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Plastic welding is less predictable than metal welding I'm finding - I clearly need to practice!I've ordered a fusion tip for it, and some ready made HDPE rods. I'll get some decent pics of it and...

Ended up getting something in-between:
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Well for $20 I'm going to take a punt. I accept all the points you make, and I'll practice on scraps for while to see if I think I can do it successfully. Its got to be better than my big heat gun...

Funnily enough, one of the first YouTube clips I saw was from East Coast Kayaking here in Oz and that is exactly what they do:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWtgkLyqkZ0

Their use of the...

Well it's a welding query, just not my usual metal variety.
Bought a couple of kayaks today, with a couple of minor dings so have been onto Youtube to do my apprenticeship on plastic welding, and it...

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Many thanks for all the advice! Kobe RB26 are available in QLD, but postage makes them very expensive in Adelaide, so looks like the Lincoln Electric 6012 EasyArc 4.5kg for $29 at AdelaideTools...

Its that time again to buy some more rods, and have over the years used Ferrocraft21, Satincraft13(currently), Austarc and various cheap Chinese(never again), the favourite being the Ferrocraft which...

Thanks for the kind offer. The lathe is a small chinese machine with a milling head as well, so that is a nice idea to finish it off. I bought the lathe of a local noticeboard from a guy who just...

Clever idea!
thanks

Yes, the measurements are from the bottom surface, so anything off the top won't matter. Yikes, this picture is really small - sorry but I hope you get the idea.
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I just bought an 'English style' lathe tool holder for HSS bits, which is 19.8mm thick, but my tool post gap is only 16mm. Bugger.
It seems to me that if I were to get into it with my angle...

Scuse my ignorance, but why are you wearing safety glasses for behind a helmet?

Well I went out and bought the Lincoln Viking 3350,

Viking 3350 Motorhead Welding Helmet


which has the really big screen, and I can only say it is sensational. First time in 30 years of...

The Lincoln I tried in the store was wall to wall sensor! My existing old Thommen mask has only a small section of auto-darken screen, the rest being standard filter glass, so trying a 97x85mm one...

So what do you think of the big screen? I'm only an occasional welder, so a long way from being a tradesman, and I think getting a good view will help reduce my birdshit runs, or at least I'll see...

I'm homing in on the Lincoln 3350 with the 97x85mm screen and the specs as per the 1740 above.
Are there any good reasons not to go for one of these mega-screens??
Anyone tried one?

Thanks guys - a lot of great info there.
I went down to Adelaide Tools today, and tried on a Lincoln helmet with the large screen(97x85mm) - wow!

$285, but the view is amazing. It has 4...

Anyone used one of those lurid auto-darkening welding masks that sell on ebay for about $60 and Bunnings for a bit more?

i've been looking even at places like WIA who sell what pretty much seem to...

Thankyou geniuses all!
Just what I was looking for, a range of alternatives to mull over, particularly the last one, using home made timber jigs.

I was surprised by the size of the minimum radius...

I'm wanting to bend up some steel tube to make a panier bag rack for my motorcycle, and all the pipe benders on ebay look to be for copper only, so I expect they'll break if I use steel.'

Anyone...

I have used an odinary arc welder for 25 years, not a tradesmen by any means, but can get the bits i want stuck to each adequately. I'm looking to get a MIG or a TIG, the sort they sell at Bunnings...