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[aametalmaster]

Good price. A lone guy like me could have been cheaper but i do it for fun...Bob

[aametalmaster]

Some of the overseas cast has quite a bit of steel in it so a mig could work...Bob

[aametalmaster]

U shape with a carbide burr and die grinder...

[aametalmaster]

Everyone likes trains...Bob https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM-stinaKWE...

[aametalmaster]

I used small Camel patches on my bike that you clamped and lit on fire back in the 70's...Bob

[aametalmaster]

I can make columns up to 12' x 20" in dia..Bob

[aametalmaster]

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/...-bending.3482/ scroll down

[aametalmaster]

Yes its prob from me. You can use it on top with longer 5/8 pins. I just cut the threads off long bolts. [email protected]

Hello Bob.

This is Burt, WB4RT. I haven’t been on the Miller forum much for past few years.

I was going to use my little HF bender and found a steel disk about 6” diameter and maybe 5/8-3/4” thick with center hole and 3 smaller holes nearer the edges. My feeble memory...

[aametalmaster]

I have welded a zillion miles of 44-30 with my MM185 mig. I would preheat the manifold a little just to get the chill off. My wire settings were about the same as welding steel...Bob

[aametalmaster]

I used them for years from Airgas, They are about 1/3 the price on ebay. Most vendors sell the same china torch with their name on it...Bob

[aametalmaster]

I started in Vocational Machine Trades and got a job in my dads weld shop while in high school. Started welding and went to a sheet metal shop welding and running a lathe. Went onto a Millwright gig welding. Then an oil refinery as a welder then an operator. This span total was '76-2011. Took a job...

[aametalmaster]

You had to push the white reset button?...Bob

[aametalmaster]

That wire is equal to Crown Alloys 220 TIG and Eututec 680 and is no way ER70S2 which is just mild steel. I think the dealer is pulling a fast one...Bob

[aametalmaster]

I have welded tractors, cars, trucks, vans, motor homes, motorcycles, boats all old and newer over the last 40 years. Some with computers and some without. Even million dollar tug boats working the rivers with more electronics than anything on them. The only issue was striking an arc on a van gas tank...