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10k? For a trailer with a SMALL crane, a welder and some tools? I gotta disagree with ya there. I think you also missed the part where the trailer...

I've heard of it....I used to live in Sierra Vista just a few hours east.....

For good pay without travel, I’d also suggest that you look into aerospace related TIG welding. From what you’ve described of your lead work, you may...

I have been working with heavy equipment and welding for over 30 years. I can tell you definitively that your plan sucks. Any trailer less than 10k...

Wow! I haven't seen this scam in quite a while. LOL Very nice. If I had my shop built, I would be on my way. Good luck, even though I don't really...

I would try replacing battery

Congratulation's on Retirement fellow Union Brother and welcome !! Enjoy your Union Pension and hoping for many years collecting and Spending it . We...

top hasn't been on 15 minutes and crap is already accumulating on it !!:laugh: j

That called a retired welder who picks up golf. They stopped learning! Welcome aboard. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

good stuff mate :drinkup:

If you want to be in the welding field and I were you. I'd join the pipe fitters union, I think it in Tampa.

I use the same linament about a year now, it seems to help my shoulders. The back troubles come and go and dont bother me much but I take much better...

when you want to do something in life never think of what will happen or is this field having potential or not, just go with your passion, when i...

3 years ago a thing came in my mind that what i'm doing in this life what i am here for and what is my passion, believe me it takes a great mind to...

I Robert Steven would say just buy a welding machine and stick to it for atleast 4 to 5 years, have your hands on it and then go for anyother thing,...

Sadly thoriated is still very efficient but breathing radioactive fumes and dust?

That's gorgeous, Shootr. Never would have guessed that water wouldn't penetrate the stuff. That means the pores have to be smaller than a water...

Mate ESAB, Everlast, PrimeWeld, and Miller, Lincoln are good too, as my personal experience primeweld tig welder are always up to the mark and...

If you don't dip that often, then there's not much difference between the two for DC. Thoriated stays sharper for longer, but by the time lanth point...

I need to correct a few items in the original post since I can no longer edit it: The wall thickness of the square tubes was .070" not 7 mm. The...

I haven't been using the thoriated as long as shovelon, but agree with him, thoriated is the king for DC TIG, even though it is technically slightly...

At least I can put an innertube in my disaster.........................Somehow I'm thinkin' that an innertube might not work for your...

Ok... but can you show me how to do that so that the top is in the same profile as a Model A fender? When we're done that, I'll need a second one to...

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We do all have "those" days. If it makes you feel any better, the reason the 8650 is in the shop is for new exhaust pipes... available at your...

good deal ! Hopefully you got some consumeables with it. USAweld.com has parts, and HTP replacement guns and parts. If you do bodywork use .025...

I'm gonna get weird here:D (actually not REALLY weird) If a terrorist had a gun to your head, and said you could place a weld on only one side of...