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Khamenei's Top Guy Katze Kattepus 
nerthos@shitposter.world
Birthday time, had cake and got a set of esab welding gear as a gift, nice day so far.
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I thought this was going to be one of those "i live in a low income environment" variety
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I'm a furry now btw just haven't settled on my fursona or how I'm going to destroy my family yet
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Khamenei's Top Guy Katze Kattepus
nerthos@shitposter.world
@mangeurdenuage I had cake and then had Crom the cat on my lap most of the night (he's there right now)
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Khamenei's Top Guy Katze Kattepus
nerthos@shitposter.world
@meowski New set of nice mask, gloves and pick. New mask is really light, like a third of the old one.
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@nerthos happy birthday :)
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Khamenei's Top Guy Katze Kattepus
nerthos@shitposter.world
@whirly Some kinda are I guess? the instance went down as georgia said because the guy running it went homeless. So it went back to people just posting about it sometimes on their mains.
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@nerthos oh that sucks. someone should make a retvrn
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Khamenei's Top Guy Katze Kattepus
nerthos@shitposter.world
@whirly You can host an instance if you want
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Khamenei's Top Guy Katze Kattepus
nerthos@shitposter.world
@meowski Ty man. I'm probably going to try it with the new mig machine tomorrow, I'll do a new guard for a saber blade I have stored.
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@nerthos sweet. post some pics if you get a chance. one of these days i need to set up a shield gas system for my wire feed welder. currently it only does flux core wire which isn't too useful so i use tig for most tasks. but it would be nice to have mig for aluminum
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Khamenei's Top Guy Katze Kattepus
nerthos@shitposter.world
@meowski I'll be using flux wire and sticks for a while since I've yet to buy a gas system, but for hobby projects it's still pretty nice. I'll be able to weld sheet metal now without poking it full of holes.
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meowski@fluf.club
@nerthos flux core works fine for plain steel, and in particular it does work well for dirty steel, which tig doesn't like. the wire feed flux core was my first welder and it served me well for a long time, but yea when you add shield gas it does open up a lot of possibilities like stainless and aluminum.
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Khamenei's Top Guy Katze Kattepus
nerthos@shitposter.world
@meowski I still need to buy the tig torch for aluminium anyway, so it's not that big a concern right now. I'll mostly be working with steel and plain iron at the moment. I'm slowly stockpiling tools whenever my numbers are very in the green. I've only used stick welders so far at home (big old 80s-90s system, and a portable esab inverter lately) and big industrial mig with gas at work, back when they were very very expensive machines.
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meowski@fluf.club
@nerthos i haven't done much stick but supposedly there are rods that work on stainless and even aluminum. my tig machine also does stick. tig is really my favorite overall for most tasks cause it gives the cleanest welds, except anything coated, like the aluminum plated steel car exhaust pipes, or galvanized stuff (watch out for fumes), or some other stuff on cars where there may be paint residue. then i still go for the flux core.
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Khamenei's Top Guy Katze Kattepus
nerthos@shitposter.world
@meowski Anything coated I'd sand first at least locally honestly, welding on coats rarely turns good and the coat is ruined anyway due to the heat. Theoretically you can rod weld aluminium and stainless but it's expensive and troublesome compared to using a tig torch and adding material manually. If I ever work with the kind of surface that releases fumes I'm just getting the filter coif that goes with the welding mask, the whole esab mid and up lines supports them.
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meowski@fluf.club
@nerthos with flux core i find that the cleaning action of the flux combined with the arc consuming the filler helps immensely with residue and junk that can't easily be cleaned away even with sanding and solvent (i always do my best to clean to bare metal but you know sometimes there is stuff buried, or coatings on the inside of pipes and so on)
whereas with tig, for example, any little bit of of zinc residue causes a mini explosion which ruins your electrode instantly
the other day i had to grind back some epoxy primer used tig to fix something i missed, and it actually worked out fine though.
whereas with tig, for example, any little bit of of zinc residue causes a mini explosion which ruins your electrode instantly
the other day i had to grind back some epoxy primer used tig to fix something i missed, and it actually worked out fine though.
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