no joke.. there i go liking shiny stuff too much haha hell of it is.. i still use my harbor freight auto darkening hood that i bought for 40 bucks more! thing does look cool though and when you take it on a job interview it says "I came to melt some shit!!" haha

well rick i havent really seen one either, but i did do some research on another option... i dont know if its what you would be looking for though, if you look on ebay for say "gas welder" or a similar search you will come across Zena welders its basically like a big beefy alternator with ...

shouldnt need anything different, unless you would need some type of bushing between the output port on the bottle and the inlet of your regulator i'm kind of thinking that a paintball gun bottle has a smaller neck and so on and the thread may be different but if you can bush it together and keep it...

first off, congrats on taking the road less traveled.. i did nearly the exact thing about a year ago, the hard line on my wifes old oldsmobile (glad its gone) that took heated coolant through the throttle body and back out to the main cracked at a union that was apparently just pressure fit together...

good point rick, i didnt consider that the 110 machine would have low duty cycle and that he wont be at it balls to the wall like a full blown fab shop. strat, he called it, crack a window and blow a fan out of it and you will be good

I really hope Jody chimes in on this one cause that dude is a tig welding guru, but i would kinda need to know what cup your running, your stickout for your tungsten and that kind of thing, if you throw out some more details like that you will be sure to get a way better response maybe reply back wi...

to be honest, gas flow sounds about right. but in my opinion, i weld that style joint with about 18 or 19v and 200-215 ipm wire speed, i also am a pusher for the most part there have been countless debates on push vs. pull, but i push, i've passed a boatload of tests so it works for me as you are ma...

go for a new regulator man, chema has a way better grasp on the internals of the reg but i took the ones off my torches in to have them rebuilt when they finally started leaking (inherited victor's of my dads with alot of miles on 'em) and it was almost as much to rebuild them as it was to just buy ...

wowie it really asks for 21.5 volts and 325 IPM?? thats wild, i'm not saying it doesn't but that seems very hot and very fast for 3/8, are you filling these grooves in a single pass? if so that would make a little bit of sense but i digress... if your root is splitting it basically means lack of fus...

Welding with shield gas definatly has its advantages but there are some downsides to consider, first off welding with gas means that you need to have cleaner steel (in my book, not a text book) but at the end of the thing you will have far less cleanup to do, no slag to chip and brush and chip and b...

amen!! my boss now openly tells us "F**K YOU!!! wire burners are a dime a dozen!!!" which may be true but WELDERS ARENT!! i could go on for decades about this crap i actually had a shirt made that says wire burner on it and wore it two days after his last little fit. then he (not being abl...

no problem fella's glad to help!

definatly a little more "pause" at the edges of the joint its possible that its all about being to hot, but you'd have to be pretty damn hot to not be able to fill out a joint with proper technique, try slowing the whole operation down a little bit and if your sticking, shorter arc length ...

each type of electrode (rod) has a preffered setting to run on, your 7018's are going to like dc+ best wont run well at all on dc- and in a pinch can run on ac, however your 7014's actually favor ac and so on. if you end up 6010 is a DC+ rod that shouldnt really be used any other way. and your 6013'...

it could be that you are allowing it to cool too quickly are you putting the piece into some sand or oildry or something to slow the cooling rate? if not the weld may very well come out hard as nails but brittle. just my $0.02

it may be that you are locking your wrist.. i know this sounds odd and alot of guys are gonna think its too simple of a solution but i instruct part time and i see all kinds of guys do it, try this, hold a pencil or something sticking out of your hand like the electrode. then mimic the same motion y...

i agree with rick with the addition that it appears that your arc length is varying quite a bit, its pretty common amongst those who are just getting comfortable running a stick. try to make sure that you are traveling at an even clip, which it appears you're doin a decent job of, and concentrate on...

if your wire is feeding smoothly and evenly then it would appear to me that you need a little less heat sounds like you're burning the whole stick out up in one swoop and that causes it to stick. its kind of hard to say for sure but if everything in the feed line is ok its just an amperage issue i w...

very nice work! i'm gonna show that to the wife because she is constantly mentioning that i should build us a bed, (or a hundred other ornamental projects) and i think she would really respect the craftsmanship that went into it. never occured to me that i could build it with wood posts and steel wo...

Whats up guys, new to the boards here and gotta say that this site is awesome, now with that out of the way i wanna share with you guys how pissed i am at the snap on guy! i buy alot of stuff off of him basically for the fact that i like the fact that i can just pay him later, well he shows up with ...

well, i just interviewd at a place in newark called gemco.. it was a rundown type of machine shop but the welding work was there be forewarned though, they want a guy that will mig tig stick on carbon, stainless and aluminum and you have to supervise this kid that works there, i tested on all proces...