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"heating rod" for an arc welder
looking to heat up a pretty big chunk of steel, preferably near (or
maybe even "at") red. my oxi-acet gas bottles are near empty. rather do it electrically than get the bottles filled. I have an old miller dialarc HF welder. what to use for the 'electrode' (heating rod, really)? I'm hoping for "minimal if any metal transfer" in the process... how about just a piece of quarter-inch diameter round cold-rolled? was also thinking about maybe just a bare tig tunsten held in the stinger, using AC "cranked up high" - anybody ever tried that? sidenote: my old dialarc, recently aquired, is "known to function well" (my tests, with rods) on all its' AC and DC settings, but I haven't yet ever tried any of the TIG functions. it was an ebay buy "offloading the dialarc singlehandedly" site: http://machines.freehostia.com/diala...ng/index3.html thanks for insights and brain flash ideas, guys, toolie |
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