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Re: Mig Welding

To: Doug Odom <popms@thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: Mig Welding
From: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:06:04 -0600
Ha...The same way I shave with razor blades welded together.....how 'bout I
make a hole in them with my tubing notcher......I am just amazed that
someone can weld thin stuff with a MIG welder. I have a Lincoln square wave
TIG and love it but I havent tried welding really thin stuff
together.....guess I better go try......I also have a Forney buzz box arc
welder that I first started using in 1954 (another story there) and will
use it to weld the new shop building frame together with a 5000 watt
generator driving it. I tested the generator/welder combo by welding up the
gantry crane structure for the shop. I found that generator RPM (voltage)
change really affects the heat settings on the welder. Anyway, that project
should start in a couple of weeks as soon as I get the building (kit) out
to Pahrump and the foundation is poured.
Skip



At 01:21 PM 12/1/02 -0800, Doug Odom wrote:
>    Skip, How do you drink out of coke cans that are welded together????? 
>Really?
>
>        Seriously, My idea of thin tin is 24 gauge. I don't think I have ever
>needed to weld anything thinner than that for myself. My TIG machine is an 
>old P
>& H that was built back in the 50's. My MIG is a Miller 35 that was new in the
>70's. I have friends that have the new square wave machines that can weld
razor
>blades together or tin foil to a solid block. I just have never seen a
need for
>two razor blades welded together.   Doug Odom in big ditch

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