Thursday, December 20, 2007

Welder Up and Running

Last Sunday I set up my new welder. I ended up with a bunch of questions and I could not get the wire to feed all the way. Yesterday I stopped by Gaspro on the way to the shop and got answers. Very nice people there. At the shop I slipped off the nozzle hood and saw a short piece of old wire stuck in there. I managed to pull it our with needle nose pliers and the wire fed fine after that.

The helmet works great. Simple to set up and once that's done all I have to do is put it on. It makes welding much easier than the hand-held sheild that came With the shop's little Lincoln.

My practice welds are still not good enough for real work, but they are a lot better than before. Today I'll take pictures of a practice patch.

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