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BRUISER

BRUISER

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Figured this would make a few of you laugh..

I let someone borrow my extra welder a long while back and last night I opened it to find some REDNECK engineering at is best.. I guess they lost the spool holder so instead of buy the $5 part they took a piece of pipe welded ends on it drilled holes wrapped it in duct tape, then used a bunch of washers, a nut and an old cut off wheel as a spacer and bolted the wire spool back in.. yet never telling me about it..

At least it made me laugh

after I fixed it I thought damn I should have taken a picture :(
 
FAIL
for not immediately taking a pic.

I have NEVER had a welder part break at a time when getting a replacement was feasible before I needed to use the machine...
 
RatLabGuy said:
FAIL
for not immediately taking a pic.

I have NEVER had a welder part break at a time when getting a replacement was feasible before I needed to use the machine...
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the other funny part to me was I had an extra spool part laying on my welding cart.. so I fixed in less then 1 min..
 
RatLabGuy said:
FAIL
for not immediately taking a pic.

I have NEVER had a welder part break at a time when getting a replacement was feasible before I needed to use the machine...
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and I usually have extra of every part for my welders except welding gas.. if i run out i just go borrow my buddies tanks :)
 
My Lincoln Pro Mig 180 was set-up to use the 2lb spools when I got it. Instead of finding an adapter, I just used the center section of an empty 2lb spool & slipped a 10lb spool over it. Now I don't have nearly as many spool changes in the middle of a project!
 
so the more I think about it I am now thinking I may have lent the welder out at a ECORS race and someone probably stuck the larger spool in it and made it work
 
So, who loaned them the a welder to weld up a spool piece for the borrowed welder?


No doubt it sounds like some race track engineering. Wonder if it was John and crew? :flipoff2:
 
Black Bear said:
Its does sounds like work of my caliber. However no self respecting rural american would use a cut off wheel in such a fashion.



We'd use a grinding wheel cause it wont break as easily.
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I go through 4.5" cutting wheels like coke at a Hollywood premier.
 
HAPPY said:
@BRUISER , how did your test run go on your Jeep?
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it went great.. minus my radiator fan not turning on and over heating 100 feet onto the first trail :) but after that the day went great with no issues
 
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