Recent content by harleyron74

And electricity/electronics. I have a friend that was working on his car around the battery. Somehow he grounded his gold wedding ring to the hot lead on the battery. He has a nice round scar around his ring finger some 50 years later!

Like the old saying goes " a grinder and paint makes the welder I ain't! "

I figure it's just underpowered because of the 110 voltage. I saw one like it at an auction but it was a 220 volt version and the old farmer that was selling his stuff and moving into town was sad to get rid of it but didn't need it at the assisted living apt. he was moving to. When I bought...

I agree that a structured class is a capital idea for any new welder ( or any other discipline one takes up!). It will help prevent you from picking up bad habits that will be tough to break. You will also have an instructor that will critique your work honestly and lead you down the proper...

I used to use rat/mouse poison ( well...I still do kind of. I take Warfarin because I am subject to blood clots and Warfarin is nothing more than rat poison!) but I quit using it because after the mouse eats the stuff, goes outside and kicks the bucket some other critter finds the dead mouse and...

Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents on this old post. I bought a load of welding rod at an auction a few years ago and I keep the stuff I want to keep dry in my basement storage room. Much dryer in there than my garage or pole barn as they are unheated most of the time. I was looking for a box...

As far as I can tell K-1 was used because it doesn't smell quite as bad as diesel. I don't have a problem with the smell of diesel so it wouldn't matter much to me. I have several 5 gallon cans of K-1 as I heated my shop with a salamander heater for several years but changed over to a natural...

I see this is an old post but I ran across it and saw that you didn't get an answer so I thought you might still be interested in a recipe for a penetrating oil using ATF as a base. I have used versions of this for many years and it works quite well but it is kind of nasty and extremely...

Tractorbynet if I recall. At 68 I have trouble remembering what I had for breakfast!!

My father had A very old (late 1960's) Sears AC welder that I learned to weld on ( he was A shipyard welder in WW2 in California) when I took welding during my vo-tech training I realized that an AC/DC machine would be much better than the Sears box but as I was poor as A church mouse in my...

I suspect it being A 110V is the main problem. My former employer's Miller is A 220V and lays down A bead like butter on warm bread! The Century was owned by Century when I bought it in the early 90's and support for it was iffy then and non existent now. Good for spot welding sheet metal on...

Depends on your budget. I have A Hobart mig that is duel voltage and has A spool gun. I use the spool gun for flux core as I do lot's of outdoor welding. I also have A 110V Century that is more of A pain in the butt than it's worth! I bought it new and struggled to learn mig and flux core on it...

I have never seen any hard data on the life span of mig or flux core wire. The welding supply outfit I use told me year's ago to just keep it clean and dry so it doesn't rust. I buy lot's of wire at auction and store it in an old freezer that has A 100 watt incandescent light bulb burning...