05-12-2018, 09:22 PM
I started putting together a torch cooler for my newly-accidentally-acquired TIG welder (nobody outbid me...), and realised I was going to have trouble making space for Jubilee (worm-drive) hose clamps and would need a lot of 'em, saw the ClampTite wire tool and though "I can make one of those" - it worked out pretty easily, a few holes drilled in some aluminium tube (clearance bore for 8mm all-threadalike) and a pair of slots angle-grindered, I DID have to buy a wingnut, though...
Here it is in all its inglory, alongside the cooler's pressure-pulsation damper (I'm using a diaphragm pump)
The business end - a piece of M12 all-threadalike Loctited in the drilled and tapped end of the tube, then the lot spun in a drill against the bench grinder, finally slitted with a 1mm cutting disc in the angle grinder:
And... the end result, 0.8mm / 0.032" stainless lockwire on a clear PVC tube over an 8mm (5/16") hose barb,
Crude, but very effective and I put it together in 15 minutes - delivery if I'd bought one would have been a few days!
Dave H. (the other one)
Here it is in all its inglory, alongside the cooler's pressure-pulsation damper (I'm using a diaphragm pump)
The business end - a piece of M12 all-threadalike Loctited in the drilled and tapped end of the tube, then the lot spun in a drill against the bench grinder, finally slitted with a 1mm cutting disc in the angle grinder:
And... the end result, 0.8mm / 0.032" stainless lockwire on a clear PVC tube over an 8mm (5/16") hose barb,
Crude, but very effective and I put it together in 15 minutes - delivery if I'd bought one would have been a few days!
Dave H. (the other one)
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