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Down the road to me I get CO2 for £16 inc bottle whenits empty just return the bottle and pay another £16 for another
Umm, I pay £12.50 for a refill.
Down the road to me I get CO2 for £16 inc bottle whenits empty just return the bottle and pay another £16 for another
£12.50 or £13 can't remember what it was last time I supplied full bottles
ive got a full sized bottle of argoshield when its empty i take it back to the engineering firm and swap it foc. They have 50+ blokes work there and there gas is in very large tanks plumbed arround the factory, they have 12 bottles as stand by, well 11 now, i am very friendly with the owner and am on 24hr call for any of their break downs so they let me have the gas and a pick through their scrap bins. dead handy, ive built rock sliders, tree sliders front bumpers and allsorts and never bought steel yet.
I must say though as an electrical engineer i dont do much welding other than for myself and a smaller bottle would be much more portable but beggers cant be choosers can they
not trying to black dog anyone, sorry, i would prefer smaller bottles, might be interested if we are looking for numbers to buy enoughWell, I reckon that's the welding gas top trumps won![]()
this is mine, SEALEY Supermig 185 Welder 185amp 230V | eBay never had an ounce of trouble with it in 7-8 years
the setup i have is an old sip migmate 130 turbo
its heavily modified to do the whole range of welding such as ive been inside it and uprated the settings board and added switches to use previously non conected coils on the transformers so i have ultra low settings capable of welding the likes of bean tins if nessecary and another setting that boosts the output to a stupid level so itll breeze through anything up to 12mm thick
hope this helps![]()
Nice looking set up - I've got a sip migmate 150 and I might have a go at something similar - especially the co2 bottle.
I end up using 0.8mm wire all the time because my wire feed speed on the 0.6mm is too unreliable. It's got a plastic gearbox and I can't tighten up the adjuster enough to keep the wire speed constant.
Does yours suffer from the same problem or have you found a solution?
Thanks,
Roy
Umm, I pay £12.50 for a refill.
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