I agree 240 is better. I was asuming he was learning to weld.

My Lincoln 140 has never seen 240v but I have never needed it for anything I have welded on car. Plus it makes it more transport friendly not everyone has a 240 outlet on hand.

I have heard the same from a teacher who teaches welding. All the kids had a far easier time learning with 240v than 120.

I am learning. Just my machine is 240v only. Not dual.

Off to go shopping for some supplies.

Extensions for 240 are $$$$. That will have to wait. I will check out exchanging one of my small pure Argon tanks for a larger tank with C25.

You can make your own extension cheaper than you can buy one, Home Depot has all the stuff you'd need.

Not entirely. I bought the receptacles there. They didn't carry the right 10/3 cable. Nor did they carry the right dual wall shrink tube. I ended up sourcing everything from 3 different places. Lowes, THD, and an Electrical specialty store local to me.

Total cost was roughly $80 all in.

So the new tanks double the quantity with higher pressures and nearly same size as current. They want to give me 75$ credit for the tank. Meh. I'd rather pay the full 300$ For the larger tank and keep my two 9s for aluminum. New tanks have built in regulator.

Checked Home Depot, they only have male end, not female end of extension for this plug type. Can I see pics of your home made extensions? Thanks!

Sure. And you're right about the male end. I bought my female end at Lowes.

Will have to wait when I get home and into my garage for my extension cord pic. 60+ hrs a week

If I had to do it again....

I found some nice matching yellow ones from a website somewhere that already have the silicone casing for them...VERY nice!

looks like this. But both ends.

Meh, it's pretty typical for most home improvement places to vary from store to store, sometimes they have something, the next time they don't. When did mine they did happen to have both ends. I used the end of a roll of dryer cord, they sold it at a very discounted price because no contractor would buy something like that. Always ask if they have any leftovers bit, think I paid like $15 for about 12'.

I tried both. Nothing for female ends.

Gonna try this:



Toronto peeps:

Milwaukee 14" Chop saw for $180 at mississauga hardware center.

https://www.mississaugahardware.com...6LQDKn7fAA-rP-z0qXNjXDO6yvjF8BoCq1_w_wcB

Haha Sven, not sure I have tried shirtless yet.

I'll dig up the picture.. I took of a welder in his boxers pipelining in the winter

Going to resurrect this thread cause I have been welding lots and have a big project ahead of me.

I need to tee weld some 1/2" pieces of metal together with my 140 mig welder. I am leaning toward picking up .35 or whatever the thickest flux wire I can fit in my machine and see how that goes. I will be rooting and pre heating the piece so I am hoping I can get some really good penetration, this is going to be structural so I need to make sure it sticks well.

Reading through this and have a lot of good info here.

http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Cour...050205%20Welding/Welding00.asp?iNum=0302