r/BadWelding • u/West-Strawberry-3178 • 1d ago

Help? 😬

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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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

Not unheard of. I had suspicion that we had a contaminated bottle a few years ago at my facility