This is a link to a Polycom VV1500 review, there are heaps of "refurbished ones" available in Australia ranging from $60 and I have seen them up to about $1500 which is way too expensive, I think I paid about $80 for mine delivered which was supposed to be refurbished but it looked brand new...
National Broadband Network, over here in Oz, it is optical fiber to almost everywhere instead of using copper based wires. If it connects all the way from the exchange directly to the house, it is FTTP (Fiber To The Premises) if it is connected to the Box on the Curb (it is FTTC), FTTN (is Fiber...
As this is an old thread, I thought that I would still chime in in case someone looks at this post and decides to do some fiberglassing. As an old fiberglasser, I can honestly say that is a crap job of fiberglassing, a lot of people go to Youtube videos and a lot of makers of the videos have no...
Depends if you want to remove large amounts of weld or just polish up the work area, I go from 40 grit to 120 for final polish, If the bead is large and I stuffed up the weld due to some reason or other, then I would start with a grinding disk, however if the finish was important then remove...
When I had FTTP installed to our new house, I decided that I wanted a VOIP phone, we have really crap mobile reception here where we are, so thought that if someone needed to call us they would be able to. However after talking to the tech support of a couple of sellers they all advised me not...
In my fifty years of welding I have used different MIG welders, I have never used anything that "helps feed the wire". Generally I think that if you have an issue with the wire bird nesting at the rollers then you have some other issue at hand. Your roller should be tensioned so that if you...
I just bought a Rover 46" cut, zero turn with a 2 blade fabricated deck, we only have about a couple of hundred m2 of lawn but soon going to plant another thousand m2 or so. Never driven a zero turn before and they do take some getting used to. Previous one was a Husqvarna 48" tractor type but...
Currently, I am welding up a 8mx8mx4m shed using 100x50x3mm Galv. RHS and it is outside as I have no choice and it is quite blowy here, 15-25Km per hour, and haven't had too much drama with porous welds, just two or three here and there, those I just grind out and redid them again. So MIG...
Definitely get the cross cut carbides for steel and single cut for ally, they are more expensive than the stones but they last for ages, with ally use a dab of oil on the weld before cutting, as ally has a tendency to gum up the teeth especially if you use a cross cut burr. If you use them on...
If your wiring can handle it, then I would say go for it, you do know it's all about the size....right!:laughing:
Seriously though, if you have a bigger machine then it will give you a lot more choices on the size of materials or jobs that you can weld without worrying about if your machine can...
I use to use Ozito ones as they have a reasonable amount of power and variable speed control but unfortunately they don't last long with decent use, generally about 1.5 - 2 years before the bearings give out, but as a tool they are great, you are right about the shards of metal, I use cross cut...
I have used tip dip for ever, I get a bit of scrap metal, put a hot bead on it to get the nozzle tip hot, dip the nozzle in, put another big hot bead on the scrap piece and that gets rid of any excess as that will effect the welding for a short while, after that you are good to go for quite a...
Brad93: That's where my wife got it from and sent it to me, I just thought it might give someone a laugh here, I wasn't about to spend a lot of time fact checking something like this. The point of this was to just point out the stupidity of what goes on nowadays by people who should know better...
The tank obviously :laughing:, but as a contractor, surely you should have the IQ to question something like that! I am also in the process of building a new house and dealing with some of the contractors is like dealing with children!, which haven't developed their brains yet.:mad:
Speaking about contractors not caring, my wife knows a woman who has had a house built and the bright sparks who installed the septic treatment plant, put it right in the middle of her driveway so she has this 2.5m round tank sticking out of the ground about 300-400mm. So she is in now in a bun...
The 6 year warranty down here in Oz was a big deciding factor for me as I do not use my tools often now that I have retired, so I use them heavily for about 1-4 weeks for projects, and then they collect dust on the shelf for the rest of the year like the rest of my gear.