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Greetings y'all. Since I can't use a foot pedal, I'm always on the lookout for better options for amperage control. I have the rotary thumb control on my 280DX that I think is Miller's own. I just saw the Steady-Grip hand control on the CK Worldwide site. Does anyone here have any experience with this particular control? What I'm using now is very hard to taper off cleanly at the end of a bead. I stub my tungsten way too much :evil:
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If that's the clip on pistol grip that I think was new at Fabtech this year Wyatt did a quick review of it - probably not many out there yet to get feedback on.
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Looks pretty cool.
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I just ordered CK's wheel that is spring loaded and returns to zero automatically, I'll let you know how it works when it gets here.

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P. S. It's not the pistol grip, it's just a flat wheel type.


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xwrench wrote:Greetings y'all. Since I can't use a foot pedal, I'm always on the lookout for better options for amperage control. I have the rotary thumb control on my 280DX that I think is Miller's own. I just saw the Steady-Grip hand control on the CK Worldwide site. Does anyone here have any experience with this particular control? What I'm using now is very hard to taper off cleanly at the end of a bead. I stub my tungsten way too much :evil:
Thanks.
-Eldon

As much as I hate to do it, here's a Mr. Tig video on it. ;)

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A spring loaded wheel that returns to zero by itself may be all I need. It's when I try to taper off that my hand movements usually stub the electrode.


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Eldon,
Here a link to CK's catalog; http://www.ckworldwide.com/Catalog.pdf and I ordered mine at Weldfabulous.com as they seem to be the only one who list it. They didn't have mine in stock but they said it should ship in 3-5 days.

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Cool. I'll be waiting to hear how you like it.
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I used to have a finger control that slid forwards and backwards. Worked much better than say the TA186 style wheel. Looked like this one from USAWELD. http://www.usaweld.com/Hand-Amperage-Co ... rol201.htm
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FYI, I called to get the ball rolling on getting my Steady Grip and they will not ship intil the first or second week of January 2015.
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I tore the foot pedal apart on my Eastwood machine and made this control from some of the pieces.
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soutthpaw wrote:I used to have a finger control that slid forwards and backwards. Worked much better than say the TA186 style wheel. Looked like this one from USAWELD. http://www.usaweld.com/Hand-Amperage-Co ... rol201.htm
Ohh I have that one for my HTP 221. Haven't even used it yet, lol. :lol:
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What about using a copper spoon at the end of your weld so you can time to scroll down a have shielding
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