Its OK I was wondering about the Hobart because I wanted one that I could use for a home welder plus a generator for when our power goes out in the winter it usually stays out for a few weeks last year it was a month or more and didn't have a gen to run the house off of. But now I'm looking more at ...

Thanks boomer you have given me a lot of confidence about tig welding!! My last question for you( if I haven't irritated you yet and I'm very sorry if I have ) is how much harder is tig then oxy?

I have a friend that has an all purpose rig and when I learn tig I'm going to the pipeline and iv heard great things about the sa 200 so I figured I would get it. And then use it for pipe or whatever comes my way

Thanks the guy who had it sold it yesterday it welded good but I was Erie about the $800 price tag he had on it it had 170 hours on it I think. Although that one is gone he has a sa 200 he is holding for me and my question with that one is how much does it weigh? 1960 or so I believe I don't think m...

Thanks boomer I sure I will do the pipe apprenticeship I would how ever like to learn tig welding before I do go to pipe I've always been interested in tig just never had the money to buy or the time to sit down and learn it. Most of the time on the power line jobs we would work 7 days rain snow shi...

Thanks I've checked around and the local closet to me 667 told me I could do apprenticeship 5 year I believe. I was in local 70 ibew and asked them if I could become a welder at 70 sense I was already there. And then they toldmeWE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR WELDERS! and they said the power line does not ne...

Thanks all for your info and advice I have went on to pass my second structural steel test today!! I passed this one today for a job doing small-medium size steel structures around my house thanks for everyone's advice

Im looking for someone who has used the Hobart champion elite 225 amp welder/gen. Is it a good machine?what's it like welding with it? I am curious because I have found one for a decent price and was wondering if it was worth it?

Thank you everyone I finally got some plate test pieces that I can practice on at the house. I will let you know how it goes thank you for everyone's advice

My brother in law also watched me stick welding one time. I felt like someone was watching me and I flipped my hood up and there he was he said wow that's bright I said that is what this helmet is for

I was welding for my wife's grandpa on his old dodge dump bed and I took a grinder and went to clean off a spot for the ground and where I was going to be welding. As I started he said you don't have to do that he said with a 1\8 7018 that you didn't need to clean the weld spot off and that all you ...

O yea the root is 1\8 inch 6010 with a 1\8 7018 fill thanknyou for all your help and any advice is appreciated I am new to overhead welding so any input is a plus

Yes its the filling I'm havingbtrouble with and it almost always starts giving me trouble half way through the filling process and I'll try burning the rod a little bit hotter. The last time i went for it I didn't get to finish it because my wife went into labor halfway threw but I was burning at 13...

Thanks I'll try that thanks for all the help

Hello I am looking for a good used Lincoln welder/gen reasonably priced around the wv area or surrounding states

No its a fix flip type is what I call it it has a shade 10 flip up lens

Sorry about that and i don't think it at all that you were rude I think everyone I've talked to on here so far has been nice and laid back.I'm also not very good with punctuations or language I was horrible with language in school welding is what I majored in.I meant to say that I was doing my overh...

Thank you all of you and yes its a 6010 root w/7018 fill

I've been wondering about this I've been using a shade 10 lens for welding all kinds of different stuff but lately the more I weld with it the more it seems like during mid day or really bright days its almost like I'm just lookin threw a really dark pair of sunglasses? Anyone tell me why this is ha...

I'm pretty sure you all had a thread similar to this one I just can't find it so anyhow my worst was my first structural steel test I was coin thoverhead part and I started feeling a warm side I quit welding flipped my hood up to see that carhart fr is flammable it was slowly burning and I took my g...

Thanks I will try this is there anything else that would help me with overhead? Thanks

Hello my name is Zach I work in the power line industry as of right now I do fab work at work and when I get home I love to weld or build or whatever we do transmission power lines and occasionally weld pieces called goat heads I am thinking of becoming a welder full time I've been helping my old ma...

I have a question about my filling technique for structural steel when I am doing my overhead horizontal my stringer beads seem to let gravity over take them and they seem to wanna just run down instead of filling in the top is this normal for a beginning overhead welder? And what could I do to over...

I'm new to this form I've been a welder/fabricator for 6 years or so now I'm 22 and I was wondering about pipelining I think the Lincoln vantage 300 would do but do I really need a 300 amp welder or will a smaller one work for starting out in the pipeline industry any advice or what kind of welder a...