Getting The Most Out Of Your Welder

[muddstopper]

I made a shallow pool out of cinder blocks and plastic sheet about 5' X 6' X 6" deep, put in some water, some washing soda, a couple blocks of wood, and set my front porch iron hand rails into the solution, then hooked up the negative lead of my DC arc welder to the rail and the positive to some sacrificial anodes around the edges. Turned it on and the rust fled the railings to the anodes. A day later and I had clean railings, ready for a wipe down and paint. :thumbsup:

Works good. I did a 1000gal bowie hydroseeder using that method. Used a ac/dc tombstone and hooked up the ground to the tank and hung scrap metal all around the inside of the tank. Took a couple of days but the inside looked like new, it even took off the red paint/primer, or what ever that stuff is they put on the inside of the tanks.

 

[Rustyiron]

I then pull the trigger with the gun pointed down into an opened bottle of wine to displace the oxygen.
Feel free to share your experience(s)

Terry

Terry when I open a bottle of wine, it's empty in about 1/2 hour, I guess you have much bigger bottles.

 

[Big Barn]

Terry when I open a bottle of wine, it's empty in about 1/2 hour, I guess you have much bigger bottles.

Rustyiron. Nope.

Fixed income retiree.

Terry

 

[jack707]

I use mine to gouge a fitting off of a tank I'm making into a pig roster using a 1/8 6010 it worked.

 

[dragoneggs]

Rustyiron. Nope.

Fixed income retiree.

Terry

Red wine is why I can't retire for the foreseeable future!

 

[Big Barn]

Red wine is why I can't retire for the foreseeable future!

You can do it, Mark !

Here's a recent (Big Barn) Sunday dinner...




Terry

 

[MossRoad]

Throw some chili on that and you got something there! :licking:

 

[dragoneggs]

Throw some chili on that and you got something there! :licking:

well heck then add some grated cheese too!

 

[MossRoad]

well heck then add some grated cheese too!

Oh man, can't forget the cheese!!!!! :licking:

 

[drizler]

I'll start off.

I loosen the drive roller tensioner on a mig, crack open the tank valve and turn on the machine. I then pull the trigger with the gun pointed down into an opened bottle of wine to displace the oxygen. (Yes I know, inexpensive vacuum pumps are available, but what fun is that)


Feel free to share your experience(s)

Terry[/QUOTE]

I don't use my mig much as if possible I grab the tombstone. The bottle of tri mix shielding gas just sits there mostly. Now when I have a can of paint (regular laquer or enamel not hardened) thats down over 1/4 and I don't have a handy smaller can to transfer to I use the gas tube on the welder . Just crack the can a bit, enough to let the tube go down in and turn it on for a few seconds and quickly slide it out and immediately seal. It seems to work just like that Bloxygen stuff they sell at a fairly steep price in a spray can. That's where I got the idea, from an ad for Bloxygen. The paint doesn't skim over from what I have seen.