Wedg1e
They call me Mr. Bodge-angles
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So it's 8PM on a Friday, you're putting in a bit of overtime making a plastic block for a project that's behind schedule. To save pratting about with the mill, you decide to bandsaw a slab of 25mm black acetal to roughly the right dimensions.
Like a berk you don't have the blade guide set; halfway through the first cut the blade jumps off the wheels and snaps
What do you do? Sack it and go down the pub? Resort to a slitting saw in the mill?
Not me. I got the TIG set out and welded the broken blade back together
It took me 4 goes and it isn't pretty but it held long enough to finish the job - in fact it's still holding now
TIG set was on minimum setting (about 10A) and I still had to stitch weld it as it vapourised before my eyes.
A new blade's less than a tenner, but you can't get them from Tesco...
I always say, you never know what uses you have for a welder until you buy one
Like a berk you don't have the blade guide set; halfway through the first cut the blade jumps off the wheels and snaps
What do you do? Sack it and go down the pub? Resort to a slitting saw in the mill?
Not me. I got the TIG set out and welded the broken blade back together
It took me 4 goes and it isn't pretty but it held long enough to finish the job - in fact it's still holding now
TIG set was on minimum setting (about 10A) and I still had to stitch weld it as it vapourised before my eyes.
A new blade's less than a tenner, but you can't get them from Tesco...
I always say, you never know what uses you have for a welder until you buy one
