Welding Tips and Tricks

Hey Folks,

I've been noticing that lately that my old (8 yr) Victor HRF 1425 regulator seems to bleed pressure down faster after the bottle is shut off. It bleeds down in about 2 minutes.

The hose in new and the welder is also new. Am I being paranoid??

Find the leak by squirting soapy water over all joints. Fix leak. Happy days

A RICH soap mxture will show up the leak. You might have to track it down to all connections. When you find it at smaller connections, a simple tweak is safer than a Paul Bunyon affect...can always go over it again on the smaller ones without "breaking" the fitting. I've found my leaks at the tank-regulator connection. Called paul bunyon for that one.

Yo Coldman, Billie.Dee,

Man,,, sometimes I even dumb-a** myself. The leak was at the argon connection going into my new TIG welder. Geeess, with my old MIG I did not have to ' horse-torque' the hose fitting. I guess that my new welder needed some 'seating' at the connection for the first few times.

Thanks to the both of you for 'softly' getting my head out of a dark place that normally I can only see with a mirror.... (not that I look often.)

See, Ya, Bye

All you could see was brown?

Called a Glassectomy. That is where they put a piece of glass in your belly button so you can see where your going with your head in there.

Careful - the oozlum ( oozelum ? ) bird disappeared doing something like that !

Funny. I had to look that one up.