Re: Welding related reviews
I am back, sort of. To continue this review i got to finally really push the millermatic 211 probably about as far as you can. We built a 28' deck over using nothing but the simple mm211. Roughly a 55ish hour build we managed to complete the frame all welded by me using the mm211 although it started out a little rough i changed the gas over and it was almost smooth sailing from then on.
A few things that i learned after putting in over 400 welds on this trailer, one the lead is way too short when building a 102" wide trailer, it should be 12' minimum unfortunately it comes with a 10'. I had issues getting it to run right so then we switched to a 75/25 gas mix and that basically fixed most of the problems. I did have a few porosity issues i know 99% of it was from an undercoating we put between the frame rails but there were a few spots were it came in again with no undercoating to which I am not sure what was going on.
Anywho pictures of the build, i didn't get really any pictures of the welds as i had to get it done in 4 days time before i flew back and put in 18 hours on the last day to get it done =-o that was brutal but its done and i am mostly happy lol.
Also don't worry the trailer was supported by the main sumner jacks the other jacks stacked up on things we're just to hold the sides from sagging while we put the cross members in they we're not holding a life or death situation.
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