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Munkul
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Nice to hear. I thought I'd read some good things about Newarc stuff and also about using them for gouging, but after I bought it I couldn't find a single comment about them and I wondered if I'd made it up in my head!
It's got 100% duty cycle at 300 amps and that's what I want to be gouging at, so hopefully it should do OK.
dan.taylor.1
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Yeah my mig is 100% at 250, shame its developed a fault (it's about 30 years old and has not been maintained very well 
) lovely smooth welder.
) lovely smooth welder.
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I think you've posted that question in the wrong thread of the two.
Edit: Or, have they been merged?
As my befuddled old dad used to say - i know what I meant
Pete.
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They look good. So long as they are micrograin carbide they should hold an edge. You can use regular carbide but you have to sharpen it more often. I have in the past used carbide slip gauges for scraper tips.
Sergei Slovenija
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It is necessary to build a grinding machine with a diamond stone...
Pete.
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You can do something as simple as sticking a cheap 1500 grit diamond lapping disc onto a piece of ally or steel with double-sided tape and holding it in your 3-jaw chuck. Run the lathe at 400rpm and use it as your shapener.
Sergei Slovenija
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I also need to sharpen tungsten electrodes. A separate grinder is seen as an urgent need.
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Another tube of dryflex (And a rant)...
I got some a week ago to sort a rotten window sill at my nan's house, when I got there she said "Can you have a look at the door step", turns out it's rotten as fk so I spent the morning carving it back to solid wood, spudged a whole tube of resin in and bought another to do the sill. After I'd finished the sill and put the ladder away, "Can you just have a look at the bedroom window".
Turns out that's bloody rotten too, really the glass needs taking out so I can be sure it's all cleaned out, then fill it with resin, refit the glass and reputty. Actually the glass needs replacing, the dick who painted the frames years ago scratched all round the edges with sandpaper. I don't have time for that now so I just gouged it out as best I can, stuffed the rest of the second tube in and bought this third tube to finish it, what's the chance when this is all gone she remembers another patch of rot? (And what's the chance this window needs doing again properly in a few years because I haven't caught all the rot ).
If she'd said right at the start "All these places need looking at", I could have bought the twin tube system with the special double barrel skeleton gun, and not paid any postage because the local KB have it all in stock, this way I've bought three, more expensive 2in1 tubes, and paid postage three times. It's not my money, but it's still frustrating.
I got some a week ago to sort a rotten window sill at my nan's house, when I got there she said "Can you have a look at the door step", turns out it's rotten as fk so I spent the morning carving it back to solid wood, spudged a whole tube of resin in and bought another to do the sill. After I'd finished the sill and put the ladder away, "Can you just have a look at the bedroom window".
Turns out that's bloody rotten too, really the glass needs taking out so I can be sure it's all cleaned out, then fill it with resin, refit the glass and reputty. Actually the glass needs replacing, the dick who painted the frames years ago scratched all round the edges with sandpaper. I don't have time for that now so I just gouged it out as best I can, stuffed the rest of the second tube in and bought this third tube to finish it, what's the chance when this is all gone she remembers another patch of rot? (And what's the chance this window needs doing again properly in a few years because I haven't caught all the rot ).If she'd said right at the start "All these places need looking at", I could have bought the twin tube system with the special double barrel skeleton gun, and not paid any postage because the local KB have it all in stock, this way I've bought three, more expensive 2in1 tubes, and paid postage three times.
It's not my money, but it's still frustrating.
Not quite today but managed to get time to sort the garage and find where to put it, I moved it again after taking the picture as I didn’t like it so close to my vice, was a complete freebie as my work got a new drill so they allowed me to take this home, it is three phase so will be putting in a VFD and gonna give it a once over to make sure the spindle and bearings are ok
can’t find any model number or manual online but it might be a AJAX PD25 looks the closest to what I have, either way a lot better then the old bench drill I had
Farside
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Today I acquired yet another sore back after an hour on the tyre machine.
I removed the old darkside tyre (135r15) and fitted a slightly wider and taller one (Michelin ZX 155r16) in the suck it and see approach to finding out if there's enough clearance in the swingarm. The 135 was causing the engine to work too hard, but by 'eck it dirnarf shift.
Once my back recovers, I'll fit the blasted thing to the bike and find out for sure.
Pics to follow if successful.
Here's a pic of the old one, the 135...
I removed the old darkside tyre (135r15) and fitted a slightly wider and taller one (Michelin ZX 155r16) in the suck it and see approach to finding out if there's enough clearance in the swingarm. The 135 was causing the engine to work too hard, but by 'eck it dirnarf shift.
Once my back recovers, I'll fit the blasted thing to the bike and find out for sure.
Pics to follow if successful.
Here's a pic of the old one, the 135...
25.4_mechanic
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Congrats!
I'm totally with you - how much heating is this in your home: three quarters of January?
What about hot water and cooking?
Asking because I'm wondering how to manage in the future ....
Carsten
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At our home overseas I had over a hundred and fifty oak trees on the property, which allowed me to trim back enough wood to heat our home throughout the winters. Of course we didn't live in the very harshest climate, but it could be bitterly cold as well as scorching hot seasonally.
