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My original thought of using a manual tig torch to fuse tack each link would be really slow and cumbersome.

Any chance you could give a brief description on how to do this?

I think this is where you set the current to a high value and mash the pedal but 20 ga steel wire is only .035 diameter. How do you get it repeatable.

 

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With the right tig welder you could spot tig it. If it were me I would make a little cradle to mount the torch, hold the rings against a fence and depress the pedal. One dose of dc current should do it. I know my dynastys can do spot tig.

What amperage and time are we talking about? Would this be applicable to welding a grill consisting of 1/16" rod wire in a mesh? I can do three crosses in a row but then melt the wire and distort it. I realize the way to go would be spot welder but I don't have one and the Harbor Freight one is too much for this one time deal..

 

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I guess 35 amps could do it for maybe 1/10th of a second. We use it for tacking pipes to plates. But the wall is 200 amps at 1/10th second. I can use my Lincoln the same way by using a long pulse.

I am new at this and trying to set this up. Thanks for your help.

So you go to the Tech menu, set the Weld Timer to on, and hit the Amp button and set it to 0.10? Then you exit and set the Amps to 35?

It says this feature is disabled if a remote foot control is connected so I just rig a momentary switch across the pins in the connector on the front of the welder?

Would I gain anything by ramping the current up and down?

 

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Holy cow

Is that $173 for a switch, some wire and a connector? http://store.cyberweld.com/rmonco.html

Is this, some solder and a switch an option? (Pins A B) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Male-14-Pin-Plug-136961-141162-for-Miller-Hobart-Thermal-Arc-TIG-MIG-Welding/221744840311?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D40130%26meid%3D2c3401f0d5f2412aac390aafb2f75868%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dlo%26sd%3D170592483089

EDIT: Is there some way to use just the RFCS-14

 

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I figured it out.

You have to scroll through the whole sequence menu and then I think you have to press the A button twice to set the weld time.
Step on the pedal and it delivers a burst. pretty cool

Does this sound stupid and risk injury? put alligator clips on the two wires connected to ground, push the wires together, hold them up near the torch and step on the pedal. I think I need a little pressure to get good fusion.

 

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Not the original poster just curious.
I was playing with this 1/16th inch wire just to see how it worked. I forgot your recommended settings and somehow arrived at 30 Amps 1/2 second (little too hot?). I slightly squeezed them with a pliers which the ground clamp was attached to.
At about 30 seconds each it will take you 125 hours to weld 15,000 of them.