There`s a special welding cutting torch on the go at the mo. It`s oxy/acy and can`t remember if it`s Yank or Aussie. Got a gimmicky kind of brand name. Anyone heard of it?
Alex
I had intended a mate to bring one back from USA but I think it`s an Aussie product. A lot of the guys who gas weld have told me it`s a gimmicky thing and is actually heavy and cumbersome . I thought it may have been innovative and superior quality. I don`t want him getting on that plane empty handed. He`s coming from Ohio. I`m taking pelters from every quarter Malcom on the Chinese Plasma cutter I`ve ordered cos I usually have a penchant for quality gear. Ach take a chance now and again I say.
Alex
Yeah just watched those videos. It`s kind of like the demonstrations at The Home Show with the vegetable slicers and the guy is actually a flippin demon at chopping. Like QVC...........Do they ever sell any bad stuff on there?
That bird looks kinky with the welding gear on.
I wonder if................Nah Bloody painful!
I have a Henrob 2000/ Dillon. I found that the flame flutuated. I brought new regulators, this didn't fix the problem. It was a pain to set up. It cost me $A700. It claims to do the work of a $A5000 tigwelder. End result I brought a Kemmpi MasterTig 2000 AC/DC with pulser and mini log. Don't use the Henrob 2000 any more. Kemmpi guy had me welding Tig in 10 minutes.
Never having seen or used a HENROB (except in the video) I can't really compare it with the more tradiational gas welding set up. However, I'm not so sure about the claims of all these wonderful 'new' things myself, maybe it's old age, or the just great sceptic in me
Acetylene should never be drawn off at more than 5 psi anyway, and using a No.3 welding nozzle the oxygen would only be drawn off about 3 psi (rule of thumb use the oxy at the same psi as the tip number). I think you'll find that this size tip would produce very much the same results on thin materials.
The aluminium and stainless welds were quite impressive though I feel that operator skill comes into it as much as anything here.
As for the cutting, well a normal cutting torch would be using acetylene at 5 psi and oxy at around 40 psi so not much difference really, and a small plate nozzle uses lower oxy pressure on the thin material.