General Fabrication

Subd. Just got my first welder from harbor freights about a month or two ago.lol

 

Yep BendTech Pro And SM

 

Yes

 

fuck motor mounts

 

No likey welding brail and listening?

 

no im used to that, no likey slag bouncing off the ground into my hair and ears

 

I hear that, I had a good one blow right thru my eardrum a few weeks ago while doing some sliders. Hurt like a mofo and I kept walking into shit for several days.

 

^It makes an amzing sound when it happens though

 

I use a Miller auto-darkening helmet. You can set the shade level between 8 and 13 or so (what the switch says).

There are other brands that are cheaper.

 

I'd go auto for mig for sure, passive for stick and TIG.

Jackson makes a nice one.

 

get parallels and xp, and some extra ram.
I run a macbook pro with everything running and it does awesome(16gb of ram helps too). Total cost was about $180 and now I can run any windows or mac software, side-by-side and jump back and forth as necessary instantly.

 

I'm curios why you'd go passive anymore. Especially for stick-that's always the more difficult to strike for me and auto darkening just makes that so much easier.

 

The same thing happened to me and I lost some hearing from it . I now have ear plugs in my ears any time I'm welding over head.

Yeah i can do that real quick.

 

I REALLY like the gold lenses. I guess if you're in a tight spot the auto is a lot better but otherwise ill take a passive gold lens.

 

i am not a fan of auto change either. Guess because i learned on a passive i find auto change annoying

 

I learned with a passive helmet too. I just thought the whole auto-dark wasn't going be as good either but I'm a convert.

 

Never used one before. What makes it special?

 

I hear you. I should give one a objective try again but Ive been welding for over 10 years and I'm stubborn ha

 

LOL. It's all good.