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STACKING DIMES

I remember as a young teenager watching Monster Garage and Jesse James ‘stacking dimes’, and I think ever since then I have had a desire to master TIG welding. To me, tungsten inert gas welding is the ultimate form of welding — clean, pretty, strong, and extremely versatile. It requires a lot of user input and coordination, due to the fact you manually dab filler wire into the weld pool.

MAIN PARTS OF THE TIG WELDER

Power source/machine: This can be anything from a basic stick welder run as a scratch start TIG, or a $15,000 Miller

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