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[Vamana Gupta]

44 minutes ago, Buckster said:

Shopping for a new welder.

Mig...?

[Buckster]

1 hour ago, Vamana Gupta said:

Mig...?

Tig.

[Vamana Gupta]

5 hours ago, Buckster said:

Tig.

You found a Crack in your frame ..?   Goose neck area ?

[Buckster]

16 minutes ago, Vamana Gupta said:

You found a Crack in your frame ..?   Goose neck area ?

No, it's not Chinese aluminium like yours.

[Vamana Gupta]

42 minutes ago, Buckster said:

No, it's not Chinese aluminium like yours.

Canadian aluminium my friend...stronger than titanium..

[Buckster]

9 hours ago, Vamana Gupta said:

Canadian aluminium my friend...stronger than titanium..

Funny you should mention titanium as that is why I am looking for a Tig welder, I have a project that will be using titanium. I had a play with a laser welder yesterday, if I had the money I would get one as it was amazing but it is beyond my budget.

[Vamana Gupta]

29 minutes ago, Buckster said:

Funny you should mention titanium as that is why I am looking for a Tig welder, I have a project that will be using titanium. I had a play with a laser welder yesterday, if I had the money I would get one as it was amazing but it is beyond my budget.

Yes ive seen those , looks like they make amazing welds , not sure exactly how good they are , has ive only seen them advertised on TV and most stuff advertised on TV is mostly fake...so you had a go at one ? And it does do what they advertise ?

[Buckster]

45 minutes ago, Vamana Gupta said:

Yes ive seen those , looks like they make amazing welds , not sure exactly how good they are , has ive only seen them advertised on TV and most stuff advertised on TV is mostly fake...so you had a go at one ? And it does do what they advertise ?

The small single phase version is about $4000, I was getting about 2mm weld penetration in 5mm steel at 60% power and I was also doing perfect aluminium welds on 1mm plate within 10 minutes of practice using pure argon. The spatter was virtually zero.

[Vamana Gupta]

9 minutes ago, Buckster said:

The small single phase version is about $4000, I was getting about 2mm weld penetration in 5mm steel at 60% power and I was also doing perfect aluminium welds on 1mm plate within 10 minutes of practice using pure argon. The spatter was virtually zero.

More expensive than I thought..you'd have to do some serious work to make a tool like that worth the purchase...ive got just a cheap mig at home , its basically a lincoln welder paint blue sold by Canadian tire stores...its ok ..but it splatters like hell...no gaz , just with a flex core wire..

[Buckster]

2 minutes ago, Vamana Gupta said:

More expensive than I thought..you'd have to do some serious work to make a tool like that worth the purchase...ive got just a cheap mig at home , its basically a lincoln welder paint blue sold by Canadian tire stores...its ok ..but it splatters like hell...no gaz , just with a flex core wire..

My Mig packed up hence why I needed a new machine, I bought a nice igbt ac hf tig.