Dagny
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Is there such a thing?
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American made tungsten for TIG
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BigMike782
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If there is it is likely to be Diamond Ground.
I suspect any you find is going to be foreign.
I suspect any you find is going to be foreign.
There was a tungsten manufacturer in Glen Head NY. The location became a toxic wasteland there were years of clean up and we made the Superfund list. So after that happened TIG welders are on the **** list in Nassau county.
VR6ix
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Took me about 20 seconds and 5 clicks to find COO: USA tungsten TIG electrodes on McMaster-Carr.I give up
Further searching will cost you $20
JunkYardDawg
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Ignorance is no excuse, but other than the desire to buy American, is there a difference between tungsten quality?
esben57
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Half my lifetime ago I worked in England's last remaining Tungsten processing plant.
The wolfram/tungsten came from a mine down in Cornwall which had a few problems with geology, land ownership enviromentals and a myriad others.
A chemical process was used to extract the stuff from the mineings which also contained tin, cobalt, arsenic and others.
Finally it was added to ammonia creating ammonium-para-tungstate, a powder that got everywhere and was unpleasant to say the least.
Shipped off in drums, I believe the ammonia would be burnt off during the further manufacturing of metal goods.
The plant and process were basic, tried and trusted.
China could produce this and send it to the UK for cheaper, and that along with the mine's problems (it flooded and spilled out after it closed, poor maintenance maybe.) spelt the end of the plant and our jobs.
As a footnote an order came in for some white dust from a country the other side of the pond - no name mentioned.
These would not buy Chinese made. What the company did was to put some chinesium in with what we'd produced in the final mixing drying stage.
A dastardly move! Some of the boys were going to inform the FBI but couldn't find contact details.
The wolfram/tungsten came from a mine down in Cornwall which had a few problems with geology, land ownership enviromentals and a myriad others.
A chemical process was used to extract the stuff from the mineings which also contained tin, cobalt, arsenic and others.
Finally it was added to ammonia creating ammonium-para-tungstate, a powder that got everywhere and was unpleasant to say the least.
Shipped off in drums, I believe the ammonia would be burnt off during the further manufacturing of metal goods.
The plant and process were basic, tried and trusted.
China could produce this and send it to the UK for cheaper, and that along with the mine's problems (it flooded and spilled out after it closed, poor maintenance maybe.) spelt the end of the plant and our jobs.
As a footnote an order came in for some white dust from a country the other side of the pond - no name mentioned.
These would not buy Chinese made. What the company did was to put some chinesium in with what we'd produced in the final mixing drying stage.
A dastardly move! Some of the boys were going to inform the FBI but couldn't find contact details.
Beerhippie
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You don't contact the FBI. The FBI will contact you.....
A dastardly move! Some of the boys were going to inform the FBI but couldn't find contact details.
zimman
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McMaster-Carr has everything a man needs to survive including a liver.
Zim
Zim
Beerhippie
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But the minimum order size for livers is 50!McMaster-Carr has everything a man needs to survive including a liver.
Zim
That's GraingerBut the minimum order size for livers is 50!
Correct, McMaster is 2x the going rate unless you have a large corporate account, but has 30 varieties of liver will have it to your door by 8am the next morning.That's Grainger