Reply With QuoteARC are a pain the sphincter for automotive use. full stop.
Buy a decent gas mig and a decent, auto tinting helmet, you'll never regret it
Last time I bought a roll for a mates welder it was near $60 for .9 resin cored but standard wire was only $12 a roll but I was buying it retail from a hardware store in a country town so the prices may have been a bit more Exy than down in the smoke.Originally Posted by Slunnie
Is gasless MIG wire that expensive!
I'll stay with gas thanks.
And that was a few years ago now....
OldBushie
ARC are a pain the sphincter for automotive use. full stop.
Buy a decent gas mig and a decent, auto tinting helmet, you'll never regret it
OldBushie
5kg? 15kg?Last time I bought a roll for a mates welder it was near $60 for .9 resin cored but standard wire was only $12 a roll but I was buying it retail from a hardware store in a country town so the prices may have been a bit more Exy than down in the smoke.
And that was a few years ago now....
$12? it was a long time ago, wasn't it?, last 15kg 0.8 roll I bought was $48, retail is $97
Swaggie
I thought that was about what we paid here in the Central west through BOC also (about $50/15kg) but I'd have to check the invoice. It'll be interesting to see how much our next batch cost with the increases in steel costs.
Cheers
Slunnie
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TopicToaster
I don't have a problem with a MIG welder, makes the crappiest welder (me) look semi-decent but I begrudge the outlay of bottle rental, etc.. Plus I'm lucky to use a welder 4-5 times of the year so it's really a false economy to buy a exxy MIG welder
I have an old CIG ARC welder I bought years ago from a garage sale, been great and for the amount of times I use a welder it does the job. My welds are not pro-quality but they seem to hold up pretty well.
If I did do lots of fab work, I would lash out and buy a MIG welder though.
Trav
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Anyone know what a secondhand Esab single phase MIG/MAG goes for? I'm trying to sell one.
No, you don't want it.
Cheers
Simon
Swaggie
Repco outlets have disposable bottles of welding gases. Equivalent of BOC Argoshield, Stainshield, and straight Argon. Around $35 each. This is what I am paying per quarter in cylinder rental for my bottle of Argoshield. Will be going over to these when my current load of gas is exhausted.
URSUSMAJOR
What size are they as I need to get some for my old mans TIG
5kg rolls both prices.
I thought it was bloody steep for the resin cored wire seems the .9 wire at work at the time was only around $30 or $40 for the 15kg rolls at what was CIG at the time.
This was when I was at Lowline..........12 years ago......
Im getting old
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