General welding questions that dont fit in TIG, MIG, Stick, or Certification etc.
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Greetings everyone. I got my 210MP hooked up and spent an hour or so just experimenting with settings and running test beads etc. It welds beautifully with 100% CO2 and 030 ER70S6 wire. I found that I could get a fair ways from the recommended parameters and it would still weld fairly well. I haven't had a chance to see how it stick welds since I burned all my stick rod some time ago. So far I have found nothing not to like. I'll keep y'all posted.
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-Eldon


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Sweet! keep us posted
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Eldon,
Any new updates? I hear that there are members that are watching your post.
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Today i welded some really thin crappy metal on a sculpture I'm building and decided to trim the nozzle to get a shorter stickout as the tip was recessed slightly. Seemed to help. Also ran a half dozen 1/8" 7018 rods at 120 amps. It seemed to burn a little hotter than I usually get at 120 on other machines. Still nothing not to like that I have found.
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My dad wanted a cactus for a trailer hitch ornament. I just finished this (except for the green paint), purposely running my machine way on the cold side with a fast travel speed. So-so cold beads look remarkably cacti-like :lol:
This Lincoln didn't miss a beat and ran quite nicely way outside its recommended parameters.
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Eldon, I'm going to speculate here,

I'd not have thought of that, but now that I've seen it, I have to try to imagine how it was done.

My first guess is a set of pipe nipples, tees, and ells to make a basic shape, then the cold stringers to dress the outer surface.

Am I close?

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No pipe fittings. Just old pieces of pipe. Cut pie wedges with cut off wheel and bent them. slotted the tops with the same wheel and beat with a hammer until rounded ish.
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Painted a light green, let it dry the painted a darker green which I immediately wiped off with a cloth leaving the darker stuff only in the bottoms of the crevices. Finished off with matte clear.


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-Eldon
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I like it. In one instant it seems like more work, but in the next it sounds like you can do it with what's on hand, rather than searching junk fittings.

Steve S
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