Coldman wrote:Can you guarantee the cylinders have not been layed down for at least a few hours prior to use?

yup they just stand there in the bin waitin for some crazy like me to put em on their truck, and we have em standing in the truck too

Yeah I am kind of interested in doing repair work like that someday. It seems interesting and I now enjoy stick welding after finally burning 7018s and like torch cutting and working on big equipment. 7018 works great on this stuff, before I got my wire feeder that was all I ran. anything from 1/8 ...

I'm sure someone has an answer for this one...I sure don't and no one else Ive spoke with seems to know either. the past year or so weve been getting bottle of acetylene that when you open them up they squirt the acetone out. This causes some nasty problems.. cant cut with it for starters, then you ...

In the repair world there is always work. Always have a dummy who abuses a machine or always an older machine that has a problem yup....and I am more than happy to do it...as long as I get paid ... don't get me wrong, I love the work and enjoy fixin up busted stuff, but it costs me money to run my ...

The only time I ever really got stuck was my own fault. I did a job for one of the contractors doin a backfill job in the mines. An old friend gave me the skinny on these guys that do this backfill work for DEP or DER or whatever government agency runs that show. These guys all run on a shoestring b...

One of my neighbors clued me in about this cat that wants these liners welded into his dump body. The neighbor is a heavy equipment mechanic who does work on the side like I do. Anyway this neighbor did some work on the motor of one of his loaders and never got paid for the work. What this shitbird ...

I LOVE vertical work, and always have. Maybe I'm an adrenaline junkie, maybe I just like being comfortable with stuff that scares the crap out of everyone else. The most fun I've had working was at altitude... Steve One day I want to weld something, hanging upside down, and while roped off the side...

Good Luck and best wishes on your new adventure

Right now I am using an SAE 500 amp Lincoln since the truck motor blew up on my old work truck that had a Trailblazer 350 Pro on it. This Lincoln don't have CV capability so I'm running it on CC. I'm running Innershield 233 wire 1/16 inch at about 260 to 275 IPM. It seems to run best at about about ...

I do the same thing sometimes when there is nothing to do and I get bored...usually when I am at home here.. i'll do it vertical or overhead maybe horizontal...I hate welding flat for some reason.. sometimes i will do it at some crazy angle or throw some other crazy thing into the mix just to make i...

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those 7018 ac rods will work fine on dc you just runnin a wee bit hot, as long as the flux isn't burning off or popping off you are doin fine. I some times run 3/32 like that on the heavy hauler truck frames til I can use 1/8 inch rods. as far as MIG being easy...I never thought so...at least what I...

Hindenburgs 2nd cousin?? I'm lost.

You could Jeff, but you didn't and I thank you. Any others who try to twist my words will not be appreciated-just a full metal jacket reference. Besides not having a good day. AP calc test all morning, go fishing for two hours with a buddy and get nothing, two minutes after I leave he catches a 15 ...

Here's my shed. It's a ways from anything, including power poles, why I use a generator welder, and am partial to the low rpm Miler Legend. Little bigger than yours, 38 x 42, at the end of a ridge, steel scrap, engines and transmissions sort of roll off the edges and down the hill.... http://i719.p...

Glowzinski wrote:I will have to find out how to hook the thing up. haha

Plug your welder into the pigtail at the back of the feeder (whatever polarity you need), hook up the gator clip to your ground and you are off to the races...have fun

Well as of 5:30 I have officially passed my first weld test. Only one little bit of undercut that opened that was still passable. And then he put me on some vertical t-joints to get that down after we bent her. He also sent me some new 3/32" rods to try since the others were older so we'll see...

If you end up with a Miller 12VS I Bet you will be happy like a kid in a candy store, Ive had one for about 13 years or so. I run this thing wide open with 1/16 to 072 self shielded wire on stuff from 3/4 to 4 inches thick all day long evry day. It has never missed a beat. They are built durable lik...

I'm also pretty sure I could make a very deadly knife out of obsidian or flint that no metal detector would alert to... I hope we don't have terrorists reading this thread... :shock: Steve S Naaah...just cranky old miners and welders who would jump at the chance to go one on one with a terrorist or 2

What I absolutely positively must have is my Stanley thermos full of coffee

Hello all. I am trying to make a tough decision on a welder. I just got my shop built and am starting to outfit it with some new equipment. I currently have a lincoln wire matic 250. It's just an okay machine. It has some random stuttering issue that I've given up trying to troubleshoot. I am not a...

I been running a Miller 12VS wire feeder for about 13 years, just about evry day wide open. Ive run dual shield wire up to .068 with it, self shielded wire up to .072. and have had absolutely no issues with the wire feeder, wore out one Ironmate self shielded gun, and one miller roughneck gun for th...

I'm no eye doctor but what they told me was yes I got old eyes, I was 51, they told me what they do is give you what they call monocular vision...one eye is set for distance one eye for near...I don't need glasses for anything, and I can tell you my glasses I was wearing since I was 8 years old were...

Get Lazik surgery done...best 3000 bucks I ever spent...9 years later and I'm still 20/15

If the old bar is wore too thin what will happen in most cases is the old bar will peel off the bucket from the heat when welding it. I generally cut the old ones off if they are worn down to less than half the thickness of the new stuff, especially if the pieces are wrapped around the bucket, wrapp...