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Hey Ernie - Miller 212 Bob La Londe 08-04-2008
Posted by Bob La Londe on August 4, 2008, 5:24 pm
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So far the 212 is doing what I had hoped. Its a pretty darn awesome
machine.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com




Posted by Bob La Londe on August 4, 2008, 8:28 pm
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> So far the 212 is doing what I had hoped. Its a pretty darn awesome
> machine.


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.

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



Posted by Ernie Leimkuhler on August 4, 2008, 11:39 pm
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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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
>

Posted by Bob La Londe on August 5, 2008, 12:03 am
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> 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.

Well, I thank you. This machine will do almost anything I have a concept of
doing in the immediate future. I am going to have to actually practice a
bit on steel. My few practice beads on steel have made a decent looking but
rather large and outward rounded bead. I think I may be moving to slow on
that as well, but like I said... practice and experimentation. I'm so used
to using an under powered machine that it will take some retraining.




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