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| Author: | Kyle [ Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | My 1st Welder |
Woohoo I bit the bullet and got my first ever welder. Its a Hobart 180 Handler, 220v 185amp. I got a really good deal on craigslist and gave 450 for it practically brand new. I am VERY excited haha we just had a cheapo flux to tack with before now we can fully weld everything we need. 
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| Author: | Firebug [ Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Nice,,,if you can try to come up with a spare bottle and spool of wire..agrivating to run out in the middle of a project.....even though I don't seem to have learned that lesson |
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| Author: | Odyknuck [ Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Practice, Practice, Practice! The Holbert 180 is a good Welder. |
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| Author: | Kyle [ Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Man it welds freaking AWESOME! The guy said it didn't weld 1/4 inch very good for frames, but when I got it home and started messing with it we figured out that the polarity was set for flux wire. After changing this it really welds nice now. We are running 100% Co2 with 0.30 wire. The Co2 burns really hot but leaves a bit of splatter I think we are going to try some 75/25 mix. Also found out its pretty much the exact same welder as a Miller175 just not blue, they told me replace all the parts even with Miller.  
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| Author: | tanner2803 [ Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
i would deffintly go to 25/75 mix it made a world of a differnce |
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| Author: | Baddvw [ Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
What is your regulated pressure set on? It also depends on the pressure too. I have a Lincoln 285 MIG and it is almost too much of a welder, but I can weld up to 1" thick with .045" wire if I need to but I don't think it will ever happen though 
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| Author: | RaceBugg1098 [ Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Those hobarts are made by miller. I have a miller 175 that I do most of my welding at home with, and I like welding with it more than any other welders I have, and its the smallest and cheapest one! go figure 
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| Author: | Kyle [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Different brands of wire...... The welder came with a Hobart .030 big roll of wire. Now this wire did ok. I ran out and went to lowes and picked up some Lincoln .030 wire. Now not changing anything on the welder but the roll of wire it welds tons better with the Lincoln wire. This seems crazy to me but the welds are flatter and have much less impurities in the welds. What do you all recommend for wire? I had no idea it could make that much of a difference. Kyle |
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| Author: | Andrew_Ha [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
maybe your just getting better using it |
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| Author: | earlytimz [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Kyle wrote: Different brands of wire...... The welder came with a Hobart .030 big roll of wire. Now this wire did ok. I ran out and went to lowes and picked up some Lincoln .030 wire. Now not changing anything on the welder but the roll of wire it welds tons better with the Lincoln wire. This seems crazy to me but the welds are flatter and have much less impurities in the welds. What do you all recommend for wire? I had no idea it could make that much of a difference. Kyle Hey Kyle I think you're onto something here. My Lincoln came with a small roll of wire which did great. I bought a big roll of harbour freight wire when it ran out. I'll never do that again! It works ok, but definitely has more impurities in the weld so it doesn't look quite as nice. I figured it was just the cheap HF wire, didn't think there would be much difference in good, name brand wire but maybe there is? I'm sticking with Lincoln wire from now on! |
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| Author: | Kyle [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Andrew_Ha wrote: maybe your just getting better using it Well unless I got used to it while I was switching wire haha. I ran out welding, switched, welded exactly the same settings everything, and the new wire is TONS better. The other wire was Hobart brand, maybe old (shelf life) wire vs new wire difference? I have no idea thats why I am posting haha. |
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| Author: | aboone993 [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
I have a Hobart 180 and switched to lincon wire from lowes last week and thought the same thing it just welds better than the wire that was in the welder when I got it |
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| Author: | nickschlemer [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Definately a difference with the cheap shit, I figured this out real quick with my welder.. |
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| Author: | gasman [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
I'm still staring at the pretty brihgt light in the picture.lol. It's amazing what a difference quality equipment can help make things alot better. congrats on your new toy,enjoy ,enjoy, enjoy!!
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| Author: | frankenbuggy06 [ Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Kyle wrote: What do you all recommend for wire? I had no idea it could make that much of a difference. Kyle i run lincoln .35 and i think it welds better than the .30. imo |
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| Author: | rockrockets1 [ Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Kyle,Me and Karen were driving down a dirt road in the middle of no where today and ran up on some guys we know that come up to hunt on a lot of land there family ownes.They live in macon,so Ijust happen to say "I need a welder" he said "I got one for sale new in the box" Turned out to be a Hobart 180 handler. 300 bucks So I said "@$#@!#@!@#I will take it 
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| Author: | Kyle [ Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Hotdang Rock! Thats a deal. I paid 425.00 for a used one. I LOVE this welder though. It has not let me down at all, its been through about 10lb of wire now and maybe half of the new 12lb'er in there haha. |
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| Author: | Maddog [ Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Lots of good welding tips here, and a funny video too boot. http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/ama ... eatin.html |
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| Author: | m.ralston [ Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My 1st Welder |
Maddog wrote: Lots of good welding tips here, and a funny video too boot. http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/ama ... eatin.html That guy good! |
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