Recent content by Old Irish

back light is usually a big factor as stated above. you may want to search for a shade 8 capable hood or buy a cheap passive hood and a shade 8 lens. I have a pipe liner with a gold shade 8 lens I use from time to time when conditions call for it and have had good luck with it. another option I...

WOW, is that 600 bucks a year just to lease the tank? I have been paying a little over 100 per year and felt like that was too high. My bill to renew is on the bar, I guess I should open it. If it has gone up that much they will get it back. I own all my bottles except one 300cf oxygen bottle...

as said above. disassemble and clean, contact cleaner for the selector switch. what is the amperage ratings of the machine? what type of selector switch, dial, rotary, etc' ?

This is more a curiosity thing than anything, I may never need to weld aluminum again now that I am retired but maybe one of the pro's here can explain this for us. Me and one of the guys on my crew were repairing cracked welds on a aluminum hoist basket, we followed the prescribed procedure pre...

Same here but when I was young and dumber I welded long shackles on a trailer to raise the bed. I drug it through rough forest roads as fast as I could drive for 8 or ten miles and inspected the welds, nothing was cracked or deformed so I used it for 2 or 3 years before giving it to a youngster...

Stay with the vids when you can, Welding Tips and Tricks on Ytube has some great vids. My personal opinion is to get a 300cf bottle if you can, cost less per cuft and fewer trips to get a new bottle. I like tig welding but am not to good at it and rarely get the pretty stack of dimes look...

this thread has had staying power it seems so I don't feel so bad adding to it. I am retired now but before I left I bought a weldpro mig, tig, stick welder for the shop, don't remember the amperage but it was the higher amperage range model. Long story short it worked very well in all modes...

I did the conversion on a L225, I didn't use a capacitor and was VERY disappointed with the performance. A capacitor would probably much improve it but not worth the cost since YesWelder sells a good welding inverter dc welder for a little over a hundred bucks. I had the 160 amp stick machine...