Anyway I wanted to do this in my first attempt with O45 dual shield, got a spool of Hobart wire, but when I opened the cabinet storage area I quickly discovered I do not have O45 FC drive rollers, could of swore I did.LOL So anyway it's hard wire mig 25.5 and 470 ipm, looks like this. thumb 3.jpg ju...

on that small shaft, it started to bind up badly, but by skipping and welding back to back I got it to slide silky smooth just like before welding, but I think I got lucky, I was not so lucky with the large shaft, it is only tacked now but don't want to go further until I get some advice, or real &q...

OK think I might have picture thing worked out but not resized , here goes thumb 1.jpg thumb 2.jpg now I know I can leave the shaft in, and at first shaft slides back and fourth silky smooth, but even welding with shaft in, bushings turn and distort making the shaft impossible to move by hand and ev...

welding a kit together to construct a thumb for a mini excavator . among the components are brackets that are lazer cut that will retain the hydralic cylinder ram. And also the main pin to bolt the thumb and excavator bucket on. the bores are a little oversized and the bushings slip inside of them t...

Jody, JD I'm assuming you switched power input over to 230 when you started the dual shield work on the pipe joint. I picked up 1 of these Lincoln 210 MP's , when I demoed it at the dealer I welded 1/8 stick 7018 on 115 and was pretty impressed. However when I got it home I tried that and kept blowi...