Not So Pros v3.0

We were taught about 100 years ago in welding school to treat the wire speed as the heat. The machine will supply enough power to burn the wire at whatever speed you set. But yes, some have a voltage knob
But the problem of having to high of wire speed is the waste of wire...
On mine you get a huge weld bead if you don't match the wire speed to your heat.So for a more appealing bead that doesn't need grinding you turn the wire speed down. Down to far and you run out of wire and the bead stops, usually requiring a tip clean as the wire melts to the tip.
 
I have a huge Lincoln stick welder that was in the shop when i bought it. Welds beautifully melts rod like butter. It's coming with me when i sell the shop.
My Mig is an Acklands branded Miller,no complaints with it.
Bought a huge Tig that i haven't got set up as selling the shop has been a plan for too long,Not sure who made it as it's branded Can Ox,need to research it to find out who made it. Got a great deal on it from a manufacturing shop in Kamloops that was closing.
And an Esab plasma cutter
 
No, that's mig. I bought one of those welders for the shop except I think,it was a 170. Had excellent luck with it for small odd jobs. I bet it's still there working

I bought it because the salesman was prj great nephew I think. He told me it's what they use for big bridge jobs. I believe it now after seeing that one collapse. It's an excellent welder for what I do but not Ridgeline approved
 
I bought it because the salesman was prj great nephew I think. He told me it's what they use for big bridge jobs. I believe it now after seeing that one collapse. It's an excellent welder for what I do but not Ridgeline approved
If it was Ridgeline acceptable it would blow every fuse between you and Oklahoma as soon as you squeezed the trigger
 
But the problem of having to high of wire speed is the waste of wire...
On mine you get a huge weld bead if you don't match the wire speed to your heat.So for a more appealing bead that doesn't need grinding you turn the wire speed down. Down to far and you run out of wire and the bead stops, usually requiring a tip clean as the wire melts to the tip.
yep, thats what mine will do. i fooled around with it enough, i got better flatter full penetration welds hot and fast with a really quick trigger on-off. i didnt think my set up would do very well on auto body, but turns out it actually does pretty well.
 
If it was Ridgeline acceptable it would blow every fuse between you and Oklahoma as soon as you squeezed the trigger
lol, funny you say that. when i first built the shop, it was on the same meter as the house. running 1/16 flux core on 3/4 plate, she came and informed me i was fuckin up her watching tv. every time i struck an arc it went all fuzzy until i broke it. yeah, shops on its own meter now.
 
lol, funny you say that. when i first built the shop, it was on the same meter as the house. running 1/16 flux core on 3/4 plate, she came and informed me i was fuckin up her watching tv. every time i struck an arc it went all fuzzy until i broke it. yeah, shops on its own meter now.
Exhaust fan at the asphalt plant has 2 x 75 horse motors, both soft start. One of them went for a shit one day and they told me to buy a new one rather than wait for the old one to get fixed. Only one around wasn't soft start. I asked the electrician if I could use that and he said it would trip breakers I didn't know existed. We waited for the old one to be fixed😆😆
 
Exhaust fan at the asphalt plant has 2 x 75 horse motors, both soft start. One of them went for a shit one day and they told me to buy a new one rather than wait for the old one to get fixed. Only one around wasn't soft start. I asked the electrician if I could use that and he said it would trip breakers I didn't know existed. We waited for the old one to be fixed😆😆
Them bag house fans pull some hp. Ours had a funky three motor setup on it and if one fucked off the other two ate the belts.
 
yep, thats what mine will do. i fooled around with it enough, i got better flatter full penetration welds hot and fast with a really quick trigger on-off. i didnt think my set up would do very well on auto body, but turns out it actually does pretty well.
I have been welding some thin tin with mine doing my Hybryd truck build with satisfactory results.
Using the same on off trigger pulls
 
Finally submitted my taxes yesterday
I was to lazy to do them
So i went to a Jackson Hewitt

the woman working there I'd worked with in the early 2000s
she's still hot looks a lot like this girl.
but she was talking all kinds of crazy religious stuff
i get 33% off of tax prep from my job and she said it was from the freemason's?
and the devil tried to take her foot after she injured it
still hot though
 
Finally submitted my taxes yesterday
I was to lazy to do them
So i went to a Jackson Hewitt

the woman working there I'd worked with in the early 2000s
she's still hot looks a lot like this girl.
but she was talking all kinds of crazy religious stuff
i get 33% off of tax prep from my job and she said it was from the freemason's?
and the devil tried to take her foot after she injured it
still hot though
Nothing like finding a live one that's real completely bat shit crazy