120-Volt Mig welder.

[roadhunter]

I borrowed a friends SP135 welder for a few weeks just before I got my 255. While it's rated at 20 amps input you really needed to have it on a 30 amp circuit. The chart inside it said it would weld up to 5/16 with multiple passes using flux core wire. But I found it to be a pain having to stop and remove the flux between passes would allow the metal to cool. As others have said, 110v machines have a limited amount of "heat" they can put into metal.

SP135 is a good little welder. That is what I learned on.

 

[dragoneggs]

Here is a pic of one of the odd projects I have done with a 110v welder. So it's blowing about 40+ and snowing like crazy, below 0. For some reason my satellite is out but there is a football game on that I want to watch. I go outside and the dish is shaking in the wind. Then I have the brilliant idea of stabilizing it with some scraps of rebar I have laying around. As you can see I have a couple of attachment points. One being where a clamped 2 pieces of steel onto the dish and another where I welded a small bolt on a piece of rebar and used an existing hole in the actual dish. I had the 110v welder (Hobart 125 mig running .035 flux core) in the bucket of the tractor and I was on a ladder. In the end it worked and seems to keep the dish stable in the wind. But is it's ugly so I will probably fix it one of these days.

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I like it! Antennas are not pretty to begin with (maybe K0ua will disagree :laughing I wouldn't waste my time on an improvement, especially now that it is football season again.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

It just occurred to me that Arc Weld and I will probably both end up with 110v welders, as up here in Canada the old age and retirement complexes seldom have 220v in the rooms.

Terry

Good one :laughing:

 

[dragoneggs]

It just occurred to me that Arc Weld and I will probably both end up with 110v welders, as up here in Canada the old age and retirement complexes seldom have 220v in the rooms.

Terry

Yeah how ironic... or is it poetic justice?

 

[jaotguy]

It just occurred to me that Arc Weld and I will probably both end up with 110v welders, as up here in Canada the old age and retirement complexes seldom have 220v in the rooms.

Terry

nahhh .. just sneak into the kitchen ... pick any set of plugs ... make a special adapter with 2 120 plugs on it .... and a 240 plug on the other end ...

the "hot" lug on each 120 socket should be on a different leg on the breaker box ... presto ! 240 from 120 outlets ....

but the old folks home will still frown at welding in the kitchen:laughing: ... ( ooops , must have burned the potatoes again ... sorry )

 

[Sodo]

Pirate 240v just to weld a walker handle? Oh well thats's par for the course around here! Yup wanna do the job once, can't be re-doin' again next year no-sirree! (plus we'll be all stinkbones by then)

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

 

[Furu]

Had to look up that term as had never heard it.

According to the urban dictionary and I cut and pasted from it:

stinkbone
The medical term used by white trash when referring to the pelvis


StinkBone
Handcrafted Art Inspired by all Living Things

and some reference to Worlds of Warcraft.

I still have no idea. I am so glad that communication occurred.

Communication : The transfer of information or ideas between two or more individuals. NOT

 

[jaotguy]

Pirate 240v just to weld a walker handle? Oh well thats's par for the course around here! Yup wanna do the job once, can't be re-doin' again next year no-sirree! (plus we'll be all stinkbones by then)

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

OK don't get me riled up boy ... or I'm gonna hafta break out the jumper cables and coat hanger and use the batteries from the electric scooter !!!

 

[BlacknTan]

Had to look up that term as had never heard it.

According to the urban dictionary and I cut and pasted from it:

stinkbone
The medical term used by white trash when referring to the pelvis

What's the definition your Dictionary gives for "white trash?"

 

[Sodo]

"All stinkbones" = dead & buried