Just thought I'd drop in and introduce myself. I'm Dennis from Florissant Missouri and I just received my 2013 power tig 185 yesterday. The only other welder I currently own is a millermatic 175. I learned to weld, stick and mig from my dad in the early 90's (I'm 32 now) but have always wanted to learn tig. I work in the automotive collision repair industry as a painter so all my welding is done at home on my own toys. I'm starting a new project a turbo motor for my b2200 below so going to need to weld a fair amount of aluminum and stainless and I figured now was a good time to purchase one. I bought a cart today and I'm getting the argon bottle next week then the fun begins!

Here's the last 2 toys I built. I wont bore you with a ton of pics just a few of each.
1981 yamaha xs650 bobber. This was my first bike build and I did everything except mount the tires.
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1988 mazda b2200 (spent a lot of time with the miller on this one) once again everything was done by myself except for recovering the seats and mounting the tires (sounds like I need to purchase a tire machine next

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