hello everyone,need help with color of tungsten colors,im new to this tig welding but been around stick welding for years (pipeliners)trying to learn tig,been reading everything i can in books, welding webs , videos etc. l bought a 185 thermal arc about 1 1/2 years ago, and just started to play with the machine for about 2 months now on and off.anyway one of the tungsten they sent me with the start up kit (one of the 3 different colors is1/16 gray tungsten )which seems to work the best so far for keeping a good puddle with steel or aluminum. i believe it is 2% ceriated, i like it the best so far for aluminum .i ordered online 2%ceriated in size1/16 and the color is orange. i no they use colors to describe each different tungsten . but the orange ceriated in 1/16 seems no where near as nice as the 1/16 gray tungsten. whats up?i have red (thoriated) white (zirconated)etc,i thought red would always be thoriated, grey ceriated,green pure etc. and used the 3/32 grey for 1/8 aluminum tubing and it is fine .
from what im hereing 2 % lanterated is best all around esp . for aluminum.thats next. but what is this grey tungsten? t:blob1:hanks
from what im hereing 2 % lanterated is best all around esp . for aluminum.thats next. but what is this grey tungsten? t:blob1:hanks
