I am not experienced at stick, and I would still have to buy 5# which is rather expensive. I cannot get single sticks of hardface from the ag dealers.
It may have taken 20 years to get to the current point, but the material was a hard edge. Hardox plate I cannot find at the local metal...
My loader bucket is showing wear in the cutting edge near the edges. Since it is a little wear over 20 years, I am wondering if building it up with MIG wire would be acceptable, rather than using hardfacing. One of the issues is that finding hardface in 10# spools is rather expensive, and...
I am trying to finalize my shopping for a plasma cutter, and have zeroed in on a 50A with pilot arc. I am looking at the low end units on ebay.
My question is that I find two torches which are common, the SG-55 and the PT-31. It seems that there are more vendors for consumables for the PT-31...
Danny, what welder are you using. A point of my posting is that there are some inverter welders which are specifically programmed to do well. My brother has the new Miller 211 and has made welds where it is very difficult to tell the difference between 75Ar/25CO2 and 100 CO2.
As for the...
After doing a bit of welding with both C100 and C25, and using the appropriate settings on a Miller Multimatic 200, I have observed that nominally the C25 has between 2/3 and 1/3 less splatter than a C100 weld under similar circumstances. For some applications the additional splatter of C100...
What size brush do you have in mind? Something like 0.040" or something like 0.020" wires?
I do have a beast of a 9" grinder, but oddly enough the 4.5" grinder has almost as much power.
I guess my experience is different. My hoses on my primary aircraft torch are 35 years old. I remember buying them. I wipe them down after use, and the rig is kept in the garage out of direct sunlight. I bought new hoses over 10 years ago, but have not installed them because the existing...
The needle scaler guns that I am familiar with have pins which are about 2mm in diameter. That is larger than the "pits" which remain after abrasive pad cleaning. From what I can estimate, they are 0.5 to 1.5 mm.
I have a 60" front loader bucket on my tractor which I would like to paint, and in general preserve. The tractor is about 30 years old, and sits outdoors. I have a long driveway, and in the winter, I use the bucket to move the heavy snow/salt mixture which collects at the road. At this point...
The instructional section of this site deals with the use of C100 (CO2), C25 and Ar in MIG welding.
Some of the newer welders, using inverters, can programmatically change the electrical characteristics of the power supply. For example, the new Miller 211, the Miller Multimatic 200 are two...
Thanks for the replies. I will see if I can capture some pictures this week and post them. The cutting edge to bucket cracks are along the weld, and will need grinding out, however, there has not been a separation of the cutting edge from the bucket.
I have seen worse buckets. I haven't...
I have a Ford 1510 with a 770B loader, and have managed to prang the loader bucket clearing hedgerows. It dips about 3/4" over 3 of the 5 feet of width. Additionally, the hard edge (cutting edge) weld appears to be failing with cracks.
I have not tried mechanical means of straightening the...