firephoto
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Nice site here, shenion and Google both had a hand in leading me here and my recent departure of money left me with some good stuff.
So I've been welding when the need comes up for about 18 years I guess and finally decided to buy a new mig welder. Up until now I've mostly done stick welding unless I was using other peoples machines. I had a job once that had me welding aluminum brackets down for seat or tread planks in a college ball stadium but other than that I've just been welding on my own projects or for other peoples projects or mistakes.
Since I wanted to weld aluminum I narrowed down my choices to some machines with spoolguns and settled on a Lincoln powermig 180c. So far I like it and just need some more time on the trigger to get used to it and get more confident with the aluminum which lays down really fast.
Here's a pic of an old aluminum food equipment cart I picked up for $20 that I adapted for the welder and tanks and a fuzzy closeup of some welds. I did this with my old helmet so for right now I can blame that. I guess the new helmet is in the first pic too, it's an Optrel and works like a champ but I guess time will tell if it was worth the price but I like to keep things forever and buying cheap never seems to work out well for that.
So I've been welding when the need comes up for about 18 years I guess and finally decided to buy a new mig welder. Up until now I've mostly done stick welding unless I was using other peoples machines. I had a job once that had me welding aluminum brackets down for seat or tread planks in a college ball stadium but other than that I've just been welding on my own projects or for other peoples projects or mistakes.
Since I wanted to weld aluminum I narrowed down my choices to some machines with spoolguns and settled on a Lincoln powermig 180c. So far I like it and just need some more time on the trigger to get used to it and get more confident with the aluminum which lays down really fast.
Here's a pic of an old aluminum food equipment cart I picked up for $20 that I adapted for the welder and tanks and a fuzzy closeup of some welds. I did this with my old helmet so for right now I can blame that. I guess the new helmet is in the first pic too, it's an Optrel and works like a champ but I guess time will tell if it was worth the price but I like to keep things forever and buying cheap never seems to work out well for that.