Welding

Jesus at Praxair says a guy named "Greg" teaches at SBCC and works at a place called E.C. Machine in Goleta.

General Welding Info...

• ADVRider thread on welding.
• Miller Resources Section, lots of info.
• Lincoln site on education materials and resources
• WeldingWeb.com recommended in several places, lots of info.
• Discussion of cutting w/ plasma, bandsaw, chopsaw, coldsaw...

MIG

• Miller Single Phase MIG unit comparison
  • Seems like the Multimatic 200 at $2000 could be one of the better suited MIG setups and it'll do TIG as well. ...tho the Millermatic series will run harder and at a lower MSRP than the Multimatic, but they're only 220.

Plasma Cutter

• HyperTherm65
• Spectrum® 625 X-TREME™ with XT40 Torch $1807 MSRP.
  • This is probably the burliest unit that'll still run 110/220, next unit up is 240 only and runs $2785.

Projects

• WeldingWeb forum discussion on the Miller Table Project
• Miller Welding Table Project and the PDF.

TIG

• Miller Dynasty 200 base msrp of $3900 and full pimp package (951397) runs $6900 msrp. This would probably be plenty machine but you can move up from there to the 280 and 350. Sakurama has the Dynasty 200.
• Miller TIG PDF

• AHP Alpha TIG 200 probably not real reliable but it is cheap and is AC, $750.