Anything welding

my LWS has one in their showroom, looks decent. No experience with it and I dont know if they've sold one yet to get any feedback

 

Played with it a little bit at KOH. Kind of an interesting machine in how it sets wire speed and heat with presets based on thickness (wasn't a fan).

 

So essentially it's like the Miller Autoset machines. Can you turn that off and set manually at least?

 

Don't know, only had the chance to run a few beads on it.

 

I watched a review vid on it, you can take it out of preset/s and fine tune it, to whatever you need it.
Check it dawgs.
https://youtu.be/OI3t6HTko6k
(He mentions fine tuning here)
https://youtu.be/UIn4ciQEYvc
https://youtu.be/S2_PBqArRP8


Called a welding supply place today, inquired about it.. They said they'd been selling a good bit of them. Supposedly they're supposed to be legit.

 

You would need to pay me Quite a Bit to even look at a Esab !!

It takes forever even to get warranty parts.

For home use I would go with Hobart

 

going to an estate auction tomorrow, I wondered what a used cutting torch would be worth? has bottles, cart, hoses etc...looked in good condition.

 

Just the bottles alone are worth a few hundred bucks. If you can get a full set up for under $400 that's good deal.

 

One has to be real careful

2 cylinders both due for Hydro test

Dry Rotted hose more then likely

time for regulators to be rebuilt ??

Then the Quality of the Set a good one or a cheap built China one a few years old

 

Having had to live through my parents estate being settled the stuff that went to the sale was only the junk no one else wanted .

All the goodies were picked out and one has to know they were both pack rats

 

I have to agree. Torch kits are not that expensive. Its the tanks that sting you. If the tanks are pretty full, then yes, it can be a deal.

With that said, I sold my torches 15 years ago. I can do everything with my plasma cutter and any heating of parts I can do with a propane torch.

 

I didnt stick around for the torch set...most of this stuff was very old and quite used. Some people were paying New prices for old junk. I did get a few things I thought was a deal/steal but a majority of it wasnt worth what people paid for it.

 

Lol. My last auction was about 10 years ago. That same reason I quit going to them.

Kind of a shame, we go to find deals and there are non.

 

I didnt have anything going on so I went and checked it out...it was maybe 10 minutes from my house so I figured why not.

 

I guess I am old fashioned for what ever reason I still go to the torch first .

Even though they are both a few steps from one another .

Maybe it is just habit and muscle memory

 

I decided to buy new tires instead of a welder for now, it will have to wait until next month or two. I decided to get the Lincoln power mig180.

 

pretty slick for rotten metal lol. Lil undercut but she'll hold.

 

for the industrial welders we have here... any experience with MTI split frame counterbore machines? need to counterbore 8 pieces of pipe, for a wall thickness transition from one spool to the next.

looking at one of these http://www.mtipowerservices.com/pro...plit-frames-standard-6-54-1/model-212-6-8-12-

 

Just give the guy in the field one of these and a truck load of batteries.

 

no chance in hell the weld would pass. never seen such intense testing requirements on a job before.