Welding with 20 amps.
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That's a good weld. Getting a fillet that size on that thin of material is really hard to do. I used to do fusion welds on .065" wall stainless sanitary pipe. If you ever buy equate brand toothpaste from Wal-Mart, I assembled the pipes that stuff flows through in the factory.
Man those old Linde welders are pretty sweet to run. I ran one of those briefly a few years back, very fine low-amp control. My favorite would have to be a Heliarc machine, a real one. I used one for about a year back in Connecticut, it was about the size of an upright piano, and could run stable from 3 amps to 1100 amps. I managed to win a bet on that thing by welding together two soda cans at about five amps. I was almost beaten out by a guy who tried welding two pieces of aluminum foil together. He ran along fine at two amps until the machine surged a little and melted away a spot.
Man those old Linde welders are pretty sweet to run. I ran one of those briefly a few years back, very fine low-amp control. My favorite would have to be a Heliarc machine, a real one. I used one for about a year back in Connecticut, it was about the size of an upright piano, and could run stable from 3 amps to 1100 amps. I managed to win a bet on that thing by welding together two soda cans at about five amps. I was almost beaten out by a guy who tried welding two pieces of aluminum foil together. He ran along fine at two amps until the machine surged a little and melted away a spot.
