**Online prices and sale effective dates may differ from those in-store and may vary by region. ±Was price reflects the last national regular price this product was sold for. The tire producer / manufacturer and Canadian Tire uses this fee to pay for the collection, transportation, and processing of used tires.ĬANADIAN TIRE® and the CANADIAN TIRE T riangle Design are registered trade-marks of Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited. Look for the biggest lens in your price range, but don't forget the old saying "quality over quantity" - optical clarity is still more important.△The tire producer / manufacturer of the tires you are buying, and Canadian Tire is responsible for the recycling fee that is included in your invoice. Window Size - Bigger is always better, but bigger also drives up the cost. A true color lens is a 'nice to have' feature for a hobbyist, but not a must have. True Color Lens - Basically, how accurately are colors transmitted through the lens. If you make your living as a welder, this is much higher on the priority list. Obviously if you can't get the hood to feel right, you aren't going to enjoy using it and are better off returning it and trying a different option, but you need to temper your expectations in this area if you are going to be shopping for a budget hood. It'll more than likely not be perfect, but for a hobbyist, that is less critical. When you get your hood, make sure you can get it adjusted to feel decent on your head. Luckily most hoods use a standard mounting method which allows you to put a better headgear onto a budget hood, giving you the best of both worlds.Ĭomfort - Comfort is subjective and very difficult to judge if ordering online. Make sure you can replace the headgear when it breaks. Buy an extra battery or two right away so you don't have to waste time trying to track one down in the middle of a project. You'll have to either cut open the panel to get to the battery, or replace the whole hood. Some of the cheaper hoods on the market bury them in the panel which means when the battery is shot, so is the hood. Look for a hood that has a replaceable battery. A 1/1/1/1 clarity filter doesn't do much good if you never replace your outer lens. Don't cheap out - replace them as they start to get beat up. You don't want to get stuck having to buy an overpriced proprietary shape from a specific manufacturer. For hobby use, I'd even consider a 1/1/1/2 hood since most of what you'll be working on will be on a table.Ĭonsumables/Wear Items - You'll want a hood that takes a standard size inner and outer protective lens. A rating of 1/1/1/1 is considered 'perfect'. It is very difficult to make a good weld if you can't see what you are doing. Keep in mind, this is written for a hobbyist, not a professional.Ĭlarity Rating - For me, this is probably the most important feature. Here are a few things you'll want to watch out for. You'll be happy to find that you can get a very good hood without breaking the bank these days. And it would cost significantly less than buying the cheap black box and upgrading it like I did. The "Titanium Easy-Flux 125 Amp Welder" looks to be a capable DC inverter FCAW machine from HF. I only bothered with the exercise because I had many of the parts, and I got the welder for a song. However, once you've bought those components, you've already spend as much on parts as you would on a cheap DC welder. You'll need a bridge rectifier with ample capacity (a 200A bridge may work if well heat sinked, but I used a 400A one, because too small a bridge may let the smoke out, and be an expensive waste of money), plus a huge (think soda can sized) electrolytic capacitor, plus a bleeder resister for that cap. If you're electronically inclined, it can be made to work. Now, I do use my machine from time to time, but only because it has been heavily modified. Or, to put it another way, FCAW with AC will give you a sputtering bird shit weld where you get more dingleberries than penetration. Here's the issue (and I am NOT biased against HF). Not worth spending any money on, and out of the box, guaranteed to give unusable results. Ok, I own one of these, and can speak from some authority on it.
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