First beads on a PowerArc 140ST

[Tanh]

I'll take your word for it as right now I don't have the tig feature setup. I can see it's much cleaner than stick, mig or even gas for that matter. About welding in the cave, it's been done and after a while I wear a respirator until my vent fan has time to catch up. The fumes are up in the air and get cleared fairly fast though. The unknown is how argon would do in this situation, being denser than air. I think I'll try it for the first time with my wife outside so if I pass out then she can crack open the o2 bottle or get someone! Living dangerously! lol.

Or not and stick it out till I get the workshop done in the fall.

I was never a big fan of metal cutting band saws. They are generally very slow cutting through solid and flat stock. Most of the material I was cutting before was tough stuff though. (HSS, W2, O1 ...) For mild steel though they work great. That's left a bad taste in my mouth for years though. Maybe it's time to revisit the band saw and see if it'll fit the bill. As long as it gets me a true cut at a reasonable speed.