Wrap around and torch is all I've ever used.
I worked with a guy once who didn't wanna weld but couldn't run a torch well. I don't care if you chalked the pattern for him, fitup sucked. But sometimes he cut em too long and once he got done beating the braces into place they were a pleasure for me to weld up. He always claimed if he could step across the joint, I could weld it. Sommitch was right but damn them joints took 20 pounds of gap rod! Lol
Yep, I love it. Sharpened up an ax and saddled some 1" pipe today. Perfect saddles in maybe 20 seconds. Usually the guy cutting gate rails for me while I weld em in place can't keep up. Now he'll be slinging saddled pipe at me so fast I'll never get to lift my welding hood. I've got a variety of grinding/sanding belts ranging from 36 grit to 3000 grit.
I'll bet those belts don't come cheap, I've never seen one like that at Harbor Freight.
That's a NICE one, especially with the variable speed attachment. Those things are EXPENSIVE.
LOL, Harbor freights is not a place to shop for quality tools, I picked up a 4" grinder for $9.95 with coupon and didn't get $2 worth of work out of it before the bushing went bad and threatened to blow up..
Belts range from $2 to $20ish depending on belt composition. The orange one in the pictures is a 36grit ceramic that eats steel very fast and it cost $12. I tried some $5 belts and they seem to eat just as fast. The more expensive ceramic belts are supposed to last much longer.
You can get scotchbrite belts too. They're pretty expensive so I figured I better develop my skills before I bought one just to turn into a 72 scotchbrite strap.
I've bought a lot of tools & stuff from Harbor Freight over the years, and usually had a pretty good experience with 'em.
YMMV...
YMMV...
I’d like to have a shop like that in land in inola
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