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Www.discountsteel.com has all the prices online. Ins tore they are cheaper but the online prices are retail

Good auto darkening hood will help, I have a sentinel A50 and like it. I also have a pipeliner with a #9 gold lens. That’s just as good and a quarter of the price. Once you weld with a gold lens you won’t go back to the green.

I like that XMT setup. I have the 304 at home and use the older 300's a lot at work (stick only). I've been waiting for a wire feeder to add to my arsenal. Hard to beat the arc of those machines

Finished this bucket repair over the weekend. 14 hours of welding and prep in this one.

I recently moved from 128cf bottle to a 380cf. Won’t ever go back. Welded this bucket up with 3 passes around every plate. Tank still has 2100psi. That’s 13 hours of welding.

Been wanting to build a rollout wheel for a long time and finally got around to it. Ordered the lathe chuck and spindle off Amazon, the rest I had laying around. Can weld horizontal or vertical, 45* coming soon.

If it’s being used to evacuate a system in place of a real vacuum pump. That compressor won’t pull down deep enough. The deepest a recip will pull is around 22”. You need to get down into the microns in order to get all the moisture out of a system. If it’s being used for wood working or...

It’s all about axle spacing and “bridging” weight on the road. The axles are already rated for 22k pounds each. A typical tri-axle trailer with axle spacing less than 9’ overall can only be licensed for 42k here in MN. If you spread the axles out to 9’1” it allows you 51k. This trailer...

Converted a tri-axle leaf sprung trailer to a tandem axle with a 3rd air lift tag axle. Notched the frame 18” and reinforced from in front of notch back to beaver tail. Doing this allows for 9k more gvwr to allow for hauling a track hoe.

Discount Steel is good for random drops but full length Steel there is definitely no discount. Better prices can be had a few blocks away.

Northern tool. Rating is 2200# each

Built a cart to repair hot tubs. Cart can support a tub full of water and be rolled around the shop by one guy.

Built 4 of these davit arms for removing large heads from chiller bundles. The big head weighs 1800#. Outer pipe is 5” sch. 120 and the inner pipe is 4” sch. 120. Notched the 4” to fit a 16”x45# beam that we cut down the center to make it a T beam. All welded on site with 7018. Edit: Don’t...

That’s exactly where I bought mine.

I’ll second the evolution saw. I built a rolling cart for mine with flip up sides.