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Who cares about the Gum up. I just cut through a 1" Aluminum Dowel with a chop saw. Like butter...... Cleaned up the edges on the side of the chop saw wheel. Done!

Believe it or not the best wire I have ever burned I bought at harbor freight. It was buy one get one free .030 solid non flux core for gas mix welding. After I went through those I bought Lincoln wire, that Lincoln stuff was total crap. I have some wire in there now from my local welding...

I built my TT 67 Dart with a 140 amp 110 Lincoln machine. This was before I bought my TIG. An experienced welder can do a whole bunch of projects with that small machine.

Yes, the trigger is your friend!

An easy way to overcome the warpage scenario is to tack your project in several places before going ape **** welding it off. On bigger projects you can weld part way on one area move over to another and sort of zig zag your way around the project until you hit all your areas. Again it should be...

You can watch all the video's you want and it will give you the general idea of how it is done. Under hood time will get you good at welding. No way around it. You can fine tune how hot the weld gets with wire speed along with the amperage setting. Here are some pics of my Turbo Piping for...

This.......^^^^^^^^^^ Open up the side case and flip the wires around before you start welding with the Gas. I run mine between 12-15 on the flow gauge. Any more than that you are just wasting the gas. Guys that run more than that in a controlled environment are usually not the ones paying for...

It all depends on how much you use it. I have had Harbor Freight Floor Jacks for at least 10 years. 2 of them I bought at the same time and they work great. I use the crap out of them and I am not nice to them either! On the other hand I bought a Costco Aluminum Floor jack and it lasted for 3...

Sweet Idea!

Yes pumps suck have broke a few myself. I usually fill them before install. Squeeze bottles are the ticket.

Damn they knocked that out quick! Looks really good. You got skilzzzz! Only thing is your bottle is going to look like crap now! You need an aluminum one to set it all off!

Animal! Ill drink to that! :drinkers:

Ok, you got way too much time on your hands! Looks sweet.

Tig welding is not as hard as everyone says it is. Within a couple hours I was laying down some serious beads. Built and welded off a ford 9" complete with all the 4 link brackets which was my first project with the new old school Linde Tig. This unit is 480V Compatable if you pull the side...

Pretty cool! I just found this thread.

Thanks Rob. Now it is time to strip that puppy down to a skeleton. The body/paint guy called me today. He say's he wants to get started on it right away. I had to hold him off because I still need to mock the Cell/Trunk all up and the peak dash too if they ever get here. I ordered both about 5...

Harbor Freight Casters here also..... 400# Swivel Jobs on each corner.

Thanks guys, it will get better with more practice. The Plate with the holes drilled is Chromoly and the gusset's and backing plate are Mild steel on these brackets. I have no experience yet Tig welding Stainless or Aluminum. I have some aluminum rod but no stainless rod.

I know your not knocking me down. I do that on my own!! haaaa Any help I can get will get me along faster. There is no way I would take on a set of Stainless Headers just yet cause I need alot more under hood time and the patients for correct prepping. I'll get it there, it will just take some...

Yeah there is a bit of undercut. There is a HUGE canyon there where the metal is butt together. I did not fit it perfect by cutting everything on an angle. I was filling it with Rod where you see the Undercut on those angles. There is a whole stick of Rod in each of those. Remember I only have...

We'll I never took the class. Time has not worked out for that just yet. I did however make some brackets for my 4 link and Tig welded them yesterday. I did Mig weld the inside of the brackets because it was too hard to feed the rod in the cramped area and see what I was doing. I think these...

Thanks James! I was told that you should have a separate set up as far as Cups, Tungsten, Collets etc for Aluminum, Stainless etc because it contaminates the welding process if you don't. I have some more parts and pieces on the way so I will have separate tackle boxes for each kind of metal...

I forgot to mention that I was using 1/16th filler rod.

I had it set at 12. I hit the foot pedal a couple times and adjusted it so when it was running the gauge read 12. I also used a gas lense/collet, 3/32 tungsten and a #7 cup.

Thanks John. It should only get better with time. I figured if I can do Ok with the crappiest conditions "Dirty Metal, un prepped" I should do alot better when I actually take the time to clean and prep it up nice.

Remember, this is 5 minutes of Under the Hood time, first TIG Experience going on. Nobody told me how to even set up the machine or anything. Yes there is some serious penetration going on. I never thought it would get as hot as it does. It gets crazy hot when you mash on the pedal. I had it...

I just set the welder up and thought I would share my very first tig welds with you guys. Remember this is 5 Minutes of Welding and I have never tig welded before in my life and I have not had any classes as of yet. The guy says he is booked til next week. He had to cancel the first lesson...

Supposedly on 3 phase 480v it will do 3/4 plate from what I am told. I will never weld anything that thick so it doesn't really matter to me. I will be using the single phase 220 hook up. On the low setting it goes 5-80 amps, on the high setting it goes from 85-360 amps if that makes sense. I...

I would think the rod creeping up the tungston could just be a setting issue. I should know some good information here in the next few weeks.

Yes it is an older model. It is set up now for a single phase hook up. It has the capability to hook up to 480V 3 Phase if you open up the side case. This one also has the Water Cooled Tig Torch hook ups. I would just need to swap out the torch and get a small tank and use a Fish Tank Pump to...