Combo Trigger Locks
http://reviews.canadiantire.ca/9045/0750045P/master-lock-master-lock-combination-trigger-lock-reviews/reviews.htm

Stores: many

Price: $10 - $15

Uses: fast securing /unsecuring of weapons

Pros: The only way to secure any gun fast.
- You code them to a number you WILL remember!
- You don't ever have to look around for a key.
- You can leave the gun laying around secured and be legal outside the gun cabinet.
- You can give the number to a friend and just change it later if need be.
- You can do a grab and go without fretting over finding you misplaced the keys later.
- You can remove it quicker than using a key.

Cons: none worth mentioning I can think of...They don't work on lever actions....

Priority Rating: 5/5

Keyless Entry Locks

http://keylessentrylocks.com/

Stores: many

Price: $200-$300

Uses: fast securing /unsecuring of house

Pros: The convenient way to secure your home .
- You code them to a 4 digit number you WILL remember!
- You don't ever have to look around for a key.
- It lights up at night so you can see the keypad.
- You can give the number to a friend and just change it later if need be.
- You can do a grab and go without fretting over finding you misplaced the keys later.
- You can open it quicker than using the key.
- they don't freeze in the winter
- you tend to lock your house more

Cons: If battery dies, there is an emergency key slot too.
You can buy the kind that requires no batteries but they cost more and do far less.
- requires 9v battery every 12 months of so.

Rating: 4/5 in priority for home security

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while I started with mig, I find I like stick a lot now, infact it seemed impossible to me to use at first ...I started on a AC buzz box, not the way to start... Get a DC stick welder, and use stainless rods to start, first time I used stainless rods I could not believe how much easier it was to learn, to strike up and lay a bead...great rods to learn with. Also I never even drill now in steel I just light up a rod and burn my way through, infact I roughly cut out parts with a rod and clean them up with a grinder. I have fancy inverter welders like Miller 150' s maxstar 200' or some such things, they are just ok But the best welder I have is a old miller dialarc 250 ac/dc...its almost a sexual experience lighting up a rod, I can can bury the rod right into the puddle and it doesnt snuff out..infact I once had to weld on some steel that was the thickness of a dust pan, even though this is a 240 volt unit I put 120 volts to it, I lost the high end of the machine but shifted the output way down and I could weld on the thinest of material...........Great machines, I have to say the best I own not a single cct board in it, works on the principle of a mag amp, emp, cme..bring it..I will still be welding...a miller thunderbolt (older units) 230 amp ac output and 150 dc output, is also a good one and that too you can run on 120vac even though it say's 240 vac.

For engine drives nothing beats a old miller bobcat 250, no cct boards in it, just a idle control module, and when they fail the unit just goes to high idle and you can keep on welding. I think they also were rated for 7000, 8000 or so aux output but under the top cover is a resistor with a sliding contact that you can move to increase rotor current and that unit can then do 10,000 watts..

If Denob ever get around to fixing the picture posting on this board I will show you the best use for a princess auto mig welder, in fact I have just finished up testing it this week, it will never weld again but thats for the best..