Quite a few years ago I bought a Lincoln SP100 mig welder. Great machine, light small and 120 volt input. Easy portability. I often set it up on the lathe in my basement to do robot looking welds on round stuff. It lives in my shop here at the house (In Michigan). I noticed the first winter I had it that I started having issues with wire feeding. I talked to a old timer welder at work and the first question out of his mouth was what kind of wire do you use? By kind, he wanted to know brand. By then I had used up the stuff that came with the welder and had who knows what in it. He said go back to Lincoln wire and you will be happier. So I took the wire wiper things the local guy sold me off and went back to the Lincoln wire. Many years later here I am with Lincoln wire. That little welder keeps on making me happy. I remember many times looking at that guys welder after he told me that and yep every time I looked it was Lincoln wire.
It just doesn't rust like all the other stuff I was trying to use and it makes great looking welds.

Good stuff!

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Yeah, my vacuum bleeder never worked well so it only does duty on chasing actual vacuum leaks and such. Good old two person system always works. Push Hold, (close bleeder) Let Up. (loosen bleeder) Push Hold.............

Somewhere int the mid 140's MPH that thing starts to make a lot of sense!

Over the 20+ years i have had my lifts I have rebuilt a couple of cylinders. Used the seals from a local industrial supply that had availability by dimensions like the Mcmaster Carr reference above. Worked great!
Just remember, just like when working on internals of an engine Cleanliness comes before Godliness in hydraulics!

My Daughter and her crew were at US 131 this weekend. Good times!

Billy, funny you should ask about mirrors, seems to me you had some neat looking mirrors on you earlier Mustang and I want to know what they were off of? I was thinking it was some year Mustang convertable?

WOW!

I make a plug that goes where the distributor goes with just enough of the distributor shaft and and bearings and gear to drive the oil pump. Been doing it for 45 years. Can't remember having one fail. The Electromotive stuff works well.

I always look for and ask about the stupid clause in all insurance policies. You never know when stupid will show up!!
As for Heims, if applied properly and using the correct one, never had one fail. even the ones I bent in battle!!!

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I married one like this one, a 1966 500XL with a 390! was a great car!

 
You married one? Atta boy! Does she have a twin sister?

Her sister had a 66 Fairlane, not near as nice!