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    Hello all, bought an EMF Transtig 250 some time ago and the time has come to learn how to use it. I am restoring a vintage car for which I am making a stainless steel fuel tank. I can use an oxy-acetelyne to weld this up but I think it would be much niecer tigged. Being a novice at tigging I am not certain how to position the settings on the tig to make a start. To make things even harder I would like to learn aluminium welding as well as this car is all aluminium body.
    Gratefully Ivan

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    Quote Originally Posted by vidak ivan View Post
    Hello all, bought an EMF Transtig 250 some time ago and the time has come to learn how to use it. I am restoring a vintage car for which I am making a stainless steel fuel tank. I can use an oxy-acetelyne to weld this up but I think it would be much niecer tigged. Being a novice at tigging I am not certain how to position the settings on the tig to make a start. To make things even harder I would like to learn aluminium welding as well as this car is all aluminium body.
    Gratefully Ivan
    That is certainly no trivial undertaking. I am not sure if you have the relevant experience or not, but from your original post I get the impression that it is all new to you.
    There was a very good article in the November/December issue of 2010, in the American magazine "The Home Shop Machinist". It runs about 10 pages, and will be well worth your time reading. I just found one for sale on American eBay, with a few days to run, my suggestion would be get it if you can!
    https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Home-Sho...YAAMXQ0pNQ9jxa
    I am not experienced in this area myself, but I think that you may find fabricating in steel may be considerably easier than using Stainless steel, being more ductile and not exhibiting the work hardening that stainless steels do when you have to drill holes in it for example. I don't want to be "raining on your parade", but making a non leaking fuel tank in stainless steel or anything else for that matter, does not strike me as a nice first project for someone learning to tig weld, and even if you are a handy self taught welder, making a fuel tank, is likely to test you pretty much by the time you get the filler spout, fuel tank sender, breather, sumps, drain plug, baffles, mounting points and line out installed.
    There are many excellent YouTube videos on practically every subject, "Jodies Tips and Tricks" would be a good place to start for welding info, and there are many others, but it seems to me that you need to practise on less critical stuff first, because even the fabrication will be complex, not just the welding up at the end.
    In any case I hope that you are eventually successful, and if you prove me wrong by successfully making a good tank as a novice, I will be well pleased for you and hope that you will show us all your project in this forum. Good luck,
    Rob.

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    Thanks for the replies, NedsHead no I do not have a manual and the pdf link does not work.
    Ropetangler, I should have explained a little better. I am a toolmaker of 43 years and I have used a tig few years before but it was set up by a friend and I have simply forgotten as it is not a common thing that I do. I know just enough ( to be dangerous) about stick, oxy and mig welding but tig I have not had much use for until now. I will have a better look at youtube thanks.
    Ivan

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    My apologies Ivan, I certainly got your skill levels wrong, but still worth chasing up the article in HSM I would say, just lots of good tips from someone who has been there and done that many times over. Neds Head's link to the pdf of the manual works for me, just wondering if you noticed that when you click on his link, it takes you to another page on this forum, where there is a post from Vernonv, and it is in Vernonv's post that he has 2 links, one for a CIG Transtig manual and one for an EMF Transtig manual. When I tried Vernonv's links they both worked. If you did click on Vernonv's links and nothing seemed to happen, check your downloads folder, you may have to click on the files in that folder, but on my iMac they both self opened, a couple of seconds after I had clicked on Vernonv's link. Hope that this helps, if you have difficulty in getting a copy of the HSM magazine of Nov/Dec 2010, give me a shout, I may be able to assist, Cheers
    Rob

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    My apologies, in the last two or three months when my windows updated it stopped confirming downloads which I just realized. Looked in my downloads and found 4 downloaded manuals.
    Ivan



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    hows it going ivan, did you start the stainless steel tank?

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    The tank is ready for welding. Trouble is I am not confident at using the tig yet, but getting there.
    Ivan

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    i can help if you want, ive welded tons of stainless. and i made a stainless fuel tank for my ute. i used 316 stainless and 1.6 sheet.
    and fused welded together most of it, at about 45 to 55 amps.
    but get some scrap and have go, theres no harm in that.
    ideally it should be purged with argon, however car exhaust can be used as i believe it is an inert gas, but i would test first.

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