New to welding

[KubotainNH]

Bman, looking forward to seeing you burn some rods. Nothing like joining two pieces of metal, if you screw up grind it out and start over. Do take Mark up on his offer, good to have someone right there to tell you what you are doing wrong. I got the iMig 140 from Mark, nice little machine that does what I need.

 

[BMan2005]

When we built the Pioneer Square Station of the Metro bus tunnel down town Seattle. We lowered the beams down with a crawler crane setting on 3rd avenue. Track loader drug the beams to there locations, and an excavator set them in place. Before setting the beams in place we had to cut them to length, and weld plates on the ends. We used self shielded wire. Majority of the beams we didn't clean as well as we should have.
We placed over a million tons of falsework iron in that station!

Is that you in the second picture? Pretty cool pictures btw, thanks for sharing them.

 

[BMan2005]

Bman, looking forward to seeing you burn some rods. Nothing like joining two pieces of metal, if you screw up grind it out and start over. Do take Mark up on his offer, good to have someone right there to tell you what you are doing wrong. I got the iMig 140 from Mark, nice little machine that does what I need.

Thanks man, and me too!

Just got an updated email from ups my package was delayed to arrive Friday now. :thumbdown:. Was hoping to get a day to test it out but I'll be leaving Friday for the weekend. Oh well, the following week

 

[woodlandfarms]

California brought up a good point. With those #'s wouldn't I be just fine running 110v since I don't plan to step over 1/8" rod no time soon?

Me personally I would get enough wire to pull 50 amp 220. Today you say 1/8 Tomorrow you say a bridge a cross your property.

 

[Shield Arc]

Is that you in the second picture? Pretty cool pictures btw, thanks for sharing them.

No, that is Harvey. I forget why, but Harvey died not to long after that project.
This is me in the blue T-shirt. Working on the Seattle water front.

 

[Birdhunter1]

BMan2005 here are the settings I use with my PowerArc 200ST. Now remember everyone welds a little differently, but these settings should get you close.

1/8-inch 6010
Flat, 70-AMPS
Vertical up hill, 65-AMPS

5/32-inch 6010
Flat, 100-AMPS
Vertical up hill, 90-AMPS.

3/32-inch 7018
Flat, 50 to 60-AMPS
Vertical up hill, 50 to 55-AMPS

1/8-inch 7018
Flat, 105-AMPS
Vertical up hill, 80-AMPS

5/32-inch 7018
Flat, 125-AMPS
Vertical up hill, 120-AMPS

^^^^This is gold^^^^
I don't run 5/32 rods but on the 1/8" rods I find I'm running about the same numbers on my 200ST. On the talk of 7014 it runs like butter.

 

[Birdhunter1]

California brought up a good point. With those #'s wouldn't I be just fine running 110v since I don't plan to step over 1/8" rod no time soon?

I ran my 200ST on 110V once. I had a hinge to weld back together on a piece of equipment and my weren't long enough to reach from my 220 welder plug. On a 20 amp 110V circuit I could not run a 3/32 7018 without blowing a breaker, and it was not a wiring problem anywhere in the circuit. Up until the breaker blew each time the arc was rather weak and I gave up and tacked it together enough to move it to where I could run it hotter on 220. I've sin ce got longer leads and built a cord to power it further away.

 

[BMan2005]

No, that is Harvey. I forget why, but Harvey died not to long after that project.
This is me in the blue T-shirt. Working on the Seattle water front.

Sorry to hear that SA.

That's pretty cool man, much respect to you guys who build the huge structures. Very interesting stuff to me.

 

[yomax4]

I ran my 200ST on 110V once. I had a hinge to weld back together on a piece of equipment and my weren't long enough to reach from my 220 welder plug. On a 20 amp 110V circuit I could not run a 3/32 7018 without blowing a breaker, and it was not a wiring problem anywhere in the circuit. Up until the breaker blew each time the arc was rather weak and I gave up and tacked it together enough to move it to where I could run it hotter on 220. I've sin ce got longer leads and built a cord to power it further away.

Must have been a 15 amp breaker? You should be able to roast 3/32 with ease on 115v 20A.

 

[BMan2005]

Question guys, what is a good convenient height to have the top of your work bench table for welding? Compared to your body?