i use an outlaw leather flip front with an arcone auto dark lens. it's good for getting into those tight spaces in pipe chases and won't break the bank plus it doesn't have those cheesy graphics plastered all over it.

i been welding a while but kinda new to tig. i've been a pack rat long before i ever thought of taking up heli-arc and just found some long forgotten sylvania tungsten. so i guess i got the collecting bug as well.

congrats on the win. that looks kinda like a mig weld but my old eye's aren't what they use to be. i recently caught the tig bug myself but wasn't lucky enough to win a machine. i got the t.a. 186 and i'm lovin' it. no expert here but you will get much better results if you clean the material prior ...

google "brake cleaner almost kills welder".

Howdy all, how are we? I'm Ben aka. Bagus, oi you! That bloke etc. hailing from ye' ol' melbourne, vic. I'm a mechanic by trade and after building race cars and engines for serval years I'm now working for a hot rod inspired suspension and custom shop. Been tinkering with welding for a whole now re...

post better pics. these old eye's can't see s#!t.

idk about using a tombstone as a makeshift battery charger. when i worked in a fab shop i saw a hobart electric generator motor welding machine start a lincoln sa200. that's a different animal entirely though.

i saw an ad from the army corps of engineers looking for welder in fla on craigslist the other day. don't know if this helps any.

with the amount of posts regarding this tool i'd say he was onto something. you go slag! i hope you make a bazillion bucks off your idea so don't give up!

nice looking machine. with all the negative things i've read about customer service i do hope it works out well for you.

ak; i'll stick to my old school fibre-metal flip front w/cheater. even though my employer supplies all tools and equipment i prefer my "lucky" shield. i'm the last holdout on the ad frontier among the 15 or so welders here. i had a helper and he was always fooling around with his. if it wa...

recently i took the d1.1 structural test in a aws testing facility. the 1" plates were pre-beveled and ready to go. all i had to do was tack,weld and pass. for the dough it cost pre cut plates was the least they could do. other places have 55 gal drums full of test plates. in other's they put t...

the role my sigoth played in my welding? does cashing the paychecks count??

maybe heat and a good penetrating solution. melted candle wax is good. another is a mix of atf and acetone.

give a guy with some imagination a welding torch and the sky's the limit. when you're a welder life is good!!!

Follow da blue light wrote:

amessina wrote:"NOTHING BEATS A WELD"

There is a saying in Aus.
"You can beat an egg, but you cant beat a root"..........look it up on google.....

what the world needs besides more shrimp on the barbie? more root!!! haha

was that you???

Fat Bob wrote: Keep on dreaming. We'll have to buy a boat load of tig fingers before that'll happen...a very large boat.

i have 21 already lol

Bring on the humor, I like it. We all live a different yellow sub. The hammer light isn't that big a deal, just a little idea. Be interesting but American ingenuity is what the dream is all about. Bad enough we compete with the foreign market, now we get Americans tearing apart Americans ideas disc...

i remember hearing old guy's complaining about how f@#$%d up the kids of today were. i guess they were right lol. they all want to play for the nba, be rappers and or make a million bucks playing tournament poker. hang onto that machine. it may be old but those cnc machines make unskilled slaves out...

don't want to hijack your thread BUT;you better hang onto all those machinist's measuring tools. i predict their going to become museum pieces. the trades of machinist and welder are dying out. in this country anyway.

reading this an idea just struck me. i would love to see a home/shop build contest for the best viewer videos with the winner's clip appearing on this site. winner maybe gets one of those fancy build tables with bells and whistles. i'm just dreaming/tripping or what?!

This is a tragic situation and I'm sure we all empathise with the workers and their families who saw this, and, especially, we offer great sympathy to the family of the worker killed here. i thought i read on y.t. that he lived. could be wrong. i was once before. let this be an object lesson to us ...

Thanks for the encouragement. Give a few to the retards on murkin television with........idiots like myth basstadz. If they use the " Kewl" word, you get a private jet. How about we give the guy a break? The idea will succeed or fail on it's own merits, not our opinions. Steve S you gotta...

is that a serious for real tool of some kind of gag gift for a welder on his birthday? on another note, i was working in a fab shop and one of the guy's had a spring loaded chipping hammer like that. the boss asked to see it and flung it over the fence.