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Geez, did you say your wife bought you a welder for your birthday? You've got a GOOD one! Buy her a nice cordless drill and an extra battery so she can help you with your projects.

If you check out his website, he's a commercial artist. So evidently he's found a way to keep food on the table.

Lots of techniques there that would be fun to play with. Skipping a welding...

Agreed, the holes should have been drilled slightly oversize which should allow you enough movement to square the vise to the blade prior to cinching them down. If there's insufficient slop in the...

Looks like he cut the profile out of steel, ground it to fit, and welded it on. Next shot shows him going at it with the angle grinder and a flap sanding wheel. In between I suspect he took a 4"...

No, no English wheel, nor planishing hammer. But I'm pretty sure I could scare up a stump somewhere and gouge a depression in it. Did you notice that hollow tapers sort of like a 3-dimensional...

This is something I've long wanted to try. Ran across this video today of a guy making a perch out of steel plate and I'm of the opinion that this guy is having way too much fun.
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Think of it as cold solder.

That cabinet looks like a big empty box. Might be able to pull that front panel off and weld in some steel to screw ball bearing extension draw guides to. Then build some plywood drawers and you're...

I think I'd hold out until I could get one with the rocket launcher in the back. Brings back memories of watching those parading across Red Square as shown on grainy black/white TV around 1960.
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For 12-14" arms, anything will work. Don't overthink it. Use what's available and affordable. Even old bed frame rails would work for what you propose.

It's important that whatever you end up...

A lot of folks make racks like that out of old-fashioned galvanized iron water pipe. Fittings area easy to find, pipe is relatively cheap and strong. But then, you can weld, so maybe 1.5" square...

I understand the reason for the post-flow. But I don't seem to have the option to leave the air on full time. Cooldown air is set by the post-flow control which maxes out around 30 seconds after...

I have a couple questions that I didn't see covered in the manual.

While plasma cutting, it appears that if you let go of the trigger you have to wait until the post-flow time has been used up...

Sometimes a little chalk dust rubbed on the mating parts can minimize slippage, and the tendency to overtighten.

That's an interesting point, something I've wondered for a long time. Say you're welding 6061 T6. Because of the heat of the welding process, the metal on either side of the bead will be annealed...

The problem with machine tools is that the investment it takes to make iron casting is so great, only a few players have the capability to get in that game. And Sieg is one of the few companies in...

Well, you see, that's just the problem. You get one tool and you find you really need another. Been doing woodworking since I was a kid. But wanted to work more in aluminum. So I started looking...

Something simple, anyway. I was afraid it was the HF circuit not transferring the pilot to the work. That doesn't seem to be the case. However, I tried dialing back the power to see how low I...

The one nice thing about Grizzly is that they have a very good reputation for taking care of their customers. You'll pay more for the equivalent machine from them, but they don't let quality...

Thanks, I think you're right. Went through a piece of 3/8" angle at the same setting and realized I probably could have dialed it back a lot. Having no frame of reference yet, I need to experiment...

Just got home from my day job. Reassembled everything, didn't change the settings at all, except for dialing the Amperage to max (65 indicated) and Success!

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Set the pressure to 60 and 80...

Do you mean actually touch the tip to the work? I thought there should be a HF arc that should jump that gap. When you talk of the pilot arc, is that the blue flame I'm seeing when I squeeze the...

First thing I checked out was TIG (DCEN only). It did fine. Made a nice arc and I was able to draw a bead on mild steel. Then I tried the plasma torch and ran into difficulties, so haven't tried...

Mark, that's sort of the problem now. I can get a nice blue-white flame in mid-air. As I bring it into the work, very slowly, the moment the side of the flame contacts the metal, it goes out. No...

Quite right. I shoulda' explained. That' Ar/CO2 for the MIG. The TIG uses Ar in a 250 cu ft tank bolted to the wall. Too top heavy, too heavy for this little cart.