OK, neighbors here I go...

[Yofish]

fdcmiami what is your problem? This man does not deserve your sarcasm and I have found that most who are sarcastic on the internet have little to be proud of in real life. It sounds to me like Yofish makes his living on this kind of work. Man lets be civil and learn from each other instead of insulting each other. I for one am very interested and pleased with what he has acomplished with this " little mig machine" . He did what he was told could not work. I wish I had a dollar for everything I was told would not work but I went ahead and did it anyway. I am very interested in what he set up for portability because I for one do 80% of my work mobile.

TheGary, the sport from Miami is hilarious! Either he's a tippler or his wife kicked him off NASCAR for the Discount Jewelry Shopping Channel, maybe both. A practised troll; just respond to the last post without reading the thread, cast aspersions and act like you know what you're talking about. Pick nits, suggest the OPer is lying and hopefully engage target slob in a peeing match so he can pump up the limp ego. Wash, rinse, repeat. A sad lot they be!

As I've said, after I squared up the possibilities Everlast offered, I choose to go after a machine that is super portable and not a shop workhorse. If what Mark@Everlast says is true, and this machine runs well off a 5.5K gen, then it will be humanly possible to get it in a small plane like a Cessna 180. For years I did a lot of work in the Aleutians, which, is about the ends of the earth. In one location, we had a Miller BlueStar CC machine that I hooked up to a 30A to do boat repairs. CC and aluminum is ugly but it works if you are patient and have lots of spare contact tips. That unit got there via Grumman Goose. So just imagine a gen that weighs 200# and this set-up that weighs nothing and it can actually weld! Alaska is full of remote weather stations that are entirely made of aluminum. They look like funny pyramids. Anyway, they occasionally need repair........

In this unit I'm going to toss the internal wire drive assembly and turn the space into a lunch box. Who needs it if you have a gun? Toss the too stiff vinyl power cord and the whimpy clamp and replace it with a short 10ga. SJOW cord about 24" or so long and a metallic cord clamp. I have a 50' 8ga. extension cord. Get a 40 cu ft tank that weighs 27# (empty). Now we have a unit that will work in my local harbor that has locations providing 220VAC. Can pretty much get the whole taco down the ramp on a two wheeled dolly. So we have 50' of stretch to the box and 30' from the box. 80' gets me (usually) anywhere I want to go. One of the biggest attractions of this unit is that it will run off 208 (so said Alex, the salesman). ALL of the larger boats I deal with where 80' is not enough (talking Bering Sea crab boats) have serious power generation capabilities but it's all 208. I turn down a lot of work because frankly, I don't want to break down my main machine to go spend two hours fixing some gill-netters broken net reel. What! You didn't strip the net off before I got here?!! It's just not worth it. Now it is.This thing will sit in the corner until needed. It's really rather amazing that you're (and another who has PM'd me for a schematic) about the only poster that actually 'gets' what I'm after. That it couldn't be done, I immediately rejected because nothing that was said made any sense whatsoever. We're not talking brain surgery here.