Welding Tips and Tricks

exnailpounder check your PM I sent you about $20k worth of gold detecting secrets I want to get back to TIG welding in this thread speaking of which, next Mon-Wed most of the TIG hoard arrives!!!

Coolidge wrote:exnailpounder check your PM I sent you about $20k worth of gold detecting secrets I want to get back to TIG welding in this thread speaking of which, next Mon-Wed most of the TIG hoard arrives!!!

We don't do ANYTHING half-way around here, including a thread-jack!

Steve S

Coolidge wrote:exnailpounder check your PM I sent you about $20k worth of gold detecting secrets I want to get back to TIG welding in this thread speaking of which, next Mon-Wed most of the TIG hoard arrives!!!

lol he thought he could redirect a thread jack!

Otto Nobedder wrote:

Coolidge wrote:exnailpounder check your PM I sent you about $20k worth of gold detecting secrets I want to get back to TIG welding in this thread speaking of which, next Mon-Wed most of the TIG hoard arrives!!!

We don't do ANYTHING half-way around here, including a thread-jack!

Steve S

It's not in our nature to do half way. We can't get away wig half way in this field. It could kill someone. Or leave someone unoffended or leave someone who hasn't laughed enough

Poland308 wrote:

Coolidge wrote:exnailpounder check your PM I sent you about $20k worth of gold detecting secrets I want to get back to TIG welding in this thread speaking of which, next Mon-Wed most of the TIG hoard arrives!!!

lol he thought he could redirect a thread jack!

That'll never happen...not with me around!

exnailpounder wrote:

Poland308 wrote:

Coolidge wrote:exnailpounder check your PM I sent you about $20k worth of gold detecting secrets I want to get back to TIG welding in this thread speaking of which, next Mon-Wed most of the TIG hoard arrives!!!

lol he thought he could redirect a thread jack!

That'll never happen...not with me around!

Troublemaker don't you have gold to dig stop hanging around my thread and hit it!

exnailpounder wrote:

Poland308 wrote:

Coolidge wrote:exnailpounder check your PM I sent you about $20k worth of gold detecting secrets I want to get back to TIG welding in this thread speaking of which, next Mon-Wed most of the TIG hoard arrives!!!

lol he thought he could redirect a thread jack!

That'll never happen...not with me around!

I was gonna say, with Nail around no thread is safe and no thread will ever get back on the rails after he so graciously derailed it.

And I am usually innocent of steering a thread...

electrode wrote:And I am usually innocent of steering a thread...

Yep I'm usually along with Jeff

electrode wrote:And I am usually innocent of steering a thread...

Dude! You're WAY worse than I am!

exnailpounder wrote:

electrode wrote:And I am usually innocent of steering a thread...

Dude! You're WAY worse than I am!

Yeah, right! Seems we are usually both involved along with farm boy.

electrode wrote:

exnailpounder wrote:

electrode wrote:And I am usually innocent of steering a thread...

Dude! You're WAY worse than I am!

Yeah, right! Seems we are usually both involved along with farm boy.

OHH,,my God he's bad too.

Larry Curly and Moe! You pick who's who.

Poland308 wrote:Larry Curly and Moe! You pick who's who.

Dibs on curly

Edit:I'm feeling Jeff is moe

LANDED!!!

PowerTIG 255ext, Weld Monger Kit, Rotary phase converter, ZTFab welding car kit, Miller Infinity helmet, 25ft Conntek 3ph 20A locking extention cord, Parkworld Drier to 30A twist lock adapter, Hubbell 20A 3ph locking plug end, Conntek 30A 1ph 25ft twist lock extension cord, Victor Flowmeter, 41 inch stainless tool cabinet.

Tomorrow - Zip miter bandsaw, Kalamazoo belt sander

Friday - Buildpro welding table and fixturing kit

Tuesday - Powercool torch cooler

Farmwelding wrote:

Poland308 wrote:Larry Curly and Moe! You pick who's who.

Dibs on curly

Edit:I'm feeling Jeff is moe

I wanna be Moe cause I sure ain't Curly.

Coolidge wrote:LANDED!!!

PowerTIG 255ext, Weld Monger Kit, Rotary phase converter, ZTFab welding car kit, Miller Infinity helmet, 25ft Conntek 3ph 20A locking extention cord, Parkworld Drier to 30A twist lock adapter, Hubbell 20A 3ph locking plug end, Conntek 30A 1ph 25ft twist lock extension cord, Victor Flowmeter, 41 inch stainless tool cabinet.

Tomorrow - Zip miter bandsaw, Kalamazoo belt sander

Friday - Buildpro welding table and fixturing kit

Tuesday - Powercool torch cooler

Sounds like Christmas. That will be fun setting it all set up. Git R Done!

electrode wrote:

Farmwelding wrote:

Poland308 wrote:Larry Curly and Moe! You pick who's who.

Dibs on curly

Edit:I'm feeling Jeff is moe

I wanna be Moe cause I sure ain't Curly.

Fair enough. Sorry Jeff-I guess you are Larry.

As for the packages-I have one question. Why did you need a phase converter? I mean it may be nice but was it necessary? Does your new welder need it or did you figure-eh why not? Just curious.

The Zip miter bandsaw is 3ph, pretty much all of them are except for the Baileigh. I have some other potential uses for 3ph powered machines so it was time to pick up a RPC.

What version of converter did you get? Just curious to know how big of stuff it can run?

5HP, technically it will run 3 phase motors up to 2.5HP e.g. half the RPC rating. But that is only a loose guide. If the 3 phase machine starts easily, it might run a 3-4 HP 3 phase motor. A hard starting machine like a dust collector maybe max 2.5 HP.

What brand did you pick? Or is it a diy kit?

American Rotary, one of the more expensive brands but the only one approved by Haas to run their CNC machines. I took a bunch of pictures after unpacking everything this evening and will be posting them in the next day or two.

Cool I've been looking at there web site looks like they have a solid product.