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G`day Tony
You have some bloody incredible work there, i dont know which one i like the best. Looking forward to seeing your future work mate. Cheers Troppo
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HI Anthony welcome to the forum ..... Fantastic work I like it
Peter
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It seems as though this forum has a strong Australian representation. In the back of my mind I've always fantasized about living on the north coast (of Australia) in some small town and setting up shop there. I think I might have a few traits in common with some of the local folk; a passion for the yeast inspired beverages and also for the open water and wind influenced activities on the former. Like kitesurfing and fishing.
Many thanks for the compliments all around.
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welding wires
Hi Tony,
Great sculptures! I'm wondering about the welding technique you're using in the video where you are putting wires together with a pair of pliers attached to some electricity. Are you running the pliers off a welder? I tried a similar thing once but your method looks better. Can you explain it a little? Thanks! |
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HI Anthony here in Australia the beer is good the fishing is excellent and us Aussie are not that bad after all Peter
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Welder
In the video http://vimeo.com/38348447 you use a pair of needle nose pliers to weld wires together. I'm supposing that the wire that's hooked to them goes to a spot welder? Neat set up.
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That's a jewelry welder; capacitive discharge made by Orion of Sunstone Engineering. It does tack welding of sorts and also has a spot tig'ish weld.
Very expensive and not all that useful really unless of course you work with jewelry. My favorite welder for that sort of thing is one I made with 2 transformers from microwaves. You take out the secondary windings and replace with #4 welding cable. Presto, tack spot welder for super thin stuff and .045 wire. I put a timer on it to control the weld time. $70 bucks. Instead of $4,500.
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Welder
I wonder if modifying a HF stud welder (for pulling out dents) would yield the same result?
For doing the art project with lots of wires to weld, that's the only way to go.
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Ben,
You too do nice work, you know. Tony, Great stuff. I find links to your page thrown at me quite often. Thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum. G. |
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