Digger - March 25, 2005 - 04:38 pm: <font color="0000ff">You call that a load? Try a D6 blade, D6 Hyster winch with cable, D6 pony motor, 2 D6 blade cylinders pulled behind a '63 short bed GMC V6 with my 2 huge torch tanks and probably half a ton of jacks / come-a-longs, chains and tools in total. No electric brakes on the trailer and the old single brake reservoir style on the truck. We were in the far Eastern tip of Ky which has mountains like you wouldn't believe.</font>
Dennis - May 31, 2005 - 01:35 pm: <font color="0000ff">A 2- stage does no good what so ever for blasting, a 2 - cylinder is what you need to keep up with the volume demand. I have a 2- stage 80 gallon compressor and it runs non-stop trying to keep up. The 2 - stage is for higher pressure , the 2 - cylinder is for higher volume. Most all 2 - cylinder compressors are set @ 125psi while 2 - stage will go to 175psi. Most air tools require at the most 90psi except impacts @ 125 - 150psi.</font>
John G. - December 28, 2005 - 07:35 pm: <font color="0000ff">I bought an el-cheapo from Harbor Freight. I like it and the following will tell ...</font>
Steve B - December 29, 2005 - 11:58 pm: ...because laying upsidedown in a hole in the mud is no place to have to try and flip down a helmet and strike an arc.
I will say, stay away from the $88 brand X auto-darkening hoods.....they cast a blue-silver hue on everything and you can't get a good feel for the heat you are working with......picking out various shades of silvery blue is not somethiing the eye does well.
<font color="0000ff">I'll continue what your welders didn't say - Try forcing your head into a piece of heavy equipment that you can barely get the helment into and maybe even putting your face almost into the weld just so that you can get to the work area. Now try to weasel the rod/holder and your other hand through a place to make contact ... now flip your hood! now flip your lens!
My el-cheapo cost $49.99, not complained once! No "blue-silver hue" either.</font>
Hugh Simon - December 29, 2005 - 07:38 pm: <font color="0000ff">You're full of it !</font>
December 31, 2005 - 08:52 pm: John- It is mostly as Steve says personal preference, I do a lot of TIG and it seems like the thing never goes dark fast enough and when making a continious weld around a pipe it seems to lighten up when you get to the "blind" side of the weld. Plus my glasses don't seem to function so well with them. <font color="0000ff">Tell me HOW the HELL do you weld on the "Blind Side" of a joint with any style hood? I suppose your eyes can tell better than the solar cell that the lens should stay dark. IF the light is strong enough to trip the solar cell then it'll darken as needed. My el-cheapo has a potentiometer to set the sensitivity as well as highest darkness level. You drop your equipment from 60 feet up? Remind me to never be around your work area. A professional will take better care of his equipment and the workers around him, if not then he's fired. 34 years of welding and only 2 flashes, both BEFORE I bought the auto dark helment.</font>
Kendall - did you level your table with the first level