just curious. mine is looking crusty so i think it is time to replace it.

 

i use them till i break em.

 

Depends on what I'm doing. I find they get eaten up more when I'm welding cast AL and **** pops into the lense and burns holes.

 

Usually never change them out unless I see one clogged, not to long ago I know a company online was selling a few gas lens that were bad... be careful.

 

i welded on one for awhile then did some welding on cast al and it went to **** so now i check to see if it works every couple weeks

 

if there is a couple pieces of spatter, i dont worry about it. I am not perfect though, and will occasionally stick my T and pop some crap into it. I just use discretion that's all.

 

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Cast AL is a bitch...I usually just throw on a normal cup and collet when I'm welding cast AL.

 

I usually ditch the gas lens for aluminum and mild steel

 

good call. not necessarily mild steel, but anything that isn't DOM or CR stuff.

...the trick is... do i HAVE any non-GL collets?

 

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...the trick is... do i HAVE any non-GL collets?</TD></TR></TABLE>

or better yet, non-GL cups?

 

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plus one

 

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right right, hot rolled suxorz!

 

thanks for the replies guys. i usually don't use the gas lense for heavy aluminum welding, but only because at high amps it pops the end of the illumina cup off.

 

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Do you have the insulator between the cup and the torch? If you don't put that on it'll bust the end off of it.

 

eh, it always did it for me at over 200A...

weird how it goes too, explodes in a blue fireball and whatever fragments hit the ground stains the concrete blue where it hits... explanation?