Our November issue featured a story on building a NASCAR side-exit style exhaust using components from Dr. Gas. We brought our Laguna down to LP Racing in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, the brainchild of ...
In this third article in our series we'll cover TIG welding, which many people consider the most desirable of the welding processes. TIG welding offers unsurpassed control, with the ability to weld ...
The choice of welding method for your homebuilt aircraft’s steel tube fuselage represents one of the most critical decisions ...
Welding. There’s something almost supernatural about being able to melt metal and use it to glue other pieces of metal together. It’s an experience you must have if you’ve never done it before.
We know this hard-core prerunner enthusiast who just bought a late-model Ford F-Series. For the past two years, he has been saving the profits from his pizza delivery job and is now ready to head over ...
We’ve been aware of the shortage of skilled welders due to retirements for some time. In recent years the shortage has been exacerbated by furloughing or the early retirement of workers during the ...
working on a big chunk of aluminum today bottom piece is half inch thick top piece4 inch thick I'm using 1/8 5356 rod on a positioner and a 1/8 2% lated electrode sharpened to kind of a blunt point ...
The 21.6-pound Thermal Arc 201TS DC TIG/Stick welder has a 10- to 200-amp output and the flexibility to use 120 to 230 volts primary power. According to Thermadyne, the 201TS in Stick mode ...
Remember the 80’s movie, Flashdance? The female lead, Jennifer Beals, was a welder by day in a Pittsburgh steel mill and for many people that was their first glimpse of what a welder did for a living.