OK, I need help before I pull whats left of my hair out. Harris torch
running a #000 tip for 1/8" steel, acet at 5 pounds and oxygen at 20
pounds. When I start the cut I preheat until the parent metal begins
melting and then press the cut bar, and here we go. As I move across
the parent material, a hole naturally forms where the oxugen is
blowing the molten metal away, but once I pass that point, the slag
re-joins behind the flame and closes the gap! I never have the piece
just fall off with the first pass, I have to go back and melt off
enough slag to make fishing weights. What the hell am I doing
wrong...Ernie...anybody...?
I've tried a gentle flame, I've tried a roaring inferno, nothing seems
to give a nice clean cut.
- posted
18 years ago