Anything welding

Go to Miller Welds and Down Load the users Manual for your Millermatic 35

I see lots of people using Cheap Auto Dark Hoods !!

The most expensive hood if it does not have a comfortable headgear soon becomes the guest hood

Wear a Hood for 10 hours a day that becomes important

If your wearing safety glasses under your hood and have the correct cover plates getting flashed is no worse then turning on a light in a dark room

If your wanting to run a welder and a Compressor do you plan to run a separate breaker for each??

 

I plan on downloading the manual to my shop computer.

So you're saying cheap hoods are ok?

When you say safety glasses, you mean regular clear, or another type?

I plan on running one circuit in to the shop and when I need either the welder or the compressor, I will just plug one or the other in. Or I suppose I could run 60amp wire in, then split it to two separate boxes. Doubt Ill ever run the compressor and welder at the same time, at least won't load them both at the same time.

 

Question.

Is the shop separate from house?

Did you know how to run a sub panel?

No offence, but I get the feeling that you don't understand electrical real good.

As for the auto shade helmets, the difference in a HF and a expensive model is only the speed of change.

HF claims to be 45,000 thousands of a second, a Miller Elite claims 55,000 thousands of a second. Neither is faster than the speed of light.

 

Fabrication advice needed: I need to make (grind/file) the exposed end of the pipe perfectly perpendicular to the hub axis of the wheel it's welded to. Assume I only have the most basic of metal tools. Thanks!

 

Perfectly perpendicular? Chuck it in a lathe.

 

If I had access to a metal lathe that would be ideal. All I have is an angle grinder and some files.

 

Shop is actually garage, below the house, but attached.

No need for a sub panel, I have 6 more spaces in my current panel.

I'm no electrician, but running wire isn't too difficult.

 

Then just run 1, 240v circuit. You won't have any trouble putting 2 plugs on that 1 circuit. I actually have my plasma cutter, air compressor and welder on one circuit. I've never tripped the breaker.

If the compressor kicks in while welding or cutting with the plasma cutter, i just stop until compressor kicks off.

I have 30amp breakers on all my circuits. No issues at all.

 

Redemption lol. Rear outrigger for the 63 swap on my truck.

 

Find a way to keep the wheel spinning and use your angle grinder with a flap disc? Kind of the same idea as a lathe.

 

I tried this with marginal success. I've got it pretty close, but I'm to the point where I can't hold it steady enough to grind enough off of the raised portion without slightly grinding on the lower portion. I'm thinking I might have to build some sort of jig that will hold a file in one spot while I spin the wheel by hand. Way more work than I'd like to do, but it may be my only option.

Some background, this will be the mounting point for a bicycle disc brake rotor for a wheelbarrow that I'm adding brakes to. That's why it needs to be a perfect 90 to the axle hub.

 

There has to be a shop some place close that will throw that on a Lathe and have it done in a few minutes

Even if your an hour of driving from town you need to go in some time

 

Repair job on Harbor Freight bread breaker...

 

Holy shit. Got a call from a guy about some outage/construction work. Had a few options of jobs coming up and got to talking about a contract he has with one of his guys working for NASA down in Florida. It's tig welding on exotic alloys so obviously it's gonna pay good. But it pays $210/hr. That's incredible money. Retarded money lol. I wish I was a jam up tig hand.

 

That is very term, but high dollar work, and you need to be a super welder to meet their specs. I used to spend time at the plant where they welded the external shuttle tanks in New Orleans.

Howard

 

I heard there was some Major Construction going on down there

The contractor bought all new welding Equipment

The thing with working outages work for two weeks here then the next plant then the next only a slim window of time to be off line at least here in the Northeast spring and fall when demand is down

 

Wow, I used to be able to get welds that looked that nice with a TIG or gas setup, but I cannot make a weld that looks like that with the MIG. Everything just looks like a bead of toothpaste. Too much wire? Too big a wire? Been going off the "table" on the inside of a Miller 210... weld mix, .030 wire...



Any advice, GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

 

Were you by chance running self shielded wire and forgot to change the polarity back ??

You do have the correct gas looking at the cylinder sticker

 

I'm sure this question gets asked a lot, but Im looking for a first welder for around the house and a few small projects on the Tacoma, mainly a few lite gauge steel pieces to the frame. Would the Lincoln Handy MIG work for my needs?

 

That would be a great home use machine. I've often thought of having one of those because of the portability. ( I'm stuck with 2, 240v units that can't leave the shop).

Think hard about setting it up to use cover shield gas. Flux core wire works very good, but using solid core wire with gas is worlds better...as well as safer. Flux core really shoots hot BB,'s all over the place.

You won't go wrong with that unit. It will do everything you need when it comes to MIG welding.