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Oops, didnae notice the cup comment mate, twas obvious tho, I was just making sure
A bit hectic here, chasing up commercial work today, so can't complain, heading soon to a local big ball park player. They recently purchased a sub-arc machine, hopefully have a wee gander at it??
Cheers...............
A bit hectic here, chasing up commercial work today, so can't complain, heading soon to a local big ball park player. They recently purchased a sub-arc machine, hopefully have a wee gander at it??
Cheers...............
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Oops, didnae notice the cup comment mate, twas obvious thoYeah, them scratch marks off the cermaic
Its easy on T-Fillets and Lap-Joints, and I could even do it on pipes, but only the roots and hot pass (where you still had the natural pipe prep to follow) but I always used to struggle doing it on the Cap........I used to work with a guy who could do it no prbs, used to make it look easy
Sub arc is a great process, don't even need to wear a welding mask even though your welding at 600 amps
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I have been asked a few times by some members on PM, so show some photos of welds made by Lorch machines........
We all know there is a credit crunch on and I had a lot of time on my hands today in the office
Way too many photos to upload on a thread, so I made a new Album on my profile.
Quick look.........
Mwoh....easypeasy....
I really would like to see how you get on with some old crappy welder, now there's a challenge...it's a wee bit more difficult to put down nice beads WITHOUT all the whistles and bells of an synergetic double pulsed etc machine....
(looks great tho, Matt!
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Mwoh....easypeasy....
I really would like to see how you get on with some old crappy welder, now there's a challenge...it's a wee bit more difficult to put down nice beads WITHOUT all the whistles and bells of an synergetic double pulsed etc machine....
(looks great tho, Matt!
You wouldn't see Lewis Hamilton driving a beat up Citreon 2CV would you????
You are correct about the Pulse mig on Stainless steel, it would be virtually impossible to weld to that standard with conventional equipment and processes. For a start you would need the Ar/He Tri mix gases which are very, very expensive..........but that was kinda the point of putting the photo on
The Mild Steel T Fillets on the mig, were welded using a conventional transformer based machine..........definately not old and crappy, but certainly no bells and whistles
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You wouldn't see Lewis Hamilton driving a beat up Citreon 2CV would you????
You are correct about the Pulse mig on Stainless steel, it would be virtually impossible to weld to that standard with conventional equipment and processes. For a start you would need the Ar/He Tri mix gases which are very, very expensive..........but that was kinda the point of putting the photo on
The Mild Steel T Fillets on the mig, were welded using a conventional transformer based machine..........definately not old and crappy, but certainly no bells and whistles
you're right, Matt! but old and crappy makes a world of difference...if you're able to squeeze out good looking welds out of a crappy machine, you can weld with almost anything!But nevermind me saying this, 'twas only a friendly comment and has nothing to do with you!
Most of us will never get to work with that kinda expensive kit, i consider myself lucky when the factory allowed me to use a (newish) pulsed synergie mig...(upgrade from a 20 year old rattling lincoln...
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But nevermind me saying this, 'twas only a friendly comment and has nothing to do with you!
Nooooo, I know what you ment, its all fine
Is your SAF one you use at work, called the OptiPulse? That was a good machine.
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Nooooo, I know what you ment, its all fine
Is your SAF one you use at work, called the OptiPulse? That was a good machine.
SAF?
Mine's a oerlikon citowave...
then we have 2 old lincoln electrics, and for the robots it's commercy (huge blue ugly buggers...)
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Up until a few years ago SAF, used to be the premium quality welding power source product name, for Air Liquide but I think its all under the Oerlikon brand name now.
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I always thought it was commercy??? that changed into oerlikon later?
Maybe the frenchies are a bit behind on thatone?
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Yeah, great kit for alu welding too...
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I did a lot of work at Peugoet at Ryton, Coventry before it closed down and a lot of the machines we replaced were commercy and SAF......one thing to say about the French car companies, they were feircly loyal and patriotic to only having French suppliers.
But I belive that Commercy was a totally different company to SAF/Oerlikon.
But I belive that Commercy was a totally different company to SAF/Oerlikon.
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They still are......
ps: saf oerlikon and commercy are all part of the air liquide group...i think? ah they change all the time!
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heres a fillet done with an old scratch start inverter, 6013/2.5mm. 90 amps or there about, material is 1.5mm. you dont hang about.
..and just to show i'm not perfect you can see where i burned through at top right of picture.
Wooohoo!!
great weld Danny! i could do that with a mig but never with an arc...thanks sparkey, off now for 6 mile (5 mile = 8 km) forced march (a jog) around london. fitness is very important for your welding. the secret behind that weld up there though is practice, practice, practice. have got carpel tunnel in my hand from practicing that weld, was up to high for me and wrist was bent to much, a well, no pain, no gain.
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That's scary...
It's been worrying me lately that both my wrists start hurting me on and off now...but yes t'is how you say it, no pain no gain...never had so much pain before i started welding! (burns, arceye, cramps from holding the torch...)
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We are launching 2 new mig processes in the next month, SpeedArc and SpeedPulse, you can weld up too 48% faster on steel
The Germans sent me over the plate for carrying out trials etc. Don't know the spec or where it come from.
All plates, CrNi, Aluminium, Steel, Coated Steel etc is all available from the factory in ready to weld blanks, I just order it as and when I need it, as its all part numbered.
Better than trying to demo a 4 grand machine on the back of some cacky scrap.
