i might know someone i'll find out if we can do something about this

 

whatever it is, i think my dad has a spot that hooks him up, he used to go through that stuff all the time...

 

What kind of welder is it Dozer? MIG or TIG? I presume MIG? If MIG you should be able to just go to a welding shop and straight up tell them what you're looking for, they can usually get you a tank that should be a mix of 75% Argon and 25% CO2 which is the most common mixture. 100% Argon for TIG.

 

squeaky pedal doesn't mean it's going to snap
Mine's been rewelded by BHR, it'll still squeak once in awhile so i just grease them up.

You really can only tell by pulling it out.

 

its his dads. dozer dont know nothing. hahaha. jkjk

 

vlaze its a mig...thanks for that info, i think its low on argon

 

Well let me put it this way, MIG would use a wire feed through the welding gun while TIG is using a welding gun in one hand and manually feeding the alloy stick to the molten weld pool with the other hand.

MIG is the most common welder people have, TIG is for people that use it for particular performance applications where high strength is called out like racing applications, aerospace, etc.

 

brain fart...but yea its my dads, he used to own a welding shop and did all types of projects

 

Ah, make sure it's not 100% pure argon then and you're good to go, should be around 75% and the rest CO2.

 

Good stuff how much is a refill usually Vlaze?

 

Nice, sounds like my old man. Did a lot of plasma welding, MIG, TIG, arc, etc. Taught me my MIG and TIG skills, TIG is a lot of fun and I enjoy it when I used to fabricate race car frames, just requires a lot of patience.

 

all i know is that its 2 tanks

 

I've been out of racing which is when I did welding back in my college day, so I can't exactly recall, but generally not that expensive, maybe anywhere I presume 50-100 tops? Depends on the size tank and prices these days. Just call around.

 

yeah i used to help him out when i was like 13, he closed down the shop and found a job that payed him better without having to break his back...my grampa still does welding, so for my dad it was a no brainer on what he wanted to do

 

matt the tank is small, about the size of the nos bottle people put in their cars

 

Hm....did you have both on when welding? I can't say I have seen any MIG set up using 2 tanks....maybe a mixture of the gases meeting up but, I've never heard of that.

 

yeah he turned on both tanks, and took a metal rod to it

 

hmm maybe time to get different pedals...

 

Wait, a stick is used? That sounds like stick welding then...

 

yeah, but whatever he did, it solved my problem

 

matt if the refill is to much, we can just take it off and take it to a shop somewhere downtown santa ana and have someone spot weld it for like 10-20 bucks

 

Well, like I mentioned previously, using MIG means wire is fed through the gun, so only one instrument. Using a gun and a stick sounds like TIG welding. Stick welding uses the power and is technically arc welding, requiring no gas.

I'm still a bit dog-head-tilt mode from using 2 tanks to weld... it has to be a mixture set up then for MIG. Yet if MIG why is a stick used... lol this sounds confusing. If you ask him for details let me know I'd like to hear the set up.

 

will do senior

 

thats tight i want to do metal fab. i love that stuff

 

You know it sounds almost like Oxy-fuel welding. That's completely different from MIG. You usually have two tanks in that set up for oxygen and the fuel, and use a torch like gun to set the metal to molten pool then supply the filler aka the stick to the pool to supply the feed and weld. Does this sound more like it?

IF it is, then argon is not what you want. There are different types of fuel used for this welding. But if argon rings a bell and you know you've used it then go for it.