That's cool... do you come up with the designs yourself?

 

Yup. They tell me what they need, and I go build it. Here's the finished pusher...










Then, 10 minutes after I give it to them, it looks like this:


Oh, well. Job security I guess, LOL

 

Finally pulled the trigger on the Hobart 190. It will be here tomorrow.

 

LOL... well yer a purdy smart cookie. Kudos man.

 

Wondering, what is the job of the tire sweepers, do they push with round side, and job for flat pusher? Is that a rubber edge on bottom?

 

The tire sweepers push from the round side, cut side faces front. Basically they are just to get debris pushed into piles on the floor...I work at a disposal and recycling facility, so garbage is everywhere. Can't drive the front loaders under the processing equipment/conveyors, so these fill that need.

The pusher is to push material onto the in-floor conveyor for our baler, it pushes the piles of materials the rolloff trucks drop off to be baled, like cardboard, paper, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and mixed hard plastics and so on, and sent out for recycling. The wiper on the bottom is made of a teflon-like plastic, to protect any metal plates on the floor, as well as the pusher itself, we had one previously that the operator not only ripped the wiper off the bottom, but then continued to drag the metal of the pusher on the floor. She also ripped the cover plates for the pit the conveyor is in right up as well. That driver is no longer with us, she destroyed EVERYTHING she touched. When she got canned, I cut the old pusher up for scrap as it was unsafe, and built the new one.

 

Has anyone tried running harbor freight electrodes? I ran into a situation where I ran out of electrodes and the only place open was harbor freight, so I got some 1/8 7018. I didn't expect too much from them, they where only like $6 for a box, but how bad could they be? I ran a few beads and got them pretty dialed in on ac 135amps. I was using and old tombstone. To my surprise they actually ran alright, a little erratic, not extremly smooth but usable. They where really hard to start and near impossible to restart. My only problem is I couldn't stop getting under cut and I'm not sure why. I can run any other 7018 just fine, but the harbor freight ran allmost like a 6010, it seemed to dig way more than fill. Does anyone have any experience with this? I might go out later and try to whip and pause it see how that turns out.

 

Amps are too high, travel speed too fast, holding a long arc, improper electrode position, or a combination of any or all of those...try turning down the amps a bit, and slow your travel speed down. Remember also, you're using an electrode that differs than what you're used too, you may have to compensate for that as well. Best I got, LOL

 

I know how to weld as far as travel speed, arc length, etc... and I tried to play around with all that a little. I am certifying next term. But ya I may have been running a little hot that was just where it felt smoothest and the box said 80-180amps and I usually like to run a little hot but maybe I went too hot. Or maybe it is like you said, just not used to a new electrode. LOL who knows its Hobo Freight!

 

LMAO @ Hobo Freight

Yeah try turning it down 20 amps or so...or just go get better electrodes, LOL

...never have used HF electrodes, we only use Lincoln at work, and I use a MIG at home...

 

Decided that the original plan for my welding cart with storage and a table top wasn't going to be practical for how I'm going to use it. Came up with a pretty easy solution. Just need to put the casters on and paint it.

 

Lookin' good. You gonna skin the bottom too? Great place for consumables/gear...might as well utilize the space

 

Thanks. That's the plan, I was just way to tired to finish it. Had been up for around 25 hours when I was workin on it. I'll get it done today though

 

Finally got the cart finished. I'm gonna leave it unpainted until I use it a few times so I can decide where I want to add all the small stuff like a gun holder, something to wrap my wires around etc...

I also got my beads to look a bit better.

 

Cart turned out good! Nice welder too... wish I could afford one.