Vinegar? Hmmm I wonder if Evaporust would remove the scale?

Can someone put me in the ballpark of amperage? I need to fish some carbon fiber tube inside this stainless hence brazing vs welding the carbon fiber tube will be a tight fit. Thanks for any help!

This arrived recently, made in USA! Its every bit of the advertised 49 lbs. Pretty happy with it so far, it does need a fine adjustment modification for height, already purchased the parts for that at my local hardware store. Also gave TIG welding aluminum a first try...FAIL! http://www.coolidgeamps...

I made a pedestal for a Forward/Reverse barrel switch!

LtBadd wrote:A steel lifting fixture, a little bit of MIG and mostly TIG

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CNC plasma cut? This forum is going to cost me money, er I mean more money.

There's an Ellis 1100 for sale on my local craigslist for $750 they do pop up. https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/tls/6131561306.html I went with this one, a lot more money of course but more compact and mobile. http://www.coolidgeamps.com/pics/m1.jpg Here's the test cut they did on it at the facto...

I had just spent $290 on a brand new Kalamazoo 1x42 belt sander...what an utterly useless pile of junk it is, hence I jumped on this Porter Cable. Oh that giant motor...its only 1hp lol.

I scored this today, apparently "B" is for BIG lol. Made in Syracuse, NY, we had to disassemble to lift it. 3 phase Master Electric motor, don't know the HP the motor plate is missing but it starts on my 5hp RPC. With 5 new belts $300.

Thanks, I was surprised the cart came out flat and rolls on all 4 wheels. One thing though, my tungsten electrodes (I snapped them in half short half length) look like crap, all dark and burnt looking all along its length. I was using the air cooled torch at times near its limits. It seemed like I w...

Finished!

Pay no attention to these two jokers jacking my thread ^^^ should I hire this girl to model my new welding cart?

Time for paint!

I really needed some stock to practice on and figure out amps. Really hard to see, maybe I should have gone to a much smaller cup. Used a gas lens #8.

Almost finished welding up the cart...its clear I suck ass at welding round tubing.

nelson wrote:Canon d5 mark ii? You must hit the lotto.

No its a 7D Mark II, gift for my 20th anniversary at work.

Your new name is Farmwelding

I picked up some aluminum bar for this project 3.5x1.25x30 inches. I'm no Jody I can't just hold the parts together with one hand and weld it with the other. lol Camera is a Cannon EOS Mark II by the way.

Kit price with the add-on options (2 more cord hangers and the accessory tubes) $450 plus $90 shipping. It came well packed in like about a 30x30x10 inch box. PULSE TIG for the Win!! First tack welding...Jody was ZAP tack welding at like 150 amps. After some practice I got the hang of it but its a b...

The usual suspects have jacked my thread again

Oscar needs a Peavey intervention ^^^

Miller Coolmate 3 inbound! Fed up with excuses from Everlast, they told me 10 days on their cooler, after 10 days I called them last week and they said it was shipping the next day and would arrive today. Called today for a tracking # and they admitted it never shipped. Pressed further they admitted...

Oscar wrote:Comfortable? If someone messes this up, perhaps they should change hobbies/professions and start baking cupcakes! Can't get any easier

Speaking of easy, you have just about finished your scratch built tube guitar amp I take it?

I received the welding cart kit from ZTFab aka All-A-Cart.com for my new Everlast PowerTIG 255ext with PowerCool W300 torch cooler. When the cooler arrives this week I'll get started on the cart and chronicle in this thread. Here's the base and handles, this is thinner material than I have TIG welde...

Everything assembled, cleaned, and ready for use! Here's the BuildPro 22x46 welding table with adjustable height legs, casters, and the leg brace kit. http://www.coolidgeamps.com/pics/m6.jpg http://www.coolidgeamps.com/pics/m7.jpg http://www.coolidgeamps.com/pics/m8.jpg http://www.coolidgeamps.com/p...

Everlast 255ext and Powercool W300 TIG torch cooler $2,650 delivered with free shipping directly from Everlast how can you top that? Leaves you $350 left over for gas, tungsten, filler rods. I'm not a fan of the 'ex' vs the 'ext'. On the 'ex' there's so many knobs they can't really add any new featu...