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[ryanjones2150]

You really need 230v to get any good use of that machine. Get some 1/8” metal for your testing. Start by cleaning the mill scale off.

Sometimes it sounds counter intuitive, but the way in increase or decrease penetration with wire welding on a simple machine like that is to adjust the...

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You really want to get crazy with cleaning it, use reagent grade acetone. Then you can pretend you’re building parts for the space station or something cool like that.

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Anything that says snap-on will be more expensive simply because it says snap-on.

I don’t think ever heard anything about them one way or another.

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Simple to hard, that’s troubleshooting. What have you done now?

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Thanks for the review, Jim.

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I have a tig machine that requires you to unplug the foot pedal. If you try to stick weld with the foot pedal plugged in it will only weld at the minimum amps the foot pedal will allow.

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I’ve never run on 1” aluminum with a spool gun, but the 3/8 is no problem. On something like that, I prefer 3/64 5356 wire. Maybe some others have some more experience. Preheat will go along way on the heavier stuff too.

To run 300 amps on a tig torch, I hope it’s water cooled. Can’t...

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I recently had a job that took some time to get through, mostly because of weather. So I cut the customer a deal on it, which was more expensive than he expected anyway. He said he didn’t want all that work done. I politely explained to him that there’s a lot more into “just welding it up”....

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Good job Don. I’m with you on other people’s tools, I always return them in better condition than I borrowed it.

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Ya man, whatever makes you better is a good thing right? After a while, you won’t need that meter, you’ll just know where to set the dial.

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Good post. I have a job lined up for a 71 dodge pick up that the floors the same work. Hopefully not as much as that one though!

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I want to see this 48 Chrysler....only a week or two worth of work?! I may just take some vacation days and come give you hand....or a swift kick in the pants! Maybe both. The plane, on the other hand, is way outside my wheelhouse.

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Firing the torch off in mid air is probably the absolute least of your worries when tig welding with HF. I think you have a better chance of tripping and falling and stabbing yourself in the eyeball with the sharpened tungsten then getting zapped while checking your argon flow rate. But if, for some...

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It’ll be fine. Unless you flip the truck over and machine falls down a cliff and bounces down to the bottom and into the river. Even then, it might still be fine.

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Bravo!!

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You have colored wires inside yours?!!

I’m so jealous. Mine are numbered, but all the same color. Black.

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Might get lucky on eBay if he keeps an eye out or a saved search.

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I doubt it would be possible to even run that machine wide open that much with the low duty cycle it has.

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What you think, Wayne, his beast is older than my Helga? She’s a 74 model.

The start circuit switch would be there by that dial under the hood and I see your bus bar was replaced by a heavy blade switch on mine it in the same spot.

I had a problem with mine a while back...

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I can’t imagine that little mig welder making so much as blip on his power bill.