Sberry
Platinum Member
Thats 250 or 300$ for a machine cost 50 in parts,,, not 60% and how long to acquire, build, finish and sell for 900, forgot some basic design and layout for the first unit.
Two tools I don't have for changing out this style of rim are a bead breaker as well as that funky Esco bead lock. I'm paying the mobile tire service $150 an hour to come and do it but the guys who do it for a living make it look easy. My wheels will require a shedload of wire wheeling.Bust them down. Put them on. Read instructions for those type of wheels.
With this machine I did exactly two 2-inch test welds on a coupon before I went at this job to adjust the gas flow. One with the setting on 3/8", and one with the setting on 1/2" with an arc length of 50—I then went to town. Somewhere I decided to back off the arc length and wire speed a bit to the settings shown in the photo above. By the time I welded these two parts, I'd set down about fifteen, maybe sixteen total inches of weld. I didn't bother flap disking anything smooth because its for my own tractor and work-worky is my priority and paint cures faster when the parts are warm to hot. Anyway, yes, if I backed off on the arc length I'd likely have less splatter but for me, doing is practice.That's a lot of spatter for a pulse MIG. You might want to work on adjusting it out. It shouldn't do that. There should be nearly 0.