todays deal and a new project

[rsanter]

so I took my daugether to the store earlier to get her a pine derby car for a class project she is working on.
on the way back I stopped in at sears. I always look for the clearance stuff and spotted this for $19.97 still sealed in the box

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this past week I got myself a new TIG. when I saw this midchest in blue it made me think of my TIG and my desire to build a new welding cart.

I saw this welding table at the farm show where I got my TIG.

http://www.millerwelds.com/products/workstations/arcstation/

and got to thinking about a welding cart that had a work surface, some drawers ans then hold the welders at the bottom and then the tanks at the back

the color is not as close as I would want but perhaps I would paint it

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bob

 

[bchee]

damn $20

Seems like you were at Sears just yesterday!

 

[vbnash]

That is a great deal with many possibilities. The clamping system in the arc station is a nice feature to.

 

[WV Firefighter]

Nice score!

 

[rsanter]

damn $20

Seems like you were at Sears just yesterday!

didnt go to sears yesterday. if I had and there was more than one of these I would have bought a couple of them.

the 40" midchest I picked up from craigslist yesterday

bob

 

[lethal-6]

Have you used the diversion yet? If so how do you like it? Looking for some feed back on one. Thanks for any help that you can give.

 

[rsanter]

Have you used the diversion yet? If so how do you like it? Looking for some feed back on one. Thanks for any help that you can give.

I used the demo one at the show just a little. originally I was not looking at the diversion because its a 'low end' machine. I was going to get the lincolin 225. I was talking with some people including the owner of fresno oxegen and they explained the difference between a transformer machine and an inverter machine. all the other inverter machines started at $3000 and went up. they have some really cool features, but in the end I thought that I would not really need those added features for the added money.

features of the inverter machine:
1 you do not need to change tungston when switching between steel, stainless, and aluminum.
2 you do not need to ball the tungston for welding aluminum. you can use the same pointed tungston you use with everything else.
3 the inverter machines have a tighter spark so it should be more controllable. more stable arc
4 the inverter machines heat up the metal faster than the transformer machines.
5 inverter machines have less of an heat affected zone.
6 while the diversion does not have this feature, the inverter machines will allow you to change the frequency of the output. this gives you more tunability when doing specialized metals

I just got the gas yesterday so I will be starting it up soon

bob

 

[lethal-6]

Thanks keep us posted.

 

[gasjockey]

update ????????????????????

 

[NUTTSGT]

20 bucks,


you ****