let the booty fab begin...

[nooblet]

Its GO time! haha. My very first welder!



its a hobart handler 210.

I can't wait to burn some stuff together! I'm a super novice to welding, so I'll be sure and post up some pictures of my first projects so you guys can get a good laugh or two!

Chris

[cummins king]

Looks good, you have to start some were

you should of seen my stick welding when i first started,

[jmpidgeo]

Very nice welder. My buddy has one...I've definitely put some time into my Jeep with it. Love it.

[Richie O]

I still have a hobart handler 120. My dad bought it when I was a teen and it still works good. Only have burned up a couple speed controlers. Made me plenty of exaust systems when I was young and stupid. I used to fill rust holes the size of baseballs for inspection..

[Philip]

Enjoy many years and learn to use it well. There are many things you can fab yourself after you get a little experience.

I just had to sell my mig welder due to health reason.

[Richie O]

Philip,,, get a lead vest from an x ray, then weld away.. Your gonna just have to get a diesel weed whacker with no magneto.. Just kiddin with ya.. my uncle has the same hardware also.. sucks Im sure.

[PToombs]

I just had to sell my mig welder due to health reason.

The wife was gonna kill ya if you smoked up the garage and house again?

[Philip]

The welding smoke didn't bother her as bad as my cigars do.

I have a nephew with a mig and a 200 amp tig setup. So I can still get things glued together if I need it.

The bad part of the pacemake is it has taken me out of the maint field. Its to big of a risk for a company to have someone with one working in maint. To big of a chance of electrical shock in maint. Then loosing welding ability didn't help eather.

So now the company I am with moved me from maint to driving a yard mule. Nothing like riding around in one of those little white ovens draging trailers from 20k to 50k in weight. But its is a job and I didn't take a pay cut. So I can't complain to much.

[PToombs]

Jeez, I didn't know you went thru that! Glad you're ok. I know a guy with a pacemaker, he leaned over the engine on his Ford and his zotted him. He's not sure if it was the engine interference or his heart skipped.

I don't know which is better, the hot factory or the hot white box. At least you're outside now.

[Philip]

Pete these things are a little touchy around a high magnetic field. My welding limit is 90 AMPs with a short ground. Hell I don't even tack weld at that low of amps. Most of my welding was 150+ AMPs.

The place I am at beleave me that little white oven is better than inside. Last summer when it was 90+ outside I was 30' up every evening on 2nds running some sort of pipe or conduent or something. If not that I was on a stick welder doing something. Ceiling temps were in the 135 bracket. I was afraid to take a temp gun up there and see what the temp was.