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miller suitcase xtreme  12vs just got one from an older lady and i told her how much do you want she said 300 right now or 400 in 2 payments woohoo i got it lol ill post pics laterLincoln Power Arc 4000 Thermal Arc Fabricator 252 iThermal arc 186Thermal Arc 26 tigTweeko 200 amp spool gunHobart AirForce 400WP-17V-12R
Reply:WOW! What a find.   Old lady weldors are pretty rare.
Reply:You ain't right.  taking advantage of a poor widow like that!  Just for that you need to forfeit your new find.  I will pm you my address.Great find!
Reply:Originally Posted by joedirt1966WOW! What a find.   Old lady weldors are pretty rare.
Reply:". . .older lady. . ." ". . .late 40 early 50. . ." ???Sheeesh!Nice find.I just missed a Hypertherm Powermax 1100 yesterday for "$500 negotable" in Houston.  Out of state all week and called early afternoon from the airport before heading home but the seller sold it earlier in the morning. MM200 w/Spoolmatic 1Syncrowave 180SDBobcat 225G Plus - LP/NGMUTT Suitcase WirefeederWC-1S/Spoolmatic 1HF-251D-1PakMaster 100XL '68 Red Face Code #6633 projectStar Jet 21-110Save Second Base!
Reply:great find on the miller. Scott was to quick to try and acquire your find that i that i can't help but think he is trying to take unfair advantage of you. so having your best interest in mind and for the safety of your recent acquisition i would gladly let you store it at my safe and secure shop for however long it takes to thoroughly evaluate said unit to be sure it was worthy of the expenditure. and Duane, next time you are unable to make the call in a timely fashion i would be most happy to make the call for you.225NT bobcatAEAD200LEScott 125mm175, mm252 w 30A, PT225mm211, TA 181iHyper Therm 380, cut master 529100X & XX, Digital Elite6 Victor setssmith little torch, meco midget kalamazoo band sawsteel max saw evoulution circular saw
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Reply:[QUOTE=assassin_works;541567]lol not that old or widow like late 40 early 50 it aint the age,, howmany hours did she have on her? they can be rebushed...
Reply:[quote=weldbead;542819] Originally Posted by assassin_workslol not that old or widow like late 40 early 50 it aint the age,, howmany hours did she have on her? they can be rebushed...
Reply:very nice find as for refurbishing?wbolden
Reply:Originally Posted by wboldenvery nice find as for refurbishing?wbolden
Reply:The OP's posts make me seriously question whether he's as crude/ignorant as he appears.Syncro 250 DX Dynasty 200 DXMM 251 w/30A SG XMT 304 w/714 Feeder & Optima PulserHH187Dialarc 250 AC/DCHypertherm PM 1250Smith, Harris, Victor O/ASmith and Thermco Gas MixersAccess to a full fab shop with CNC Plasma, Water Jet, etc.
Reply:Originally Posted by SundownIIIThe OP's posts make me seriously question whether he's as crude/ignorant as he appears.
Reply:You dingdong.Good luck running that feeder off your CC buzzbox.But, I guess you haven't figured that out yet.Syncro 250 DX Dynasty 200 DXMM 251 w/30A SG XMT 304 w/714 Feeder & Optima PulserHH187Dialarc 250 AC/DCHypertherm PM 1250Smith, Harris, Victor O/ASmith and Thermco Gas MixersAccess to a full fab shop with CNC Plasma, Water Jet, etc.
Reply:Originally Posted by SundownIIIYou dingdong.Good luck running that feeder off your CC buzzbox.But, I guess you haven't figured that out yet.
Reply:don't you think it is time to tone down the language?  It doesn't win tough guy points.  It only makes you look like young punk who is trying to cover for some inadequacy.Try expressing yourself without empty vulgarities.  It builds character and vocabulary.  I will get off my soap box
Reply:Originally Posted by Scott Youngdon't you think it is time to tone down the language?  It doesn't win tough guy points.  It only makes you look like young punk who is trying to cover for some inadequacy.Try expressing yourself without empty vulgarities.  It builds character and vocabulary.  I will get off my soap box
Reply:Grab yourself some dual shield .045 wire and a CO2 tank and you'll be ready to work in the shipyards.
Reply:Assassin,Could you please clarify what AC/DC arc welder you own.You've called it a Hobart XL, a haobart stickmate, and a LX 235AC/160DC.Are you sure it's not a haobart XMT LX 235AC/160DC super duper, one of a kind?The reason I ask is because I DID do MY homework.  I even went to the Hobart site.Strange that I could not find any reference to a Stickmate with CV and CC capabilities.Could you please give us more details on this very rare welding machine that you own.Or is your claim that it has CV capability just more BS like the majority of your posts?Syncro 250 DX Dynasty 200 DXMM 251 w/30A SG XMT 304 w/714 Feeder & Optima PulserHH187Dialarc 250 AC/DCHypertherm PM 1250Smith, Harris, Victor O/ASmith and Thermco Gas MixersAccess to a full fab shop with CNC Plasma, Water Jet, etc.
Reply:you missed something regular hobart ac /dc  stick mate the suitcase 12 vs xtreme has a button that is optional on cv or cc " miller suitcase xtreme 12 vs " has the buttonLincoln Power Arc 4000 Thermal Arc Fabricator 252 iThermal arc 186Thermal Arc 26 tigTweeko 200 amp spool gunHobart AirForce 400WP-17V-12R
Reply:Originally Posted by 76GMC1500Grab yourself some dual shield .045 wire and a CO2 tank and you'll be ready to work in the shipyards.
Reply:If you knew ANYTHING about welding, you'd know that the 12VS runs VERY POORLY on CC in short arc mode.The 12VS will do spray in CC mode, but you don't have a power supply to feed the amps for spray.If you say it welds "real nice", that tells me you don't know a good weld from a bad weld.Syncro 250 DX Dynasty 200 DXMM 251 w/30A SG XMT 304 w/714 Feeder & Optima PulserHH187Dialarc 250 AC/DCHypertherm PM 1250Smith, Harris, Victor O/ASmith and Thermco Gas MixersAccess to a full fab shop with CNC Plasma, Water Jet, etc.
Reply:well it depends grandpa  if your talking of full blown limited like you want to weld threw 2inche of steel in a single pass then no i dont have the capability in the power supply but were talking 2"-12" schedule 40- 80 pipe or any thing in 1/4 - 1/2 inch in material thickness then yes i do have the amps to do itps if it passes the x-ray is all it maters to meLincoln Power Arc 4000 Thermal Arc Fabricator 252 iThermal arc 186Thermal Arc 26 tigTweeko 200 amp spool gunHobart AirForce 400WP-17V-12R
Reply:Do you even have a clue what you're talking about or are you just throwing out a bunch of gobblygook without knowing what you're saying.Yea, I am a grandpa, but this grandpaw has probably forgotten more about welding than you'll ever know.  Been welding longer than you've been alive.Here are some basic facts. You can take it or leave it, but they are facts.You've only got 160A available from your power supply.  That, combined with a very low duty cycle at max output severly limits what your welding system is capable of.CC power sources are lousy for producing short arc welds.  Mig pipe welds are short arc welds due to the fact that they need to be made out of position.  160A is insufficient for 1/2" material.CC power sources are generally used in higher output spray mode with larger wire or with dual shield wire and CO2 gas.  You don't have the amps to even discuss this process.Buying .045 wire for this setup was "not smart".  You don't have the power to properly run a .045 solid wire and you sure don't have the power to run a .045 dual shield.What you've got (and are too thick to understand) is a very poor performing short arc welder (because of the CC) and a machine that's underpowered for spray (where CC can be used).  A Hobart 187 mig is a more powerful, better performing setup than what you have, and even there, it's not suitable for 12" pipe with 1/2" wall.You can blow your X-Ray crap all you want, but those are the facts.PS.  I didn't need you to e-mail me the owners manual for the 12VS.  Already have one that came with my 12VS.  I use it when I borrow my buddy's Bobcat.  Also got the 12RC which I use on my XMT 304 CC/CV or when I borrow one of my buddy's Trailblazers.  (He owns a large fab company and has 6 Bobcats and 4 Trailblazers)Also got a Dialarc which would melt a stickmate and I've NEVER considered running a wirefeeder off of it.You know just enough about welding to be truly dangerous and have an attitude that will prevent you from getting better.Syncro 250 DX Dynasty 200 DXMM 251 w/30A SG XMT 304 w/714 Feeder & Optima PulserHH187Dialarc 250 AC/DCHypertherm PM 1250Smith, Harris, Victor O/ASmith and Thermco Gas MixersAccess to a full fab shop with CNC Plasma, Water Jet, etc.
Reply:Sundown, he mentions in his other thread on this he got the roll of .045 dual shield with the feeder in the sale. An understandable mistake, since I had to look above to check which thread this was of his about the same feeder.http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=59480It is a bit hard to spot the info on the wire since the single line is jammed up between the 2 picts with no extra spaces.I will agree with you about VS feeders in general on CC from my experiences. They just run like cr@p in short arc in CC mode, at least with solid wire. I'd be curious to see actual picts of the welds made with this on such a small CC machine with the .045 wire. I don't have a need to run wire this large or had the opertunity to run dual shield. Everything I've looked at would tell me you need more amps than what would be available..No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald ReaganI have used 12vs and also the Ln25 quite alot.  Almost always on a cv machine, but there have been times when I have used it on a cc.  Short arc is a pain in the rear with it.  With cc you really need to turn up the heat till you are running in globular or spray.  since most of the time when I have run it I was welding from a truck I either had co2 or c25.  I don't own a suitcase anymore due to finances, but I would love to see what it would do on a crackerbox.If you are going to run it off a cracker box, keep in mind that .023 or .030 wire will be the better of all the wires.  they operate in the ranges of your welder's amp supply.  Be careful cause you can quickly KILL that little stick unit by over heating it.  It is designed to only be putting out 12 inches or less at a time and then sit cooling while you change electrodes or reposition your part.  Wire welding can easily tilt a machine's duty cycle and make the machine go POP.I don't know where the x-ray comment came in from.  Do you really want to spend the money on xraying a weld made with a cracker box and a wire feeder?  Few amateurs and hobbiest can weld an xray passable weld with the best of equipement.  Rarely have I seen Joe Blow walk in off the street having no 'real' experience and spank a test.,,,epecially a pipe test.  I don't think I could pass a 6g pipe test if I had to go in today and I have passed countless plate and structural xray bend tests.  Well maybe the 6 inch I would, but the 2 inch forgetaboutit.  I would need to practice on it.
Reply:DSW,If you check post #21, Assassin clearly states he went out and bought a spool of NR-211 by Lincoln in .045.  Then adds, "dang, that was expensive".Might as well have gone and flushed his money down the toilet.He "Just Doesn't Get It".  Not surprising though if you read several of his previous posts.He's had this attitude since the day he joined the forum.  Check back to about 4/10 and you'll see where he had a "major confrontation" with Jason (Black Wolf).  Talk about showing up at a gunfight with a swiss army knife.What really set me off was his blatant blast of the weld beads produced by Turbocad6 in his "Twin-Turbo post".Syncro 250 DX Dynasty 200 DXMM 251 w/30A SG XMT 304 w/714 Feeder & Optima PulserHH187Dialarc 250 AC/DCHypertherm PM 1250Smith, Harris, Victor O/ASmith and Thermco Gas MixersAccess to a full fab shop with CNC Plasma, Water Jet, etc.
Reply:Originally Posted by SundownIIIDSW,If you check post #21, Assassin clearly states he went out and bought a spool of NR-211 by Lincoln in .045.  Then adds, "dang, that was expensive".Might as well have gone and flushed his money down the toilet.He "Just Doesn't Get It".  Not surprising though if you read several of his previous posts.He's had this attitude since the day he joined the forum.  Check back to about 4/10 and you'll see where he had a "major confrontation" with Jason (Black Wolf).  Talk about showing up at a gunfight with a swiss army knife.What really set me off was his blatant blast of the weld beads produced by Turbocad6 in his "Twin-Turbo post".
Reply:wholey crap man, congrats on a great deal but I have nothing else to say about your suitcase or much else in this thread because I don't know much about that at all, only reason I'm posting here in this thread is because you chose to address me directly here about my header design being "loopy?". you say "i think that they should of been tighter and try to eliminate what ever excess pipe length you can but do try to keep all of then about the same length"well that don't make a lot of sense. when designing equal length headers you must always start with the longest tube, the one that is the furthest run... this length then dictates the length of ALL the other tubes... in order for the headers to be "equal length" then all the other tubes have to be the same length as the longest tube, this is why equal length headers will always have pretty twisty & seemingly longer than necessary tubes in some locations, because the extra length needed has to be accounted for somehow. so, how the heck can you "eliminate what ever excess pipe length you can" when doing that will result in killing the whole equal length thing in the first place? I may have come here needing to learn quite a bit about welding stainless pipe, but I think I know a thing or 2 about turbo header design & turbo system design in general, maybe more than your average joe even... the equal length piping has everything to do with the pulses merging in a way that promotes the least restriction & least collision/restriction of pulses, this comes into play in both the lower rpm range to promote faster spool up & also in the upper rpm range to reduce the amount of choking you'd otherwise wind up with in your standard log design... had I designed a log manifold then yeah, guess it would be less "loopy" & more compact, but an equal length tubular manifold will outperform a log manifold in almost every way there is... maybe you don't like how one pipe loops up while the other loops down? well space restrictions & having everything fit, while still maintaining the equal lengths are why I did that. my second design changes this a bit & all 3 tubes are lower & more compact to each other now but as long as it fits the space allotted, while maintaining the equal length on each pipe, then the exhaust pulses themselves don't really care if one is looping down while the other is looping up, not sure what you see as a problem there   finally on equal length you say " it helps in hp and tuning due to back pressure in each tube",ok, for that I just have to ask,...  what???sorry man, maybe this isn't the thread to even discuss this, but I'm just responding to your loopy post miller 330a bp TIGmiller dynasty 200DX TIGmillermatic 185 MIGthermal dynamics cutmaster 101 plasma cuttersnap-on YA5550 plasma cutterhypertherm powermax 30 plasma cutterbaileigh CS225 cold sawetc....
Reply:just adding here as I did in my thread you responded to, I think your just hung up on the visual look of the header, there is no difference weather the 3 tubes are fanned out or are tightly wrapped to each other from a functional point of view... that's the only difference here, visually, they were before as they are still now, all the same length....miller 330a bp TIGmiller dynasty 200DX TIGmillermatic 185 MIGthermal dynamics cutmaster 101 plasma cuttersnap-on YA5550 plasma cutterhypertherm powermax 30 plasma cutterbaileigh CS225 cold sawetc....