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  3. Need help

    in Daily Ride

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    Trying to make it to Gap trip this year. Here's my problem. I'm in Dallas. Bike is in pickerington.  Bike needs a new battery (from sitting 3yrs) and last time I fired it up it had a fuel leak somewhere.  I don't have time to travel home to fix it/put it in a trailer. I would pay for your help. 

     

  8. Weight loss/ lifting/ dieting thread

    in Dumpster

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    7 hours ago, ScubaCinci said:

    If you are doing low-carb, and by low-carb I mean less than 50 g of carbs a day, you won't retain much water can you become dehydrated much easier. If you've been eating low-carb and then you eat a bunch of carbs you blow up like a tick and can't seem to get enough to drink.  

    That's if your low carb, low sodium. Upping sodium would help with water absorption and nutrient absorption. 

    18 minutes ago, 2talltim said:

    Should probably do my abs with upper body instead of lower body workout. I work my abs the other day when I did legs so today my abs and legs are sore. But then when I went to work upper body today i didn't realize how much of my abs you use to work arms and shoulders. Ouch, ouch. I got through it but it was definitely a learning curve

    Keep abs with lower body

  21. School me on welding

    in Tech and Tips

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    8 hours ago, okeefe01 said:

    With a MIG, the heat source is the wire, so the material being welded is heated right at the weld point.  With TIG, the heat source is the tungsten torch, so the material being welded tends to have the heat spread farther into it.  Supposedly this makes the MIG weld cool quicker than TIG which makes it harder (a little like hardening versus tempering).  I'm a self-confessed rat turd welder, so I guess I qualify more as a grinder, and a MIG weld always takes more time to grind.  Now, that could also be that you can't control the speed of the wire (during the weld) with a MIG where you can control the flow with a TIG, so maybe I just get more wire into the weld making me have more to grind.  LOL

     

    I've never heard someone say tig welding creates more heat than mig...

  22. School me on welding

    in Tech and Tips

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    13 hours ago, okeefe01 said:


    Chris,

    Mig is a decent starting point.  You can get setup fairly cheaply.  The biggest downside I have found with MIG welding is that the welds are very hard.  Sometimes that's what you want, but you spend a lot of time, and generate some additional heat if you want to grind the welds smooth.

    I would love to have a TIG, but I just can't get over the cost.  I would also like an acetylene setup, but they cost as much as a MIG to get started.  I guess for all around welding and reasonable cost the MIG will be the way to go.  It just might not be great at some things.

    Good Luck!

    Explain this...

    4 hours ago, redkow97 said:

    So is flux core garbage?

    The units are cheap, and there's no gas to mess with, store, purchase, have blow up in my face, etc...  I'm not gonna lie, I was really leaning FCAW before everyone suggested everything but that.

    Flux core is great. Most people assume it's the same as mig and have a hard time with it.  Flux core is great if welding in the field and you don't have a stick welder.

    42 minutes ago, Wolfman1 said:

    My uncle is a certified welder.  His company builds a lot of complex machines.  He uses a MIG for most of his work and a TIG for the smaller more detailed work.  A good weld has zero splatter and no grinding necessary.  I used to use a MIG many years ago to weld aluminum dump truck/trailer floors and liners, it took some practice, but I picked it up pretty quickly.  We are both big fans of Miller welders, they make some of the most reliable welding equipment available.

    All welds will splatter.  Yes better dialed in it will splatter less but it still will.  Not prep and time with splatter spray will prevent the bb's from sticking.

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