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Hi i just bought myself a mig welder and was wondering if anyone could recomend any books or websites with info on how to set it up for different types of steel etc.
I will be enroling in a TAFE course shortly but would like to learn abit befor i start the course.
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email me and tell me what size attachments you can receive - file is approx 10MB
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Hi GMH1975, go down to the local scrap yard and sceem as much offcut as you can and go for it. It can be a fine art to get it right and it all come from practice. The hard thing to work out is wire speed. If you got one of the cig units ditch the brass re
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Hi Jim.
Guess what....It is a cigweld unit and yes i got the ****y reg.
will get a new one when i get the chance.
Using it gassless at the moment because the unit came with a spool of gassless wire so i will waste that just to get a feel for it.
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I also have a cig mig welder im currently running a spare oxy reg on mine if you are going to be welding alloys you will need argon gas instead of the argoshield light that you will use for most other materials you will need a nylon liner for your mig gun
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All i can say about the welding books is that look over them before you buy.most welding books give you ways to weave and other bad habbits,If your wire comes out in spurts,you might not have enough wire speed.but if you molting pool seems to small or too
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Hi and thanks for all the info guys. Im thinking of buying one of theses regs off ebay http://cgi.ebay.com.au/w...13&item=4388872129&rd=1
Any views on if they are worth the money? |
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Good unit if you know what flow rate you want as I said in my last post the cheap BOC unit has a gadge for dummies ( no pun intended ) which tells you what flow rate you need with what work you are doing. To hard to explain but if you go in and have a loo
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Hi Jim.
the one from boc is $110.
The part number is 105206.
Is the one you were talking about for $60 still available?
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Thats the one but forgot to say that it was on trade price, if you have a mate thats a plummer you may get a better deal than $110 as being an ex plumming store manager I used to buy them in for $37.86 wholesale but you did not hear that from me :) :) Che
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Was just looking at the BOc reg on thier website and took a good look at the righting on the gauges.
It shows 15 to 30 liters per min for mig welding.
So now i know the flowrate i guess i can buy any brand of reg.
Any brands to steer away from ?
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Sorry I sould have thought of that. I could have given you the info without the squinting. Cheers Jim. Edited by user Wednesday, 22 June 2005 8:28:46 PM(UTC)
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If you don't use your mig welder too often or too much it is way more cost effective to buy the disposable cylinders because what you save on cylinder rental a year alone pays for 3 or four disposable cylinders.
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If you dont use your mig welder too often or too much it is way more cost effective to buy the disposable cylinders because what you save on cylinder rental a year alone pays for 3 or four disposable cylinders.
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Jim 5.0 Where do you get the dissposable tanks and what cost would i be looking at?
Will i still need to buy a proper reg or will my gaugeless one be fine? |
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You can pick up the disposable bottles from a lot of the good tool shops that sell welders. You also see them around the swap meets occasionally too.
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you may want to try gassless wire have been experimenting with this and seems to work well on body panels
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i also use gasless wire a bit, although its not really gasless it has the gas impregnated into the wire, and it seems to work fine.
i did the tafe course and it was very good (its actually a module of their engineering certificate which is to your credit
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i also use gasless wire a bit, although it's not really gasless it has the gas impregnated into the wire, and it seems to work fine.
i did the tafe course and it was very good (it's actually a module of their engineering certificate which is to your cred
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Jim 5.0 Where do you get the dissposable tanks and what cost would i be looking at?
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