Forget the guys name but maybe he will chime in. Think he was from australia, but he said where he's from they dont even use 6010 or 6011...they use 7018 all the way out on open butt pipe joints. Never even heard of it till he said that hehe. So it definately can be done, and apparently done well :)...

Said it has 65 hours on it. Even if he bought it "used" its hardly used. Although if the guy sold it with that many hours on it, probably obvious something was messed up on it.

John, Makes sense to me. Keep the videos coming! -Jonathan It was just a gee wizz thing.... A lot of thing fix themselves. Like one time my tractor got stuck in two gears. Shut it down, left, came back the next day, and it was fixed!! No pulling the cover off or nothing!! Preacher man, Make sure al...

Sounds like something with the duty cycle. I'm not sure how the duty cycle system itself works, maybe a bad temperature sensor? Anyway, sounds defective to me.

65 hours you should still have some kind of warrenty eh?

Theres no variance in that 1/4" eh? Most of the specs I've seen are like 1/8" gap plus or minus anywhere from a 1/32 to a 1/16". But that's pipe not plate :/

See if you can run a 3/32 gap, and figure out which amperage suits your travel speed. I'd start at 90 amps, and adjust in 2-3 amp increments from there. Gotta run hot enough to keep a real tight arc, but not much more than that. Increase or decrease travel speed accordingly. Can you post pictures? S...

Did it work?

Check your ground connection and stinger make sure everything is tight and no frayed or cuts wires or melted insulation

What do you do? Plumber/Pipefitter/Nearly certified welder. I'm speaking more from working with welders and working around the other trades. I feel that UA welders got the best gig on the site, but the boilermakers might be close or better. They certainly get whatever they want and need too. I said...

Im still trying to get Jody to make a pair of stick gloves made out of the stuff.

Pipe-more money. Harder. Have to work with pipefitters all day. Get to sit on a lawn chair while you weld(sometimes). You get what ever you want, and you get to act like a jerk all day. Can drag whenever you want, cause theres always work for pipe welders. Pipefitters whine and moan and gossip and t...

Give him a free one! Thats a great testimonial!

And yes, old stick gloves( or new harbor freight ones) are great for that sort of thing.

What industry are you in? We still run almost everything in stick, cept for stainless (which is tig) and high purity/food grade thinwall stainless(which is usually orbital welded). We had a mig process approved for the shop for some fab work on large bore pipe, but they had too many problems with it...

Does it do it immediately upon striking an arc, every time? How does it sound during idle/load? How many hours are on it?

The only other option I could think of is getting a battery pack that clips onto your belt and running a little wire up to the fan in your welding hood. I'd think something made for wireless transmitter for a microphone or guitar would probably give you enough juice.

Spreader bars off a spreader bar. That's some serious rigging! Steve S Ya you couldn't get away with that stuff on a "normal" jobsite. Then again, the Ironworkers get away with all kinds of crazy rigging :p Imagine if we could fly up 3 pieces of pipe at a time? Our productivity would...tr...

The lower end everlast machines don't have a dig control on them. Instead, they have a port for cellulose rods (6010/6011) that basically has a hard-wired, preset "dig" setting. You can run 7018 rods on the 6010 port too. LIke I said, it's basically just a preset dig setting. Works pretty ...

I'd respectfully disagree with you bro. When I ran the 50 amp service to my garage, I went to the supply house and bought the breaker, outlet, and cable myself. Easily saved 25 percent on the materials from buying at home depot. I researched what I needed myself, and had an electrician do it because...

Hey you can set that up next to your firepit and use it for a firestarter to light those logs!

This is true. However even if you are certified and they find a defective weld, that cert ain't necessarily going to protect you. The best defense against a lawsuit like that is to be sure you do quality work and turn out a quality product. And even then you'll inevitably get some jerk trying to sue...

Why dont you rig up something like a solar cell that would charge the batteries from the arc? It works for the auto-darks. Don't see why it wouldn't be able to charge up a battery to run a small fan.

Bro I started out doing service plumbing. I know all about it. I dealt with the exact same thing weather I was working for a company or doing it on the side. I've dealt with all those things and then some. What I was trying to say was if the customer can educate himself and actually buy the right th...

Those bends looked ok eh? The way that t-joint broke sucks though. If your going to drill through multiple plates at once my advice would be to use lots of oil and go slow...keep that blade cool. The further down you go, the harder a time the shavings and debris is going to have to get extracted, wh...

One day the foreman at the job I was on went to the portajohn and came back bright white. He said he opened the door(it was first thing in the morning) and found a bum sleeping in there! Scared the living daylights outta him!

I've been prepping some 1" sch.40 steel for a cart for my cutting torch bottles, and in the past I've had a hell of a time getting good, consistant welds on the stuff. I always end up blowing holes in it about halfway through the weld. I'm thinking 3/32" 6010 at around 50 amps(I got a ever...