Red'n'Black
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Back in the winter I needed some extra light on a job to see what I was welding. So out with the 500W halogen floodlight.
Job done, power everything off, then pile it all up ready for carrying back to the shed. Sniff, sniff... what's that burning smell? Guess which numpty had put the floodlight glass-down on top of the gas tubing?
So the options seem to be:
1. Buy some 4mm plastic tubing and a push-fit coupler and put it back sort-of how it was.
2. As I've no plans to ever use the horrible 1 litre disposable bottles ever again, fit a bulkhead coupler to the rear panel to go from 4mm pushfit to whatever fitting I need for 'standard' shield gas hoses.
I'm using Hobbyweld at the moment, with an adaptor:
I'm likely to want to sell the SIP at some point when I can afford to upgrade, it's been heavily modified already so what's one more mod? Plus I think steering the newbies away from the disposables is probably a Good Thing.
What do people reckon?
Job done, power everything off, then pile it all up ready for carrying back to the shed. Sniff, sniff... what's that burning smell? Guess which numpty had put the floodlight glass-down on top of the gas tubing?
So the options seem to be:
1. Buy some 4mm plastic tubing and a push-fit coupler and put it back sort-of how it was.
2. As I've no plans to ever use the horrible 1 litre disposable bottles ever again, fit a bulkhead coupler to the rear panel to go from 4mm pushfit to whatever fitting I need for 'standard' shield gas hoses.
I'm using Hobbyweld at the moment, with an adaptor:
I'm likely to want to sell the SIP at some point when I can afford to upgrade, it's been heavily modified already so what's one more mod? Plus I think steering the newbies away from the disposables is probably a Good Thing.
What do people reckon?