Welding

Get a 150 Amp fan cooled MIG, they will weld all you will need on a car or even a Disco

Peter.

..and DON'T use C02 - use COOGAR or equivalent.

Steve

On or around Fri, 06 Aug 2004 21:30:29 +0100, Steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:

mind, ISTR that CO2 is better on rusty stuff. COOGAR or such is brill on clean metal though. Bloody mig I have is being a pain at the moment, the wire's got slightly rusty and keeps sticking in the nozzle.

In article , Austin Shackles writes

I've got a very damp garage/workshop, and get the same problem. Now I always spray the spool with WD40 between uses. It helps, but probably only slows the process down a bit. Doesn't seem to make the rollers slip though. I wondered about the PTFE liner, bus so far no problems.

Regards,

Simonm.

Take the spool out when you're not uising it, seal it up in plastic bag and hide it in your airing cupboard.

Where will we keep the welding rods ???

Steve

Just throw more bedding and stuff out of the airiing cupboard to make room (or build a welding rod cupboard). I've got a cupboard that I knocked up out of some scrap aluminium sheet with a couple of 15W light bulbs wired in series in the bottom. It keeps my welding rods and MIG wire dry enough to avoid problems (even more important with alloy MIG wire and expensive (couple of quid each)specialist rods.

On or around Sun, 08 Aug 2004 12:40:19 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:

welding rods can be dried out in a warm oven, though, ISTR. drying our rusty mig wire doesn't have the same effect. I thought the copper coating on it was to stop the sod rusting... I think I'll spool a load off to see if it's rusty all the way through or only on the top layer.

I had this once, ended up in a right mess with wire all looping over the place :) It was a real pain, wire was determined to kink and knot up, had to take so much off I bought a new reel in the end. Keep it wrapped in greasproof paper now when not in use.