metalmagpie
Titanium
- Joined
- May 22, 2006
- Location
- Seattle
I am setting up a magnetic tracer pattern burner. I have it adjusted (leveled) so that the arm will move very easily and drift to a stop with almost no rebound. That's without hoses. In this state I can easily trace patterns without difficulty.
Then I drape the hoses over the framework. I cannot find a way to do this so that the hoses don't pull the swingarm more strongly than the magnetic attraction of the stylus to the pattern.
The torch is a 3-hose torch, so the bundle consists of two oxygen and one fuel gas hose. I am using regular green and red rubber welding hose, grade T. I think I have the hose cut about seven feet long. It just seems heavy and stiff.
Is there a type of welding hose that is extra light weight and very flexible?
Or is there some clever way to suspend the hoses from overhead so they don't pull the hoses?
metalmagpie
Then I drape the hoses over the framework. I cannot find a way to do this so that the hoses don't pull the swingarm more strongly than the magnetic attraction of the stylus to the pattern.
The torch is a 3-hose torch, so the bundle consists of two oxygen and one fuel gas hose. I am using regular green and red rubber welding hose, grade T. I think I have the hose cut about seven feet long. It just seems heavy and stiff.
Is there a type of welding hose that is extra light weight and very flexible?
Or is there some clever way to suspend the hoses from overhead so they don't pull the hoses?
metalmagpie