orangebooboobearcrew
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Hello all,
This is my first post on here but been reading lots from afar for a couple of years now. Anyway, hello everyone...
I am just building up the courage to first up my welder for the first time. I bought it with the usual small portable gas bottle but given the cost of these, decided to invest in the Hobbyweld5 large bottle, along with their regulator.
However, to connect the bottle to the welder via the small tube coming from the welder, I bought a plastic pipe with a 3/8 brass fitting one end (for the regulator) and one of those clip in connectors for the 4mm pipe on the other end.
I have connected this up last night and turned the gas on just at the bottle to see if it registered ok on the gauges which it did but I could hear a quite noticeable hiss of gas escaping..!
I tried to see where it was coming from at it seems to be the joint from the large pipe into the connector with the 4mm welder pipe.
Have I got the wrong connection or are these just a crap fit? How do I get around this?
Sorry, this is probably a really stupid question but I have been trawling round for bits to get this working for ages now and just want to get cracking before I bottle it again!
Many thanks,
Chris
This is my first post on here but been reading lots from afar for a couple of years now. Anyway, hello everyone...
I am just building up the courage to first up my welder for the first time. I bought it with the usual small portable gas bottle but given the cost of these, decided to invest in the Hobbyweld5 large bottle, along with their regulator.
However, to connect the bottle to the welder via the small tube coming from the welder, I bought a plastic pipe with a 3/8 brass fitting one end (for the regulator) and one of those clip in connectors for the 4mm pipe on the other end.
I have connected this up last night and turned the gas on just at the bottle to see if it registered ok on the gauges which it did but I could hear a quite noticeable hiss of gas escaping..!
I tried to see where it was coming from at it seems to be the joint from the large pipe into the connector with the 4mm welder pipe.
Have I got the wrong connection or are these just a crap fit? How do I get around this?
Sorry, this is probably a really stupid question but I have been trawling round for bits to get this working for ages now and just want to get cracking before I bottle it again!
Many thanks,
Chris