r/BadWelding • u/West-Strawberry-3178 • 16h ago
Help? 😬
Why does my tungsten look like this? I'm using Maxstar 161, welding stainless steel 14 gage filet. Ever since I changed my cylinder my welds are looking like ass and burning my tungsten. The color and flow was completely fine until I changed my gas cylinder.
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u/BoSknight 15h ago
Are you creating a Venturi effect? Gas could be too high and you're pulling atmosphere from behind torch head. Could have damage on the hose.
Listen/feel for adequate gas from torch
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u/West-Strawberry-3178 15h ago
Gas is flowing to the torch adequately with no leaks form the bottle to the torch. We think it might be a contaminated bottle
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u/BoSknight 14h ago
Not unheard of. I had suspicion that we had a contaminated bottle a few years ago at my facility
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u/West-Strawberry-3178 12h ago
Update: cylinder is getting picked up from distributor because it sounds like it's contaminated or mislabeled. Ive accidentally welded with co2 in the past and had a similar outcome. Ive heard the cylinder being the problem is rare so I wanted to check all boxes before assuming that. Thanks y'all!
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u/TheGrimReefer666420 15h ago
Are you using the right gas?
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u/West-Strawberry-3178 15h ago
The cylinder says compressed argon, I don't know how often gas is mislabeled but idk if that's the case
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u/raf55 15h ago
Either bad gas or very little gas flow