Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

I’m going to assume this, from Cotterell, was in response to yesterdays conversation rather than my plea for washing machine help…

While we’re at it, anyone care to comment on welding machines?


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  1. jarkman

    On the welding of machines, or on the machines to weld the machines with?

    I can talk enthusiastically but not very well-informedly about some of the latter. What’s the plan ?

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    • neilh

      There is no plan – you should know me better than that by now – except that I want to learn to weld. And, completely independently, I need a better way of washing cloths than a bath full of tepid water.

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    • jarkman

      Ah – now I’ve followed the link, it makes more sense.

      I had a crappy little MIG once. It was horrible, but things could be stuck together with it. Then I bought a big MIG, and everything was much better.

      The crappy one was in the same ballpark as that one, but used proper gas (admittedly in tiny bottles, till I got it connected to old pub CO2 bottles from the dump). I suspect gas will work a lot better than non-gas. It’s stil upstairs somewhere, if you want to borrow it for a bit.

      The big one is a Murex Autolynx 161. They don’t make it any more, but it’s something like this:
      http://www.murexwelding.co.uk/mrxcont/arc/Product%20Details/TradesmigChallenger186C.htm

      It’s not cranky in all the ways the little one was. It’ll weld much thicker stuff, it takes big gas bottles so you don’t run out (and you can use proper gas mixtures easily), it takes big wire reels so you don’t run out, and it’s built to be used all day.

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