When I went to the 3 day school on welding aluminum cylinder heads, they had us using ATF on the
open flute burrs pictured above. I wondered about putting "oil" on something you're going to weld on?
One of Jody's videos he used wax on flap discs- but didnt elaborate.

Pic 2 in the background, turkey fryer with dutch oven on top , what you use it for?
that was my first set up for melting wheel weights into ingots for casting bullets

Hey the cart looks great.
Those baby bottles are going to get old in a hurry unless you dont weld very much,
they'll be empty all the time

My local store, American Welding and Gas, has Miller brand glass cheaters in stock and they are great!
The only thing I notice is I have to have the split in the cheater squared up with my glasses to prevent annoying
lines.

Do you suppose if you narrowed the gap just a touch it might start the arc at a lower current?

Cant be that hard to home brew a pedal after seeing the guts in this on, a variable pot, and a switch to start the high freq is all there is

As far as tungestn goes I bought some "ABN" brand lanthanated in 1/16" and 3/32" seems to be good. Not dipping them as much. I usually buy my stuff on Amazon. LWS is a bit pricy. I bought the same for my initial supply up for the new welder, I thought they seemed alright. I don'...

spend more time getting your new top angles right so you don't need the wooden wedge underneath to make it more comfortable.

If you ever need to chunk up a bunch of old aluminum wheels, Diablo makes blade for your circular saw that cuts them like cold butter. :mrgreen: Just make sure your saw is under the max rated RPM for the blade (5400) took a few hours to clean up the mess! lol http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/J...

yeah, the welder is great, the foot pedal ergonomics is backasswords here's my tempoary solution rubber on the bottom and skateboard grip tape on the new top http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/James64/20161005_193413_zpso77o6onp.jpg And if anyone is wondering what the insides look like, this is ...

Buddy of mine bought a wall tent/stove package. He managed to break off on hinge on the stove door and it had a crack as well. Old, snotty wood gunk saturated, cast iron. Watch Jody's video on tiggigng cast with aluminum bronze. Ordered rod and had a go. it aint purdy but it worked! there was enough...

Well there must be more than one monkey, becasue he was on my ass all day long as well!

exnailpounder wrote:Just curious...what was causing the nasty brown crud and metal to be blown away?

Brown crud- it has a tan coating of some sort on the inside, I'm sure to prevent tasting the metal.
blown away- thinking AL, I used AC current and kept adding amps to try to get it to go.= Fidos butt

My Tig finger and Tig finger XL showed up today.
Very cool! Thanks for a great product & don't spend all you're earnings in one place!
Also, thank you for all your effort in creating the Youtube video's, they are a great service to us
green horns!

Hurray for exnailpoounder! Picked up some .035" 308L rod this morning and had success! Thank you for the heads up! I got myself a new helmet this morning too, one with the delay settings. My old Speedglas would flash me every time the arc got hidden, was starting to piss me off! It's reserved f...

A freind wanted me to close up the handle holes and cut the top out of on old beer keg for a smaller tank cleaning tank. Its got some kind of sealer on the inside that appears to be penetrated into the metal. When you hit it with the arc, you get the nastiest brown crud you could imagine and the met...

Zinc soldering rod, often sold under names like Aluma-weld that is applied with propane torch might be an option here... never used it myself. Maybe others have experience I've seen a video or 2 showing that stuff in use. its quite the process and requires constant wire brushing as any surface oxid...

A lot of Snap On welders are made by Systematics. I had mine for 25 years before l got my HTP MIG 2400. Never any trouble. Good machine just overpriced on the Snap On truck. I upgraded for more power. Are you sure it's not an FM 140? it is indeed a FM140, a fat fingered mis-type. Say what you want ...

No door chart.
hence the test and re-label job

I've got a Snap-On FF140 A 110v MIG welder. Its been a great machine for me. The knobs on the front are labeled 1-12 for voltage and 1-whatever for wire speed. I know how to measure the wire speed into inches/minute. On the voltage side, can the voltage be measured with a meter? Would it need to be ...

I'm using these, and they seem to by fine and they are cheap! ABN-Tungsten-Welding-Electrodes-Lanthanated Fixed it for you. :) thanks not sure why I couldnt get the link to go? Anyway, as someone else eluded to, these work great on steel, but I've had them do the "wonky ball" on AC a few ...

Superiorwelding wrote: I wish you lived closer to me, I have a ton of 1/2" plate you could use for a welding table top.
Jonathan

Any chance of you coming to NW Montana sometime soon?

[quote="maker of things" As Jody describes in some of his videos, the voltage range that co2 runs well in is narrower than c25 so it may be easier to have your machine set up poorly. [/quote] I've had my MIG for almost 20 years, and was pleased with my hobby welding skills I learned myself...

the plating on nuts/bolts/fittings will do that exact thing, ie, "the orange crust of WTF." you cant grind enough off to have anything left to weld IMO. Last week I tried grinding the galvanize of some conduit to use the tubing, and that crap sucked straight up the cup and fouled everythin...

Along those same lines of questions, how would you prove out that you indeed
did have bad gas?