Flat when taking the measurement? right?
I think he is just showing how to move up the electrode, gap it.

it wont touch the inner circle if you dont have it a little angeled, i dont know how its suppose to be - touching FLAT on the electrode or the prong touching the inner circle ?

it doesn't have to touch the inner circle. It needs to be flat.

uh oh, thats how i did all six so far, redo !

Ok look closely at the pic. See how the tang and the electrode are parallel? that's how you want yours to look then when you put your tool in to measure the gap you'll have the same thickness all the way across.

greatttt, ill fix it somehow

i was just about to take a pic when the camera died, awesome , but with this tool its impossible to get it perfectly parallel to eachother, its gonna move one of the things one way or another

I use the same tool you have. If its off by .001, do you really think its going to matter?

just do like rs said and narrow the gap a fair amount. then spin the gapper and give a little upward pressure to get it out to around .55

im not talking the measurements of the tool, im taking the parallelness ( idk if thats a word) of the hook to the electrode, not the perfect measurement

What? Maybe you should let someone else do it. The gapper goes from small do big. Get it so the distance is around .050-.055 (Mine are at .052).

yea, i cleary understand for the 5th time. YOU said the tange has to be parallel to the electrode, it cant be if the measurement is at .55 is what im saying, or did i do something wrong ?

I have no idea what you are saying. Maybe someone else does and can help.

lol i think hercman knows what im saying, it is a little confusing trying to talk about this

... wow..... I have never seen gaping made into such a difficult procedure.