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Mostly felt like a ramble. Your quote:
"...you gonna turn that into an all day project...?"
Always reminds me of an old friend. He couldn't tolerate inefficient use of time!
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Bill Beauregard wrote:Mostly felt like a ramble. Your quote:
"...you gonna turn that into an all day project...?"
Always reminds me of an old friend. He couldn't tolerate inefficient use of time!
My kid always rolls his eyes when I say that - "you sound like grandpa...that's not a good thing..."
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Bill Beauregard wrote:Mostly felt like a ramble. Your quote:
"...you gonna turn that into an all day project...?"
Always reminds me of an old friend. He couldn't tolerate inefficient use of time!
My kid always rolls his eyes when I say that - "you sound like grandpa...that's not a good thing..."
It could be worse. My son accuses me of acting like my mother. As an 86, year old she's meaner than average. It's not something I like to hear.
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Bill Beauregard wrote:
MinnesotaDave wrote:
Bill Beauregard wrote:Mostly felt like a ramble. Your quote:
"...you gonna turn that into an all day project...?"
Always reminds me of an old friend. He couldn't tolerate inefficient use of time!
My kid always rolls his eyes when I say that - "you sound like grandpa...that's not a good thing..."
It could be worse. My son accuses me of acting like my mother. As an 86, year old she's meaner than average. It's not something I like to hear.
Oh yeah that's bad! :lol:
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a 3" air grinder with a 1/16" or a 0.045" thickness abrasive wheel will quickly take care of a contaminated tungsten. In fact, that is what I use to chop up a tungsten on purpose for the electrodes on my 24 series torch, which have to be 1"-1.25" in length. I then chuck them up in a 9/20 pencil torch with the collet & collet body only, and use that as a tungsten holder in order to grind the tip without having to use my fingertips so close to the wheel.
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I'll make a video on my way of sharpening tungsten.

Was doing some today.

Man was it nice...

Watch my YouTube channel.

Just got my second vid up.

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John,

That was me that commented by the way, I thought my YouTube name was GreinTime as well hehe... When I read your post here, I thought you meant you already had a video of grinding tungsten up, but alas, you did not! Oh well, subscribed for more! And dude, I'm not gonna lie, when I saw that your other video was titled "How to Castrate a Bull the Right Way" I burst into a fit of laughter so violent the guy walking by my car on the sidewalk asked if I was going to be okay, because it looked like I was having a seizure :|

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GreinTime wrote:John,

That was me that commented by the way, I thought my YouTube name was GreinTime as well hehe... When I read your post here, I thought you meant you already had a video of grinding tungsten up, but alas, you did not! Oh well, subscribed for more! And dude, I'm not gonna lie, when I saw that your other video was titled "How to Castrate a Bull the Right Way" I burst into a fit of laughter so violent the guy walking by my car on the sidewalk asked if I was going to be okay, because it looked like I was having a seizure :|

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Hey Sam,

Sounds funny, I'll be making a video tonight on cooking them up, like chicken nuggets.

It'll be great, stay tuned.

BTW,
Do you want me to inhale some helium???

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GreinTime wrote:John,

That was me that commented by the way, I thought my YouTube name was GreinTime as well hehe... When I read your post here, I thought you meant you already had a video of grinding tungsten up, but alas, you did not! Oh well, subscribed for more! And dude, I'm not gonna lie, when I saw that your other video was titled "How to Castrate a Bull the Right Way" I burst into a fit of laughter so violent the guy walking by my car on the sidewalk asked if I was going to be okay, because it looked like I was having a seizure :|

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OK where do I find this video?
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GreinTime wrote:John,

That was me that commented by the way, I thought my YouTube name was GreinTime as well hehe... When I read your post here, I thought you meant you already had a video of grinding tungsten up, but alas, you did not! Oh well, subscribed for more! And dude, I'm not gonna lie, when I saw that your other video was titled "How to Castrate a Bull the Right Way" I burst into a fit of laughter so violent the guy walking by my car on the sidewalk asked if I was going to be okay, because it looked like I was having a seizure :|

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OK where do I find this video?
Bill,

My youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChW_j- ... fCA/videos
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Bill Beauregard wrote:
GreinTime wrote:John,

That was me that commented by the way, I thought my YouTube name was GreinTime as well hehe... When I read your post here, I thought you meant you already had a video of grinding tungsten up, but alas, you did not! Oh well, subscribed for more! And dude, I'm not gonna lie, when I saw that your other video was titled "How to Castrate a Bull the Right Way" I burst into a fit of laughter so violent the guy walking by my car on the sidewalk asked if I was going to be okay, because it looked like I was having a seizure :|

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OK where do I find this video?
Bill,

My youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChW_j- ... fCA/videos
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Suggestion, put your YouTube channel in your signature.
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Bill Beauregard wrote: John,



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OK where do I find this video?
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My youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChW_j- ... fCA/videos
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Suggestion, put your YouTube channel in your signature.
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Here is how I hold my tungstens for sharpening. The air cooled 9 series pencil torch allows a full length 7" electrode to go all the way down the body so long as the power hose is not attached to the torch. Just put the collet & collet body in, tighten and give it a few turns on the grinder, and you're good to go. :). Nice thing about this is you can really put some pressure on it without any danger of the grinding wheel sending a tungsten through your hand. :)


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well closing my participation in this thread, my machine has left, as have I, cant master it cant dwindle on it
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Hey, Brokeit,

I do notice you haven't commented since page one....

I hope the overwhelming hijack posts (which I'm guilty of participating in) didn't discourage you.

We really CAN help you with TIG. Just keep us on topic.... participate.

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Hijack post don't bother much if people stay flexible :D
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Otto Nobedder wrote:Hey, Brokeit,

I do notice you haven't commented since page one....

I hope the overwhelming hijack posts (which I'm guilty of participating in) didn't discourage you.

We really CAN help you with TIG. Just keep us on topic.... participate.

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I think the regular users here are all guilty of hijacking (I include myself) It does make for interesting conversation and most of the time we still learn something new.
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MinnesotaDave wrote:Hijack post don't bother much if people stay flexible :D
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Got any more photos like that? Hijack my threads. Interesting!
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Yes - I never really thought about medical research much - but as I've never met anyone that flexible I can see how a closer study would be of benefit !
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Oh yeah - close study of some of these women is definitely needed! :D
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:shock:

All right... Let's "try" to get back on topic, before this gets completely out of hand, and someone complains...

Unlikely, I know, but this isn't the "bending tips and tricks" forum... :lol:

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He actually replied in post #40 saying "My machine has left, as have I, can't master it can't dwindle on it"

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Otto Nobedder wrote::shock:

All right... Let's "try" to get back on topic, before this gets completely out of hand, and someone complains...

Unlikely, I know, but this isn't the "bending tips and tricks" forum... :lol:

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Looks like destructive testing to me. Is that not on topic?
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GreinTime wrote:He actually replied in post #40 saying "My machine has left, as have I, can't master it can't dwindle on it"

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It's a shame he has deprived himself of a lot of satisfaction.
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