Tungsten sharpener?

[Richard.]

While the hudmut tools are good they only take the element of skill out of the job and obviously enclose the dust so from that POV they are great.
They don't do a better job than what can be done on a wheel they do as good a job as a wheel.
With the right wheel and the right guy infront of it the results won't be told apart.
My preferred ac prep involves 2 angles which I can do in around 20 seconds on a wheel. I'm sure the same can be achieved on an enclosed type but it's gonna take more faffing and guess work. So I personally wouldn't want one.
Drill grinders are the same. They are very good but a good guy on a good wheel will easily match them. Nothing wrong at all with owning these tools From a safety POV but the skills of handgrinding should also be adopted so that Your flexibly able to do both. If you can't do it as good by hand then Id say practice till you can get the same result from both.

 

[arthur]

I have no problem with the bench grinder and my pic is about as shabby as it could get (was not intended to promote the grinder), I also use a bench sander from time to time, not had any contamination issues that I recall even though the same grinders get used for other tasks, best thing about the Hudmut (or similar) for me is: Less dust as you say but I stay sat where I work, if I dip the tungsten it only takes a sec to retouch it, better welders like you guys I am sure suffer less than me, sadly most of my work is fine so arc is always close as can be, one cup of coffee to many and touch downs are inevitable from time to time.

 

[Richard.]

That's where they win. Dust containment and ease of use. Iirc they are fitted with dremels so that's a nice touch too as they have more than uses than just tungsten dressing.

 

[backpurge]

Must admit I had very much the same attitude to Richard, in 40 odd years of welding always used a bench grinder or my personal favourite which I haven't seen for years now, the crystals you dipped the hot tungsten in to

Then a couple of months back when we were having a clear out in the workshop we came across a fully enclosed tungsten grinder that had never been used so I thought rather than skip it I will give it a go and I have to say I am totally converted, no more skinned finger ends, much quicker, exactly the same angle every time and you can prep much shorter lengths of tungsten

 

[arthur]

Guy I know well is an amazing Tig welder, does stainless exhausts day in day out, just uses a grinder and flap disc, no big deal, has it by his side and regrinds as and when, but then he also uses a spit screen helmet, clear at the top and shade 11 down below (makes them up as H&S put a stop to them so he said one day), just tips his head back when welding, been doing the same for years.

 

[Paul G]

Guy I know well is an amazing Tig welder, does stainless exhausts day in day out, just uses a grinder and flap disc, no big deal, has it by his side and regrinds as and when, but then he also uses a spit screen helmet, clear at the top and shade 11 down below (makes them up as H&S put a stop to them so he said one day), just tips his head back when welding, been doing the same for years.

I think I know him. Is he the bloke with the bright red forehead ?

 

[arthur]

Yeah that's him, you know him hay...lol

 

[Paul G]

Yeah that's him, you know him hay...lol

Nah! That's the bloke with the gas welding goggles

 

[arthur]

Haha, well I know one thing, you won't see me warring no clear glass home brew mask!

 

[Hudmut]

I have very much been here all the time but as I am not really a welder so iv been told so there is very little for me to add in and when I have opened my mouth its been very much keep out of it so I have. The sales have never stopped but the post was pulled because some body else was trying to make a living on the site the same time I was feeding you all tools and I was not it was just some thing that very much got out of hand for my self and the site but they can still be had with full support of the moderators. As for why the tool was made has really been over looked every body it seems that knocks it when welding gets up and walks to the bench grinder and sorts out there tungsten walks back and gets back at it. My tool remember was made on a cordless power unit and fits in your top pocket so when your out on site up a ladder or rapped round a pipe in a roof or at the other end of a farm you can get the job done with out having to mess about to find a bench grinder or any thing else like it yes we can have spares in the truck but life is not perfect. Site work is very different from being in a nice well equipped workshop and the debate if these type of tool's will go on for ever some will like it because of the benefits to them and others will scoff at it. I my self am a open minded person that takes on board all modern process and use them to make me more efficient and cost affective that's why the tool came in to being never mind what it can do to help new and old welders alike.

 

[Richard.]

I have very much been here all the time but as I am not really a welder so iv been told so there is very little for me to add in and when I have opened my mouth its been very much keep out of it so I have. The sales have never stopped but the post was pulled because some body else was trying to make a living on the site the same time I was feeding you all tools and I was not it was just some thing that very much got out of hand for my self and the site but they can still be had with full support of the moderators. As for why the tool was made has really been over looked every body it seems that knocks it when welding gets up and walks to the bench grinder and sorts out there tungsten walks back and gets back at it. My tool remember was made on a cordless power unit and fits in your top pocket so when your out on site up a ladder or rapped round a pipe in a roof or at the other end of a farm you can get the job done with out having to mess about to find a bench grinder or any thing else like it yes we can have spares in the truck but life is not perfect. Site work is very different from being in a nice well equipped workshop and the debate if these type of tool's will go on for ever some will like it because of the benefits to them and others will scoff at it. I my self am a open minded person that takes on board all modern process and use them to make me more efficient and cost affective that's why the tool came in to being never mind what it can do to help new and old welders alike.

Whether it would be a useful tool for me I'm not sure but one thing cannot be taken away and that is just how well built they looked. You did a very nice job of them and only positive comments come from those who received one. I read that thread with interest and saw it started as a project which only escalated due to popular demand, word of mouth and price.
It was dead obvious you had no intention of trying to make a living you just didn't want to disappoint people and you made a few quid in the process. Well done you I say. In all walks of life your never going to please everyone.

 

[Wozzaaah]

The thread was pulled with Hudmut's blessing due to the sheer number that were being sold on here.
I had all good intentions of cleaning all the sale-related posts from the thread but I found there were far more of them than I thought so I gave up.
We're all for people making a few ££ selling the odd unwanted item on here but if we allow one member to manufacture and sell items on here then we have to allow everyone to do the same and that isn't going to happen.
Sorry for all those disappointed but as he says, they're still for sale elsewhere so if you want one contact him via PM.

 

[ukracer]

The thread was pulled with Hudmut's blessing due to the sheer number that were being sold on here.
I had all good intentions of cleaning all the sale-related posts from the thread but I found there were far more of them than I thought so I gave up.
We're all for people making a few ££ selling the odd unwanted item on here but if we allow one member to manufacture and sell items on here then we have to allow everyone to do the same and that isn't going to happen.
Sorry for all those disappointed but as he says, they're still for sale elsewhere so if you want one contact him via PM.

I take your point woz but to be honest admin make the rules and can amend or interpret them. I felt they gave such a good start to any tig welder on the forum the thread would not have offended me had it stayed so anyone new would be able to find them.

I honestly thought hudmut had moved on to a different job and did not have time to make any more. ..

 

[T0rnado69]

Nah! That's the bloke with the gas welding goggles

i have to admit i did this when i lived in scotland.

cut some round shade 11 lens out of the standard ones you buy for shielding masks..

to put in the goggles.

worked fairly well back in the day, using them for arc welding.

until i went in to go a loo.
and the other half said to me..........

hmmm i bet i know what you have been doing up the garage.

ha.... nar go on, it could be anything..

she said ok... well i will say.......

welding........

hmmmm how the hell you know....

she said go look in the mirror...


what the *******

have to say i went back to the hand held mask.....

looked like a lobster...


as for these grinders... did he make a website or ?
im having right trouble trying to sharpen the tungsten correctly.