For simple tasks welding with no gas is fine. But I guarantee if you ran that hobart with gas and without before buying you would get the gas. It makes for a much smoother weld, and if your just learning you will weld better faster. I used to have a small hobart that worked great for small...
If you didn't adjust your draglink or put on a lifted steering arm your pitman arm won't be center. So when you hit a bump the steering box is trying to find center again but center isn't straight ahead so it keeps looking back and forth. Did I make sense?
I used on part peat moss, one part horse manure, one part miracle grow potting soil, and one part of the soil from my yard.(Very sandy) So far I haven't lost one plant out of about twenty.
Freshops is selling their 30yr old cascade crowns on their website now for $50.
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