pro tools will email you a pdf file with full plans for their welder free of charge, also any parts that you cant build or figure out they will sell you individually. http://offroadfabnet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7976 www.pro-tools.com Gail is the owner i believe, super nice and im sure appreciat...

jakeru, Thanks for the great reply! So far in my very very short welding career i havent done anything but get paid hourly and have all my consumables and such paid for. I am trying to find side jobs like this stuff for extra money and pricing stuff is tuff as a newer welder. Appreciate the info. -b...

If you buy 7018 make sure its for an AC machine, regular 7018 will not work. 7014 will also run alot like 7018. I have the same machine and generaly run 6011, but it does penetrate deep. If you ran 6011 were you stepping or just running a stringer? As far as gap is concerned, have you ever done a we...

ive only used a plasma a few times, most of them at school. Im sure like welders every machine is different but you want to tune the setting to minimize/eliminate the slag, my teachers called it kief but i cant find any info on anyone calling it that so i may remeber wrong. heres a tips and tricks i...

Im finishing up weliding school here in the next few months, ALL IVE BEEN DOING IS PIPE...so every once in while i take a stroll through the scrap yard and find random stuff to weld. Today i found a shiny needle in the rusted hay stack so to speak, some serious chuncks of SS. I was all set up for sc...

jody does have a cool site!

pretty cool container you built there. If you dont mind me asking what'd ya charge? Or better yet what went into figuring out what t charge?

anyone on here from alaska? I have been talking to some distant family up there and will be applying to a few companies that hire welders for work on the north slope...any info would be much appreciated, beside its cold...i know, and i know that living in florida since '93 wont help, but theres work...

start of my second 7018filler pass http://i846.photobucket.com/albums/ab27/billyolds/phone/4746beca.jpg both filler passes http://i846.photobucket.com/albums/ab27/billyolds/phone/56020e84.jpg showing a restart http://i846.photobucket.com/albums/ab27/billyolds/phone/4edda8af.jpg this is what i looks ...

get a bigger bottle and check for leaks.
your first picture was like wooo but after that pretty darn good. what are you building in the last photo?

thanks jody!ill have some 7018 filler passes later today. should be moving onto 5g tomorrow, whoorAH

Im finishing up the welding program at my local vocational school. Our last tests are open root sch40 8" pipe. 2g, then 5 and onto 6, then i graduate! Not that jobs are everywhere but i have some im already talking to. Today i snapped a few pics to see what you kind folks on here thought. Im us...

how did your test go?

I know what fcw3269 is talkin about as far as the heat settings. Every machine will perform differently, and the way i look at it, and this is all in my humble opinion, welding is more feel than science. If your using 7018 you really dont have to worry much about slag, as long as you have your heat...

Just stumbled across this site/forum and its amazing. Thought i'd share another site, hopefully im not repeating anyone or steppin on toes, but its got alot of great info on it too.
www.offroadfabnet.com specifically the welding section but the whole site is great source of info.

that is sick! great looking beads as well! Just found this site but stoked to see a few poeple at least down here in what i saw in another thread as "the rich mans state" lol im over the tampa bay area.

i dont think i can add much more than whats been said other than maybe try posting ads on craigslist/search for work. Its worth a shot.
best of luck.

ironheaded, I know that a few friends from school are getting picked up by millwrights and working up north of tampa in crystal river and a few out on the east coast. Are you certified? The shipyards in tampa are generally hiring but require a super clean background check and im not sure ud make mor...