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You bozos are incorrect on all counts. The pictures clearly show thin material and I did mention that I was welding 1.5mm thick material. I think...

You can certainly do something like that, Les. In the EC video, he's making a bare bones forge designed so anyone can make it no matter how limited...

Smear this on the bolt before you weld. https://www.amazon.com/Rectorseal-73551-Break-Out-Antiseize-Lubricant/dp/B008A3UFB8 It is pretty good...

The real question is what else failed and caused the resisters to burn up? even if you could figure out who assembled the pcb for ESAB, they will...

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Looks great... but damn, you're making me thirsty...

you can go to miller's website and look up the owner's manual. It might not come up by the serial number search. But over in the model name search...

Hi there, and welcome to the group. On the 25 volts you are only partly correct. Depends on wire diameter and gas composition(argon and helium, or...

The tech. school I went to had an exploded acetylene cylinder. It would have been a violent explosion! I previously mentioned a branch manager got...

Rheostat should get warm. the control on the left is a reactor. it has a brush arm inside so it has no steps in its adjustment. You have one of two...

its not the pressure regulator that explodes, its the tank itself... Acetylene tanks have a porous honeycomb material called a monolithic mass, (its...

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Welp, I didn't know enough to look at Fuse #1! I blew my fuse by (likely) over-tignening the stop brake for the welding wire. Bought a new slo-blo...

I've worked around O/A tanks for over 40 years. I've never been injured by a regulator, nor do I know anyone personally who has. I've burned myself...

When that table shows up, I'd suggest getting those latex blankets off of it real fast...

As promised, some pics of the sick Blue Point that is letting too much air pass through. Assuming the vanes are fairly new (which may be a bad...

It TIG's well, you just have to preheat with the TIG torch, bond the base metals, and move very slowly for good penetration. The ARC rod has trouble...