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[Burnindaylight]

I'm the foreman at A Fire truck dealership, An E-V-T is a certification committee that works with ASE to help hold the mechanic to a certain level. We also build high end forestry trucks for the industry in the area. On top of a lot of service work we also do a lot of custom equipment mounting and...

[Burnindaylight]

yah I was beside my self to see it on the door step, had to convince my wife I didn't pay for it

[Burnindaylight]

nice looking caps, well done

[Burnindaylight]

I just got a amazing hook up from a friend of mine, It's a new Fiibre-metal auto helmet. I was talking to him about welding, and he was telling me that these helmets are the cat's azz and I should get one, low and behold a few days later one show's up on the door step via UPS. anyone have any experience...

[Burnindaylight]

if you take the test on 3/8 plate you'll be good up to 3/4, take the test on 1" you be good for unlimited, I took the 1" 7018 3g, like always clean chip take your time good luck

[Burnindaylight]

very nice finish project, looks very well thought out

[Burnindaylight]

I think a good drill press and some high stands to hold the material will do better for you unless you plan on doing heavy repair in witch case to steel max mag drill I found to be one of the best around, it self lubes down the center of the angular bit, the magnet holds at half power till the switch...

[Burnindaylight]

I've built many trailers and always welded on my couplers, if you trust in your abilities weld it

[Burnindaylight]

Flux core will burn hotter and pick up your speed and penetration...

[Burnindaylight]

Innershield wire doesn't require a shielding gas, Flux core has flux in the wire and it also needs a shielding gas. 75/25 can be used but most of the time CO2 will do better depending on what you have available, different gases also produce different results, such as elongation of your weld and so ...

[Burnindaylight]

it's a Fire truck, I work for a fire a truck dealership and we build them to suit the towns needs, it's called a brush breaker, this one is going to have a 750 gal. water tank on the back with a cafs (Compressed Air Foam System) on the back. It's designed to go right into the forest for the fire and...

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This is a picture of a resent bumber I made a bit of a brush guard if you will...

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For sixty bucks I bought a surge protector, hooks onto negative and positive terminals on the battery and prevents havin to unhook the terminals, so far so good

[Burnindaylight]

Is this your first try with this machine, or has it worked fine for years? If the machine is new to you and never run at this location before I would start by looking to see if you have a multi tap machine(miller makes 2 types of mig welders 1/208v-230v 2/230v-460v-575v), under the cover behind the...

[Burnindaylight]

If there is nothing mounted over the top of the welder you can try and put a straight pipe with a rain cap flapper out the top instead of the curved outlet, shotting the exhaust strait up instead of head level when on a truck, might be the cheapest and easiest cure for your problem