Recent content by NRDave

ive ordered some other stuff from eastwood before. but i got an email for their shrinker stretcher combo. with the two seperate units. anyone have personal experience with this unit? it would be for random garage use on nothing to heavy. any input greatly appreciated. thanks.

thanks a ton. what i was looking for!

Havent been on the site for awhile now. Been trying to get work done. lol. But i need some direction now. Been looking for a set of dimple dies. There are tons of different setups out there. I dont or havent used or needed some in the past but id like to try them out. So i need someone to point...

Got a pic of which one it was?

Any parts/tool store is church to me.

Re: what did you do in your garage today? Thanks. Bought a pile of random sized tubing from a buddy of mine. Abut ten minutes of pen and paper and that's what I came up. Then built the rack above it to hold all the left over material. Lol.

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Not eye appealing? I don't know who's welds you been looking at. As for the welder's I have the Eastwood tig for my garage use. Haven't any problems with the machine at all. Was worth the money to me. And I weld all day for work with miller synchro wave tig machines and miller migs.

Correct. But if you adjust the machine then you will be able to adjust your hand speed by the sound of the machine as weld. You'll find that sweet spot.

We could make those all day long. Too bad I'm not closer to you.

Like I said hold the stinger on a scrap peice with the heat setting on high and pull the trigger and adjust the wire speed until you get the "bacon" sound.

Good penatration sir.

Leave the machine heat setting on "e". Turn DOWN your wire speed. Not up as previously stated. Should sound like crackling bacon. Trick is hold the welder on a peice of scrap and adjust your wire speed knob till you get the correct sound. If your trying to weld a part for reason then try and...

I had a hf helmet many many moons ago when I started at my current fab shop. Used it quite a bit. Never really seemed to have a prob with. But I figured if I'm gonna make a career outta welding why not buy the good stuff. I now how 2 miller elite helmets. Just picked up the second one which is...

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