ejones

Hello. I have made a couple of knives. In fact my primary hunting knife is one that I made in a friends knife shop. He has been making knives most of his life and has become fairly well known in some circles. It was a great learning experience for me.

Hello all. I just stumbled across this forum and I had to join. I have been steel fabricating for about fifteen years. I currently do it at work full time and I have a small shop that I use to build custom truck bumpers in with the rest of my time. My shop currently only houses a hypertherm 600 plasma cutter, a lincoln pro mig 140, and I have lincoln 250 pipliner sitting outside, but I have the cash for a new mig machine the next time I make it into town. i just have to make the decision on which one I am going to buy.

I do have a pro mig 140 that I use a lot. It has its limitations, but it owes me nothing because it has worked flawlessly for almost three years. I have even fabbed two 1/4" plate steel bumpers with it! For 1/4" you will need to run .035 flux core though. I bought it for portability, but I have put it through its paces and it just keeps going. All of this and I have only reached the thermal overload protection twice.