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You're much better than I with those rods, that's for sure.
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Barking Mat
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To be honest, that's the best result I've had with them, they seem to need to be well 'started' on a bit of scrap, maybe burn off an inch, fiddle with amperage, that's the 2mm ones, those 1.5mm one I'm still not winning with.You're much better with those rods than I, that's for sure.
James1979
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That looks good. I find they run better off an inverter welder. Not sure why.
Brad93
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Full of porosity. But more grinding to do with a 2.8mm disc.
Tomorrow morning I will dog the round disc back down, create a purge dam inside and weld the disc with a few 3.2mm stainless rods. This much dirt and crap you're never going to TIG weld it.
Then I'll attack the cracks
Tomorrow morning I will dog the round disc back down, create a purge dam inside and weld the disc with a few 3.2mm stainless rods. This much dirt and crap you're never going to TIG weld it.
Then I'll attack the cracks
Barking Mat
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What is it ?
Brad93
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Dough Mixer Bowl. A big one. Believe it or not this is actually fairly small.
Lewis_RX8
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Is that bakery run by a half scot half Yorkshire with his wallet clamped at 50 ton , Whats the cost of repair like compared to replacement?
Brad93
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Replacement would be north of £1200 last time I looked, if they're available. These are 30+ year old mixers (aka the best).
Most of the time they're not available so it's used bowls you have to buy. Still north of £500.
Repair. I don't know we are at 2.5 hours of grinding, drill, grind a bit more, jet wash a bit more crap out. That's £110 so far. They probably gonna be the wrong side of £300 by the time we finish
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Barking Mat
Cuddler of hedgehogs.
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I've only tried them on an inverter, and had mixed results.
Might try a transformer welder to see if that makes a / any difference.
Out of curiosity.
Brad93
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I doubt there's much profit in making new ones from scratch. Especially with the prices of metal spinningMakes sense now lol, need to get into the dough bowl business I think
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MX5's...... built to annoy you 
We have had it now for half a year and we really like it but I just should have given it a bit basic maintanence to be honest. Priority's...MX5's...... built to annoy you
Belt swap seems actually easy with very good acces.
DickyDoDah
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They are actually very easy to work on but they do like throwing up issues. Being 20+ years old I suppose its not surprising. I'm in the process of putting a Turbo on my sons 1.8 NB which is truly an exercise in spacial engineering as there is not a lot of room to put everything in properly with clearance to allow for engine movement.
Good regular maintenance is the key. I can now do an engine change with my eyes closed
Good regular maintenance is the key. I can now do an engine change with my eyes closed
