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Book that explains materials, electrodes and techniques for tig welding copper components

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robert eggleston	14/06/2019 18:06:20
28 forum posts 9 photos	Looking for any book describing tig copper welding, electrodes, settings, techniques and other info to help an experienced aluminum welder transition to copper materials.
Boiler Bri	14/06/2019 19:00:50
856 forum posts 212 photos	Hi. You are looking for something that is treat as a dark art. We have tried at work using standard kit. tig with standard tungstens and argon back purging. The result was ok. I have heard that using another type of gas that i can not think of the name keeps the heat better on the job. There is an American guy the demonstrates it on you tube i will have a look around and post when i find it. Bri
DC31k	14/06/2019 20:29:41
1186 forum posts 11 photos	Have you looked at the Copper Development Association website? There is all sorts of technical information there. They have a publication search (although the reference I found to 'Modern methods of welding copper' was dated 1943. Modern, I suppose, compared to Modern machine shop practise by Joshua Rose, from 18-something). I believe the alternative (and original) gas is helium. This gives a hotter weld pool. Hence the original name for TIG, heliarc. Argon is used now as it is way cheaper.

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