Before you go to Lowes, let me point out Walmart will sell you a very similar torch set for nearly $100 less, and Walmart will take it back in 30 days if you're unhappy. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Stark-Portable-Victor-Type-Welding-Cutting-Torch-Kit-Oxygen-Acetylene-Tote-Carrier/984458682 You should...

Aren't you guys clinging to the bottom of the planet running 220 volt household lights and appliances?

Floor is supposed to be covered with jobs you ain't got to yet & parts, plenty of parts.

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Actually, the first paragraph might pretty well answer your question.

How about maybe you give us a chance to find the machine's schematics by providing manufacture & model?

Definitely odd to have power & gas flowing without wire moving as well.

The man who does all my aluminum, 98% with a Cobra MIG rig on a Trailblazer power unit did probably half of the custom pipe hookups that went to the Winter Olympics in Italy, so he knows what he's doing. Danny's reputation leaked into the bike world, and the aluminum recumbant subset were lining up ...

For over 50 years, the two top schools in the country have been considered to be Hobart and Tulsa Pipe Welders. I'm currently sifficiently conversant with Hobart's school to know if ITW has cheapened and destroyed that as they have with everything else ITW has bought, so you'll need to do some diggi...

They definitely are either insane, stupid or operating in an area of very high unemployment. Whoever typed that description forgot do laundry & plunge plugged crappers too, and I bet the State Labor Department would take a dim view of requiring an employee to lift 100 pounds, even occasionally. ...

So, that pretty much translates to "I have no idea what I'm doing, although I'm being paid to do it. I'll check with the girl in your office and see if she can tell me what she thinks she wants" give or take. With a little luck this hands on part could result in testing with a machine your...

According to my supervisor, the tests will be given by the lead welding instructor at the local tech college. I don’t know how much “practical vs technical” knowledge will he be looking for. My welding history is mainly farm type repaires and fab. Minimal tooling, and materials. The only code I had...

handy tonnage chart
http://www.americanmachinetools.com/pressure_table.htm

The bearing structure won't take the side load of milling for long.

I got a 19/20. Some of the technical questions I didn’t know, like the acronyms for non destructive testing. There is an actual Science to writing tests, one of the leading companies is in Lexana Kansas. The fun part, the people who assemble and modify test questions submitted by working profession...

https://www.tests.com/practice/welding-practice-test This is the kind of crap you'll encounter in the near term future because people with Degrees that belong on protractors are calling the shots. Prepare for it, and keep your mouth shut that it can be easily found with a search engine. If anyone as...

May I strongly suggest visiting some press break tonnage tables before you build. Press breaks consume considerable force to make decent bends, and require proper frames.

JayWal wrote:

weldin mike 27 wrote:No puns here. That's one of my biggest vices.

Man. Will someone please clamp down on these puns?!

They certainly are getting punishing.

Like realestate, location is everything. Old saying about buying welders and helmets, go down to the local distributor and give the girl a dance to see how you like it. Biggest problem in pipe is smoke & spatter on your protective cover. Be very aware of replacement cost of this cover in any hel...

Low concentration Phosphoric Acid (4 to 10%) in water is universally used to etch aluminum to create a grip structure for paint and coating adhesion in a tank setup. The key to what you're trying to accomplish is time on target. Try ketchup, vinegar and if you have to try phosphoric containing toile...

Aluminum is a funny animal, it ain't all the same alloy, and different alloys react differently to acids and bases. I'm presuming your goal is to take a slice of the failed weldment, polish it up and then employ an etchant to display the opening that is your leak. While you're using ordinary sandpap...

OK, lets try another approach. My screen says there is a community college welding shop at 3770 Geist Rd, Fairbanks, AK and their shop has stick, MIG & TIG equipment. University of Ak also has a welding program at 604 Barnette St., Fairbanks, AK 99701 Since you've said twice there is no TIG in F...

Looks like the old ground driven tater picker upper grew and somebody figured out rollers do a batter job than that bar grate chain. Stacker looks like it got hauled in from a coal mine and put to work.. Your little wagon looks like you borrowed some ideas from a boll buggy on a cotton farm. At leas...

I got addicted to taters back when I was still wearin short pants in the war years when about everything was rationed. Mom would take me to the store, and I generally had a tater as we walked past the barrel to snack on. Storekeeper would never take money for the ones I ate in the store. My favorite...

Right about now I could use some McFrys, but I can't have the salt. On the good side, I did make a couple prototype tater pancakes to go with my kraut tonight, and I have eliminated the possibility they can be made on a sammich grill rather than fried in hot oil. Taste was OK, but texture sucked. I ...

My wire chart says #9 steel wire is 0.148" roughly in the middle of 1/8 and 5/32. The rim to spoke welds look like they were spot welded, possibly doable with a stick machine + a contactor. The hub looks maximum 1/16 from what I can see in the picture. How it was stuck together? Could be somebo...

There’s drone footage of the actually harvesters on my channel on YouTube. Julian Waldner. The machines I could probably dig some up, got some in the shop now, changing bearings and such. But potatoes are all bulk. From the diggers to the truck, to a giant pile in the shed. Then by the truckload to...