[TheForge] Sidearm Burner Parts - orifice sizes and comments

Fri Jan 17 11:04:01 2003

One thing I found handy when sizing orifices was to use torch tip cleaners. They are conveniently sized, ranging from the number 12 cleaner (~#77 drill size)  on up. You can creep up on the optimum tuning this way. Might be redundant for the mig tip approach but the orifices I had found at Lowe's (Eagle) were .020" to start with.

Steve Howell
Seattle

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Brown [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 7:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Sidearm Burner Parts - orifice sizes and
comments

At 20:37 01/17/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Is the marking on a mig tip for the tip hole size or the wire size, the
>clearance for the wire to run through might mean they are bigger than we
>think.

A Tweco .035 tip has hole .041 diameter.  An .023 has a true diameter of .031.

Dave Brown
Heritage Smithing
Green Bay, WI
ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG

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