Doug
I don't know if the TIG is better than the MIG, and there are a few
disadvantages I've already discovered, but I sure can get a prettier weld with
TIG and good penetration too. Well see what the aluminum looks like later.
JB
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Odom
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:01 AM
To: Land Speed List
Subject: Mig Bashing
List, I have seen many notes on this list that put down Mig welding as
being inferior to other methods. Now I personally have build race cars
with stick, mig and tig. I have had some of these cars try and knock
down cement walls or drive through other cars on the track. I have never
seen any of these weld fail. Now the metal next to the weld will rip or
tear away from the tube but not the weld.
NASCAR, ASA, ARCA, and every other stock car racing org. that I know of
have cars that are Mig welded. These cars run into things real hard and
need to be as save as possible. I would like to know if there is some
real test information out there that backs up this Mig is inferior idea.
Now the guy that lives across the street for me is retired welder
from the nuclear power plant. Every time I have asked him a question
about welding he could not come up with a good answer. So I finally
figured out that he just did what the engineers had on the plans. The
plans told him what temp, what type rod or wire, and what angle to use.
So here is a welder that has all kinds of certifications and great test
results and I can out weld him any day. So I wonder if some one has seen
something welded by a person that did not know what they were doing
break or crack. It's not always the arrow, sometimes it's the indian.
Doug Odom in sunny big ditch ( the police have been notified here also
in case Keith gets this far west.)
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