The Home Machinist!

Like everybody says -- thanks for the great pictures and commentary. I'm amazed at how you guys rig things for really heavy lifts. I've gotten into rigging more as I learned how to repair ski lifts and from that I know there is much more to that skill than meets the eye. But some of the things I see...

It looks identical to mine even to the way the shipping crates are assembled and the color of the ink used in the box of indexing plates. But mine came from Grizzly. At the time I bought it (about 3 or 4 years ago) I knew nothing about quality in these type tools and just picked out something on the...

My Shopmaster has seperate 1 Hp motors on the mill and lathe. They are plugged into the same 220 circuit and I use both routinely because I want the power feed while milling. I do not have CNC motors on my machine (yet) so I'm using the threading gears. I will warn you that this is a good way to tak...

I assume you are talking about the same type of roadside barriers that are commonly used in NY. There is a steel post about every 8 to 10 feet that supports 3 steel cables. I have seen a car hit the system. He must have fallen asleep and just drove off the road directly ahead of me. I was ammazed at...

I'm using DCEP (Direct Current Electrod Positive) I connect the ground clamp to the left and the electode to the right as shown in the Owners Manual. There is a switch that sets polarity to either DC or AC. There is a second switch that selects TIG or Stick. According to the manual when DC is select...

Ieetizin, I'm back with some photos. I welded the section last Friday and have spent from them to now figuring out how to manipulate the picture's resolution and how to put them in a response.

Tom

I don’t have much time this AM as I need to get to the shop, but I wanted to answer Ieezitin’s questions. I am using 1” black steel gas pipe; it has walls that are about 3/32” thick. It’s a cheap source for coupons. I also have a section of 1” ID nominal unfinished, basically a structural steel like...

Ieetzin responded with a lot of info and I’ll answer his questions and add a bit of background plus a progress report. I have a lot of snow making pipe that has frozen and burst so I’m really trying to master correct repair technique, technique that will move from shop area to hill as needed. I’m ge...

Well at this point I’m mostly very frustrated. Ieezitin had described what seemed like very clear instructions and I said I would get down to shop and try everything. I had even said I’d bring my camera and put up some pictures of the cross sections. I brought my camera but I could not weld anything...

Ieezitim; thank you for the very detailed tutorial. I have the shop to myself tomorrow and Sunday and I’ll make up some more coupons and try out everything you suggest. I’ll even try the 6-G positon you describe. Maybe I can figure out how to use my new camera to that some pictures of the resulting ...

Thanks for the replies. Even if it’s things I may know the reinforcing helps. But I can add some detail to answer some questions that were raised: 1) It’s the second pass with the 7014 that is giving me the tight flux. Typically I grind or very aggressively wire brush the first pass 6010 stringer. 2...

I was reading an earlier thread and some questions were raised on this topic. ..... 7014 7018 or (Low-Hi) (Low Hydrogen) family etc are classified as a Globular arc, meaning exactly that it globulates in its molten state and the weld is made by placing each molten blob to the weld area. It’s an all...