I also have some 6013 rods. I think it’s a combination of it being a cheap welder and my lack of stick welding skills. I got it with the intention of turning it into a TIG machine in the near future since it uses removable leads.
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Scratch start TIG is easy. I did that with my stick welder. I bought the wrong gas. I think you need 100% argon. Ask before taking the tank . . .
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Yes pure argon for tig is pretty much industry standard
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Oh yeah forgot to mention. The trade for the Jag and Sand Rail went through. I just need to get the time to go get the cars and I’ll drop the Yamaha off at the same time.
Luckily dad’s friend made sure to crank up the Jaguar every once in a while so she shouldn’t be locked up. If it wasn’t 50 miles from home and I wasnt so scrupulous for safety and road legality I’d drive it home.
Praying that there is enough material to weld in new floorboards. I’m dead set on bringing it back even if it looks butt-ugly.
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I have one of those cheap inverter welders. I’ve held various welding licenses since 1969 and I fight that crappy welder all the time so it’s not you and it’s not even the rod. I bought it because I though it would work off a small inverter generator. It doesn’t. I burned up a couple of good welders and most of the stuff I do now can be done with my little Lincoln flux core welder. I do still have a Miller gas powered welder and one of these day I’m going to have to get that working again but if I ever scrapped up some extra cash I’d definitely spend it on a good machine. All the difference in the world.
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I need to restore my jumbo welder that dad left at the farm. It hasn’t been used in probably 20 years, and the leads need re-insulating. It isn’t a tombstone buzz-box but I’m sure it’s still an AC welder.
To set the amperage you unplug and re-plug the stinger into different sockets. Also doubles as a battery charger so maybe it is a DC welder? He keeps telling me to use that but I haven’t gotten around to it, I don’t want to even plug it in until I take the cover off and make sure there aren’t mouse nests waiting to cause a fire. I can’t remember the name of it, had a really unique name.
Edit: It’s a Marquette I just remembered.
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Hehehehe ya …six hours of work from picking husking and cracking all those nuts. Filburts on the left hazelnuts on the right. Loooooot of work for a pound of nuts, delicious all the same
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Often when I think I spent too much time doing something I have to remind myself it wasn’t time someone else was willing to pay me for so I just got the reward i could fit into that time slot.
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Ordered a 10lb spool of more flux core wire.
To hold me until it arrives I’m buying a little 1lb spool of some Lincoln brand wire. I just want to finish this little Joni Mini copy to see how she runs!
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There are new hiway signs going up here western Washington state:
“Prevent WildFires
Secure your Tow Chains”
They are talking about the two looped mandatory safety chains on vehicle towed trailers.
Looped to low dragging and these have proven to be sparking roadsides dry grass liting off.
2018 California’s named Camp Fire . . . . Towns burnt down. Hundreds of rural houses and farmsteads lost. People and many domestic and wild animals died.
A travel trailer’s flat tire steel wheel dragging . . . . or, the then safety chain loop dropped lowered and pavement dragging.
The trailer towing folks were very apologetic.
Steve Unruh
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Watched this happen on I90 Snoqualmie pass 2 years ago travel trailer lost a tire in front of me got it to the roadside and she lit up the tinderbox dry grass on the offramp. Luck would have it the guy and I both had fire extinguisher on board and got it under control in about a 10’ circle, DOT state patrol and fire patrol were there before the smoke cleared. Stater watched while he swapped the tire out and we all went about our merry way, tragedy averted. I’m a stickler for checking trailer tires before long trips on hot asphalt, and check how hot they are getting along the way
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Saw recently that in the new proposed infrastructure bill they are sneaking a Per Mile fee to your registration. This will be a test phase allegedly. Something about requiring a GPS tracker in the vehicle and you pay the fee when you renew your registration and will deny a sticker renewal if you have an outstanding balance.
I pray that this is just a hoax. I’ve heard about this before but not that it was in a bill. Guess once gasoline gets phased out they’ll have to find a new way to extract road tax. But something like this would make owning a vehicle even more expensive.
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Finally a light rain in the Seattle area. 51 days without a trace is the 2nd longest dry spell.
Fortunately we have. A good well and so have been able to water the garden and about 500 ft2 of lawn to keep some green.
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Finally a light rain in the Seattle area. 51 days without a trace
Here it has been about 51 days sense we have had a couple days without rain . Hard year for the hay business .
Will be working the wood burner today hauling in hay until rained out.
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I’ve been thinking of making a small chunker. I have a disc brake from a go kart, maybe 1/8" thick disc and maybe 8" diameter just from memory. Has a built in 1" bore with the key integral to the bore. I’ll try to see about either running one big singular reduction with a belt or a double reduction. I know it wouldn’t be useful for bigger stuff but with my future plans to harvest wood via coppicing I think it will be just right.
It has been many, many weeks since we have had a view from our deck like this. I see the mountains. No Smoke. Oh so that’s what clouds look like. Thank you Yehovah for the beautiful day that You have gave us here.
Bob
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Wayne the same is true here. I mowed hay a couple days ago for the first time since June and then it misted on it all day yesterday. It did bale today but now it is so hot and muggy that this yankee can’t take the heat to haul it and it is hotter tomorrow. My plan is to haul once the sun goes down. I have about 500 to pickup today and another 500 I didn’t bale today to get tomorrow.
Definitely a bad year for haying here too.
I think I would look up the rebark system that some if our friends in Europe have posted for smaller stuff. Basically a couple of cutter rolls
Those look ideal for small stuff to me
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I’ve seen videos on them being made but I’m not good at fabrication like that. I’d be more than happy to buy one from a fellow on here though 