Shedendman
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Relatively. Depends on how good the mask and gloves are, really. Most welders will come with torch and reg so it's down to whether the mask and gloves are any good.
Prices for the easymig 160 seem to range from £450 to £650 on t'internet.
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Just to complicate your choices more I believe our forum sponsor offers members a discount.
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As an inverter MIG, there should be no fixed limits to the power output, in terms of voltage and wire speed.
A traditional "step switched" transformer-based MIG does have a limited number of voltage steps.
A basic inverter MIG will have two fully-variable controls, for output voltage and wire speed.
A synergic inverter MIG may have artificial limits due to the pre-programmed ratio between voltage and wirespeed, controlled by a single dial, which may be calibrated in millimetres of metal thickness.
Some synergic machines do have another dial or a sub-menu that allows fine-tuning ( "trimming" ) of the voltage.
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I had a MIG with only 4settings.
Could never get on with it, always seemed to be too hot or too cold.
However if it’s cheap and it gets you started could be a good starter. Keep it in good condition and you may sell it on for almost what you pay for it.
It's 5% CO2, 95% Argon. That's what was recommended to me for thin metal, up to a few mm.
thanks
Hi well its been a while since I posted, had welder for a while but only just got round to unboxing and setup.
I know some people like pics so I have uploaded a few.
I had a go at setting it up and testing various settings on some 0.8mm - 1.0mm steel, Im using 0.8mm wire that came with machine. I blew a few holes at first, adjusted the inductance to min and it seem to stop blowing through but still need to do some more adjustment. Keep getting a pop and wire blows back about 1cm with hot globule on end of wire, any ideas? Posting pics as follows, I worked right to left on this? Any tips would be appreciated, I'm going to practice some more tomorrow now I have setup ready. Thanks.
I know some people like pics so I have uploaded a few.
I had a go at setting it up and testing various settings on some 0.8mm - 1.0mm steel, Im using 0.8mm wire that came with machine. I blew a few holes at first, adjusted the inductance to min and it seem to stop blowing through but still need to do some more adjustment. Keep getting a pop and wire blows back about 1cm with hot globule on end of wire, any ideas? Posting pics as follows, I worked right to left on this? Any tips would be appreciated, I'm going to practice some more tomorrow now I have setup ready. Thanks.
Were you welding outside? Looks like you were welding with no gas half the time. Show the back side of the weld too, rust or dirt could have similar symptoms.
Voltage too high or wire speed too low, adjust one at a time a little until you can weld a proper bead then you will likely need further adjustments to get the bead you want.
18 what? PSI, L/m, CFH? If this is the dial on the regulator then it may get you in the ballpark once you know your set up but from my experience a pea shooter style would be better, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/135772331086?_skw=pea+shooter+gas or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236080726551?_skw=welding+gas+flow+meter I MIG around 12 to 15L/m
Read here too, https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/mig.htm
