The Armour Archive

A while back there was a discussion about gas welders, someone mentioned a particluar gas welder whose tip/mixer looked like a pistol. The company advertised that one could weld from ridiculously thing up to pretty thick with this one particular unit. I seem to recall the guy who mentioned the tool saying he had welded beer cans with it.
Does anyone remember this conversation or can anyone shed any more light.

I have one. They're marketed under a couple different names but in the Henrob is most common. Eastwood company sells them and Ron picked one up on Ebay for a good price.

They're very efficient gas wise compared to a standard O/A set up and can weld a wide range of thicknesses at the same gas pressure just by swapping out tips. I primarily use mine with the largest tip for hot work since I've got a TIG but they weld very nicely once you get the hang of them.

Cool thanks Cet that kicked the brain cell in question back into gear.

T- do you have a welding set-up of any sort currently? I'm hoping to get my Brian Price hinge welded to my helmet grill (currently riveted).

Klaus

I have an arc welder, with which I can make brutally ugly welds that require a huge amount of cleanup. I could probably get some time on my uncles mig down the road if you want to tack the hinge plate to the grill the way I did mine. If you wait until summer I hope to get on of these rigs and the tanks set up. I expect you want it sooner than that though.

The plan is that I will be completely off the radar by summer, but more on that later. I'll show you the grill at Birka and we can discuss.

OK, completely off the radar huh!? Zil got a job for a company in far Zanzabar?

No, just the West Kingdom.

Did I stutter?

So you are going to go and become a zanzabarbarian!

Ow! Good.