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Just go for it...that's all I've done, once you get a feel for it you can watch a few videos specifically addressing any issues. All I've been doing with the Tungstens is sticking them in my drill and grinding them on a bench grinder...your going to wreck them so often that the minute details...

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Stripped and fixed my charity shop vice today. It's a bloody heavy old lump! Brought my old Meddings drill up from the barn and took off the surface rust on the beds, it still runs fine thankfully. I almost did myself a mischief lifting it up there, must be more the 50KG? It's so old it doesn't...

...ones. The diamond wheels were probably a fortune new! These days they still have a use - they're excellent wheels for tool or tungsten grinding. The carborundum wheels look like general purpose wheels, but I'd be wary of these - old wheels are a bit suspect, and if they fail, they cause...

its the vibration that causes trouble when angle grinding a tungsten - it needs to be held in a vice right up the part where you want to cut so the tunsten has no place to hop about. your cutting up against the vice jaws, and it wont cause any issues with tungsten fracture. A diamond cutting...

I use something that looks very much like that. Might be the same one, I'm not sure. It works very well - I prefer to avoid using the bench grinder if I can as it's up in the area where my mill & lathe are and so I use when I have to and spend a lot of time cleaning grinding dust up...

Nice toy delivery today from Germany : a secondhand but neat Rorhman RA420W water-cooled torch, 1 button, Castolin Euro connector, and quick-couplers fitting the Castolin cooler. This version uses original Castolin shrouds, it was one of my requests. Little work to exchange the 5-blades...

Nice toy delivery today from Germany : a secondhand but neat Rorhman RA420W water-cooled torch, 1 button, Castolin Euro connector, and quick-couplers fitting the Castolin cooler. This version uses original Castolin shrouds, it was one of my requests. Little work to exchange the 5-blades...

Mine came with 1.6, 2.4 and 3.2 mm collets, a 3.2 mm collet body (this size only), a short and a medium back cap, and if I remember correct, standard 4, 5 and 6 alumina cups. I think that was all so I didn't have what I needed to start welding with 2.4 mm tungsten. I bought a stubby gas saver...

I am a complete and utter novice but I'm sure someone with more experience will be along. After a few practice sessions I find that accidentally pulling the tungsten too far away, not moving quickly enough, and accidentally rotating the torch as I move along causes issues like that. I was doing...

So... Having taken the plunge and bought a low-end inverter with TIG capability & torch, I finally got a bottle of argon and struck an arc or two ...I know it's not necessarily a well known brand, but at €170 including torch and hf start, it was my only chance of trying the process. A...

Hi, I recently bought a used old Esab G-tech, im about to refurbish it. The grinding disc in the unit has a angle on the edge, is this normal or do i need to replace the disc? In that case, can I use the backside of the disc?

This, any helmet not directed towards the arc will behave the same. If your looking straight at it then it works down to low amps great. Failing that you can turn the sensitivity right up and it basically stays dark, really annoying actually because it darkens every time you vaguely glance at...

i used to weld up corrosion damage on bently heads , usaly use the first as a sacrificial pass ie weld it and dig it out back to clean , i welded up a friends austin seven head recently for dry decking , it was much modified with extra studs as it had a centric blower on it it...

Progress yesterday finally welded the head up, the amount of contaminants was unbelievable. Had spent ages cleaning the head, grinding out the water ways and finally giving it a wipe over with acetone. Warmed it up for a good 40 minutes on the camping stove, set the r-tech to 190amps, 40%...

Those are some beefy diamond wheels! My little cup wheel is still holding up just fine :) must have used it many hundreds of times and never moved the position yet. The other nice thing with grinding on the flat rather than the circumference is that the tip of the tungsten isn't scalloped, so...

I went through this a while back. https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/tungsten-grinder.92922/#post-1387356 I got the £800 GBC TEG1 in the end, since it did everything we wanted. Overpriced? Definitely. But it wasn't my money. It's a great bit of kit if you forget about the price, it...

When I started lift tig I only ground one tungsten and one tip. It motivates you not to dip it. There is no point in grinding both ends because if you dip one end and try to use another you can damage the collet

don't cut them up, youll waste loads! I buy loads, and batch sharpen them with a drill against a grinding wheel (exclusively for tungsten). If you need a short one for accessibility, you'll end up with loads of short bits soon (or I did when I was practicing!) theres different flavours of...

Green stones are designed to be soft, Used for grinding tungsten carbide etc, They are made with a soft binding material, so that they do wear down more rapidly and therefore exposing new sharp grit particles to cut better on the carbide drills and lathe tools etc,