why should I buy a stick machine?

[Crithpy_Critter]

I have a hh175 and what would I do with a stick rig?

[Franz]

Well, first, you could learn to stick weld.
You could hard surface the tips on yer gator spear.
You could weld thicker metal.
You could weld heavy stainless.
You could weld up pieces of railroad rail and I beam to rip the bottom out of the Sheriff's boat when he was chasin you.
and, If you bought the right stick machine, you could add a foot control and gas, and have a TIG machine too.

Things gettin boring down in the swame are they?

[arcdawg]

cripthy, a good stick machine is a great tool to have. i would agreee with franz, the possibilitys are endless.you will also save the wear and tear on your mig machine. franz was right youcan make a tig machine out of it too, check mistertig.com he makes kits. look in your local pawn shops. stay with lincoln or miller, and i would get a ac dc machine ihave a ac machine and i have to pay a little more for electrodes ac7018, but get a 5 lb box of rods cause they will collect moisture and not be as good as they should be

[Mike W]

I haven't used my arc welder since I got my Hobart betamig 200. I did turn the arc welder into a tig welder so I can still do arc if I need to.

[gnewby]

I still use my stick welder quite a bit. I use it when welding heavy metal or sometimes when I find it easier to get at something with the stick rather than the mig. Also instead of having to change from solid to flux core wire I just grab for the stick welder. I have a leads on my stick welder that give me about 75" to make it easy to reach all areas of my shop and also outside of my shop when I don't want to drag something inside to weld on it. You can look around and find a good used stick for $75.00 or so which makes it a pretty cheap investment. After buying some rod you would be set to go. If I was looking for a stick machine I would try to find an AC DC machine.

[Crithpy_Critter]

my neighbor has a stick rig and I'll offer him a gallon of possum gumbo and a sack of grits for it.

[TonyC]

All of the above plus it's the best for welding cast iron if you need that ability.

[cutter]

Originally posted by Crithpy_Critter
my neighbor has a stick rig and I'll offer him a gallon of possum gumbo and a sack of grits for it.

Save me the gizzards! I love possum gizzard tetrazinni better than most anything.
Or just deepfry a mess of the little boogers & have them with a fatback sandwich.
Hard to beat. Don't care for the grits, though.

[fla jim]

I figured that you Texans would be eating "possum on the half shell" AKA armadillo:blob3: :blob4:

[Franz]

Dammit Jim don't encourage them 2.

[cutter]

Originally posted by fla jim
I figured that you Texans would be eating "possum on the half shell" AKA armadillo:blob3: :blob4:

Wal fellers, we ain't really supposed to discuss the state rat with non-citizens but what with the nature of Jim's business and what with the nature of Franz period, it probably won't hurt anything.
Those little bastards are scavengers & carrion eaters and they taste like crap according to anybody who's ever actually had both. They also destroy flower beds and vegetable gardens & will eat some vegetables in a pinch but they're really just after dead mice, bugs or bodies, rotten eggs, dogdoo - they just don't care what. Nobody down here will actually touch one except to serve it to a Californiac or some other kind of Yankee tourist machoman who's trying impress his date or become a statistic.
All that stuff about armadillo pie roadkill is not true either. Passenger cars just bounce over them & it does more damage to the front end than it does to the animal. A fully loaded semi can squash one flat but then there's nothing left to cook. Most of the time, a chef has the innerds scooped out & fills the shell with the worst meat he has on hand along with some inferior jalapenas or anything he needs to sell or throw out because there isn't 4 ounces of actual meat in a 5 pound armadillo. Its all shell, scales,gristle,guts, snout, teeth, ears & claws. So they have to supplement the meat with something before they can trick some damned fool into ordering it.

Some day I'll tell you about fajitas.

[Franz]

Cutter, fajitas, ain't them recycled once used dogfood wrapped in a rottin cabbage leaf frenchfried up in used Diesel grade 30 weight motoroil and served to idyuts?

[cutter]

Originally posted by Franz
Cutter, fajitas, ain't them recycled once used dogfood wrapped in a rottin cabbage leaf frenchfried up in used Diesel grade 30 weight motoroil and served to idyuts?

Nope. Sounds like you're thinking about burritos.

[Franz]

Oops,....Sorry!

[cutter]

LOL - S'ok. :D

And then they have Breakfast burrito. Gag.
I don't know how they eat those things. Or why.

cutter
Dr. Chandran, will I dream?

[fla jim]

Breakfast is supposed to be Chorrizo's, Beans, Chipolta peppers, and eggs washed down with a Pearl or two:dizzy:

[Jim314]

Cutter, just don't let 'um know the truth about tamales.l

[Customwelds]

Where I'm from in texas, we try to avoid them on dirt bikes. An armadillo hit with your front wheel is just asking to get a closer observation of this type of plant some dirt bikers call the Face-us Plantus. Hit one going very fast and you'll most likely taco your rim and watch the armadillo walk off uninjured! Cutter, do you know where Lake McClellan is? That's where I ride dirt bikes.

[cutter]

Originally posted by Customwelds
Where I'm from in texas, we try to avoid them on dirt bikes. An armadillo hit with your front wheel is just asking to get a closer observation of this type of plant some dirt bikers call the Face-us Plantus. Hit one going very fast and you'll most likely taco your rim and watch the armadillo walk off uninjured! Cutter, do you know where Lake McClellan is? That's where I ride dirt bikes.

Hi custom,

I am kinda surprised you have the critturs up that far north. I have never been out to that little pond
but I used to hang out around Pampa quite a bit in a previous life . ;) So I do know the area.
We don't really have an infestation of armadillos here, they appear very rarely, thank God.

Where specifically are you from & where are you living now?

[Crithpy_Critter]

we went from a stick rig to tamales and dead armadillos........

reality internet.

pooofff

I was thinking about the miller maxstar 200 as a good starter unit....

any reason why I would be disappointed with it?

[JustLooking]

Join the club.

pooofff

[Robert D]

LOL That is the way we TEXAN doo it

[Junk]

You should not buy a stick machine, but instead a nice tig machine that can also stick.;) That way you get to spend even more money.:cry:

[JustLooking]

http://www.brwelder.com/shop/Images/ACFBD2.jpg

Whatever you do just don't buy locally = mail order it to save your money.

http://www.brwelder.com/indextemplate.cfm?file=shop/detail.cfm&ID=672&SubCategory=65

[Junk]

Hey justlooking, that's exactly the machine I was talking about. ;D

[JustLooking]

:blob2: :blob3: :blob4:

Franz :realmad:

[cutter]

Originally posted by JustLooking
:blob2: :blob3: :blob4:

Franz :realmad:

pooofff

[Franz]

Hey Cutter ain't them Burprito things made by fillin a thrown hunk of retread with lathe turnings soaked in cuttin oil mixed with some swamp cabage and cat turds?

[echo8287]

You can weld outside in the wind if you need to repair your airboat down at the dock if your extension cord is heavy enough. David

[cutter]

Originally posted by Franz
Hey Cutter ain't them Burprito things made by fillin a thrown hunk of retread with lathe turnings soaked in cuttin oil mixed with some swamp cabage and cat turds?

Possibly, but I think they are usually made from whatever is on hand. The actual content is not
as critical as the soft tortilla wrapping, the grease content & some kind of offensive odor. The rest
appears to be optional. Beans, bitter onions, hot peppers & household insects are standard fare
but nothing is mandatory.
Hell, the name means "little burro" so take it from there.

[Franz]

Yup, I think that's what sent all them folks to the hospital after they ate em a couple months back. I recall something about bad onions grown in human shut that came in from Mexico.
Since I'm still tryin to get over some stuff one of Crithpy's relatives fed me back in 67, I stay away from that Mexican food.

[Crithpy_Critter]

you guys are going to have a massive hangover tomorrow.

cat turds and burritos and a missing-in-action stick rig...........

I'm going to bed.

[Customwelds]

I almost bought a Maxstar. From what I could tell, they looked really nice. I just wanted to use GTAW more than SMAW, so I decided on my Squarewave.

Cutter, I was born in Pampa actually. I lived there til I was about 6, then moved to Center Point, which is a tiny town down really far south near Kerrville, if you've never heard of it. I'm in the Oklahoma City area now...My dad is still in Pampa though, so technically, I still live there sometimes! At least I was born a Texan and not an Okie!!!<---:alien: No offence to any born Okies...just something I inhereted from my dad...

[Customwelds]

Almost forgot, the armadillos aren't a comman thing. We do see them on the trail from time to time though. Luckily no one I've been riding with has hit one, but we've known of some instances of it! Also, I've seen a small car with a messed up bumper and valance, broken headlight, and a bent rim from one too!

[cutter]

Originally posted by Customwelds
Almost forgot, the armadillos aren't a comman thing. We do see them on the trail from time to time though. Luckily no one I've been riding with has hit one, but we've known of some instances of it! Also, I've seen a small car with a messed up bumper and valance, broken headlight, and a bent rim from one too!

Now that brings back a memory.
About 1958 or so me & a buddy were tooling down a dirt road on the way to my house on our Cushman Eagles just before dark, riding into the sun past an old farmhouse with some pigpens out back. We were runing maybe 35 - 40 miles an hour & happy as kids could be just to be alive and free on this earth, without care one. Just as we passed the sheds & pens a young pig shot out of the tall grass in the barditch & across the road in front of us. I missed him just barely but Jerry nailed him right in the neck & I bet that scooter didn't progress more than another foot forward.
I slid sideways & got stopped soon as I could, facing 180 degrees from the original direction & all I could see was a cloud of dust. I could hear that little Cushman engine putt-putt-putting at idle and hear Jerry cussing. When the dirt settled I saw him sitting with the scooter in his lap, covered with dirt, glasses skewed on his nose and a very dead pig at his side. His headlight lens was broken & he had a cut on his knee from the glass but otherwise was ok. And the front fender was bent down into the tire.
So I got the Eagle up off of him, kicked the fender away from the rubber while he limped around a little bit to shake off the hurts.
A trio of farmhands that lived in the old house showed up to claim the hog which turned out to be about a hundred pound shoat, quite a bit more obstacle than your average armadillo. One of the guys got a pickup & they threw their prize into the back.

We moseyed on down to my folk's house, Mom dressed Jerry's knee & he called his mother to report the accident so she could call the pig's owner & raise hell with him for letting it run loose. He allowed as to how she should pay for the hog for letting Jerry run loose. By the time he drove over to inspect the damage, his hands had the pig strung up from a tree and were heating up a barrel of water to scald him with. Fair enough.

No one was seriously worse for the wear except the shoat so life went running right on smoothly in our little version of Mayberry RFD.

[Customwelds]

Ouch!I guess that's an instance when riding a little Cushman would be better than riding a new CR500! Then you'd hit that thing at like...80 or 90mph and be in for BIG a hurtin, haha. My last wreck on my KDX 220 was in 3rd gear pinned, so probably around that speed(30-40MPH or so)...it was the worst shot in the pills I've EVER had...Don't wanna think about that again!

[JustLooking]

Anybody got a recipe for MUTTON?

[JustLooking]

Let's turn this into a cooking club. How to fix lamb stew with a welder.

[fla jim]

You've got do something about this fixation with sheep, its not healthy:nono:

[JustLooking]

Sorry Jim just get that way when I am around so many sheep.

MIG up some LAMB CHOPS.

[fla jim]

You should watch out sometimes the sheep strike back:drinkup: