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Awesome trick there Al!!! Thx

Nice! Nozzles or contact tips? You said tips so I'm gonna assume contact tips. That's awesome man, I used to go through 2-3 a day doing ss. That hard wire eats tips like none other, and doing short circuit stuff requires a perfect tip. Most places around here got the pipe worx tho, so pulse...

That it does, but the steel nowadays tears itself apart from even a water quench. Too much manganese and no sulfur. Metallurgical advances have come along way since the days of crucible and Bessemer steel and wrought iron. Cryogenic hardening is used too nowadays on some steels.

Np, very handy trick sometimes. Much cheaper than buying a tap, and will work quite well. Very very useful in the larger sizes, because taps that big are very expensive and unless you own a machine shop, are used a few times on a project then never used again. Another cool and similar trick is...

You take a cutoff wheel, and manually score out the thread so it looks like a tap. You leave the following edge (the side that is going to do the cutting) either straight up and down or just slightly undercut, so it cuts nicely. You then heat the bolt up to red heat at a minimum, then quench it...

Center punch at the least before you attempt to put them in. Self tapper is a screw, there are no self tapping bolts that I know of.

I read an article recently about farmers suing them because the equipment they bought had a clause where it was illegal for them to have anyone but a John Deere dealer work on them. Some intellectual property bs. What's the world coming to?

I never do because that makes it much harder to pull or swap it to something else. I recently had to swap a bearing on a mower deck, John Deere homeowner zero turn, and I about shit myself when I saw that's how they attached. With a self tapped screw, you are relying on the al to hold a screw...

Yeah that's the best thing to do, along with oil or fogging spray in the cylinder and sea foam in the fuel lines and carb. In reality, here's how it normally goes. Guy 1: do we got a generator on this damn job? Guy 2: yeah in the trailer, but it doesn't have a pull start thing because we stole...

Surplus center is awesome :rockon:

Honda builds some baddass little motors that handle abuse like nothing else out there. What's wrong with the existing motor? How did it fail? Working on small motors isn't that hard depending on what's wrong with them, and I think too many are just replaced when a new gasket our something like...