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Yeah, aluminum is a major heat sink. I like to hit it soft for a few seconds and let the cleaning action clean my initial start area and then stomp the pedal and get my puddle. Then back off to a manageable heat.

Stuff like you're doing I have my best luck spot blasting them real clean first.

motox wrote:rub the lamp three times and make a wish

Careful what you wish, now that may be a felony.

Sign in to the Everlast forum. Most times there's someone from the company there and they can be very helpful.

Bill Beauregard wrote:Aren't you tired yet Rake? Maybe you need a time out.

Tired? No.
It's this discussion that needs a time out. Anyone can build a lamp. They sell "UL approved lamp
components" damn near everywhere.

Oh give it a rest. Anyone can buy lamp parts and make a lamp. There even kits available in hobby and craft stores. There thousands of wood turners making them and selling them at flea markets. I just got a C of O on a house and did not have to have one lamp plugged in. JMHO but you are making yourse...

Look, my family and I have been dealing with the BOCA code book off and on for the last 35+ years. A residential building inspector's jurisdiction ends at the wall receptacle. Period. What lamp you choose to plug into it is none of his fucking business. Anyone tells you otherwise is full of shit. Th...

Welcome to "The Hood" Gary!

Back in the late 70's I took a part time job re-decking barges. They had these 3/8" 36" 7024 "Jet rods". You grabbed them from one end though. You learned to bend the tip in the vice so you could light them up, set down the stinger and let them burn off themselves! :mrgreen: Once...

Jody, a piece of frayed draw cord and a shopvac will make short work of snaking your wire through those joints.
And no melting wires either!

All of our stuff was welded to the hull with 11018

Oh fucking please! The shooter was on the grassy knoll too!
It's all a big government conspiracy. Can we stick to welding
and leave the political bullshit at the door?

We sprayed a lot in the shipyard 1G, 2G, 1F & 2F with .045" and 1/16" wire but thin stuff for us was like 1/2". On non hull with 80S wire we did a good bit of spray twin arc. 2F with a 50%-50% knife edge bevel your lead welder puts in 2" - 3" of root pass and then your l...

My inverter's manual says not to use pure tungsten. I use 2% Lanthanated sharpened to a point for about everything. The starts are real crisp with the pointed electrode. On old dirty aluminum requiring a bit more cleaning action I blunt the point a bit since the added cleaning action tends to burn t...

I thought pure tungsten was a no no with inverters?

New Stupidvisor didn't see any need for a tank watch on a 95 F summer day. 12 of us were carried out unconscious with heat stroke. Luckily the dumb ass called down the general foreman to write all of us up for sleeping on the job! The GF immediately called in the rescue crew! Fucker could have kille...

That $8 rod will probably do all the joints you are describing.

The more silver the easier they flow.
I just grab the 15% stuff the local HVAC supply store sells.
@ $8.00 a stick

Remember, heat = distortion.

Me, I'd probably lead fill them if I wanted it really straight but, hey, I'm old school.

For many if it ain't red or blue, it just won't farking do!

That said, I've personally been beating the crap out of an Everlast Powertig 200DX for three years and it's only fail was I had to replace a $ 3.00 micro switch in the foot pedal.

There's also a ferrite iron. It's a crystalline structured pure iron that holds a stable field when current is applied to a coil
around it.

If it's iron ferrite I'd bet silver solder would be a good choice to bond pieces together.

I had the AC/DC version of the Stickmate. Although it was a great little stick welder, the amperage adjustment was a bit dodgy when it came to tig. The major brands all make simplistic "entry level" machines but, if price is a factor, there are some Asian built machines with great price po...

For just a couple hundred more you can get an AC/DC machine.
http://www.everlastgenerators.com/produ ... wertig-185

weldin mike 27 wrote:Get in quick, the politicians have this joint on an express train to crapsville

I heard rumor Mike that since they already rounded up all the guns, next they're coming after your beer!


He heh, heh heh, he said "member"!

Welcome to "The Hood"!

I only hit him once.