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I prefer to watch the front of the puddle. I can make a nicer weld seems like looking at it from the back but can read it better from the front

The point Dennis made was good. If the brushes are worn to the point where they don't make continuous contact, the motor can't develop the torque...

When I used to pull containers, occasionally I had to take them to the repair yard. They never bent them back............they always cut out the bad...

It's hard to weld uphill when you're on top of the joint, looking down through the arc. I never can really see the puddle fully, and rely on a good...

I have no idea. Just now learning what AWS classifications are and the importance of them.

Thank you all for the answers. Right now I just have fluxcore and regular steel for mig and some aluminum that I tried with argon quite unsuccessful...

All great reasons. I’m sold. Ac/dc it is and again, thank you all.

The fun's not over yet.............. Had to machine some pins for the pulley wheels. Some sorta weird measuring pins.......... .425 diameter. Why...

Let's do the weld warp again! Distortion is a welding fact of life, but it gets pretty intuitive after a while. If you search for this topic...

All of the individual parts had to be machined to fit square, then they're put on the mill table to clamp them to the block for tacking. Pop the...

I am running my Esab cV-353 from a phase converter. Works great for Spray arc, but has trouble in the short-arc.. Might try it on 460 Thermal power.....

The soft rope pulleys you guys showed are pretty cool. If I didn't have a space problem, they'd be a nice way to go. But:laugh: as it is most...

If you have cable puller/comealong, just borrow this and get it done.

The Honda engines are easy to fix, that's if the plastic gears go from overheating with crap oil.. I will run triple ester base stock if I have...

That was a good find. The eye wouldn't work though. The other one they had, with a hook, had limited hook diameter (1/2"), which wouldn't allow it...

Triggered a couple tacks at the bottom for a shelf to start on then just slowly worked my way up kinda going up 1/8 maybe and pause for a millisecond...

got the tower out of the shop over by the drill waiting on a few hydraulic caps to get stuff in position to install back on the rig couple of...

I agree 👍 💯 Dave

I would use a larger nozzle and use about 1/2-5/8" tip to work distance. I generally run 1/2" tip to work and haven't had any issues. It's possible...