We were installing an aluminum railing, and when we opened the package, this was hand written on the backWe're very curious as to what it means.
Mig welders, like the ones manufacture by Lincoln Welding Supplies and others will require the proper OFW gas and feeder hose and tank connection to fuse and weld aluminumThe best you can do here is to visit a local welding supply with your specific welding machine information (brand and model) and they will sell you the right suppliesYou must also do some practice welding with few scrap pieces until you able to master the skills before you go to the real projectsAluminum is very expensive and you want to do it rightGood luck.!
Aluminum is a soft wire and needs to be pulled not pushedA standard mig that pushes wire will kink the aluminum in the liner and jamb up in said linerSome older machines made for aluminum push and pull the wire at the same time, there is a regular feeder in the machine and one on the gun( a pain to get set right)The spool gun just makes it easier because you are not pushing the wire through the liner, the wire is in the gun making it heavy and you have to use small 1lb spoolsYou can use your machine as is but you will need a teflon liner to help the wire to slide through to the gun but one jamb up and the wire will kink in the linerYou will need pure argon to weld aluminumAny welding supply will be able to get one for you (reasonable? I doubt that)You could buy it used but with you asking this question I would be very careful because if you don't know what to look for you can cost yourself a lot of pain and money Edit note - Your welder will need to be of a capable capacity and amperage to properly preform the weldCheck with your local welding supply to see if it isThen buy what they recommend (from them if they are cheaper or online if they are not)Good luck!
The problem with aluminum is it has to be super clean, and when you run the wire through a standard liner, especially if you've already run standard wire through it it picks up contaminates, making for some very nasty looking welds, however there are non metallic liner kits you can buy for it, the only problem is there a pain to change if you have to switch back and forth all the timewhich is why most people just opt to buy a spool gun, and don't forget, you need to use 100% argon and not 25/75 argon co2 as you would with standard mig welding, so now your looking at a new tank also.
This Site Might Help YouRE: Is an aluminum wire spool gun really necessary to weld aluminum with my Mig welder? I have a mig welder, and I would like to learn to weld aluminumI have been told that I must buy an aluminum wire spool gun, because the standard mig wire feeder gun will not work with aluminum wireI don't understand why my standard wire feeder will not workIt feeds wire just like a.
Looks like somebody practising his hand-writtingLeft-top: 草原凤凰 Phoenix from/of the grassland凤凰传奇 Legend of Phoenix, a famous singer group in ChinaWords in brackets are names of the two singer of this group: 曾毅 Zeng Yi, 玲花 LinghuaMiddle: 加油 literally means refuel, often used as a cheering word, just like go go go不要 don't Bottom: It's an addressSomewhere in Jianli County, Hubei ProvinceCannot recognise it completely.
