BillE.Dee wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 7:15 am Glad you got your machine working properly. Did you happen to make the changes one at a time or did you just do the changes together?

Both at once but to be fair it needed new points either way.

I forgot to update this for anyone interested. So between new points and a new gas bottle everything is happy again.

This got put a bit of the back burner while I sorted some health stuff and had a surgery among other things. While I at it over christmas I ordered all new points assembly and everything so now that I am a bit more "alive" will put it all back together. While I am at it just because I am i...

Is there any chance you changed bottles since the last time you welded aluminum with this machine? A while back I swapped bottles and for a short time only welded on steel. The first time I tried aluminum it was awful....black soot, hardly a bead, etc. Luckily, I have multiple bottles and tried the...

Well I found one problem. I’ll clean all this up and get rid of the corrosion and put in new fasteners. The points according to the manual are the same as in the Dynasty 700, same part number.

You can get on off switches. I have one for when I don’t want to use the pedal on my Syncrowave.

Lincoln is big enough that there should be one that fits your remote port.

Not an expert, but the following are some things I would try if I had this problem -Make sure the scrap/test piece is a weldable alloy (2024 & 7075 don't weld well at all, for example). If you have some test pieces that welded OK in the past with this machine, they would be pretty good to try a...

Have to do some maintenance on my Syncrowave as have not encountered this before. It’s a 350LX pre slant front. Last time I welded aluminium with it which was a while back everything worked fine. Went to weld some today and as I normally do pulled out some scrap pieces I keep for doing test arcs one...

Like how every bag of peanuts has a “may contain traces of nuts” warning on it.

Haha I’ll hold thoriated tungsten between my lips like one would a toothpick if I have to sharpen a few. In fact I did once use thoriated tungsten as a tooth pick. It really isn’t that radioactive. Radioactivity is in a lot of things when you seriously look into various metallurgy subjects. If you w...

People don’t realise how efficient LED’s are. I have LED’s in my shop and house and it’s funny to think that all the bulbs in my house combined use the same wattage as the one of the incandescent bulbs I used back in the day. I can’t say in overly sentimental towards lighting unless I’m going for an...

I hope the guys are doing ok. Been a while since an episode. Definitely one of my favourite podcasts.

Here is some light reading. Type in any kind of topic in this search and you will find something. I had some fun reading about the Soviets use of titanium back in the day.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/

Second coat. If I’m happy with it I’ll leave at 2 coats. If not a third will go on.

It might serve you well to add leveling feet to it. I’ve yet to see a shop floor that was flat and level unless it had a metal surface plate shot in. If you ever start punching holes in the top for clamps, you will want added stringers across the width of that table to prevent any sag. Solely havin...

For the record the table weighs at a minimum over 400kg or 800 pounds.

how on earth are you moving that huge weight around ? I put a thread for an eye bolt in the centre of the top and will move it with an engine crane but it will only be moved from where I’m painting to where it will stay permanently or at least where it will live for now. I have no reason to move th...

Sorry double post.

First finish coat done

Coldman wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 7:40 pm Looks nice. What did you do to the plate surface?

Lots and lots of stripping discs wire wheels and course sanding discs. Everything was coated in a layer of red dust afterwards.

It will have a coat of dykem blue when I’m done.

Oscar wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 7:57 am Is that a 1" thick top?!

Yip

Coat 2 primer done. Primer left over so will see how it looks before I put finish coats on.

At the painting stage now. I’m using PA10 Red oxide primer. Have only put one coat on so far.

Finish coat with be a marine enamel paint made by international in Atlantic Grey.

My spare time project lately.

Back when industry was right there in central Los Angeles.