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Offline Caaveman82

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Welding
« on: May 29, 2009, 11:57:42 AM »
I just moved, again.

This time the place I moved into has a garage... and I get free reign over it. So I am setting up my little workshop because I am sick of driving into work on the weekends to get stuff done.

I want to buy my own welder. I'm thinking tig but.. I don't know about equipment at all, as far as what's good and what's not. I don't want something that is going to break the bank as it wont get A LOT of use, but I have a handful of projects that I will need it for soon. So with that said... let the suggestions fly.

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Re: Welding
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2009, 12:07:35 PM »
There was a recent thread on this very subject.....

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=52050.0
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Re: Welding
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2009, 12:15:37 PM »
Ah snap. I don't come on here enough. I should start searching for stuff like it says to do before making a new thread huh? Huh? Yeah? YEAH?
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Re: Welding
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2009, 12:36:51 PM »
Well, I do not know the quality but harbor freight has some welders that look fairly nice. You can even get some that are 115V as some garages(mine) are not wired for 220V. I have gotten other tools from there and I know the "snap-on" crowd will say they are junk but my timing light works great, so do the drill and everything else. Only thing bad was a click style torque wrench. Even my air impact wrench seems to be build well.
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Re: Welding
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2009, 03:40:17 PM »
That's what I was thinking vinman. Nice n' cheap.

I am 3 - 0 with Harbor Freight however. I bought a MacPherson strut tool, a sand blasting gun and a floor jack. All of them failed within the first week. Dis-a-pointed. :|

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Re: Welding
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2009, 04:35:21 PM »
Quote from: vinmans brew on May 29, 2009, 12:36:51 PM
Well, I do not know the quality but harbor freight has some welders that look fairly nice. You can even get some that are 115V as some garages(mine) are not wired for 220V. I have gotten other tools from there and I know the "snap-on" crowd will say they are junk but my timing light works great, so do the drill and everything else. Only thing bad was a click style torque wrench. Even my air impact wrench seems to be build well.

Take it from an experienced Mechanic....Harbor freight can be hit or miss.....

I've gotten good stuff there....but I've gotten crap there too....
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Re: Welding
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2009, 08:09:50 PM »
i got my highspeed buffer (for buffing paint) from them a year ago and it gets heavy use. still working good.
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Re: Welding
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2009, 04:21:33 AM »
if your going to stay with sheet metal 115v is ok
over 1/4" go with a 220v
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Re: Welding
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2009, 09:11:27 PM »
Hey I got a strut compressor too! I got teh twin hook style not the clamshell. I used it today and it worked just fine. I also had to use a drill I got there 2 years ago to drill out a ball joint for a sway bar. It worked great! Too bad you have had bad luck but yes, some of their stuff seems cheap.
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Re: Welding
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2009, 01:00:15 AM »
depending on what you think you are gonna weld,I would almost say buy a mig welder.....now if it's purely motorcycle welding,yes tig would be nice,but do you master tig..???

mig welders are a little more versatile but to get one you can really work with you will need to spend some cash...
I bought a "cheap" mig welder....known brand but their cheap line..spend $ 700....     didn't take me long to buy a "real" welder....a little over $3000   BUT now I got a welder I can do something with .....

honestly,cheap doesn't really work out for welders.......
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Re: Welding
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2009, 01:44:45 PM »
Welll. It's mostly for some hobby stuff. Nothing that has any structural importance. I probably don't trust my own welding enough to do anything to my motorcycle... at least not yet. I just need something to weld some iron and steel mostly, the occasional aluminum part. The reason I said TIG is because I have more experience with it than MIG.
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Re: Welding
« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2009, 11:36:19 AM »
So I am thinking about just doing the microwave arc welder I have been reading about.

Seems easy enough, and the price is right...
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