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« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2010, 10:53:08 PM » |
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for about £6 ya can buy anti spatter spray stops wire stickin to nozzles save ya time n money
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« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2010, 10:07:15 AM » |
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Yeah, seen it, even used it a couple of times. Never gotten round to buying any. I'm a lazy Monkey.
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« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2010, 06:46:11 PM » |
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A place I used to weld for had tins of what looks like wax, every so often I just dipped the nozzle in and I had no problems
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« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2010, 08:46:12 PM » |
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A place I used to weld for had tins of what looks like wax, every so often I just dipped the nozzle in and I had no problem
that will be tip dip i use it all the time and anti spatter great stuff
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I always know what I'm doing. Can you help me
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« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2010, 11:50:19 PM » |
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« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2010, 12:07:34 AM » |
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Brilliant! Never heard of that before.
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« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2010, 02:27:54 AM » |
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Thats the stuff, it was better when the nossle was hot, dip it in, give it couple of shakes and start welding again. |
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« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2010, 05:34:34 PM » |
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So thats not how to break `em  . And now back to how to make one...... First a slight problem involving camera batteries, so we pick up visualy with me having drilled the now tube out to 4.5mm to a depth of 8mm. This second drilling makes the hole 0.5mm bigger and will be about right to tap to a 5mm thread, so thats what i did and then screwed a tip in the end. |
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« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2010, 05:41:48 PM » |
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Did you spot the 8mm nut screwed on the tube? That`s there because i want to remove some of the thread at the front of the tube, unscrewing the nut when i`ve done will re-cut the start of the thread.
Now, i`ve mounted the tube in my lathe, this is not important, all i need is a way of spinning the tube, a drill, mounted in a vice would do just as well. Starting with a file, i carefully removed most of the unwanted thread section, by moving the file along as the tube was spinning.
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« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2010, 05:43:31 PM » |
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Then it can be finished off by useing different grades of wet n dry paper.
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« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2010, 05:48:42 PM » |
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And after a while you should be able to get it nice and smooth, you dont have to do this, i cant see why leaving it fully threaded would effect how it works, but its up to you.
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« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2010, 05:52:43 PM » |
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Next job is to cross drill it, this allows your shielding gas into the shroud and towards the tip. In my `pattern`, the holes are 1.5mm and located 12mm from the end of the tube, so this is where i drilled them.
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« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2010, 05:57:25 PM » |
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So now i have this......
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« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2010, 06:02:23 PM » |
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all thats left to do now is put a bend into it, but it got to cold in the shed so i`ll do that tomorrow . Cost of buying a new swan neck.....£11.00 Cost of a bit of brass bar ...............£1.50 Cost of fixing a machine with parts you`ve manufactured yourself..........priceless  |
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« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2010, 08:20:31 PM » |
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Ooh, I do hate talented people!
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