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He forgot the instruction about touching the tungsten and regrinding it between every single one of those steps while you're learning. Jeez, is he an amateur?
what does they mean for the weld? I think I had the machine doing a lot of cleaning considering
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With the balance set too high you get that crazing/crackled look to the aluminium and also the deposited metal. You should have a small amount of cleaning visible at the edge of the weld but the deposited metal itself should be shiny. I will look back and see if I still have a pic to show what I mean.
Regarding the integrity of the weld, it probably won't do much harm.
Regarding the integrity of the weld, it probably won't do much harm.
im not sure I understand what the crazy crackled look is lol. It looked ok to me just not as shiny as yours
I’ll see if I can get a better picture tomorrow.
I can kind of see what you’re saying, still not 100% though. I’ll have to look in real life tomorrow and see if I can notice it lol.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve put the cleaning up too high, I wasn’t fully sure my machine actually had the option to adjust it until I started fiddling with it before doing this
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Fair play!
Cracking work as ever!
Cracking work as ever!
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Coming along nicely, the laser cut tabs was a good shout. Not something I can do as I only have plasma and that is not really accurate enough for such things.
Couple of things, grind up a tungsten for a scriber, they are excellent and better than a knife
Also something I do when finding half, once I have it where I think it should be I measure from the opposite side to make sure it is the same value, it wouldn't be the first time I would have been 5 or 10mm out if I had just gone with the head calculations
Couple of things, grind up a tungsten for a scriber, they are excellent and better than a knife
Also something I do when finding half, once I have it where I think it should be I measure from the opposite side to make sure it is the same value, it wouldn't be the first time I would have been 5 or 10mm out if I had just gone with the head calculations
Coming along nicely, the laser cut tabs was a good shout. Not something I can do as I only have plasma and that is not really accurate enough for such things.
Couple of things, grind up a tungsten for a scriber, they are excellent and better than a knife
Also something I do when finding half, once I have it where I think it should be I measure from the opposite side to make sure it is the same value, it wouldn't be the first time I would have been 5 or 10mm out if I had just gone with the head calculations
Don’t know what you’re talking about... my maths was perfect
the tabs were a great idea until I forgot to clean the ends off before welding it all together! Doh! Some nasty welding in the middle of my nice panels now lol
Good tip on the tungsten, I’ve got a scribe somewhere but I don’t know if you’ve seen a theme with my working...
Im a scruffy **Language** who never cleans up after himself lol
Aye, just like mine
99% of the time it is correct but does no harm to measure from the other side to make sure they are both the same
You are probably extremely tidy in comparison to me
bet you know where everything is though lol.
I’m good after I’ve cleaned, then I’ll go months making a mess then clean up again... and repeat - I should really sort myself out lol
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Yes I very rarely can't find what I am looking for.
To be fair it is slightly tidier at the moment, not much but slightly
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That reminds me of work, ...
But I know where everything is, roughly.
But I know where everything is, roughly.
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I had a huge clear up a few years back, not that you would know now, but couldnt find things for months , lost a lot of time searching
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that does sound nice , for some unknown reason way meatier than my old ferguson...
