OBX headers MIG or TIG
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OBX headers MIG or TIG
I have been looking at the OBX headers since comptech are way out of the price range for me. I know the CT uses TIG weld. But members of the forums say OBX are MIG, SSAutoChrome.xxx say they are TIG weld. What are they really?
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Re: OBX headers MIG or TIG
Originally posted by MotionEffects
I have been looking at the OBX headers since comptech are way out of the price range for me. I know the CT uses TIG weld. But members of the forums say OBX are MIG, SSAutoChrome.xxx say they are TIG weld. What are they really?
I have been looking at the OBX headers since comptech are way out of the price range for me. I know the CT uses TIG weld. But members of the forums say OBX are MIG, SSAutoChrome.xxx say they are TIG weld. What are they really?
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MIG = Metal Inert Gas (Inert Gas = the Argon, or 85/15 mix of Argon/CO2, respectively...etc.)
TIG = Tungsten Inert Gas, becuase the torch here is not the welding medium, the torch is a separate Tungsten Electrode.
The inert gas is to displace oxygen, to keep the weld and metal from oxidizing as they do at high heat, which weakens the bond. Yes, at that high of a temp, even SS can oxidize. That weld right there is pretty clean, especially if it was done by a machine not a man. Machines usually get het too high and botch the weld. That is def. TIG also...no spatter, like with MIG, plus MIG would usually have to run hot enought to burn through that thin wall, since its hard to control the amperage as accurately as with TIG's.
Sorry, the family biz is a machine shop...what can I say?
TIG = Tungsten Inert Gas, becuase the torch here is not the welding medium, the torch is a separate Tungsten Electrode.
The inert gas is to displace oxygen, to keep the weld and metal from oxidizing as they do at high heat, which weakens the bond. Yes, at that high of a temp, even SS can oxidize. That weld right there is pretty clean, especially if it was done by a machine not a man. Machines usually get het too high and botch the weld. That is def. TIG also...no spatter, like with MIG, plus MIG would usually have to run hot enought to burn through that thin wall, since its hard to control the amperage as accurately as with TIG's.
Sorry, the family biz is a machine shop...what can I say?
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Originally posted by Gilgamesh
MIG = Metal Inert Gas (Inert Gas = the Argon, or 85/15 mix of Argon/CO2, respectively...etc.)
TIG = Tungsten Inert Gas, becuase the torch here is not the welding medium, the torch is a separate Tungsten Electrode.
The inert gas is to displace oxygen, to keep the weld and metal from oxidizing as they do at high heat, which weakens the bond. Yes, at that high of a temp, even SS can oxidize. That weld right there is pretty clean, especially if it was done by a machine not a man. Machines usually get het too high and botch the weld. That is def. TIG also...no spatter, like with MIG, plus MIG would usually have to run hot enought to burn through that thin wall, since its hard to control the amperage as accurately as with TIG's.
Sorry, the family biz is a machine shop...what can I say?
MIG = Metal Inert Gas (Inert Gas = the Argon, or 85/15 mix of Argon/CO2, respectively...etc.)
TIG = Tungsten Inert Gas, becuase the torch here is not the welding medium, the torch is a separate Tungsten Electrode.
The inert gas is to displace oxygen, to keep the weld and metal from oxidizing as they do at high heat, which weakens the bond. Yes, at that high of a temp, even SS can oxidize. That weld right there is pretty clean, especially if it was done by a machine not a man. Machines usually get het too high and botch the weld. That is def. TIG also...no spatter, like with MIG, plus MIG would usually have to run hot enought to burn through that thin wall, since its hard to control the amperage as accurately as with TIG's.
Sorry, the family biz is a machine shop...what can I say?
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i was agreeing on your asumption. i weld on occasion, mostly autobody stuff. havent "tiged" yet but wanna learn. ive miged and others. i thought the welds looked like tig. nicer than mig, no spatter
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Cool, TIG is pretty easy, you just need 2 steady hands instead of one, you can't use the other one to grab at and hold parts, so setup is longer. Other than that its easy and actually more fun IMHO
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Warranty still good with these headers, any chance of an Acura dealer biatching about them being OBX not CT and that causing problems. Here comes the flamde bait, do they a good reliability rate, like low instnaces of warping and leaking?
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Originally posted by Gilgamesh
Warranty still good with these headers, any chance of an Acura dealer biatching about them being OBX not CT and that causing problems.
Warranty still good with these headers, any chance of an Acura dealer biatching about them being OBX not CT and that causing problems.
Originally posted by Gilgamesh
Here comes the flamde bait, do they a good reliability rate, like low instnaces of warping and leaking?
Here comes the flamde bait, do they a good reliability rate, like low instnaces of warping and leaking?
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