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autodark or not?

At sidecar school, I met a number of people who would take exception at your characterization of the Ural:) Also, they make improvements year after year. Kinda hard not to do to a 60 year old bike (HD excepted of course).

My welding instructor got to see the Miller bike from OCC up close and personal at some AWS conference he attended. He was shocked at the quality, and said that his son could build better (of course, his son is a pretty damned good welder, 16 years old or not:) I think it also inspired him to think about building his own bike, figuring he could do a helluva lot better. (Which led into me teaching him how to ride last summer).

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George Howell
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This week it is clevis units for a ferry dock 38 mm thick ( 1.5 inches) we ran out of wire on our wire cooled machine so did some with a regular gun on .045 metal core. After a fillet 10mm about 800 mm long the nozzle was red hot as was the contact tip. Normally we do this with .052 metal core.over 300 inches per minute. I am not sure at the amperage. I mostly fit thank goodness. Randy

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Randy Zimmerman

Sidecar school? too cool. Check out some of my stuff, i took the body off of the california to haul the triumph

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Paul Calman

Yup. Like the MSF class, but for hacks.

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Nifty rig. Might even be enough ballast to keep the Wing from flying:)

I've got a rig I'm working on (if I ever get either the '78 or '81 Wing running). Would like to bend your ear offlist, if possible? The address in my .sig is a good one.

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George Howell

Check your mail

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Paul Calman

I like my but 90% of what I do is overhead under a car, and the sensors never seam to catch the arc. Then I go hame with a headache so I switched back to my old hood.

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hjohnson Johnson

I got my first auto darkening helmet a couple years ago and really liked it but, as has been mentioned, out of position work tended to cover the sensors with the result of having to take a break for a couple seconds while my eyes came back. Since then I've gotten a very, very nice four sensor Huntsman auto darkener with a nice big window and all the trimmings. It was very expensive but worth every penny as far I'm concerned. It has a sensor at each corner of the window so there is almost no way for it not to see the arc if you can see it. I haven't had any trouble with durability and I'm pretty abusive to my equipment. I have no qualms about banging the helmet around the shop or getting the window right up in the arc. It just works.

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zackbass

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