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I was fooling around with some small pieces of 1/4"X2" scrap the other day and had a strange experience. I had the ground clamp at the left end of my welding table. Somewhere on the table I had my diagonal cutters and nozzle cleaning brush(brush is actually designed to clean 1/2" copper fittings). I was doing some short arc and messing around with pretty high settings. When I finished I picked up the brush to clean the nozzle, and the wire bristles just fell out. Brush wasn't new. but bristles were in good shape, and I had jsut used it with no problem. Was this due to heat or some magnetic field?
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Strange....maybe it is a result of Chi-Com planned obsolescence. Was this a hand brush, with a steel frame? or a wooden handle? -
Wooden frame. I have another similar for 3/4" that is made by Mil Rose in Ohio that has a plastic handle.Originally posted by Rocky D
Strange....maybe it is a result of Chi-Com planned obsolescence. Was this a hand brush, with a steel frame? or a wooden handle?Comment
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I have the bristles fall out of a wooden handled brush due to water logging. Wood expands when wet and they fall out.
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Rocky, both brushes have handles which are wrapped in steel wire. The wire is twisted below the handle and the bristles are in the twisted wire. I threw the ruined one away but I think it was the same brand. Could have been old age.Comment
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Yeah, who knows? any way a tip on wire brushes....most of the time we are brushing fillet welds....so I take my new brush, and stick it up to a disk sander and hold it there till the bristles form a point that fits the corner joint better. In aircraft, we do that all the time. Make the brush fit the design.
Also on rotary wire brushes, the bell type with a 1/4" shaft, not the kind that goes on a right angle grinder, we take and sand them down to a point to make them fit tight fillets.
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So Rocky, as I understand you, I should be using a wooden handled wirebrush on my head to make the hair grow back in, and not a powered brush with a 1/4" shank. That would account for why you have more hair than I do.Comment
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Originally posted by Franz
So Rocky, as I understand you, I should be using a wooden handled wirebrush on my head to make the hair grow back in, and not a powered brush with a 1/4" shank. That would account for why you have more hair than I do.
Gee...that sounds logical
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Thanks, my barber is always making wise-*** comments about my growing bald spot and you come along to help him.Originally posted by aweaver
Cope,
And to think I thought that old age made your hair fall out! Now it makes the brush bristles fall out too!
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My real problem here is that I don't think Rocky understands what type brush this is. NBD, I'll truck off to Lowe's tomorrow and get another one. Doubt it will last as long.
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