Spray transfer

[Hickey]

I keep reading about Spray transfer welding, but I am still a little unclear about what it is. I was reading a thread over on desertrides.com and they were saying you could Spray Stitch/spot and produce welds like this.

I know when you are spraying, the heat is much higher than in short circut, and I read on one of the welding sites about a guy who was teaching his son to do it on a MM210. I have also read that you need a 250 to spray, but that was on pirate. So... how hot to spray?

 

[EZRhino]

That looks suspiciously like TIG welding......

EZ

 

[Hickey]

That looks suspiciously like TIG welding......

EZ

They claim it is not.

 

[EZRhino]

Interesting! That is exactly what TIG looks like! Overlapping discs......

EZ

 

[Hickey]

More...

 

[Hickey]

In this one, there is too much space between the "dimes"

 

[brian]

.....sprayed by a computer..... ......wow....

 

[James K]

I dont know are you sure thats not tig.

did the thread you pulled it from say it was spray transfer?

 

[EZRhino]

Boy that does look alot like a machine did it....it's too straight. My vote is TIG. (YOu don't want a TIGwelder, it is soooooo slooooooow!)

EZ

 

[Hickey]

Here is the thread. From what I gather, it is just too time consuming to TIG that much material.http://www.desertrides.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1024

 

[Caleb]

I dont know anything about spray transfer welding other than those are some damn nice welds

I will say this about TIG, if you are good (which I am no where near) its actually pretty fast, not anywhere near as fast as mig but not as slow as most think it is.

I'm gonna have to read up of that process, sounds cool!!!

 

[Hickey]

I dont know anything about spray transfer welding other than those are some damn nice welds

I will say this about TIG, if you are good (which I am no where near) its actually pretty fast, not anywhere near as fast as mig but not as slow as most think it is.

I'm gonna have to read up of that process, sounds cool!!!

Read that Linked thread, and tell me what you think.

 

[Caleb]

Read that Linked thread, and tell me what you think.

I'm reading it right now...

 

[Hickey]

I'm reading it right now...

Okay, I found this thread
link For some tips on spraying with my 210 .... WOW

That is bad ass! TOTALLY different kind of welding. I have to go to work right now, but I will post pics after I get home on Monday.

 

[Caleb]

interesting, I was wishing they spoke more about the spray and they didn;t...I searched on google and came up with this article on www.thefabricator.com (I get the mag each month) and it explains really well the two different processes for GMAW...check it out http://www.thefabricator.com/xp/Fabricator/Articles/Welding/Article254/Article254_p1.xml

 

[Caleb]

after reading through that article I realized I have sprayed before...it was pulse spray on aluminum, it kicked ass...you weld looks perfect in any position but the down side is the machine was around $4k We had the regional Miller rep at our place for about a week letting us demo different machines...

 

[Shawn]

Cool,

I'll have to read it when I can see a little better...

 

[Caleb]

Cool,

I'll have to read it when I can see a little better...

how many times do we need to tell you that you need to wear a mask while welding

 

[Shawn]

how many times do we need to tell you that you need to wear a mask while welding

ha,,,

Dat was a good one

 

[Hickey]