For some unexplained reason I have conceived a desire to learn TIG welding. Having watched every TIG video of Jody and This Old Tony at least twice it just looked so appealing and elegant that I finally pulled the trigger on an Everlast 210 EXT when they took a pretty big price drop just before Christmas. Very happy with the unit.
The obvious first project to get my feet wet was to build a cart for my new prize. Thus commenced the beginning of an arduous learning process. I expect that if it was easy there would be a lot more folks doing it. I took the electrode swimming and made the walk of shame to the grinder more times than I can count...the first day. As the seat time started to increase I started to notice incremental but positive progress toward sticking two items together. At this point my welds are fairly variable ranging from "man that's ugly" to "****, that looks good". Enough progress, though, that I can glimpse the possibilities of the medium.
The obvious first project to get my feet wet was to build a cart for my new prize. Thus commenced the beginning of an arduous learning process. I expect that if it was easy there would be a lot more folks doing it. I took the electrode swimming and made the walk of shame to the grinder more times than I can count...the first day. As the seat time started to increase I started to notice incremental but positive progress toward sticking two items together. At this point my welds are fairly variable ranging from "man that's ugly" to "****, that looks good". Enough progress, though, that I can glimpse the possibilities of the medium.
