Budget welding wire

[Onthespotwelding]

I usually use machinemart welding wire as it’s a reasonable price and good quality. A 0.8 5kg roll is £23.98.

Just logged on to Halfords and I can get a 0.8 5kg roll for £14.39!

£9.59 a roll cheaper!

worth a punt? Or better the devil you know?

 

[DickyDoDah]

That's a good price no idea if the wire is any good though but worth a punt

 

[Joe 90]

The last roll i got was gys wire on amazon at £16.90. I have a big roll of esab from zoro but such a handling as they damaged it in the post. It was cheap with the 20% discount but couldn't wait any longer and bought that gys. It seems good to me.

 

[gordon stephenson]

I only buy the big names, EWM,Lincoln etc, for the amount of welding most hobbyists do I find it best to stick with wire that I know will have been made with quality control in mind, Other makers and white box sellers just buy from the cheapest wholesalers,

 

[8ob]

I can’t remember ever changing a bad roll of mig wire, changed badly wound rolls that snag up. Badly wound rolls are not just from cheaper suppliers, I try to avoid the wire caged rolls because the couriers aren’t kind to them.

Bob

 

[Morrisman]

I was on the cusp of ordering from T-tech a few months ago, then realised they added £8 postage, to the £25 or so they charge for the wire. So I bought elsewhere with free postage. Still a lot more than £14.39 though.

 

[Joe 90]

I can’t remember ever changing a bad roll of mig wire, changed badly wound rolls that snag up. Badly wound rolls are not just from cheaper suppliers, I try to avoid the wire caged rolls because the couriers aren’t kind to them.

Bob

The plastic ones are worse. The side breaks and then every time it turn over the wire pulls down the side of it and jams

 

[T0rnado69]

^^ i got a 15kg roll of stainless steel wire like that.....
such a shame.

 

[Robert Mullins]

Go onto the internet and discover who's your nearest welding supplier, go and talk with them, maybe not the cheapest, but cheaper than Halfords and their ilk: