On Fri, 07 May 2004 06:20:33 -0400, Michael Shaffer
wrote:

In that picture the wires aren't connected, they're just sitting in
front of the plug.. I haven't plugged them in yet. I guess I'll go get a
plug now. I wonder if Sears sells them.

If they don't have those plugs at Sears, Lowe's, OSH, Home Depot and
most well-stocked True Value Hardware dealers will.

Did you get the message about protective gear yet? Haven't seen you
say anything about it anywhere... At a BARE minimum, you need:

A welder's smock - blue canvas fabric shirt with long leather sleeves,
buttoned all the way to the top to keep from getting a sunburned
Adam's Apple...
Good lined leather welding gloves.
Blue Jeans in good condition, bloused over boots.
Leather Upper "garage oxford" high-top shoes or some variety of boots,
preferably no laces or buckles.

A water source - a quart spray bottle of clean water (Recycled Windex
squirter), clean water in a 2-gallon pump-up garden sprayer, or a
charged garden hose with a trigger nozzle nearby, and a 1A-10B-C
Minimum rated dry-chemical fire extinguisher as a backup. Things will
catch on fire when you weld, you need a way to put them out handy.
Try the water first, the extinguisher powder makes a huge mess.

Other things that are nice to have, or get soon:

A steel topped work table, or a bunch of fire-bricks to spread out on
top of your wood table. Heck, make your first real welding project
building yourself a proper welding table out of angle iron or square
tubing with a sheet of 1/8" steel plate for the top.

(You really need to get away from wood, or one of these days you'll
look up to find your work area on fire...)

An automatic darkening welder's hood - keeps both hands free to do
welding (as compared to that "Masquerade Mask on a Stick" that came
with the welder), and you can see the work before you strike the arc.
Do NOT get the "$20 Special" at Harbor Freight when it comes to auto
hoods!! You only get two eyes, no replacements are available if you
get flashed by a faulty hood. Spend $100 for a nice one on special,
and you'll never go back to the old head-bobbing hoods or your stick
mask.

Leather Apron with Chaps - deflects the worst of the slag, keeps your
blue jeans from getting holes burned in them

A 4" angle grinder, a few grinding wheels and a wire brush for it -
you will need to clean the metal before you weld, and grind some of
the welds off to clean up when you are done.

-- Bruce --

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Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop
Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
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