Clamp vs Screw electrode holder

[Shield Arc]

The stub holders stink.

WTF!You must be talking about the ones Everlast supplies.

You do realize there is a BIG difference in quality between the Bernard Short Stub, and the Everlast imitations?

 

[Scooby074]

WTF!You must be talking about the ones Everlast supplies.

You do realize there is a BIG difference in quality between the Bernard Short Stub, and the Everlast imitations?

Yep. Bernard here too. No chinese clones alowed

 

[Haywire]

Something I noticed is that 3/32" electrodes can slip by the clamping portion as you screw the head down and it will be beside it rather than between it and the V. You have to pay attention and hold the electrode at the bottom of the V while you screw the head down.

Also attached is the resulting sculpture of me welding all my scrap bits together for practice. Maybe I can call it modern industrial art and sell it on ebay. LOL

Edit: I don't intend this to be an Everlast bash. The screw head is perfectly functional. It's just not idiot (Ian) proof.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I use a "Twister", have for many years. The reason is clamp types will fill in when you're welding galvanized and or burning the rod into less than an inch long stubby. I do both. Over time you can't change to a smaller rod because the clamp won't grab it.

Go to your LWS (local welding supply) and ask for a Twister. It's rod holder that secures your rod with a quarter turn. You can bend your rod to whatever angle you want and put it to it.

I have a ten foot lightweight stinger cord. That makes it easier to hold the stinger and I can change the length of the stinger lead by just adding or subtracting sections.

 

[whateg0]

I suppose if I had thought about it, pulling the ground clamp off would have worked just as well.

Ian

That's doable if you are working in the same vicinity as the ground clamp. Sometimes, that means getting up and walking around to the other side of the trailer, or disk, or whatever.

Dave

 

[Inkomodius]

I use clamp type. That is all we are allowed to use one gas sites, because if you are working around a live line and somehow stick the rod to it (stupider things have happened in the oilfield) then you can just unclamp it from the rod before the rod can blow through and become an ignition source.

 

[Haywire]

I picked up this harbor freight electrode clamp yesterday for like $4 to try out. I like it. Much easier to operate than the other type. My only gripe is that the release lever is too close to the handle, so getting a two handed grip takes some fiddling. I'm going to order a Lenco HT series clamp. It's got a lever designed with more clearance between it and the handle.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

WTF!You must be talking about the ones Everlast supplies.

You do realize there is a BIG difference in quality between the Bernard Short Stub, and the Everlast imitations?

I've used them both, and they both still stink.:laughing:

 

[dcyrilc]

You guys are killing me here. I've got just enough money sitting in the bank to pay for an I-mig 200, but I really need to hang on to it for mortgage. I'm sitting here reading all these threads and drooling badly.:drool::drool:

I think I need to suggest to Muhammad that this thread should need a subscription just like the politics thread does.


...and make sure you keep up all the great posting and pix. I'll cave in sooner or later and be right here with ya!:laughing::laughing:

Mark, stick my name on one of those new I-migs. I know I won't be able to hold out much longer.

 

[Shield Arc]

I picked up this harbor freight electrode clamp yesterday for like $4 to try out. I like it. Much easier to operate than the other type. My only gripe is that the release lever is too close to the handle, so getting a two handed grip takes some fiddling. I'm going to order a Lenco HT series clamp. It's got a lever designed with more clearance between it and the handle.

When I started out about all we ever got on the job were the 400, 500-amp versions. I got so use to holding the stinger / electrode holder with the handle on the back of my hand, with the round part in the palm of my hand. Then going to a 200-amp stinger just didn't seem natural having to hold the entire stinger in the palm of my hand, because I couldn't get my hand under the handle. Those 500-amp stinger are nothing short of a club, I guess that's why I like the short stub, have the comfort of a 500-amp stinger, (which I'm use to) but not the weight.
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