STOP!!! For GOD'S sake, don't put it under pressure...it will rent a hole
in the fabric of the Universe and obliterate EVERYTHING!!! You must destroy
this vile device at once!!!



"Grant Erwin" wrote in message
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I get tired of asking these "will this work" questions but where I live I'd
have to drive 40 miles to ask this question of a knowledgeable local
source. Anyway, I have a surplus regulator which I've used for some time on
a CO2 tank (plumbed in via an adapter) but which has a connector which
threads correctly to e.g. an argon tank. It is a pressure regulator,
though, not a flowmeter, and I want to use this in GMAW. So I got an Airco
flowmeter, removed it's weird POL-like connector, bushed down the 1/4NPT to
1/8NPTF and put a 2½" 1/8" nipple, and just threaded that into the
flowmeter:
http://www.tinyisland.com/images/temp/flowmeter.jpg

I have never seen a flowmeter cobbled onto the end of a regulator like
this. I'm almost 100% ignorant in this area. Will this work correctly for
me? There are two knobs, one sets the pressure on the regulator, the other
on the flowmeter must be a needle valve, right? So I'd set the regulator
to 30 psi on the gauge and then adjust the knob on the flowmeter to get my
desired cubic feet per hour of argon?

Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington