The lovely man from Suttons let me play with the PUK welder this evening. Now I really want one! Am officially saving up whilst I still have my day job.
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The lovely man from Suttons let me play with the PUK welder this evening. Now I really want one! Am officially saving up whilst I still have my day job.
Did you try a laser as well to see the difference in behaviour?
I might know of a 2nd hand PUK if you need.
I didn't try the laser as well out of my affordability range. The boy looked at me in horror at the price of the PUK as it is!
Will be a while yet before I'm even in a position to think about a second hand one, but thanks :) x
When you can take the expensive toys for a test-drive, carpe diem!
Haha, Peter....you BAD boy........such a bad influence!!
He is, isn't he? I don't need any more encouragement, I'm already sold on the thing!
Me too. That's what I'm saving for as well.
I'm in! lol
Sorry :)
What I was meaning was more that if you've got an opportunity to try both, do so - not from the point of thinking of buying the more expensive one, but you can get a direct impression of what the differences are between the 2. Day before yesterday I was rebuilding a setting on a ring with the laser; whoever had made it did not provide a seat for the stones, so funnily enough they rattled around... Using the laser I was able to deposit a continuous bead of metal around the inside of the setting, then recut it to form a seat. While PUKs can do continuous welds, they're very much slower - I was running at 3Hz for that. Also, there were points where getting an electrode into the thing would have been awkward; because I had line-of-sight on the weld I could move metal around to suit.