Hi all,
Santa smiled at me this Christmas and delivered a MIG welder http://ift.tt/1yUnqua
Locally they sell the MIG gas bottles for $189 and charge $55 changeover which by all accounts is pretty good but being tighter than a fishes... I thought I would give the old CO2 a crack.
Most of the welding I am planning on is around the 3mm thick range so the CO2 should be ok.
I bought a bottle outright from ebay http://ift.tt/1y78qX9?
Problem (and obviously a widespread one) is the Argon reg doesn't screw on to the CO2 bottle.
As it happened I had an old Oxygen bottle valve laying around which has a suitable thread for the Argon regulator so all I had to do was make an adaptor with 3/4" BSPP one end and Australian Standard type 30 the other to screw onto the bottle.
It hangs off the side of the bottle a bit but it works and it doesn't leak.
As usual I got a bit carried away and the pics in the second half didn't happen.
Pity as I used the tipped screwcutting boring bar which gives perfect thread shape. I have only had it for 4 years and never used it, now I love it.
Phil
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Santa smiled at me this Christmas and delivered a MIG welder http://ift.tt/1yUnqua
Locally they sell the MIG gas bottles for $189 and charge $55 changeover which by all accounts is pretty good but being tighter than a fishes... I thought I would give the old CO2 a crack.
Most of the welding I am planning on is around the 3mm thick range so the CO2 should be ok.
I bought a bottle outright from ebay http://ift.tt/1y78qX9?
Problem (and obviously a widespread one) is the Argon reg doesn't screw on to the CO2 bottle.
As it happened I had an old Oxygen bottle valve laying around which has a suitable thread for the Argon regulator so all I had to do was make an adaptor with 3/4" BSPP one end and Australian Standard type 30 the other to screw onto the bottle.
It hangs off the side of the bottle a bit but it works and it doesn't leak.
As usual I got a bit carried away and the pics in the second half didn't happen.
Pity as I used the tipped screwcutting boring bar which gives perfect thread shape. I have only had it for 4 years and never used it, now I love it.
Phil
DSCN2241.JPG DSCN2242.JPG DSCN2245.JPG DSCN2248.JPG DSCN2250.jpg DSCN2253.JPG
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