long story but here goes, I bought a Parweld stick welder, always wanted to learn. Practicing on thicker stuff and I was sticking bits together.
Then came the thinner sheet, you can imagine how that turned out!!!!
A second hand gys 130 easymig came up so I bought it. Result, I was back sticking thinner bits together.
The kind of thing I’m doing with it is repairs on wood burners and flues, I also make a lot of brackets and bits to install fireplaces. A lot of older twinwall systems don’t have mesh in the guards. Some of the wall thickness is 0.8mm and I’ve been mig welding mesh in for a factory finish look. I started off riveting brackets on and wire locking the mesh, it wasn’t quite the look I was after. It’s generally 316 stainless, the mesh is 1.6mm.
I wanted to change the torch on the gys but it’s fixed, that got me thinking. My first experience of mig is this little inverter, it’s done me proud but would a transformer based welder give me a more constant spot weld rather than the electronic help on the inverters? Most of the time that’s all I do, tack stuff together.
The bottom end is 30a and the way I’ve managed the thin stuff is concentrate the heat on the mesh and use a wet rag behind the bit I’m sticking it to.
The question is would I find a notable difference in say an Oxford transformer for this kind of stuff compared to the gys?
I started with co2 but soon changed to hobbyweld, made a big difference for me.
I’m running on a standard plug in the garage, possibly could get a bigger circuit installed. Max im going to use it for is 5mm anything bigger I’ll blob it together with the stick.
Then came the thinner sheet, you can imagine how that turned out!!!!
A second hand gys 130 easymig came up so I bought it. Result, I was back sticking thinner bits together.
The kind of thing I’m doing with it is repairs on wood burners and flues, I also make a lot of brackets and bits to install fireplaces. A lot of older twinwall systems don’t have mesh in the guards. Some of the wall thickness is 0.8mm and I’ve been mig welding mesh in for a factory finish look. I started off riveting brackets on and wire locking the mesh, it wasn’t quite the look I was after. It’s generally 316 stainless, the mesh is 1.6mm.
I wanted to change the torch on the gys but it’s fixed, that got me thinking. My first experience of mig is this little inverter, it’s done me proud but would a transformer based welder give me a more constant spot weld rather than the electronic help on the inverters? Most of the time that’s all I do, tack stuff together.
The bottom end is 30a and the way I’ve managed the thin stuff is concentrate the heat on the mesh and use a wet rag behind the bit I’m sticking it to.
The question is would I find a notable difference in say an Oxford transformer for this kind of stuff compared to the gys?
I started with co2 but soon changed to hobbyweld, made a big difference for me.
I’m running on a standard plug in the garage, possibly could get a bigger circuit installed. Max im going to use it for is 5mm anything bigger I’ll blob it together with the stick.