Farside
Badly Welded Man
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I have the Telwin Bimax Turbo 162 and it looks identical to the Sealey Supermig 150 of 2004.
From what I can see, it looks as the same machine, re-badged. Any interesting life-prolonging mods I can do to it to make my life easier or does the Telwin version have anything done better then the Sealey version?
I bought this a decade ago, did a couple of test welds, and then laid it up for 8 years or so. It got pulled out of storage, used for a few hours a couple of years back and only now is it in my workshop in its proper place where it will be getting used more often. It's still near-enough new-ish inside and I'd like to keep it good, but from other threads I've gathered that some models could do with various shortcomings being addressed - like better feed motor, etc?
So far, it's working fine, but I don't mind 'improving' it.
I plan on a Euro torch conversion sometime in the next year or so - I'll definitely need to go that route when/if I get the big NBC monster working.
From what I can see, it looks as the same machine, re-badged. Any interesting life-prolonging mods I can do to it to make my life easier or does the Telwin version have anything done better then the Sealey version?
I bought this a decade ago, did a couple of test welds, and then laid it up for 8 years or so. It got pulled out of storage, used for a few hours a couple of years back and only now is it in my workshop in its proper place where it will be getting used more often. It's still near-enough new-ish inside and I'd like to keep it good, but from other threads I've gathered that some models could do with various shortcomings being addressed - like better feed motor, etc?
So far, it's working fine, but I don't mind 'improving' it.
I plan on a Euro torch conversion sometime in the next year or so - I'll definitely need to go that route when/if I get the big NBC monster working.