HAHAHAHA.FoxZulu wrote:All your clothes have pinhead sized burn holes in them, because it's not worth getting changed just to do that 'quick' weld
all my t-shirts look like I've hit with bird shot
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HAHAHAHA.FoxZulu wrote:All your clothes have pinhead sized burn holes in them, because it's not worth getting changed just to do that 'quick' weld
JFF45 wrote:Thanks for the replies.
I've read suggestions that later, even chinese, inverter AC/DC machines don't use gapped points anymore but I'll need to confirm that.
+1weldin mike 27 wrote:You have enough meat next to the broken area to use a bolt and a hold down clamp. (a piece of flat bar) As you are not confident in repairing this, that is what I would do.
Fido's Butt wrote: This has to be done every time I start up the welder because I always shut off the gas at the end and release the pressure remaining in the valve.
Thats what I thought to, but when you preheat a casting to 450 to weld it, it must cook out, because it seemed to work.exnailpounder wrote:Aluminum is an absolute sponge for oils. I would NEVER use any oil based product to prep any AL I was going to weld.