I had zero last night. I put on my whinnie the Pooh costume anyway and drank beer in the dark.
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I don't really have any pictures of the truck, it's pretty stock anyhow. Here's the best I've got.
nat88toy, I'd love to take a tow hook or two off your hands, thanks.
Hopefully I can make it out to the next pub night or something.
Tonight I'm dressing up as a Burrito Zombie and riding my bicycle around with my friends and drinking until my brain catches fire.
nat88toy, I'd love to take a tow hook or two off your hands, thanks.
Hopefully I can make it out to the next pub night or something.
Tonight I'm dressing up as a Burrito Zombie and riding my bicycle around with my friends and drinking until my brain catches fire.
Pooh.
That is all.
That is all.
You are nuts. Thats too funny.
Ummm, that's a Miller what in the back?
It's an engine welder, just a gas powered welder/generator. I don't remember what model. Works great and gives you the opportunity to discover how lousy welding in the rain is.
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I am never going to John's house again.... except of course to pick up my H55, then I really am never goin g again.....
packed the family and the dog in the lv and drove 5 minutes downt he road to my parents house. I am getting used to the quirks of it but what a nice smooth ride. got to remeber to take it out of gear when i start it :?) sent my mom jumpin. so used to an automatic. its nice to get back into a stick. still haven't gotten it above 3rd gear but only a few more projects left. the heaer is wired just the wipers left.
finally got the fj662 axle out of the back of my trailer and into the garge for a strip down rebuild for an eventual swap under the lv. what a beutiful day down here was in a T shirt all day.
jason
finally got the fj662 axle out of the back of my trailer and into the garge for a strip down rebuild for an eventual swap under the lv. what a beutiful day down here was in a T shirt all day.
jason
John,
At dinner tonight I relayed your ost of "I had zero last night. I put on my whinnie the Pooh costume anyway and drank beer in the dark." and and she said "That sounds way to detailed to be a joke.
Then you posted that pic.
Actually hadn't had anything to drink. I do crap like this sober.
ha funny, Jen and I did the same thing. more candy for us
I left the house and went to the shop, took the candy with me. I should dress as oscar the grouch next year
Kicking off a wine fundraiser today for the Boston Firefighters Burn Foundation. Proceeds of wine sales go to the BFFBF. Cool labels!! Great stocking stuffers!
www.bffbf.org
www.bffbf.org
More TIG welding at class last night. We had the option of doing
stainless or aluminum. I stuck with the stainless. Took some time
but finally got the hang of how much power to use, how much filler
rod to use and buy the end of the night the welds were looking
pretty good.
Going to focus on the aluminum next week.
On that note, a friend has a Miller Tig machine he wants to sell. I'm
not sure of the model but I think he wants something around $1000, if
anyone is interested.
Lane
stainless or aluminum. I stuck with the stainless. Took some time
but finally got the hang of how much power to use, how much filler
rod to use and buy the end of the night the welds were looking
pretty good.
Going to focus on the aluminum next week.
On that note, a friend has a Miller Tig machine he wants to sell. I'm
not sure of the model but I think he wants something around $1000, if
anyone is interested.
Lane
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The model is rather important. If you plan on welding Al, you need AC. The cheaper models are DC only which is fine for everything but AL and Mg.
If you do intend to tig AC, you'll want a liquid cooled torch. With AC welding, half(ish) the power goes into the torch, and the smaller air cooled torches melt when you do that. Liquid cooled torches need a recirculating chiller or proximity to plubmed water and a drain. Of course either torch will die if you don't turn on the chiller/faucet or shielding gas.
Older style welders are transformer based, which means they're mostly a big hunk of copper. My tig is a 180 amp model and weighs in around 350lbs. A modern inverter based 150 amp machin can be picked up with one hand and probably comes with a shoulder strap.
Do you need AC? I've got a buddy selling a low hours inverter, but I don't remember if it does AC.
-Jack
If you do intend to tig AC, you'll want a liquid cooled torch. With AC welding, half(ish) the power goes into the torch, and the smaller air cooled torches melt when you do that. Liquid cooled torches need a recirculating chiller or proximity to plubmed water and a drain. Of course either torch will die if you don't turn on the chiller/faucet or shielding gas.
Older style welders are transformer based, which means they're mostly a big hunk of copper. My tig is a 180 amp model and weighs in around 350lbs. A modern inverter based 150 amp machin can be picked up with one hand and probably comes with a shoulder strap.
Do you need AC? I've got a buddy selling a low hours inverter, but I don't remember if it does AC.
-Jack
This is probably not what you want, but here it is; Thermal Arc 185 ac/dc tig/stick air torch but one can use a water torch. remote pedal, gas line and regulator. ground clamp. stick stinger. about 40 hours use. $2000
They bought 2 expecting a bunch of sculpture work that fell through.
They bought 2 expecting a bunch of sculpture work that fell through.
I may be interested in selling my syncrowave 300 with cooler/circulator water cooled torch w/thumb control and regulator for $3400, its old, big, and weighs about 900lb. But it will weld just about anything you can throw at it we have welded 2 pieces of 1/2alum with 75/25mixed gas for instance.
we have welded 2 pieces of 1/2alum with 75/25mixed gas for instance.
Pumpkin just failed inspection for an exhaust leak and also the brake lights and horn decided not to work. Great timing.
Seems the exhaust work I had done made it worse. Gonna fix it myself this weekend. PITA
Seems the exhaust work I had done made it worse. Gonna fix it myself this weekend. PITA
thats a bummer next week or the week after the lv will be finally going before the inspection critics. hopefully get my exaust buttoned up on monday
It did pass the awesomeness inspection though