Inside - trying to leave the outside clean & smooth.Are you welding the inside or outside?
In that case take out a loan or make your own with an inflatable clear beachball lol https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CK-Flexible-30-Welding-Gas-Purge-Chamber-for-TIG-Welding-/223566680390Inside - trying to leave the outside clean & smooth.
Inflatable pool animals and velcro spring to mind here, cannot be that expensive, rigth?In that case take out a loan or make your own with an inflatable clear beachball lol https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CK-Flexible-30-Welding-Gas-Purge-Chamber-for-TIG-Welding-/223566680390
The deep tub of argon might work though
The problem is it needs to be really well sealed, other wise you keep getting contamination. Proper glove boxes are thousands. Usually only economical on titanium, zirconium or tantalum parts.Adapt a shotblasting cabinet into a purge box?
Absolutely but for a cheap equivalent a shotblast cabinet would do the job, usually they're pretty well sealed anyways against dust. Modify it properly and you'd get quite a good result.The problem is it needs to be really well sealed, other wise you keep getting contamination. Proper glove boxes are thousands. Usually only economical on titanium, zirconium or tantalum parts.
Yep it’s a bit odd at first and takes some getting used to.Absolutely but for a cheap equivalent a shotblast cabinet would do the job, usually they're pretty well sealed anyways against dust. Modify it properly and you'd get quite a good result.
I know a guy who used to weld a lot of titanium car parts in the proper purge chambers, they were the real deal, but like you say, tens of thousands to buy. They used to buy the biggest welding shade glass they could find and tape it to the outside of the window, that way they could get closer to see without needing a hood.
Absolutely but for a cheap equivalent a shotblast cabinet would do the job, usually they're pretty well sealed anyways against dust. Modify it properly and you'd get quite a good result.
I know a guy who used to weld a lot of titanium car parts in the proper purge chambers, they were the real deal, but like you say, tens of thousands to buy. They used to buy the biggest welding shade glass they could find and tape it to the outside of the window, that way they could get closer to see without needing a hood.
That's a very interesting idea - thanks!I’d set up another argon hose with a gas lens on the end and hold it on the back somehow when welding.