AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'm working a home project and found some bed rails the wife wasn't using.....at least I think she wasn't using them.....I'll have to remember to ask her if she was saving them for anything.... Anyway, what in the hell type of metal are these things made o...

Bright as heck, but pales in comparison to an electric arc. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Rl_i4BdS4Gubiuuhd5ygrO592eJu4vs6 I'm going to buy another pair. If your helmet is at shade 11 or higher, they don't make too much of a difference. At least not from what I can tell with my op...

Thanks for all the responses.

This will save me a butt-load of money because I was going to wire up a new 30amp circuit in the breaker box. And had it gone as well as my welding, I would be having to answer to a lot of people as to why I blew the house up!!!

OK! Someone please help me out here!!! This power stuff is baffling!! I have an Everlast I-140E MIG 120v setup. It says that for optimum performance, it needs to be on a 30amp breaker. I plug it into the washing machine 20amp outlet when using it. My question is - If I NEVER trip the 20amp breaker, ...

Oscar wrote:Can you daisy chain that shop light?

I don't think so.

Just picked up a 5000 LUMEN LED shop light from Harbor Freight. $29. I had a catalog coupon and got it for $19. Haven't tried it out yet but it definitely made the garage a butt-load brighter!!![/quote] Nice, I'll have to check it out too, thanks.[/quote] Silly me, I should have added this in the la...

Yep 5000 lumen LED worklights. You would be surprised how much it helps. Got it. Gotta give them a shot. Amazon? Just picked up a 5000 LUMEN LED shop light from Harbor Freight. $29. I had a catalog coupon and got it for $19. Haven't tried it out yet but it definitely made the garage a butt-load bri...

Louie1961 wrote:Yep 5000 lumen LED worklights. You would be surprised how much it helps.

Sounds bright enough to constantly trip the auto-shade function!!!!!

As mentioned in my original post, I don't weld enough nor really have the $$$ to justify a super-duper Buzz Lightyear welding helmet. So.....I went on Amazon and looked at the multitude of helmets available....after reading the many reviews.....I wound up getting a True color 1/1/1/2 helmet within m...

Post actual pictures of all the settings and the physical set up. In other words, pics of the mounting of the spool of flux core wire, the drive roller your using, etc etc etc. Also, your vision needs to be 100% taken care of for you to make any progress. With flux core, this is more or less what y...

Thanks for all the replies.

It was more of a what-if kind of question as I'm still nowhere near proficient on this thing and I'm thinking out loud.

Thanks for all the replies.

It was more of a what-if kind of question as I'm still nowhere near proficient on this thing and I'm thinking out loud.

HI All! Newb - I have an Everlast I-140E. I've run several miles of wire through it and have 3.5 inches of decent welds to show for it!!!! But anyway, where do you start if you have to weld something beyond the limits of the machine? Example - if all you have is .23 wire and you're trying to weld so...

Hi Everyone,

My wife won't let me near sharp objects so I bought an Everlast 140E MIG setup.

Just thought I'd say hi and let everyone know that the timing of me getting a welder and all the brush fires in central Florida is purely coincidental!!!

TheGman