Machines | Welding The Thumb On The Linkbelt

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1. I make my own mechanical thumbs put the money in your pocket in stead of manufactors
2. I've never been able to figure out why the ground needs to be removed. Doesn't make sense to me.
3. Welding with some 3/16 size 7018 electrodes would have sped up the welding process. A preheat to help control weld stress would have been a good idea as well.
4. I am a noob when it comes to this stuff but I have a ford 555 backhoe and I was thinking about putting a thumb on it. What happens when you grab stuff is it hard on the boom having all that hydraulic pressure against an area that wasnt meant to have it?
   
   Maybe over thinking it or maybe on an excavator everything is so large it doesnt matter. I was worried about putting a thumb on it because i figure i might bend the boom or something weird on my backhoe.
5. i have the same thumb for my pc160!
6. Dam nice welds keep him around
7. Do you know wha type of welding electrode your welder used? Was it 8010 by chance?
8. That looks awesome :)
9. That's a harbor freight pressure washer isn't it? How do you like it? I did a review on it a while ago. Great video. Nice thumb. It would have been nice for it to be a hydraulic thumb though. 
10. Dude u need to get that link dirty not just clearing trees! 
11. disconnecting the battery won't protect the computer. Sorry to say. But high frequency welding is what typically does them in. Mig and Stick are fairly safe. Home boy laid some nice beads though.
12. How come no hydraulic thumb? Too much $ ??
13. You have some good work. How long have you been welding? and did you use stick or mig welding
14. Chris, could you just add a hydraulic cylinder to this thumb if you wanted?
15. Where are the clearing videos
16. What's the name of the company that made the thumb? Where are they located in Ga? 
17. you dont have to disconnect the battery's if your ground is clean and close and directly attached to what you are welding its a good precaution though but it only really happens if you do something like grounding to a track while welding on the bucket
    all the power being zapped into the metal is going to go to the easiest ground if you are set up right its your ground if not its going to take its own path which may be through the computer and its wiring to its ground
18. Nice welding the thumb, this thumb
    is not hydrolic, we shall see as you
    working with it Chris awesome 👌👍✌
19. Glad you have a good weldor finally!!