O.K. I know this should never be done, but I was in a bind. I mig welded a 3/16 thick 4 inch round pipe to a 1/4 thick plate embedded into a concrete base for a friend's HD plate steel mailbox. He lives somewhat remote, and I knew I had a gas problem as soon as I started. He needed the work done, an...

Not long ago I sold a mint Miller Sycrowave 351 and cooler on Austin, TX craigslist like the one Mark found in the Chicago area. It was/is a beast of a machine built like a tank at over 500 lbs. I mainly sold it due to the space it consumed, a desire for features only inverter welders offer, portabi...

I can't speak for the Weldtec ball joint head, but I do have two water cooled CK FlexLoc torches with super flex hoses and absolutely love them. There has not been a position I've run across that these heads could not be adjusted to perfectly. I also like the the solid hold on the position once lock...

I would appreciate opinions on the best way to achieve long clean and straight cut on thick sheet material. I have a 40" shear, 7x12 band saw, carbide metal cutting circular saw, and plasma cutter. However, the shear can't handle anything greater than 16 ga material, and the other methods I lis...

I would try the following in the order below. 1. The AC balance on your everlast machine provides an electrode positive reading which is opposite Miller machines, so you should set it at 25% or 30%. 65% on that machine is going to burn up your electrode and rob tons of heat from going into your alum...

I recently picked up a used Miller 200DX I couldn't resist and have been running it through its paces over that past month. The fan on demand feature appears to be working perfectly along with everything else, and I was wondering if the fan kicks on when I am approaching an overheat and shut down si...

I have tried everything but spending hundreds on a purpose built tungsten grinder, and I finally found something very inexpensive, easy to use, and perfect as a dedicated tungsten grinder. Believe it or not, I hound it at Harbor Freight. HF makes a saw blade sharpener with a 4 inch diamond wheel, ca...

I have four flowmeters with a helium scale on them. All of them hardly provide low flow accuracy below 20 CFH since the scales basically start at 10 CFH and the 20 CFH mark is around 1/2 inch from the bottom of a 6 inch scale. I want to know if I am at 5, 8, 12, 15 etc. Anyone know of a low flow sca...

I was thinking bad gas as well since I have had that problem twice recently with new refill tanks. Getting the polarity reversed is not hard to do if you aren't familiar with Everlast's setup. I came very close to doing the same thing with my 250EX. I was suspicious of the polarity arrangement at fi...

Nope, I am using 75/25 as I normally so with carbon wire. I am welding carbon steel components using 308 stainless wire.

Hello, Jody describes mig welding with stainless to be a bit more difficult than using standard 70S-6 wire. I am curious what is different about it specifically. I have been welding mild steel with stainless wire, and it does seem harder to get a good penetrating and consistent looking bead, but I'm...

I have the 78x38 table with two extension plates but without the nitride coating. I also have roughly 200 accessory items with it. I absolutely love it. I usually have many options for clamping up odd things and squaring weld ups is automatic. I have seen no oxidation whatsoever. However, I do keep ...

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Built this heavy duty copy of Powermatic's $180 cart for $15 in casters and scrap steel in the shop.

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I thought I would share my current setup for inexpensive but very good tungsten grinding. In the past I have used bench grinders with various wheels, and a 1/4" die grinder with a small cheap but very effective diamond wheel from Harbor Freight. The former bench grinder required a dedicated whe...

I purchased the 255ext with water cooler about 6 weeks ago, whereas I have been using a Miller Syncrowave 351 transformer based machine for many years previously. So far so good with the 255. There has been a definite learning curve to using the inverter with all the available settings, but I am get...

Hello, I have a Sycrowave 351 with a V3 Cooler, and I am on the verge of purchasing an Everlast 255ext. I'd rather not add the expense and use of space for Everlast's cooler unless I really need to. Both machines will pretty much live right next to one another in my shop. Does anyone have experience...