Welding Is Fun!
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From: Austin, Texas
setzep, you should inform your neighbors that it's a ferderal offense to put things in other people's mailboxes unless you're a postal empoyee... unless they MAILED you this letter. 
Welding rocks! I just started using one of those autodimming masks. I leave the sensitivity turned all the way up so I don't go blind. But it's nice to not have to flip it up and down everytime I have to reposition.
Here's a link to what I'm currently working on. I'm the one in the welding gear.
We made some more progress this weekend. So it's a little different now.
Welding rocks! I just started using one of those autodimming masks. I leave the sensitivity turned all the way up so I don't go blind. But it's nice to not have to flip it up and down everytime I have to reposition.
Here's a link to what I'm currently working on. I'm the one in the welding gear.
We made some more progress this weekend. So it's a little different now.
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From: My BIG ol TURBO-DIESEL
Those of you with the 110V MIGS, you need to ne real careful with those units, although the weld appears fine, you can EASILY have very little penetration in the actual weld. You need to make some test coupons to check.
Also, READ the instructions carefully. THOSE 110V UNITS ARE DESIGNED FOR A DEDICATED 20AMP CIRCUT: NO EXTENSION CORDS, NO OTHER LOADS ON THAT CIRCUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
FOR MORE INFO GO TO:
http://www.hobartwelders.com/mboard/
Also, READ the instructions carefully. THOSE 110V UNITS ARE DESIGNED FOR A DEDICATED 20AMP CIRCUT: NO EXTENSION CORDS, NO OTHER LOADS ON THAT CIRCUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
FOR MORE INFO GO TO:
http://www.hobartwelders.com/mboard/
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From: Amityville, New York
Originally Posted by RX7OUTLAWINTERLUDE' date='Oct 12 2003, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Danomite' date='Oct 12 2003, 06:00 PM
Stick welding and brazing are the only welding that produces "slag", but I have had a molten piece of filler rod fall on me TIG welding. I was laying on my back and doing a verticle weld and...ploop, right through my jacket...I think I did more damage to my body trying to get it out of my jacket
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From: Iowa Baby....Oh-Yea
Also, READ the instructions carefully. THOSE 110V UNITS ARE DESIGNED FOR A DEDICATED 20AMP CIRCUT: NO EXTENSION CORDS, NO OTHER LOADS ON THAT CIRCUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Constant VOLTAGE is also commonly overlooked and hardly ever checked when welding. The proper way to check voltage drop ( I am not TELLING anyone to do this!) is done by pulling the welder plug out just enough to clip miltimeter leads on positive and negative posts. The meter must contain its own circut protection and be on AC Voltage. *DO NOT attempt to hook the meter in series!* Turn the meter on and have someone strike an arc, watch for any voltage drop.
Remember: Voltage is power and Current is flow
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I'm sure mine would drop some.
Hmm, while I'm thinking about it, I think I'll go check what my house wiring voltage is... On the power strip that my computer is on, it is 118.5 to 119.0. When I turn on lights etc, it goes down a little. So yeah, I'm sure my little welder drops the voltage down quite a bit.
Hmm, while I'm thinking about it, I think I'll go check what my house wiring voltage is... On the power strip that my computer is on, it is 118.5 to 119.0. When I turn on lights etc, it goes down a little. So yeah, I'm sure my little welder drops the voltage down quite a bit.
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From: Aiken, SC
uhm, every MIG welder I've seen uses a wire feeder for providing the filler wire which doubles as a consumable electrode.
what do you mean wire welder? MIG is the same thing?
what do you mean wire welder? MIG is the same thing?
No, we have a wire (just like the MIG, exept it doesn't have the gas working as a shield), the true MIG, and a 220 stick welder.
And the wire welder does to put out slag, and a pretty lot of it compared to the MIG which puts out ahrdly any.
Does he mean TIG?
Ha, I wish we had a TIG!
He probably means flux core.
Maybe that's what it is truely called, but I call it a wire welder. My brother bought the kit to make it a MIG, but we just use the other one now.