[img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] I'm in the process of constructing a breakfast "booth" in our newly-reconstructed kitchen. The booth is dimensionally the same as a restaurant booth except a little wider; we will have a 28" X 6-foot table whereas most restaurants have about four feet of table. I'm putting the whole thing up on a six-inch deck so I don't have to get up and down to slide in and out of the seats. The seats are a church pew sawed in half. I have been fabbing the metal that supports the table and am using the deck to hide the steel member that goes under the floor. The steel goes across the floor.... into the wall.....and up the wall terminating in a surface flange. The horizontal arm that supports the table flanges onto the flange that is flush with the wall. So.....in order to make fit-up easy, I tacked all the pieces together that comprised the lower and vertical support members while they were in place, and then slid the assemby out and took it outside for total weld-up with my Millermatic 35 DC wire-feed welder. For tacking everything up, I borrowed my neighbor's EASY MIG 100 made by Chicago Electric; a welder he bought from a farmer buddy for 100 bucks, This welder has never actually been used much by either owner because it didn't work very well. This is one of those: "I'll get this welder and go home and build a boat trailer in my garage." type of homeowner-grade buzz boxes, except it has inner shield wire instead of stick electrode. It runs on 115V current. It's been three days now and I THINK I may have at long last corrected the last of the bugs that were keeping that welder from working right. As is so often the case, initial setup and assembly isn't done right and the box won't weld right, but the novice welders who buy these things don't know that it isn't working right, they think the problem is with them. The 115V thing is kind of wishful thinking BECAUSE it pulls 29 AMPs on high range, and few, if any, household or garagehold plugs will support that kind of current. The other thing is that it's AC. Between the AC and the inner shield wire, it is anything but clean. Don't get me wrong, it was a life saver to use that little machine to tack everything up here in the kitchen, but I would really hate to have to build anything with it. It's little and kind of cute sitting there, but it's just a toy. If you are considering a suitcase welder, be SURE to get DC.!!!!![img]/forums/images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]