Well, tried out the Harbor Freight welder today. Worked OK I guess, I have nothing to compare it to and no prior experience, but I was able to get a patch of 1/8" steel welded onto the mower deck where I needed it.
Observations -- the wire drive housing is entirely made of plastic except for the pinch rollers. Worked OK though. It has four current settings, controled by two switches, i.e. a binary code: 00, 01, 10, or 11. Sorry, couldn't help injecting a little computer humor. The power cord is not near long enough, it's about 6 feet or so. Sort of makes it hard to achieve the recomendation in the manual to work at least 35 feet away from any combustible material. I'm going to replace it with about 20 feet of heavier gauge, so I can weld out in the driveway. The ground clamp is low quality, like the clamp on a set of low-end jumper cables. Need to upgrade that at some point. The hand-held face shield it came with worked OK but I'll have to get a proper welding helmet if I end up using this thing regularly. Could not tell if the deck was galvanized and could not find a respirator anywhere that was open today so I set up a fan and positioned myself "upwind" of where I was welding. Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Be WICKED careful welding a mower deck. Alot of them are >> galvanized. Welding galvanized releases the zinc and can make you >> real sick. Do it outside on a windy day. > > Well this one is painted, but I guess that does not mean it's not > galvanized. > > I'll be careful. > > Allan > -- > 1983 300D > 1966 230 > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- 1983 300D 1966 230 _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
