Luke,
Welcome aboard. Is BOC a distributor or a actual machine company.

I am telling you Ausssie's are taking over WT&T!!! LOL!

I like that. I see two TIG Fingers...Jody will be proud.

The larger the cup you use, the smaller your hand/wrist motions have to be. Steve S Correct me if I am wrong Steve but this is what I understand you to mean. I would not call myself a master at walking the cup but the larger cup in this application would be better. The idea is not covering more gro...

John, I do not have a tungsten grinder or use one. I use a bench grinder for almost all my tungsten grinding. Someday maybe I will pick up a tungsten grinder. I ALWAYS sharpen with the striations following the length of the rod. I also always sharper to a point, with varying tapers. Here is a wheel ...

I'd like to get a Sincere battle going over Red, White, and Blue against Green, and/or Black. Real life experiences with them, customer service, horror stories, and best and worst buys etc etc etc.... Anyone? ~John I will jump in but John you might have opened a can of worms here. I was wondering w...

Ward, Not to add to your confusion but I have read your and the others posts and think that the Thermal Arc Fabricator (now Tweco) 252i might be a good solution. It is not AC but if would give you plenty of power for all your DC applications. I have demoed this machine and over all It would make a g...

AK
I think that is one of my biggest regrets, not taking pictures of welds/projects.
......but why is it that our best welds seem to always be somewhere where no one will never see them, or they are the root pass that will get covered up?

. I'm not what anyone HERE would consider a good welder. I wouldn't be so sure of that. We are not here to judge, rather to help each other. I remember my days first trying to stick weld, to say I was terrible would be a understatement! I did the peck rod thing and wasted a lot of rod. Actually a A...

Sling-it,
Looks very well executed. Looks to me like you have a future in fabrication!

Dirtbag,
Did you find out what was causing your problem?

Joseph,
How did your test turn out?

I love your lingo...petrol heads...I will share that one at our next car club meeting. I wish we had the burn out cars you have there. Maybe if I run into a chunk of money I can build one
Cheers (if I am allowed to say that)

I know this is off topic but since we have all the Aussies right here, anyone of you go to the Summer Nats 2014? I would love to fly over one day to go. I might have said this before but Headers/Exhaust is a interest of mine. I would love to have the chance to build a set. Maybe I will get a few poi...

sling-it, First welcome. I am not totally sure of the problem and hopefully someone can else can give you a good answer. I would first ask if this is a AC or DC machine. I assume with its age it is AC. The second question I would ask is are you striking your are like a match or are you pecking the r...

Lozza,
WOW! that is allot of fit up and careful measuring. Do you have any pictures of assembly?

Wish I was as skilled!!

As of today one US dollar is equal to 1.12 AUD.

I too have bent many a rod. Going into factories you never know what you will come up against. I do know another business owner friend of mine that will write his employees up for not using this rod all the way to the end of the flux. I don't agree with this but its not my business. I tried to expla...

Welcome to the forum. Post some pictures for us to see.

Is this a conspiracy...Aussies are taking over.

danielbuck, A few ideas for you. I have repaired some cast Alum from cars and some I have had luck with. I agree with either the torch to bake out some impurities, but let it cool down as mentioned, or I have light up with the TIG torch and just burn off impurities. When you think you got it clean i...

Mick,
Freehand....that's even better!

Matt, Welcome to the forum! First thing I would do is ditch the 240 and set up the 55 Nomad for drifting! Just kidding. I respect imports too. I think you would start quite a stir if you showed up at Formula D with the 55! Of course you might offend quite a few hot rodders for turning a classic into...

Mick,
I think both edges look great! The hand held on the right is very consistent. I assume that you had a guide to help make the cut straight. Looks like you had a consistent travel speed.

A co-worker of mine several years ago was sent to a large factory to do some repairs. While he was carrying items back to the truck he heard some one screaming. Running in that direction, he came upon a man who had his legs crushed by a forklift. Apparently that guys forklift had died and he was lay...