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Buy a used welder, but make sure you can test it when you buy it, don’t buy anything you can’t plug in and use before you take it home, if someone is upset about it it’s best to just leave and let them burn someone else
 

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Very true. And I'm going to look for the better welder. Thanks!

Check with local welder repair facilities, sometimes people trade in their older welders in on new ones or bring one in for repairs and not come pick them up.
 

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Buy a used welder, but make sure you can test it when you buy it, don’t buy anything you can’t plug in and use before you take it home, if someone is upset about it it’s best to just leave and let them burn someone else
Good idea
 

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@Jrgunn5150, Looked at your build thread, all the pictures are gone. So any tips?
 

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Im almost 37 and wished I knew how to weld. If youre 15 years old and have the time now... learn to weld!!! There is so much you can do with welding, even if you do it has a hobby. But you will prob use it more for yourself. Places still pay good money for people that can weld. Its one of the few blue collar jobs that pay good if you have the skill.
 

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@Jrgunn5150, Looked at your build thread, all the pictures are gone. So any tips?


Alot of them died in the great Photobucket purge of 17, but I have a fair bit of Youtube videos on it, starting here,

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Im almost 37 and wished I knew how to weld. If youre 15 years old and have the time now... learn to weld!!! There is so much you can do with welding, even if you do it has a hobby. But you will prob use it more for yourself. Places still pay good money for people that can weld. Its one of the few blue collar jobs that pay good if you have the skill.
I'm close to several place that will pay really good money for welding skills, my Uncle does the welding for robots to learn or something like that so maybe he could teach me.

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Thanks!! I'll definitely look at them!
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That's beautiful !!!!!!
 

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I'm close to several place that will pay really good money for welding skills, my Uncle does the welding for robots to learn or something like that so maybe he could teach me.


Thanks!! I'll definitely look at them!
That's beautiful !!!!!!


Don't listen to all the internet nonsense, every patch panel get's ground. So no matter how ugly they are, you can still cut them down and bondo over them for patch panels, it's just the way it's done. As long as it's not a cold weld, it's a safe weld.

Our weld engineer here at work doesn't have dime stacking anywhere in his criteria for judging the quality of our welds lol.
 

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Thanks! My Uncle is head welder at the Vermeer plant here but isn't liked by his co-workers cause he has been called several times to re-weld various pieces of machinery.
 

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@Jrgunn5150 Do they make cab mounts or do you have to fabricate them? Thanks
 

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Welding can make you valuable, especially in mechanicing, I’ve been at work for just shy of two years, they have me welding things guys higher up than me can’t weld, mostly tow eyes lately on converter Dolly’s that go between 28’ pup trailers, the grade 1 and 2 guys can’t pass an X-ray with the welds
Guys that have been there 15 years or longer can’t pass the tests for their own jobs

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Awesome! Would it help if showed some pictures of how bad it is?
 

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Awesome! Would it help if showed some pictures of how bad it is?

Sure, it won't hurt lol.

I'll tell you now, having done all that crap, I could have bought a cab cheaper if you don't count the drive, and it would be better in the long run.
 

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