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[Imback]

Love them gas lenses.

 

[turboglenn]

Love them gas lenses.

Once you've welded with them you'll never want to weld without them, I have TONS of standard cups and collet holders that i stocked up on before i tried lenses (which i had bought only a couple as "just in case i need em" things) well after i used them the few times i neededthem, I realized i had a whole bunch of standard cups and collet holders that i will now probably never use

They aren'tthat much money and make such a difference that you'll start to wonder why it isn'tthe standard and the parts we call the "standard" or "stock" parts should only be used when needed (or basically when a gas lense is too large to get into the area you're working on) which is the only time i swap back to standard cups and collet holders

I really have become spoiled by them, they help with gas usage as well, you can run a good bit less flow on the regulator and get way better results, I run mine at about 10-12 with lenses and find i need about 15-17 without a lense to get anything similar for results of the coverage by the gas