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Quoted from HighVoltage:Maybe it's more difficult than I imagine.
Small stuff is more difficult than larger items. So easy to burn holes right through the work.
Pinhead want everything to be pretty. More expensive equipment yields better results.
Quoted from vid1900:If you've never welded before, find an old Miller white-face MIG cheap on CL.
Those things can weld sheet metal all the way to 1/2" plate with ease.
But the best part about them is that there are no circuit boards or integrated circuits or other nonsense to burn up.
Everything on them is an easy repair. Really the only electrical part that dies on them is the fan and the rectifiers - both easy for any pinball owner.
200lbs of pure welding bliss. [quoted image]
Had a large one with a four cylinder gas engine at the place I used to work. Eventually, the safety "gurus" stopped allowing employees to weld and auctioned off everything. Now a vendor comes in, rope's off areas, covers up stuff and does the welding. That $20K welder was bought for $300.00 by an employee.
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