Just a little fyi for anyone who might also be looking to buy their first helmet, an external grind button is a life saver on a job. It's literally easier to pull my helmet off, find somewhere to put it, put on a face shield and then grind than it is to fiddle with that button inside the helmet som...

Thanks for all the feedback. I will research the recommendations and post my findings after my first pass with the new lid. Hey, did you manage to get a helmet? :) I was recently in the same rut. Two months ago my Lincoln Electric Viking was broken.. It was an accident in my garage when a large too...

Hi jtap, Just to add to thee discussion. First of about the brand. I would also give +1 for Lincoln and ESAB brands for serious projects and just my personal opinion is that you should have a stick oven if you will be welding something important like structure that can endanger someone if they are t...

Hi Tweake and BillE.Dee Thanks for your warm welcome and I hope to see you guys more around the forum :) Thanks for sharing your stories of how you got into welding. Which welders do you own and which welding process do you like the most? this is starting to sound like an interview :lol: i have sti...

It is just the way it is.. We can thank physics for that. Like the other guys said. It pulses and each pulse is like a starting DC TIG sound but because it alternates and starts every time it pulses it makes the loud noise all the time.. We cant get around it but we can use earplugs or play some mus...

Which gas are you using? That would be helpful to know. Also I agree with the Oscar's starting point suggestion. You can try that and tweak a bit from there. Which machine do you have and do you have fine tuning settings available?

Hi Tweake and BillE.Dee

Thanks for your warm welcome and I hope to see you guys more around the forum

Thanks for sharing your stories of how you got into welding. Which welders do you own and which welding process do you like the most?

Hello everyone, I am Rick but you can call me Lax or Jax. I got those nicknames from those old videogames that we played on arcade machines as kids and the nicknames kind of stuck around. I love welding and I would feel free to say that I am an intermediate welder. Currently, I own a Forney 324 Mult...