Thread: small tig / mig gas bottles

I have one something like that for my mig welder - best thing I ever did. I own the bottle.

Gasweld is an agent for Speed Gas - Products - Argon so I just take mine in to them and do a swap and go - cost is just under $100 but my bottle is a D size so a bit bigger than the ebay bottle.

Garry

If your in Ballarat, Camerons have the small non-rental exchange MIG/TIG gas bottles. Hopefully they'll get Oxygen soon. You could get an LPG/Oxy set then and not pay rental

JB Cameron - Welding

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

If your in Ballarat, Camerons have the small non-rental exchange MIG/TIG gas bottles. Hopefully they'll get Oxygen soon. You could get an LPG/Oxy set then and not pay rental

JB Cameron - Welding

seeya,
Shane L.

Good to know, I already have a bottle here which was donated to me a while back. That's what used to **** me off about MIG welders, the rental of the bottle (about $160 a year) from BOC.


Trav

Sounds better than the 60 litre disposables from bunnings with the crappy regulator that is either off or vents all your gas in 30 seconds! Stuck with stick and flux core until I get the funds for a bottle. That sounds like a pretty good deal. Miss tigging

Do the bottles require testing every so many years? And at what cost?

There exchange bottles ... Like BBQ gas swap 'n' go or Hychill refrigerant bottles. You never worry about expiry 'cos you'll likely swap bottles at least annually

BTW: BOC rental for 'E' ? sized is about $220 these days Just ask my wife, she's been giving me hell 'cos I have a nitrogen and MIG bottle in the shed I haven't gotten around to taking back yet. It's nearly $400 a year for the D nitrogen and E argon/co2.

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Gasweld is an agent for Speed Gas - Products - Argon so I just take mine in to them and do a swap and go - cost is just under $100 but my bottle is a D size so a bit bigger than the ebay bottle.

Garry

As in Gasweld in Fyshwick?

Yes