Changes the push of the arc force. Let's your puddle chill out enough that gravity doesn't send it to hell. Keep on keepin on bro.

A guy once told me I needed to shake a fire extinguisher up first or it wouldn't put a fire out.

I'd be proud of that for sure! I have the same eye issue. I run my optrel at 12 for all stick, get the little circle vision if I'm cooking big rod or big wire. The sunglasses inside the hood helps, I do that outside in the summertime a lot. But again man, nice looking weld, practice practice practic...

So.. doing some vertical. I'm what one would consider an industrial hobbyist, IE I fix broken plant parts and equipment parts. Any tips for vertical other than the Z weave? I'm using an old powcon 300st that, when set at what should be 125A, launches molten fireballs everywhere. I'm going by what I ...

Hello all! I am Steve. I live in alaska, but have traveled hard and far working on Asphalt plants and crushers. Lots of repair work over the years. I had some guidance early on welding, an eight foot drum broke apart and we had a week to rebuild it. Myself and a 60 year old dude with two lincoln ran...