New 250EX owner, a few problems

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To illistrate how well the welder is working, here is 2 titanium coupons, .015" thick autogenously lap welded together. I'm looking forward to getting a back purge set up to do the welds properly. I'm also looking forward to getting some titanium tig rod and making a custom Ti battery box for my old Kaw

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Adam... thank you very much! I got your voice message and really appreciate you taking the time to post the pictures. I definitely feel better knowing your 250EX is the same as mine.

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You're welcome Bradley I hope you got your machine squared away and running right. I just refilled my argon tank for the first time. Considering the amount of actual welding time I have put in, the 248 cuft cylinder should have lasted quite a bit longer. It would seem that I had a small leak at the tank fitting, since anytime I turned the valve off the residual pressure would bleed off in 15 minutes. At first I thought I might have gotten one of the cracked regulators, but I could not find any evidence that there was anything wrong with it. Now that I have a new bottle, it holds pressure just fine. I think it was the bottle I had

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YAY! My WP20 torch arrived today. I ripped it out of the package, and.....it's soooooo tiny! Here is the stocker next to the 20 torch

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OK guys, I ran into a small snag. When I went to assemble my new torch, I couldn't get the cup to thread onto the collet body. It seems there were not enough threads exposed past the insulator to even get the cup started on the collet body. This was with the collet body threaded on fully and seated in the torch head. Has anyone else had a similar circumstance with their everlast WP20 torch?

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On top is the collet, gas lense and cup I just bought. On the bottom is the stock supplied parts. The gas lense and associated cup fits just fine, But the stock parts are a little iffy. I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, since I checked the stock collet body against one at the LWS, and they looked identical.