Plasma Arc Welding - Project One Earrings
Well here we go. First I hunger for to thank Kevin Lindsey and the Orchid Bibliography for bringing TIG welding for jewelry to my publicity. I had been thinking about tackling this proffer for quite some time. After doing some inquire into, I decided that Plasma Arc Welding would be larger suited for my needs. I got favoured and scored a Thermal Arc Ultima 150 for a lawful price on ebay. After collecting the assorted missing items for the welder I was cheerful to try some stuff….so here is the first project, welding two pieces of wire together to look an earring.
The project starts with two 10ga pieces of stainless inure wire (0.102″ dia), putting a curve in them, then grinding a two-dimensional angle for the two pieces to fit appropriately. Fittment is cute critical, this is so we dont have to do a lot of filling with the welding viewpoint.

Here is a shot on how the pieces fit together.

Now that we have a good fittment, its even so to tack the pieces together. I acquainted with masking tape as my *clamp* for welding.

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