The Welding Page
I have a fair selection of welding equipment. But this is the most recent acquisition.
A Plasma Cutter, a Lincoln ProCut 55. I haven't had a chance to hook it up yet. I expect it to allow me to use a lot of the spare metal items around the garge to complete the major projects I have to finish before moving. Well that didn't happen, a year later and it still isn't hooked up, and the thieves in Akron have cleared out my steel piles stolen two lawn mowers and stolen the fencing right off the posts in the back of my home. Akron is a great place not to live.
Actually, I haven't had a chance to hook up the last welder I bought yet ,either. It's a Miller Dialarc HF P. This is a picture I found on line, but it's pretty close. The cart I have is better, although It nearly cut my finger off the first night. I was placing the welder on the cart using an engine hoist and the cart has a bar right at the top of the rear of the unit . Well I got my finger in the wrong place trying to place it correctly and nearly cut it off. My wife managed, with nearly unintelligible direction, to jack it back up, and release my finger. I learned how important it is to make sure everyone around the operation knows how to work all the equipment involved. Fortunately my finger sustained no real damage and in just a few weeks I could bend it, and can even type with it again. Unfortunately I got it a couple weeks before I fell through the floor at a house fire and ended up in a two and a half year battle with Workers Comp. The resulting delay and incapacity has made it impossible to do anything toward using it, but I will hopefully be able to get it working this spring. I have a couple projects waiting on the ability to weld stainless, and aluminum. That didn't happen either as I had to spend the summer creating an enclosed building with a concrete floor, just to move my equipment to, so next year, maybe...
The machine I use the most is the Lincoln Sp125 Plus Mig welder. It makes welding fun. I have dropped it, and broken it, and repaired it, and changed it from steel to aluminum, and back and it still works well. I think it is the easiest machine there could possibly be to weld with. I've actually been able to use this one a couple times, but not in a recreational mode.
I bought it with a Ranger 8 engine driven welder so that I could power it if I got away from a convenient energy source and needed a replacement. I think it will come in handy building a house in the wilderness which is another plan I have. I've used this one for a number of things because it can run, "away from the grid" so it's been a real help. I intend to rewire the new house so I can power it from the outside, the way the house in Akron was. Then this will probably live in the basement , as soon as I add one.
At this point I have a couple oxy-acetylene sets and a selection of torches and gauges that allow me to compliment my other operations. Adding this to my machine shop capabilities, I can pretty much build whatever I choose.
