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Posted by Ernie Leimkuhler on August 4, 2008, 11:39 pm
Please log in for more thread options Back when it was the Millermatic 185 and the Spoolmatic 185 combo I
sold many of my students at South Seattle on it, and they were all very
happy.
> > So far the 212 is doing what I had hoped. Its a pretty darn awesome
> > machine.
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> Did I say this thing was freaking awesome? This machine is freaking
> awesome!!! I just finished welding some 1/4" tension straps on some
> aluminnum ramps, and all I can say is wow. This was really easy. I mean
> really really easy. The ramps are parrallel curved rectangular tube rated
> for 2500 pounds (per pair of ramps). With an actual 2500 pound piece of
> equipment rolling up and down them a couple times I could see them starting
> to straighten out. Hence the tension straps on each side. Wow. No I didn't
> get perfect welds, but only because I could not keep the gun straight and
> steady the full length of my welds. Still, this is some pretty cool stuff.
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> My limitations are quickly becoming my own skills and steadiness of hand.
> It will be a long long long long time before I push the limits of this
> machine.
>
> Bob La Londe
> www.YumaBassMan.com
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> machine.