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You need to wait for weldequip to finish his tea and come back on the forum!....
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You will need a proper regulator and hose set, they are available from many places but cheapest is not best, use a seller trusted by other forum users, one has already been mentioned.
I know you said you want to use mix but for anyone searching the forum and finding this thread:
My general advice is to buy a unit that is suitable for argon/mix even if you initially intend to only use it for CO2 as you can buy an adaptor so it will fit on the CO2 bottle. Some of the cheaper CO2 sets available can not take the pressure from an argon bottle so if you buy one of those and then switch from CO2 to argon/mix then your going to have to buy another.
I know you said you want to use mix but for anyone searching the forum and finding this thread:
My general advice is to buy a unit that is suitable for argon/mix even if you initially intend to only use it for CO2 as you can buy an adaptor so it will fit on the CO2 bottle. Some of the cheaper CO2 sets available can not take the pressure from an argon bottle so if you buy one of those and then switch from CO2 to argon/mix then your going to have to buy another.
Something like this...
The small white plastic pipe on the back of your machine connects to the chrome fitting on the large bore, black hose, and the industrial regulator fits on to your refillable cylinder. The regulator illustrated by the way is for CO2 cylinders; a female fitting regulator is required for argonmix gas cylinders.
You can contact BOC gases on TEL:0800 111 333 for details of your nearest stockist.
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how much do you sell the above for?
You can change the inlet stem & nut of an argon regulator for a CO2 fitting, but there are that many different threads where it screws into the base of the regulator (depending on make) it is very difficult without actually seeing the thing.
I can tell you now that if you have been used to argonmix you won't like CO2!
weldequip
I can tell you now that if you have been used to argonmix you won't like CO2!
weldequip
Even on thick stuff?
Will save me about £80 per year in rent. Roughly how much would an adapter cost?
Might just go for the big bottle as its less rent than by current medium sized one & less for refills too. Just use a long gass pipe so I dont have to have the bottle on the welder.
Justme
PS mt spare reg is actualy an oxy one.
Will save me about £80 per year in rent. Roughly how much would an adapter cost?
Might just go for the big bottle as its less rent than by current medium sized one & less for refills too. Just use a long gass pipe so I dont have to have the bottle on the welder.
Justme
PS mt spare reg is actualy an oxy one.
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I picked up on ebay an adapter for CO/2 tank that allows use of an argon regulator.
Note: you can't safely go the other way as CO/2 regs are designed for lower tank pressure.
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I read it inner book.
I got diagrams
But co2 aint as nice to use
Go to the naughty step, rude bloke.
Akshally, after a good look around the interweb the consensus seems to be that co2 gives a good, but wider penetration than argon/co2, which goes deeper, but narrower.
Certainly co2 is hotter, cos it's more reactive, which might also explain the relatively wider penetration. And i'm guessing here, for a change, that the argon mix allows the bead to get in deeper because the relative inertness of the gas.... oh, i give up. my ******** detector's going barmy here...
I got diagrams
But co2 aint as nice to use
Go to the naughty step, rude bloke.
Akshally, after a good look around the interweb the consensus seems to be that co2 gives a good, but wider penetration than argon/co2, which goes deeper, but narrower.
Certainly co2 is hotter, cos it's more reactive, which might also explain the relatively wider penetration. And i'm guessing here, for a change, that the argon mix allows the bead to get in deeper because the relative inertness of the gas.... oh, i give up. my ******** detector's going barmy here...
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No he can't - He's on his hols until the 14th!
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