Recent content by thompsoncustom

Measuring the welder under no load is only part of the picture. Set it to 100amps and weld with it and see what it reads.

Ya I'll be curious what your amp meter says once you take some readings between the 2 welders. This is where the new inverter welders shine, I can run beautiful beads at 40amps on exhaust pipe with 7014 rod with no problems starting but other than teaching my boy how to do it I use the mig...

I'm wondering if it's the welder and not the breaker. I can run 180amps on my stick and not pop a 40amp breaker.

What are you doing with the trailer? If building a car hauler I would make a tandem axle tilting airbag trailer wouldn't be hard to build and could be made out of a parts trailer you find and if your someone that likes building things I assume you'll enjoy designing it. If your loading it down...

Indeed it would be difficult and would depend on your welding skills if it was something you would want to attempt, I would do it with my mig welder or Tig if thats something you have but it's not something I would attempt if stick was your only option. I don't think it being hardened is going...

Could you weld the broken part back on and retap the threads?

Having grown up using an old Forney and than a Lincoln stick welder I wouldn't go back to the transformer style for light duty stuff the cheap little inverter ones you can get for around 100 bucks are way better with hot start and arc force options but at the same time they are made for the...

My cheap helmet has been great so far and compared to my brothers Snapon helmet he likes it more, no problems with fitment or visibility so far. It was around 60 bucks on amazon.

have you tired picking it up keeping the saw horizonal and then tipping the saw down so the bar points to the ground. If it's fine till it's tipped then you could have fuel pooling in front of the intake where the boot meets the cylinder.

Well I found a cheaper option that might work for some of you. I've noticed that around my area oxygen cylinders seem to go cheaper than c25 or pure argon so I called up SJ smith and asked if I could exchange a O2 cylinder for pure argon and they said that I could. Bought a 9in by 52in oxygen...

no mods but she doesn't really require any.

there's a company called gascylindersource that seems to have some decent prices other than they don't have a real store front and everything has to be shipped. recertified 250cu ft argon cylinder shipped to my door is $240 bucks.

HD-12 carb will work on a wild thing without to much work and has a much bigger throat. If I remember right I had to bend the throttle linkage and close the hole in the butterfly and that was about it. believe I also modified the little black plastic air filter holder so I could get the cover...

OEM filters are still the best option until you get into not running the air filter cover. I always just put some grease around the choke lever that way if anything tries to get through it sticks to the grease and is self-sealing.

I could see that and is why I said they could do it with a thick enough can, doesn't surprise me if the EPA has regs on this just like they do gas cans.