Trackranger, The axles are low carbon steel.

Rick

A friend is building a three wheel electric car. He found some spindles and control arms from a 4WD ATV and had me turn axles to press into the spindles. The chip coming off the spindles when I was boring them out to accept the axles looked more like cast iron than steel, almost like black sand. I'd...

Well, for what it's worth I'm going to use your example as an inspiration. I bought the same little welder and I'm still in the crapping up the tungsten stage. :-}

Rick

The new welder arrived, an Everlast PowerTig i200 DV, last Tuesday. Everything seems in good order and all the functions I've tried so far work. I forgot to order tungsten with the welder and the only collets that came with it were for 3/32" along with #4 cups. I bought a set of gas lenses and ...

Thanks for the welcome guys. I'll try not to wear it out by asking a lot of dumb questions, unless I find that someone hasn't asked that particular dumb question before.

Rick

Does anyone have any experience with this welder? I've done some tig welding but I'm 10 years rusty. Even though this is a DC only machine it is one I can afford on retirement income and get going again. I'd love to have the 250EX but I want to get this project going this winter. Same with AC/DC, ju...