Recent content by Gary Fowler

Same here, they come flying down our road 50 MPH or more. No posted speed limit but my neighbor says that if not posted it is automatic 25 mph. I guess I need to look that up for clarification. Everyone drives around 40 MPH, myself included.

Had to go buy more glue traps. Wife was in the bathroom and started screaming. Another mouse in the middle bath. More glue traps set. This one will be a while coming back. I swatted at it with a broom several times as it as running between the back of the commode and the door. It finally...

Maybe put a couple of hook holders on each side so you can fasten a bungee cord thru the handle so it doesnt bounce out.

On all my helmets with grind mode, you have to turn the dial to grind. They dont do it automatically. The one I have now has 3switch positions: grind, 4-9 and 9-13. Then you have to set the rotary dial to the setting you want

I had to pay at UPS and they said they would send me a paypal notice to pay for return shipping. Their warranty only covers parts and labor for 3 years.

Spots, yeah. Just like when you forget to take the helmet off grind mode before welding.

Well it is on it's way to the repair facility. UPS cheapest shipping cost $62 + return cost when they get it fixed.

My Everlast SuperUltra 206 SI just stopped working. It worked fine a week or so ago and then when I hooked it up yesterday, nothing. Well almost nothing. Got a very weak arc the after 2 seconds an error code E-05 and then arc dropped to almost invisible. Well what can you expect from a $700...

There is also no back flow preventer and as such the acetylene could backflow into the O2 bottle. Even if the gauge shows empty, there will be some residual o2 left there. You have a very dangerous situation there now.

my garage door stays open all day. It opens at 7am approximately and closes around 630 pm. We are in and out of it all day with the RTV so it is alway open. There is nothing in the garage for a mouse to eat but there is dog food inside the house.

Looks like you have two mixing barrels, but no cutting head for the torch. That rosebud would never run on those small bottles, not for long anyway. That acetylene gauge is either not working or in really dangerous pressure range. It could easily auto-ignite or explode under that much...

Replaceable battery is one reason I got the hood from Tool lots.com plus the claimed clarity, speed, light weight, good headband, etc.

Water!! I think that is why she was in the commode. Always going to be water there and food in the dogs tray. We keep glue traps in the garage also and catch a mouse every couple of weeks there.

Lots of plumbers use them for soldering copper pipes. I would expect the refill cost to be quiet high, labor you know vs cost of gas. I wouldnt think you could do much cutting with those small O2 bottles though. They might fulfill a small need but personally, I would go for a bit larger O2...

We keep glue traps out all the time. Caught another mouse in wife's closet a few days ago. I dont know what attracts them to that since there is no food there. I dont know how they get inside in the first place.

The site didnt show that batteries are replaceable so I guess they arent. My hood has replacement battery capability

The only way those type machines would be acceptable is if you plan to open up a fabrication shop and use them 8 hours a day, 5-7 days a week. For a homeowner, way too much power and money to be practical. Lots of cheaper IGBT inverter technology available for much less money.

Which welding hood are you talking about. Did you get one from TOOLOTS also? Mine is the lightest hood I have ever used and has a really comfortable headband.

For aluminum TIG, you should run on AC with high frequency. I recently saw a video using a Lincoln Tombstone with an attachment called ARC PIG that welded aluminum very well. Only drawback was the $350 price for the ARC PIG. Still much cheaper than buying one of those specialty TIG machines...

I used Yellow Freight to move my household goods from Canada. Cheapest rate ever.

I see you are a Yanmar fan. My first tractor was a Yanmar 4220D with 4 WD and FEL. I loved that powershift. That is almost as good as a hydrostatic drive. I also purchased a HOWSE bush hog with it.

Just bring it by my welding shop and 15-20 minutes will have it fixed up.

Charge him like a welding shop would for your work and he wont be back.

Peanut butter I have used, but never heard about using coffee. Do you mean coffee beans or do you put a tiny cup of coffee with a tiny sweet roll?

If you were using TIG you could preheat with the torch, alas, not possible with MIG. A minute(of less) of preheat saves several minutes of rework. LOL

I got my sign up on the fence right by a bunch of equipment that I need to sell: 8 foot landscape rake, 6 foot box blade, TG-72 King Kutter tiller and a 2 row cultivator. Anyone nearby interested in those items let me know.

So true, every homeowner should have some type of welder just for small repairs like that. Just one repair done by the owner rather than hiring it out will pay for the welder. It doesnt have to be a thousand dollar welder either. A small 120v machine will do a lot of work if it is an...

One or two of those pressurized struts like the ones that hold up your car hood would assist in raising the door. I think I would go with aluminum frame on the door with a stainless steel frame on the deck (no rust that way and plenty strong. Diamond plate the door and forget about adding the...

Once preheat temp is reached, you dont need to keep heating. Put down the torch and pick up the MIG gun and get going. I would just heat till the water vapor goes away from the area to be welded then heat the start point of welding to 400F and then no more heating should be needed as long as...

You could negotiate a lower price with the seller. Likely he is just as ignorant of the value as you were, then again, some folks really value their stuff and think it is greater than new. I have seen lots of stuff for sale on Craigslist that is listed for more than new price.

The soot is from contaminates and has nothing to do with your Argon flowrate. Actually you can get so much flow that it pulls air into the weld area just like a venturi . If inside and no fan blowing cut back to 15 CFH. Clean the area with acetone immediately before you weld. Aluminum...

I would think that a hand held propane torch would give you plenty of heat for that. If you really wanted to heat it fast, a Harbor Freight weed burner would do the trick but it would heat a large area. I would just use a Coleman with 1# bottle of propane. You can warm the whole area to drive...

I have always used the red (2% Thoriated) but I suppose anything but pure tungsten would work just as well.

That thing is looking almost like new. Are you going to replace the side window?

I need to put up a sign and do some local advertising and then see what happens.

There is no longer a mouse in the house. I woke up this morning to a scratching sound in the bathroom and there that big mouse was, stuck to a glue trap that I had baited with dog food. Needless to say, I didnt set him free outside but I did give his head a good rap against a steel post. It...

How much flow are you using. 15-20 CFH should be plenty as long as you are not in a strong wind.

I have used them on Liquid Argon tanks to hook up two double flow meters and they work great for that two. Those big chunks of brass are likely a bit of $$ now. Back then the company was paying so it wasnt a big deal.

One regulator will definitely run 2 flowmeters. I used to put them together like that for my TIG welders when I was a welding supervisor. One gauge, one bottle and you had the torch and a purge meter to use. I once had a nice double set up with Smith flowmeters. They were a lot more durable...

You are definitely getting better at aluminum welding. Are you preheating?

Check with your welding supply to see if they will fill them. All my LWS requires is a statement by owner that he owns the bottles. They dont care who has a stamp on them. New bottles are minimum $300 each for 125 CF if larger much more. MY LWS wont sell 240 CF because they cost too much...

Well you did get a good welding machine, capable of making solid and nice looking welds. I have all this nice welding equipment so I have been thinking about advertising my services as a welder /fabricator (I did that as a journeyman and managed a fabrication shop a couple of times in my...

The wife keeps a tray of dry food out for our German Shepherd to snack on whenever he is hungry so I think that is what attracts the mice to the house. They are smart enough to hide close to the door and run in when it is opened. The dog can open the door also to go in and out and they have...

Sure did and she went in and put glue traps all over the closet and bathroom. I have a smart mouse in my shop eating into some Styrofoam packaging. I have put trap and glue traps and failed to catch him. Today I put more glue traps and baited them with some dog food pellets. I placed them...

Come on guys, you havent lived till you have had a rat tickle your balls.

Actually with solid wire you can weld either way without much difference in appearance or fusion when welding in the 1G. I equate the welding with solid wire to TIG welding and it can go either way if necessary, FCAW is more like stick welding and can also go either way. IF going Vertical...

I was doing my morning business on the pot when suddenly something started scratching my privates. Back had been bothering me for several days but man I came off the pot so fast that I didnt even feel any back pain. After I got up, a rather large mouse jumped out of the commode and just sat...