What to use for Tungsten grinding??

[pullcat1]

Sharpening tungsten

Hasnt anyone tried Chemsharp yet! Its a twenty dollar jar of what looks like salt ....... You strike an arc on a clean piece of steel to get the electrode red hot then dip it in the jar (turn off the gas post flow timer)it it truely amazing !!! your tips will look like needles !!!!!!! check it out

[ignitor]

I have been tigging for a major US shipbuilder for 17 years and we use a six inch bench grinder. Personally I don't like to use it because you have a tendency to groove the stone hence the need to dress it often. It does a good job if a fine stone is used. But for a fortune 500 company one would think they would invest in a stand alone tungsten grinder for safety reasons.
Good luck
Mike

[fun4now]

have herd

yep it's about $8.00 a jar here and defenetly one of my first sharpining options. never tryed it but have herd it can realy eat up your tung. if not carfull. but at $2.00 or less a tung. it cant be all that bad.
will still need to put a small flat on the tip, but chem sharp is definetly on my list of things to try.

[fun4now]

ignitor

in your case time is $$$$ and you would think they would get you 1 just to increase torch on time and less time waiting on a tip grind.

umm have you asked any one about getting 1 or are they all the "been working for years why change it" type?

[griff01]

Well then that settles that. It is down to a bench grinder or a Sharpie. Would be nice to save the space though. Does anyone have any comments on using the sharpie? I know it is just a $40 dremel knockoff and a custom attachment. Is this worth $250. Does it have enough power? Has anyone just machined their own head for a dremel to do the same thing? I could make my own if I had one to look at

I use a belt sander. Works great. Leave the tungsten in a collet to use a guide and use a pin vise if the tungsten is too short to hold & spin.

[ignitor]

fun 4 now

I have mentioned several times to our welding engineering dept. of the need to purchase a tungsten grinder. Their reply is we have been using the bench grinder for years and it works just fine. At least they buy us decent welding equipment. Miller!

[fun4now]

ignitor

thats a bummer but like ya said they get ya good welders, if they went cheap on ya there it would be far more truble then just haveing to use a bench grinder. i gess you should just call youre self lucky they get ya millers