wandered into a pawn shop next to a client yesterday. they've got a new-ish looking set of harris gas gauges and a torch for $98 (or$89). I've been wanting to practice gas welding and get better/good
Harris IS a big name in gas welding equipment - an old firm. Most welding supply shops will have parts. That said, it's a much better deal if the regulators are two-stage. If it looks like there's an
Harris are a big name. They're now owned by Lincoln Electric, but I think they're still making good stuff. My gas stuff is all Harris, except probably hoses. You need to figure which model it is, and
I'll second virtually everything Karl has said here. I learned gas welding on sheet metal in a body shop in the early 1970's (where I coincidently learned about BMWs...). It's a great skill to have;
I never got the snap-on/blue point thing (sometimes the b.p. stuff seems identical to the snap-on so in that case, is it the 'second' quality? other times, it's obviously just a re-badged other brand
seems identical to the snap-on so in that case, is it the 'second' quality? other times, it's obviously just a re-badged other brand. the only consistent thing I've noticed with the two is the shocki
I bought it--they offered me a good deal (cheaper than I could have bought the hf/sears/pepboys one, anyway). I think I wanna bleed it to make sure it's okay. anybody know how to do that on a floor j
Go look at the HF manual. They're all online, and generally actually written in american english. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailin
** Yes, exchanging tanks is great, it puts all of the responsibility for testing, etc. on the gas supply company, but it really sucks, the first time you take your brand spanking new tank in for exch
All this talk about swapping out the bottles. I've got a question. My mig welder bottle is something like 40 or 60 cu ft. about 3' tall. That's about as much as I can pick up. And I don't want to car
You mostly see that size in welding shops and on construction sites, where they use a seriious amount of gas. I gave away a set recently (they were given to me by someone who got them the same way) b
fall, Donald, Yes, we have the big hand truck for moving them around the shop. I'm trying to figure out how to get the bottles back to be refilled. With my little bottle for my MIG, when I got to the
It takes me a couple years to empty a large tank; I spend 15 minutes painting when I pick it up..then I can admire a pretty tank for a couple years, and my supplier grins when I bring it in... << I d
That's why you usually buy the tank from the dealer in the first place - you get a rusty old beater tank in the first place and never have any higher expectations ;-) Did you actually buy NEW regular
I did. The supplier had them sitting on the dock. I think they do it for all the bottles they sell, actually. The expected lifetime of a gas cylinder is something like 100 years, would you believe? -
<LOL> Yeah, I bought it new from a shop that refilled on site, so I just assumed I'd always have my pretty new cylinder. I moved and all the shops here swap because they don't fill on site. I do beli
In New Jersey, there is apparently only one acetylene filling station, and all the welding shops send the cylinders there to get refilled. So when I need a fill, I get my own new nice-looking oxygen
I exchanged for a new oxygen tank this year. Fresh paint, shiny brass, and even new rubber bands so the tanks don't clang together. Gives me the same feeling when I *win* a dollar after spending two
Was it new, or just a new valve? They don't last forever. I've got a size larger tank on my MIG welder than I bought, because I got an exchange tank that didn't work, and when I took it back, they di
I had this problem once. I first got my oxy/acet kit by borrowing it from my dad. He had purchased them shiny new. When I got them filled the first time, I had to ask for my own tanks specifically ba