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I would like to say thanks to everyone giving up their time to post replies, everyones input on this has been very valuable and appreciated! Getting on the inside will be achievable on some of them but not all. The Vessel in the pictures will be used as a kettle (water) and will only reach...

Hey Mika, Yeah I'm trying to clean them up as much as I can given I rang 4 different places to get the welds done and the cheapest was $60 per weld (in the perth metro area). I have a friend who said he would give it a crack, mind you for the tools he had (my tools) I think he did an ok job...

So I spent a large chunk of today cleaning these welds up, the inside of them aren't the greatest and still appear to have some pitting after I huge sanding. I used some bar keepers friend to give them a good clean and removed the discolouration. I am now just heating up some water with some PBW...

Where does one get this pickling paste in Perth?

Will this get rid of the discolouration from the welding? I think I will just take to it with some scotchbrite and then give it a good clean/boil with some PBW These are by no mean sanitary welds so fingers crossed they will be ok :P Slampt

Cheers, They came up fairly shiny with the SS brush, just mainly discoloured. I read Bar keepers friend can remove that. There are a few lumps in the back which I will sand down and see how I go. I also noticed the kegs are fairly dirty inside still (i.e. when I run my finger across the SS I...

Just a quick update, found a mate who did the big welding for me. He did a pretty good job (he's a boiler maker). All I have to do is clean them up a little whats the best way? I am thinking dremel with a sanding wheel or a small SS brush wheel, will this also get rid of the discolouration...

Cool, I will keep practicing as I want to get good at it anyway :P

Cheers Drew, Will hopefully have another play with it tonight after I pick up some scrap! :P Joe

Good point had the Garage door open. Wanna say thanks to Spoonta for offering up some SS scraps, I will definitely be going over there to pick it up tomorrow arvo/evening :P Cheers Joe

The Flow rate was set to around 20 iirc, too much? Joe

Cheers Vanoontour, I only did one to see what it was like. Watching some vids of people SS weld they seem clean at the end of it, mine seem to have a lot of black... Joe

Not confusing, It is all helping. I figure TIG welding is something you either can or can't do! :P But I will keep practising. One thing I am noticing is a lot of crap around the weld (discolouration/black etc) I thought with the argon shield this should be reduced. Is that not the case? I am...

Thanks for all the tips, mine was set higher so I will drop it down to about 10/9 and see how I go, another mate of mine came over and gave it a crack and he did a pretty good job considering it was his first attempted. Way better than all my attempts! The only thing we noticed with his welds...

Thanks, Hopefully I will be able to grab some scrap SS of Spoonta and give that a crack, there are some gaps (very small mind you with the sockets I need to weld). So best leave them till last :P I will do what you have suggested once I get some more SS :P Also what size ceramic shield should...

I will, but I dunno if I will get better, I am running out of things to test on and I do suck pretty hard at it! :P Also another question some of the holes I drilled do have some gaps (i.e. they are fairly loose fitting). The reason for this is because some of my sockets are actually 1-2mm...

Thanks peakydh, If I could find someone locally to do it without charging an arm and a leg I would of got them in, I appreciate the help! I will keep practising. Cheers Joe

Ok more practising today and it is official.. I suck ass at this :P I think i have the heat right, I am just way to slow at moving the tig, and getting the filler in. (Lots of big holes to prove it too!) I need to sharpen my drill bit before i can drill more holes to test welding "sockets"...

Hey Spoonta, If you don't mind that would be great, I was using some old SS pipe to try and simulate the sockets. Got an ok weld done now, but must of been a little too hot as the are globs of SS on the inside of the tube! Cheers Joe

So i did a few practise welds today, 50Amps seems a little to high, I managed to blow a few holes into the SS. I also tried back purging the weld to see how that went and it appeared to make it more susceptible to blowing holes int the SS too. To summarise I currently suck at TIG, but my mate...