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I am taking a college TIG class, and the instructor had us buy four ceramic cups. I have a large drawstring bag with all my TIG gear in it: hose and torch coiled up, extra collet, extra gas lens, box of electrodes, and three ceramic cups all just rattling around inside the bag. Actually, I wrapped all the cups up in a folded bandana and then put a rubber band around them so they have a little protection. The big drawstring bag is carried inside a duffle bag with my PPE and tools.

 

My question is: how do you carry extra ceramic cups around without worrying about accidentally smashing them? Do you have a little padded box or something? Do you simply not carry any backups?

 

I was considering getting a little plastic fishing lure box and sticking some foam in it, provided I could find a suitable-sized box.

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I keep most of my tig stuff in a small plastic box similar to what you describe. This allows me to have a couple different tungstens, collets, collet holders, cups etc available and protected. I forget now where I picked the box up, but most likely it was in the tackle section of Cabelas or some other area.like that. If I can put my hands on it and my camera later I'll snap a few pictures.

 

Generally I stick with one size cup for my gas lens and one or 2 sizes for my standard collet bodies in my "travel" stuff. The standard cups are a 7 or 8 and I'd have to look at what size the gas lens cup is since I can't recall off the top of my head.

 

I also have a similar small box that holds assorted mig parts as well for class. Usually a few tips, spare nozzles and adapters, etc for the tweeco torches the school runs. Most stuff is under lock and key and it's not always accessible for us at night,

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Sorry it took me a bit but the camera battery was dead for some reason. These were the two boxes I could locate quickly at the house. The blue one came from somewhere with a bunch of tig parts. I'm guessing the day instructor at the tech school gave it to me when they got parts in a few years back and they didn't need the plastic box. Clear one is my basic set of parts at the house for my Syncrowave 200.

 

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Sorry it took me a bit but the camera battery was dead for some reason. These were the two boxes I could locate quickly at the house. The blue one came from somewhere with a bunch of tig parts. I'm guessing the day instructor at the tech school gave it to me when they got parts in a few years back and they didn't need the plastic box. Clear one is my basic set of parts at the house for my Syncrowave 200.

 

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Looks like you have been in my shop had to check if you had mine as that is about what mine looks like ... LOL

 

Sam

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When i was taking welding courses in college i had a tool box to store my grinder hammers welding jacket etc. For the small stuff like tig gear and such i kept all of that in little plastic fishing lure containers from walmart, i had one for tig gear, flux core(dualshield), and mig welding and had each box labled as such, i typically kept two of each of the common sized tig cups you would most likely use if i recall cups 4-8.

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