Slow down your feed speed. Check the sharpness of your blades.
Will do, thanks
The switch on my oldest DeWalt angle grinder has been held together with 33+ for 10 years or so.More sanding.
Then took an unplanned break from sanding when the sander decided that it didn’t want to sand anymore.
Some Bauer surgery:
Turns out that I didn’t need to remove the gearbox from the motor. Could have saved a few minutes there.
The points in the power switch were arced and not conducting. Confirmed with meter, no power through the switch. Disassembled and filed the points:
Need a new switch, I broke the little hold-it-together snap tabs in taking it apart. So it’s currently wrapped with electrical tape. That’ll hold for now.
Reassembled:
And back to sanding. Got done with the garage. Next up, sanding the shed. Yay.
Did you not chip the slag between passes?Processed some more beeswax, did some welding for a mate on his trailer, turns out if you want inclusions in your welds I'm the bloke
mainly single passes and using MIG I find there is very little slag, something I do wrong is producing the inclusions
Are you cleaning the steel? Is your gas flow high enough, but not too high?
yes to cleaning, I don't really know the correct procedure for setting the gas flow although that being said sometimes during the weld it goes real quiet, no crackling and it makes a light woosh type sound, no idea what happens at this time, maybe I move too far from the workpiece although I generally weld close for not much stick out
Thank you
MiG gas flow for mild steel should be between 15-25 CFH. So if you set it for about 20, it should give you a good baseline.
thanks Kay, I'll check that out, appreciate your help
What are your thoughts on that Bauer sander machine? They had it on sale recently and I thought about it ever so briefly.More sanding.
Then took an unplanned break from sanding when the sander decided that it didn’t want to sand anymore.
Some Bauer surgery:
Turns out that I didn’t need to remove the gearbox from the motor. Could have saved a few minutes there.
The points in the power switch were arced and not conducting. Confirmed with meter, no power through the switch. Disassembled and filed the points:
Need a new switch, I broke the little hold-it-together snap tabs in taking it apart. So it’s currently wrapped with electrical tape. That’ll hold for now.
Reassembled:
And back to sanding. Got done with the garage. Next up, sanding the shed. Yay.
Is your tip clean? Almost sounds like your wire feed might be slowing down periodically.
He could also have bad roller tension, worn/wrong rollers, a dirty/damaged liner, wrong tip , a bad ground, a loose wire, something broken, you-name-it. Or just bad luck. I've never heard a whooshing sound from my MIG machines. Course I'm most of deaf, so it could be below my threshold of hearing.
I've had one for a couple-ish years. It does great on ripping off rust. It makes a nice brushed finish on bare metal. I mostly use it to give a rustic finish to stumpkins nowadays.
Whenever using a jointer, remember that the best surgeon in the world can't stitch hamburger and pink splatter back together.
Never heard it, but I've seen it. That sounds like crud, rollers, tip, liner. I'd change the tip, then check the rollers.
Ya, a quick snip at the tip to clean away the slag sometimes does the trick.
Haven't done much of anything lately until today.
To start, I got a few parts together for putting together a drain and refill system for my CNC table.
And here's a mock-up. I need to buy a transfer pump and wait for my stainless hardware to arrive so I can mount the flanges and glue everything together.
Water from the table will drain through 3/4" PVC into the reservoir below, but only after it runs through an in-line filter I've got in place.
The threaded plug at the bottom of the reservoir will receive a 1/2" barb where I'll run a soft line to a transfer pump, and the outlet of that pump will go up the second ball valve to act as a means of refilling my table.
Another item that showed up was a torch mount from Beck's Armory. When I got the mount, I quickly saw what an improvement the clamp-style is on this versus my factory one.
Rather than creating pressure points with it's V-style clamp, the new mount is sized for specific torches.
Last but not least, I cleaned up the garage as best as I could.
Before today, you could barely walk through as I had boxes and hardware everywhere since I had disassembled my plasma table and squared everything up all over again.
One of the fabbed up bumpers gets picked up in a few weeks, the air compressor will go back to its respective spot, and hopefully my Z-axis assembly should arrive. I was running into a small binding issue and when I asked about what parts to order for rebuilding it, Langmuir opted to extend my warranty and send me a complete new one.
The old one.
Nice rides!Last 2-3 orders, I didn't get a single magnet from Rock Auto.
I'm digging that WS6 magnet, used to have two of them many years back.
