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Photos of my homemade TIG torch cooler
Ignoramus26745 wrote...
Also provided are pictures of the innards of my welder. http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Weld...-Torch-Cooler/ Hey, were you planning on cleaning that thing up a bit? What a filthy mess. Sheesh! -- Thanks, - Win |
Photos of my homemade TIG torch cooler
Winfield Hill wrote: Ignoramus26745 wrote... Also provided are pictures of the innards of my welder. http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Weld...-Torch-Cooler/ Hey, were you planning on cleaning that thing up a bit? What a filthy mess. Sheesh! -- Thanks, - Win Why don't you show us some pictures of your work? Dave www.davewilson.cc |
Photos of my homemade TIG torch cooler
Ignoramus12686 wrote...
The dirt that remains is stuff that is resistant to vacuuming and somewhat resistant to scraping. I do not want to use too much force there. Nothing wrong soap, water and a brush in selected areas. -- Thanks, - Win |
Photos of my homemade TIG torch cooler
On 3 Nov 2005 06:09:35 -0800, Winfield Hill
wrote: Ignoramus12686 wrote... The dirt that remains is stuff that is resistant to vacuuming and somewhat resistant to scraping. I do not want to use too much force there. Nothing wrong soap, water and a brush in selected areas. Or wipe down with solvent dampened rags. Paint thinner is a suitable solvent if used sparingly in a well-ventilated area and allowed to dry thoroughly before lighting off the welder. Disconnect from power first. Way OT story about wiping down with solvent dampened rags (not for the squeamish): Some years ago I worked with an electrical estimator who had been an electrician with a large contractor for 20 years or so, and I asked him why he quit the field work for the office job. Instead of answering he uncharacteristically went off into a story of a routine job at some North Jersey factory with the usual loop-fed 3-section medium voltage switchboard, where two utility feeds enter the end sections, each of which will connect to half of the plant load and/or to the center section, which can feed either half of the load. Either feed is adequate for both loads so any one section can be de-energized completely without losing power to either half of the load. This switchboard was indoors but well ventilated with polluted plant air, so it needed to have its buss bars wiped down with solvent dampened rags once a year, or the dirt would cake on so thick that the buss bars would overheat. The estimator's crew was sent out to do this rather trivial job with several experienced electricians and a brand new apprentice, first day on the job. Nice kid, everyone liked him, and when lunch rolled around and the kid had brought his lunch and didn't have money for the restaurant they all wanted to go to since he hadn't been paid yet. They offered to buy, but he would not accept and stayed behind while they went to lunch. When they returned they could not find the apprentice at first, but the last of the buss bar in the first section had been cleaned, and the door to the next section was open. His on the job training had not gotten to the section lockout procedure yet. They found him on the floor, solvent dampened rag in hand, unconscious but breathing, footprints running up the wall behind him nearly to the ceiling. They rushed him to a hospital where some of the crew saw him the next day, "swollen to 3 times normal size and skin turned black" was their possibly exaggerated impression. He said he knew he was dying, and they gave him the "hang in there you can make it" speech, but he died three days later. |
Photos of my homemade TIG torch cooler
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Winfield Hill wrote: Ignoramus26745 wrote... Also provided are pictures of the innards of my welder. http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Weld...-Torch-Cooler/ Hey, were you planning on cleaning that thing up a bit? What a filthy mess. Sheesh! -- Thanks, - Win Why don't you show us some pictures of your work? Dave www.davewilson.cc Win Hill is obviously not going to say it himself - he is very modest, but he IS one of the world's greatest electronic design engineers, and the co-writer of one of the finest electronic text books "The Art of Electronics"- it certainly helped my degree, and its one of the first books I ever point a raw graduate at. I have seen pictures of some of the stuff he has built - I suspect a lot of it has been orbited over the years as well. He is very, very good. Steve |
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