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A little side track .With the mention of three phase,there's a trick to everything .I was given an old Westinghouse 400 amp rectifier I rewired for single .However it had too much ripple which I eliminated by making a double pi filter. It's as smooth as silk now .However from going from three...

On large scale manufacturing wire is a lot cheaper than stick .Which is why they went to it .I like others think it's good for sheet metal but not much of anything else .Then again I'm kind of old school on a lot of things .

Part of it was .Those old grumpy half deaf old timers were a hoot .The only way to get along with them is to just grumpy right back at them .That said considering that place built some of the largest steam locomotives in the world followed by some of the largest cranes one can only imagine the...

A lot of the heavy welding at Baldwin -Lima -Hamilton was done with submerged arc either manual or with a positioner .BLH by the way is the former Lima Locomotive Works where they built the famous Shay gear drive steam locomotives at one time . When I worked there it was all cranes etc .Some of...

There's an old trick for welding hard steel .First use something like 7018 with multiple passes no more than about 1.5 times the width of the rod .After you get the proper amount built up use what's called annealing passes on either side .Don't leave craters on the ends of the passes . MIG...