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you can use tig or mig for your aluminum or stainless, a spool gun would work best for aluminum wire, sorry if I am telling you something you know but I don't know how much experience you have. Welding Tips and Tricks is a great source for info.

Sorry for the delay, just saw your post...

I borrowed a miller goggle from a welding supply store and I liked them except for after decades of reaching down to flip a hood up I kept snatching the face shield off of the googles. this was when miller first put them on the market so that issue may have been addressed by now. another option...

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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...

you are on point on this, engineers can be a cross to bare. I have been lucky lately and worked with engineers with field experience and what a difference it makes. I have also been fortunate enough to work with some mechanics who could have easily been engineers had they wanted to but all the...

for acetylene ...

that should be the ticket, I use the green tillman jackets and it works fine for me.

Mostly I am praying for a cold front, I have had just about enough of the heat and it it still in the 80's. I checked game cameras this morning and moved one, I don't hunt anymore just trying to pattern some hogs so my grandsons can hopefully get em gone but doing that has given me a little...

CPU, you will probably love it. I bought a oxy-lp rig for my shop a couple of years ago and have been pretty happy with it, happy enough that I gave two oxy-acetylene rigs away along with the tanks. I do have one of the rigs in storage while the guy works on his shop but the tanks are empty. I...

in 20 years of construction and 20 years of aviation work I have never seen anyone but me use one, including pipe welders and structural welders but it works for me as it was designed to do when I need it. 90% of the time I use a traditional hood and head gear with a cape, the pancake is a tool...

in my opinion the Vulcan hood is as good as the Lincoln Viking hood, I have used both and I think the Vulcan may very well be a copy of the Viking. I highly recommend it.

I didn't learn it until I had already bought a DC machine but with all the electrodes available for AC you can pretty much do anything the average guy needs to do with AC. I struggled with undercut and worm tracks with 6013's until I had an old pipe welder turned esab rep spend just a very few...

I love old welders to, I am a Lincoln fan but the thunder bolts have the advantage of infinite amperage adjustment I have 5 machines that will arc weld but I use my Lincoln 225 AC and Lincoln sw 200 mostly, mainly because both of them are already rigged out with 60 or 70 foot leads so I don't...

I have the old 60 pound harbor freight anvil but it doesn't get much use and I honestly don't know if I have ever used the horn or not. it is chinesium cast so I don't think it would stand up to daily use but who knows, it may be fine for light shaping. I am jonesing to try the harbor freight...

it is nice to go out in your skivvies to feed up or fetch something from the shop or truck. I have a simple shooting range as do most in this neck of the woods and we don't panic at the sound of gun fire. I built my shop and tractor shed without permits and so far so good and the tractor shed...

Hope it helps you as much as it has helped me. even in my shop if I use a hood without this rig I turn all of the lights out except for one right over the welding table.

If you use 70k then the big town would be the one at 50 miles, I go there for work every week day so i guess that it is to familiar to feel big, and I work on the edge of that county before you get into the city limits.

I have used the cubitron products at work and they are really good but to expensive for me to buy at home. the bristle brushes are great, no more picking wire out of your jacket, pants and gloves.

I really like the Benchmark product as well, I use them in the shop at home and at work and have had really good luck with the flap discs and cut off wheels. I have tried the harbor freight discs including the supposed higher grade one that I can't remember and they were a total waste of money...

no matter how good a hood is if you are getting light into the hood from behind you that reflects off of the inside lens you will not be able to see as well or at all in some cases. to remedy this I make a cape from an old welding jacket and attach it to the hood with rivets. a pancake hood is...

about 20 miles to the nearest store, 25 miles to the nearest small town, about 50 miles to the nearest medium size town and about 300 miles to the nearest big town and wouldn't have it any other way. I turn 60 next month and I am a young guy here so it is nice and quite just like I like it.

what he said, 7018 or 7018 ac should do a wonderful job

That may explain some of my 5105 problems

I bought a wendy's pancake a couple of years ago and put a arc one auto shade 9 in it and it can't be beat for welding outside.

I own and use many different hoods, my favorite is a esab sentinel but it is pricey, I own the vulcan hood and use it as often as I use the sentinel or maybe more because I haven't taken time to put a cape on the sentinel yet and I hate trying to position my head to eliminate glare. the arc one...

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I am happy with mine for the most part, it seems to cut like a 30 amp but it does what I need it to and like you I am a hobbyist who likes to build and fix things.. PrimeWeld customer service is A+++++

i have watched some video of the hitbox welder and if I recall correctly even on 220 it would only put out about 90 amps. in that same price range on amazon is a line put out by YESWELDER, I have the 165amp arc welder and a 205 Mig they make and both perform well.

the Vulcan at HF is a good hood and coupons for it are easy to get from the web. I have one and have used it for about 3 years with no complaints. it is equal to the Lincoln Viking in my opinion. the arc-one carrera with a 1000cfc filter is a good hood and I think you can get one from amazon for...

good idea and good work.

that will be a nice addition, the crane in the background looks good to.

That is a good looking rig you got there !!!

these are pricey but they beat digging wire out of yourself and your clothes. they come in different grits and sizes and in roloc versions. you can probably find them cheaper I just posted the first link that came up...

what kind of trouble are you having with it?

what wire are you using?

I have not, are they posted?

the layout is one of nicest that I have used, actually I will say the best.

a little late to the party but I would say a 1st place prize = a choice of gift card to either a suppler like airgas/proxair or whatever big box store close to the winner or a welder determined by the site admin unless a vendor would be willing to donate a machine, I am a Lincoln fan but I...

I do

I'll second that !!!(y)

Is anyone here from the big bend? say from taylor to bay county east to west or northwest counties from leon to jackson county? south georgia, thomas, grady areas?

I have built quite a few stands that I rarely use because while they seemed good in my head they just didn't function as I pictured. I built a receiver mounted vice using the acme rod from a old scissor jack that opens up to probably 16 inches that I thought I would use all the time and in about...

I have 2 primeweld machines as well, they have excellent customer service. I was tempted by the tig225 as well but just don't have a good reason to add another tig machine to the fold unless I could run across one of the older Lincoln transformer machines.

those are some good looking caps(y)

how did you go about building the forks, that's something that would come in handy from time to time but not often enough that I have broke down and bought any.

A draft box on the 3 point hitch filled with whatever heavy material that is convenient for you.

I think I finally almost have enough grinders, I have my old B&D 7" a 4" makita and 7 -4.5" + one I loaned to a friend 2 years ago that I think he took as a gift. I just need 2 more, a straight grinder to replace the pneumatic and a dewalt 4.5 through 6" rat tail.

Tig is a little bit of a pain to learn sometime and being a process that likes clean everything I know you must be spending a lot of time with a grinder. I am by no means a master but I will share a couple of things that helped me, 1- start each session by sharpening all your tungstens I don't...

yeah I probably should have linked the web address weldingtipsandtricks.com Jody Collier is an excellent welder and teacher

I'm glad nobody told me that 40 years ago, I would have never held a torch or struck an arc, I can't remember when my hands didn't shake.

square wave 200, power mig 180 and ac 225 tombstone, I had another tombstone so that I would have one for each grandson but I have accumulated to much stuff and had a guy at work who could use it so I passed it on, it was a 72 model. My wish list has a MP210 on it and a Lincoln engine drive.

I love brazing with oxy fuel but welding not so much but I do admire those who are good at it.

dstig1 nailed it, you plug your lead in on the the low tap and set the dial to 135 you will have 135 amps output, if you move the lead to the high tap and leave the selector on 135 amps you would read from the high scale, you now have 160 amps output.

I have added a rectifier but it was less than awe inspiring. there are some videos on you tube but the one that would be of use for me as a electronicly challenged person came up missing. there was a young fellow who installed a capacitor along with the rectifier on a Lincoln 225 but I was not...

welding tips and tricks on you tube. tool boxes maybe. shop stool, welding cart/s

mig is probably the easiest to learn but it is also the easiest to lay down a pretty bead only to have it just peel off of the base metal, it has a learning curve to just not as steep.

Lincoln MP210 hands down.

what William said, what do you want to weld? if you don't want to weld aluminum check this out https://primeweld.com/products/tig200-dc-inverter-tig-welder I have not used this machine but I do own 2 of their multi process machines and they weld fine and these people stand behind what they sell...

Tim I will warn you that the frame of your jeep will not weld the same as hot or cold rolled steel, it melts away much faster so I would recommend starting off cold and working the voltage up. I wish I could tell you the proper way to weld it but I never figured it out and since I only had to do...

7018's are my favorite I like Lincoln excaliber and fleet weld, esab makes a really good 7018 ac rod. I use 7014 rods quite a bit to just because they are handy, they work well for most things on ac and dc and they are way easier to re-strike than 7018 rods. even though 6013's are generally...

A mig and stick machine would be a good investment in my opinion but to get one priced like that grizzly is surely Chinese and while that doesn't mean it is bad I do think it requires a little more research, I won't knock chinese machines, I own four of them but I have other machines I can rely...

I wouldn't weld a trailer frame with them but I have cellulose rods that are sticky from the heat sweating them out that still weld fine for just sticking non weight bearing parts together.

what Paul F said(y)

check out Prime Weld and Yes Welder for economy machines. I have 2 Prime Weld machines that are plasma, dc stick and dc tig but rarely use them but they do weld just fine. the plasma is rated at 50 amps but performs about the same as a 30 amp thermal dynamics machine I use at work, also the tig...

I will echo sea bee, protect yourself ALWAYS. I hate working in gloves and have the scars to prove it, I try to wear them but I am one of those people who is always in a hurry and forget sometimes. safety glasses, don't even take them off while taking a break in the shop, get used to wearing...

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I guess I would base this on what I use the most. Speed squares, framing square, scribe, tape or rule, straight edge/level, hammer and punch, wrap around or plastic or metal banding for marking round stuff or laying out curves. there is no such thing as to many clamps or vise grips. magnets...

That is something I have been needing for a long time, I knew it had some wobble in it but never new how much until I cobbled a center on the table to attempt to turn something and man did it shop up then.

I just put this in another thread response, weldingtipsandtricks.com and weld.com, I prefer welding tips and tricks but weld.com is really good as well. they both allow you start with basics and move up when you are ready. you can't go wrong with either but the most important thing is take what...

I salute you and thank you for being willing to teach. I became fascinated with welding at the ripe old age of 6 years old while watching an uncle build a 50 foot steel hull trawler in his back yard, fast forward to high school and FFA I took every ag class including farm mechanics which...

Tractor By Net

probably the biggest project was a 4'X10' jigging table I thought I had to have and poured way to much money into, so far I have jigged nothing up on it just some layout and my DIY porta band stand lives on one corner and a piece of angle clamped to the other end for grinders. right now it is...

you did a great job on that!!!

That is just too cool, could you share some details of the build?