. Although the vapor probably wasn't phosgene, it sure was terrible smelling stuff, and it made me want to vomit. Needless to say I won't be using brake clean for cleaning before welding again.
Brake clean is a no-no.
Carb clean. WD-40 is ok on steel.
Don't weld on galv. steel unless you either grind/sand off the area where the weld will be, or weld in very good ventilation, keeping your head the hell away from the fume cloud rising up into the ventilation pipe.
I gotta get those old furnace blowers lined up and installed... I could make a decent little ventilation system, with pipes routed to specific areas, and dampers installed to shut a certain area off so the draft is better where I need it.
But first, I got 2 saws to finish, an air compressor to set up, a JD 317 to fix, a car to fix, a car to tear apart, possibly an outboard motor to fix... blah blah blah and stuff like that... lots of work around here, not that that's a bad thing, of course.
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