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| The Ice Cream Man |
I know the production ones have really changed sanitary piping. Has anyone used the smaller/cheaper ones? I’ve seen some videos of the cutting/welding sanitary pipe, and it looks very appealing. (Also, looking for a regular one, not just the pipe welder/cutters.) | ||
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I have not personally but I watch a couple of shows where they have gotten cheap ones in a fab shop and they seem to be pretty impressive. Of course chinese so no idea what the latest trade battle has done on price/availability... “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.” | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
What's cheap? I've sampled one a friend bought and it's impressive but was around $6 grand. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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| The Ice Cream Man |
Yeah…. If it will do the work…. Miller wants 45k for there’s. I’m sure it’s a great unit but more than we can justify. 3-6 might make sense/does make sense if it means our people can start making sanitary welds. | |||
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Reviews I've seen are impressive. I would urge caution though, because the safety features seem inadequate on the one I saw reviewed, and those lasers are powerful enough to cause instant and permanent damage to not only you but anyone and anything in a fairly large radius. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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Yall excuse my ignorance as I've been out of the welding game for 12 years or so. But is a normal sanitary pipe weld done by hand a full pen tig weld? Would this machine eliminate that need for a good tig welder? Nine years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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| The Ice Cream Man |
Modern sanitary piping has been laser welded for some time - to a large extent, now, it’s cheaper to buy elbows and stock lengths, than to have the custom stuff done. (The bends were always complicated - again, it took a specialist.) The laser welds are fantastic. Can’t remember how it was done before - it would have been either MIG or TIG - I remember buying a set of plugs to hold gas in the pipes for a fabricator, I do remember lots of shops couldn’t do them - they cannot have pinholes, and have to polish completely smooth. | |||
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I have seen sanitary pipe welded using an orbital welder. I think it was a TIG process but automated and was a Scotch Weld, i.e. no filler. Beatiful weld. Could hardly see it even before polishing. Not sure it needed it. It was 304Lor 316SS. Bob Carpe Scrotum | |||
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