Anything welding

So I don’t actually work at mobtown, but I’m friends with the owner, ambassador, hang out there, whatever.

Today was my first time I welded a product a customer would see. Burned together 25 hi lift adapters. Took like an hour and a half and man that shits exhausting welding that much for that long. Mad respect to those that do.

 

Thanks dude!!!

 

Made some progress on my trailer rehab. Still no welding, but got a lot of my metal cut and prepped. Included a pic of my mobile vise. Just wanted to say it is really handy for outdoor grinding and welding. I am paranoid about sparks in my garage. When it is tilted back about 20-30 degrees, the wheels take over and it becomes mobile.

All the bracing is made from some old bed frame angle I had laying around. If you've never used bed frame steel, you'd be amazed at how high the bending force is on it. Check you local Salvation Army/Goodwill. It's definitely worth the money. Don't laugh until you've used some.

 

That mobile vice is sweet! I could use one of those.

 

Being Brand new I hope it welds Sweet!!

Lincoln is in a full court press To capture more Market Share !!

Most Distributors make very little on Machines and Hard goods ( For those not aware Hard Goods is the Industry term for anything but Gas)

Happy Welding !

 

That thing is sexy as hell. I wonder why it was never used?

 

Yeah man it welds great! I’m super stoked on it.

Thanks dude. I’m very happy with the deal I got. I found it on OfferUp and it was at a pawn shop about 40 mins from my house.

My best guess is that somebody owned it, desperately needed some cash and came in and sold it for super cheap. Thats probably why the shop was able to sell it so low to me. The pawn shop was in a really nice part of town and good area. They had 5 star reviews on quite a few websites so I was more comfortable about the whole thing. When I got there I spent like 15 mins going over the machine with a fine tooth comb. Looked at the drive roll, power cable, ground cable, gun, trigger, everything. The ground and power cable still had factory zip ties on them keeping them together haha. Inside where the drive roll is you could tel that no wire had every gone through since the roller still had plastic wrapping on it haha

Super stoked on the deal

 

Cool man, I'd have been on that like white on rice

 

Heck yeah man.

 

I really Hope it did not fall off a Truck That happens now and then.

I am going with your idea Someone needed money bad in a hurry .

 

No visual signs of dropping. Just a small scratch on the front that looks like it was from moving it around in the pawn shop.

I asked the guys at the shop if it was sold to them or pawned and not picked up and they told me it was sold to them. I figured they must have bought it pretty cheap to sell it for as cheap as they did to me. They took $1850 cash so the ticket was written up at like $1695 with $155 tax. So they really sold it to me for $1695

 

Practicing with my aluminum spool gun today for a little bit. Just for fun. Still need lots more practice but getting better. Aluminum is a whole different animal

 

Wellpppp looks like my test Monday and Tuesday were a waste of time since apparently they tested me for the wrong code. Told the company to fuck off and loaded my shit and went home lol.

 

How does someone test for the wrong code the only real differences would be material process and position and the amount of flaws allowed .

Then things might have changed since My last certification time flies the last 19 years went so very fast

In any case It sucks

Something that attracts your attention should come along

 

Basically. They tested me for the pressure vessel and tank code when I needed the structural code. Literally only difference is one is with backing and one is open root. I did the open root which would be easier but today they wanted me to take em all all over again

I attached 2 pics. One of the WPS and test I did Monday and what they wanted me to do today

 

Tuesday I finished all the test on the first WPS. So ignore that they aren’t all checked off.

 

Nice.

 

Thanks dude. Don’t have a ton of time with the spool gun yet but I can make some stuff stick together haha

 

Right. Also depends on how you're testing for. I've had 12" 5g, 2"xx open root, 12 on 12 branch, hot tap 12 on 12 with water pumped through the main. That last one was 7018 open root. Weird one.