I’m sure you are familiar with this place Bruce. I have no idea why non-electric refrigeration is so expensive. Back in the late Seventies this place used to sell a component package to cool whatever kind of enclosure you wanted to DIY build. Must have been some legal problems with that since no one makes one now that I have found.
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Apparently the Amish use propane refrigerators. Crystal Cold and EZ Freeze are the two major Amish brands. They are absorption refrigerators and freezers that typically use NG or propane. No electric of course.
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I don’t know if it was a law or just liability lawsuits(i think both) but they stopped using ammonia in consumer refrigeration sometime in the 70s. It eats the pipe out from the inside, and leaks. Which can asphyxiate people or can catch on fire. It was a ‘major cause’ of fires and deaths. What major means I don’t know. Ammonia is one of the best refrigerants.
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Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but should 4lbs of Harris(Lincoln) 308L solid core stainless mig wire in a .6mm size cost me 64 dollars?
Allegedly they charge by the pound, but they come in pre set spools. It makes no sense.
I feel like I just got fleeced by the only local welding supply store.
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I couldn’t find a Lincoln or harris .023 308L wire. If it is blue demon instead, then it is probably right on point. that was $30 per 2lb spool online. There are some other brands cheaper options at $20 dollars.
There is a significant price jump from .030 to .023.
It is hard to say whether you got fleeced or not. But they had it in stock and you were able to get it.
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Icyball - Wikipedia Reminds me of this. Crozly was some kinda entrepreneur a long time ago and his hunting ground became a big park with a nice shooting range
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The icyball was one of the first refrigeration units that worked. However they have a high internal pressure (249 psi) and exploded because the ammonia ate the metal away.
Powell Crosley was the marketer and patented several things around the refrigerator like shelves. 
But he his fortune on auto parts and cars.
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It was worth it to not blow holes in this stainless exhaust pipe. Doubt I’ll use up both spools. With this relabelled Marquette mig welder I can weld up exhaust thickness tubing on Low-2 and wire speed 4 and get relatively flat welds.
This machine buzzes so I think this is either a pure transformer welder, or transformer and rectified unit. I think this will be a permanent thin materials welder.
Edit: I’m using 75/25 for my gas, it’s a little sooty but it brushes clean. I’m sure it will last a lot longer than any of the carbon steel parts.
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then it was worth it. Does it leave brown carbon spots?
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My shop has poor lighting, I’ll have to check tomorrow. Not anything obvious.
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Don’t worry about it. What I was reading was for food grade welding. It might not be on the front side, it may be on the back where there isn’t shielding gas and you cant see it. It was part of my annual rabbit hole investigating on how to make maple syrup pans because I get tired of boiling and a better pan would make it go faster.
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I will probably move to TIG if I need to do any other sort of stainless welding that needs more precise shielding. Amazon sells a full 125cu/ft sized bottle of 100% argon for 370 dollars and I can refill at the store for about 35 dollars.
The Chinese units are starting to come with High Frequency start, it’s very tempting. Still no out of the box foot pedal amp control yet.
Honestly there’s not a lot of need for TIG with woodgas unless that’s simply an individuals wheelhouse. Maybe a Joni reactor would be easier to assemble with TIG since it has such thin stock.
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Local motorshow tomorrow, me and a fellow saw-collector going to show old chainsaws, and i get some nice “cookies” to make fuel chunks from 
First test of the little logging-wagon, some nice aspen logs.
Just found out the woodgas truck is visible in the background, i drove it there on gasoline, shame on me
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Dont be ashamed, you are just having to much fun😀
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Nothing wrong with testing the truck out to make sure it can still run on gasoline. Now that it has been checked out, it for sure will run on woodgas.
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I buy my solid core wire on amizon or ebay-what ever is the cheapest- it been about 60 or 70 bucks for 33 pound roll of 035 wire.last mounth i found a deal on 10 pound rolls a little cheaper than above price.I agree it seems at times there are no good price deals.
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I find it really odd that my local welding supply sells their wire by the pound.
One big problem with that is the spools are already wound up because that’s how they come from the manufacturer. My bill had a quantity of 4, I bought two 2lb spools. I had thought maybe there was some mistake but they said they have always charged by the pound.
I’ve never heard of this being done.
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That is a fun and cool machine. Not that you would ever do it, but I look at that and see a machine that would be a fun little remote control robot project.
They probably charge by the pound for everything to keep the book keeping simple. Most likely for other wire sizes they buy a 500lb spool and then make custom spool sizes and just charge by the pound.
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Yes, best thing is it runs good on both fuels now, some occasional misfiring, but i should have replaced the spark plugs a long time ago, and the plug wires needs to be replaced too.
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Hi Cody, i’ve noticed many companies charge by weight around here to, i think it due to the fast fluctuating prizes of raw material/metals.
Often they charge you prize/pound × factor1 (material: stainless, construction steel, and so on) × factor2 (dimension: thinner wire are often more costly).
With this method it’s easy to change the prize from day to day, the “weight price” changes quickly.
They’re use this way for pricing material, as angle iron, pipe, square pipe and stuff a long time, this iron/steel business are really like stock excange market… 
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