I owe you a thank you for the info on the HF welding helmet. Long
story short my luck with the mig welder was not going well, so I had
been mostly using the stick. Anyway you got me to try the HP helmet
and I did get the coupon for $39. And for another $10 I have a 27
month warranty and can upgrade even. They had a 3 shelf cart for a
mig welder for $49 so I grabbed it as mine is on a shelf surrounded on
all sides by crap. Planned on building a cart just hadn't got to it.
Anyway set it up and was finally able to access the side. At some
point I must have been desparate. So once I matched the tip to the
wire, corrected the polarity I have a tool I can enjoy using again.
And the helmet works nicely too.

Mike M

Mike M wrote:
I owe you a thank you for the info on the HF welding helmet. Long
story short my luck with the mig welder was not going well, so I had
been mostly using the stick. Anyway you got me to try the HP helmet
and I did get the coupon for $39. And for another $10 I have a 27
month warranty and can upgrade even. They had a 3 shelf cart for a
mig welder for $49 so I grabbed it as mine is on a shelf surrounded on
all sides by crap. Planned on building a cart just hadn't got to it.
Anyway set it up and was finally able to access the side. At some
point I must have been desparate. So once I matched the tip to the
wire, corrected the polarity I have a tool I can enjoy using again.
And the helmet works nicely too.

Mike M

That's great Mike. I just looked on their web site to see if the cart you
bought is the same one that I bought, and it is. I was going to build one
too, but that just became one of those projects that was not getting done,
so I finally just went down to HF and bought one. I bought mine a few years
ago. I paid $49 I think, and I just saw that the one we have is on sale
right now for $29.99. Don't that just suck! Oh well. I junked the front
wheels on mine immediately - they just would not rotate or roll properly. I
bought a pair of the yellow ones at HF to replace them and I think they came
to something like $5. Much improved with those yellow wheels.

I just called my son when I saw the ad on their web site and told him to get
over there tomorrow and get one of those carts (and the wheels...) for his
welder. For that price, you just can't beat it.

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-Mike-

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:40:00 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
Mike M wrote:
I owe you a thank you for the info on the HF welding helmet. Long
story short my luck with the mig welder was not going well, so I had
been mostly using the stick.

That's great Mike. I just looked on their web site to see if the cart you
bought is the same one that I bought, and it is. I was going to build one
too, but that just became one of those projects that was not getting done,
so I finally just went down to HF and bought one.

Bah! You only helped him out because he's a Mike M. too.

On 2/28/2013 7:44 AM, Dave wrote:

Bah! You only helped him out because he's a Mike M. too.

+1



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Dave wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:40:00 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
Mike M wrote:
I owe you a thank you for the info on the HF welding helmet. Long
story short my luck with the mig welder was not going well, so I had
been mostly using the stick.

That's great Mike. I just looked on their web site to see if the
cart you bought is the same one that I bought, and it is. I was
going to build one too, but that just became one of those projects
that was not getting done, so I finally just went down to HF and
bought one.

Bah! You only helped him out because he's a Mike M. too.

Damn! Busted...

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-Mike-

On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:31:54 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

Dave wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:40:00 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
Mike M wrote:
I owe you a thank you for the info on the HF welding helmet. Long
story short my luck with the mig welder was not going well, so I had
been mostly using the stick.

That's great Mike. I just looked on their web site to see if the
cart you bought is the same one that I bought, and it is. I was
going to build one too, but that just became one of those projects
that was not getting done, so I finally just went down to HF and
bought one.

Bah! You only helped him out because he's a Mike M. too.

Damn! Busted...

OK maybe you didn't give me all the answers but you caused the
solution. On the cart I was able to lift the side, wrong wire, wrong
polarity I'm a welder again.