So I tried for another half an hour today and found out new combinations of swearing I have never heard. I had two and half actual beads today as well. The slag doesnt like coming off very well though. I am just going to hope and ray we get a DC stick machine sometime. its been a few years since I ...

Here's my story that sort of relates, tho not welding. I did forestry work here in oregon for 25 years, most of the welding I did in that time was patching up my beat up pickup trucks (paid 4 wheelin to boot, who could ask for more). A good bit of those years was tree climbing. In my first 2 weeks ...

I did some work in an old coal breaker about 40 years ago, all they had was an old ac welder, I couldn't even guess who made it, someone said Westinghouse built it back in the 30s, but no one knew for sure as there was no tag of any kind on it. Anyway they busted the shaker frame, it was made out of...

I like it, looks like your havin fun. did somethin like that one time made a little bridge for a nephew, he run his little cars up and down and across that thing for 3 years

6P?...What is that?...8010? How did they come up with 5p designation and such anyway? Just curious

I've been mostly out of commission the last half year or so. Surgery and rehab and more surgery and more rehab. Then I was in a crash and broke the hell out of a leg. Finally getting on top of things and back into my shop. It's good to be back. Cheers -E Good to hear things are ok..hope it continue...

NR 211 is good wire for sure but NR 233 or 232 seems to work a lot better, got more tensile stenth and elongation to it from the paperwork they sent me for the different wires, and its what Lincoln recommended. 211 isn't recommended to be used over 3/8 or 1/2 inch thickness (I forget which) in most ...

cj... your saying that a spool gun will most likely work on my miller 12vs? that would be good...probly need some different rollers...I got hose and regulators for argon...I will have to get one of these spool guns and experiment with it...get this truck of mine done first though

[quote="xwrench"]I couldn't get in the groove today so I just started tacking random bits from my scrap bin together. I call it "I come in peace" Cheers.[/quot Hmmm I come in peace...ok....I come in pieces...I weld myself together to bring peace to mankind...Happy Easter and God ...

A coal hauler stopped this evening and asked if I would be interested in welding some aluminum liners in his dump body this summer when I'm done building my rig truck. Told him I might have time on the weekends, cant really say for sure as it depends on how hard these shovel operators beat up their ...

It sounds like it would work...for awhile...it sounds like it would be dangerous as well...not thinkin it would be a good idea

Ive seen some that packaging already when I was traveling, never had the time to give it much thought though.

All of Lincoln's rods are made in Mexico. The 50# tin sealed with inert gas is higher quality for the perceived customer (commercial/industrial). The rods in 5# plastic boxes (NOT moisture-tight... plastic is stunningly permeable) are assumed to be for the hobbyist/homeowner/tiny shop crowd. Steve ...

So I needed some 7018 rods for this weld rig I am building and stopped at the hardware store...picked up some Lincoln rods in a plastic box... 5 lbs of em...they don't really run all that good...lots of splatter and whatnot...kind of shitty actually...the flux on the rod is a little lighter in color...

A lot would depend on where in the welding you would like to end up in a few years, and the type of environment or shop you want to work in. There are things in this trade you will not learn at school. That nice clean piece of plate you've been welding on in school you will very rarely find if you w...

The real weld wire and rods will run a lot smoother and look better when complete, so it seems to me they would be a better quality weld I think, I don't use the big box stuff that much, but Ive used enough of it to notice the difference without even lookin which box they come from

I deal with this crap all the time in the mines, best thing I found to do short of cutting the plate off and cleaning everything out behind it is run it hot if I'm using the self shielded wire, it will make bubbles of slag. Beat the crap out of those bubbles and then clean with a grinder and wire wh...

This is a pin boss on a PC 4000, took 3 pieces of old cutting edge and welded it on the top, bottom and the front side, back side didn't need it as it doesn't wear very much. Then built a deflector and put it on angle to protect it. If the pin boss wears off the keeper falls out, the keeper falls ou...

Otto Nobedder wrote:When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When you're a welder, everything looks like whatever the hell you want it to be!

(Stolen from facebook.)
(Seems extra appropriate for exnailpounder.)

Steve S

Yup...necessity is the mother of invention

...and everything old is new again. Who's old enough to remember waiting 'til the evening rates to make long-distance calls? Oh, and we had a party line, so if one of the neighbors was on the phone, you had to hang up and wait... :lol: Steve S Shucks I'm old enough to remember when 2 tin cans and s...

Well I'll tell you that all that matters is how you hurt yousrself. I burnt myself welding at 2000 degrees and my hand hirts like a biatch. Oh well my hand hurts because I was to lazy to move my hand from the door closing. Who really hurts-door guy because I can bounce back from it. Jeff, I know th...

Good job building the shotgun mount for the young lad, we need more dads like you in this country and more young'uns who think like your sons. As far as workin when your all banged up, most of us who are worth a nickel or 2 usually do at some point, some folks even continue to work into old age with...

Most of the time I work out of the back of my truck, so the gremlins live in the tool boxes or in the engine compartment of the truck... so one day me and the fella that owned the mine where I was workin was gonna tack up a few chunks of old cutting edge on the side of a trakhoe bucket for wear bars...

That's a neat table and I agree with Steve ..you got more goodies there than most top fab shops...did you build the table yourself?

Man o man.....do you hire people to do all those clamps???? That's a full time job doin em up and takin em off...then you need a forklift to carry em all!! Seriously though whatever it is looks good, and I got a toolbox full of clamps myself. That's a nice lookin workbench you've got there as well. ...