ive only mig welded...and want to try mig..
but for the past 15 minutes...all ive been doing is staring at your welds..awesome work.

 

Same, I prefer aluminum. Everyone says it's harder, and maybe it is to learn, but once you got it it's all the same.

 

I don't have my jeep today, but this is probley the closest to a side pic I have. Basically I made it stick out enough for the lights to sit in front of the bumper if I wanted to hang them under the bar.

 

Some eye candy for ya :P

 

master.....

 

those are some seriously beautiful welds man. i use my jeep way to much off roading to have an aaluminum bumper but its very clean looking. good work

 

Thanks, one of these days when I get around to finding and affording a winch, It will be back to the drawing board for something a little more heavy duty. however, I've worked with aluminum quite a bit, and this design is probley a lot stronger than most people think. Much stronger and lighter than the sheet metal stocker.

 

I like aluminum better. Once you learn the right heat and learn how to read the puddle it's much easier than steel. Also prepping it is much more important than steel. Want to wire wheel it to the dull aluminum look instead of shiny or you will have a lot of contamination. I'm a pipe welder and only get to work with carbon and stainless pipe at work but every now and than get to weld up a aluminum transmission pan for my dad for his business. Or fix a leak in his Jon boats. Much more fun than regular steel and stronger if built properly.

 

^Agreed^

 

Awesome welds by the way. How you like that miller? We have a couple of the newer millers at work and I love them. I have a older syncrowave 250 in my weld booth now and it still runs awesome for being a older model. My dads is I don't know how old but is about the size of two sync 250s and has bunch of pulleys and belts on it for the cooler. But hey it's a miller and still gets the job done. I'll never personally own any welder that isn't a miller. Those speed glass helmets are the best I've ever used also. Have one for work and one for home. Will never use another brand of helmet.

 

good to see a fellow welder on the site! looks good man

 

I'm a miller man for sure. The dynasty took some getting used to, it does run a little different than a syncrowave. But now I love it, so many fine tune adjustments you can make (especially in AC), can run off virtually any power source (220v and up). That being said, it's not for the beginner, sooo many adjustments, it would be hard to wrap your head around. Still use a syncrowave 350 at my day job, acts up from time to time, but it's still a miller, they run forever.

On a side note, I'm gonna flip the next time someone asks me what kind of welder they should buy and they ask of they should get one from harbor freight! The answer is NO, it's miller all the way... Maybe a lincoln if you really feel like going against the grain.

 

I understand why you wanna flip lol. Most of the time I see a thread or anything about what type of welder someone should buy I stay away. Most the time they want a harbor welder which I understand times are tough and moneys tight but you get what you pay for. When you can only weld for 5 minutes than let it cool down for ten or your 100$ harbor breaks down don't whine about it. What did you expect when you bought it. Some ppl don't even bother to shop around though. I have seen many awesome deals on millers on Craig's list and hell even my local weld shop has awesome deals on some hate to say it Lincoln's. My dad just picked up another small miller mig for his shop. It's 220v and runs hell of a lot better than his Lincoln he has. Than again a lot of people don't weld enough to need a Lincoln or a miller I guess. the two company's I have worked for has both had millers only and that's what I used growing up learning how to weld.

Totally agree about the many adjustments on the new mIllers though. Here at work we only use dc+ an dc- for our pipes and rarely touch any adjustments except for amps. With two shifts using the same welder in every booth though all the millers are dialed in perfect and have Sharpi marks on what amps to use for what rod when we weld our cover pass on pipe so all we do is switch it back and forth from tig to stick lol.

 

That's another great thing about it, it saves all your setting when you switch back and forth

 

Ya I miss that switching all the time in the sync I have to keep adjusting my amps. What kind of work do you do?