arther dailey
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wow, now thats honesty
Okay, So I can't find a customer of mine in Tyrone with one but my nearest one is in Newry. I'm gonna drop him a message to see if he minds me passing along his details to youYea thats grand im from ballygawley co.tyrone
no 3 phase on your farm thats unusual better with 3 phase that way less load on the wiring and lots of good industrial sh machines around look at the pole line coming in if theres 5 wires its there ie 3 phases neutral and earth
Okay, So I can't find a customer of mine in Tyrone with one but my nearest one is in Newry. I'm gonna drop him a message to see if he minds me passing along his details to you
Farm single phase won't support the dubious capacity machines often enough . I often enough struggle to burn a 3.2mm low hy. One farm I know has a decent size mig and the lights flicker and go dim when it runs
No definatly no 3 phase nearest point of connection is less than half a mile away but its an absalute fortune to get connected couldnt justify it! Otherwise id have any amount of sh welders to choose from for next to nothing.!
That would be great thanks altho i have seen a man on here from fermanagh who bought an oxford 410 a while back but i cant seem to find the thread again you might perhaps know the member
if your down the pecking line from the transformer than yeah, your going to have probs, but our man eaglefab can nearly see the transformer from the shed, i can do the same here, there is a 25kva transformer (that i fought long and hard for) not 100' from my shed door, im not in the lap of luxury with power but i have about 90% of what it should be.Farm single phase won't support the dubious capacity machines often enough . I often enough struggle to burn a 3.2mm low hy. One farm I know has a decent size mig and the lights flicker and go dim when it runs
Hi, am just new here myself, and I have two of the welders people mentioned,
the parweld XTM 301 and the oxford 330 mig.
My favourite would be the parweld, the oxford does not work the best, I can't
complain as I bought both second hand for small money.
If that was not the case, I would have picked up a Lincoln, as far as I know
mcintyre's in Garvagh had them for sale, they also do the ine which would
be my choice if I had 3ph power, I saw one struggle with 1mm wire on single
phase.
If you mention what it is you mostly want to weld it would help zone in a suitable
machine.
Unless you pay big money I find it hard to find a machine that will do heavy welding,
and still do really tidy welds on light material, that is a compromise that needs careful
consideration.
Then there is portability, an inverter will be lighter and easier to move to a site for example,
and a separate wire feed is something I will never be without again.
Hi bletchmonster.Mr Question, could you elaborate as to why you thought the parweld was a better welder. I've been considering a large single phase Oxford so it's a valid point for me.