Hi - Another complete novice!

[greatoldone]

Hi guys - I'm Jason, and I'm about to jump into uncharted waters, and try my hand at welding.

I've been busy building a Marlin Sportster kit car:

http://www.greatoldone.co.uk

Which I've managed to get on the road without having to weld anything (apart from the rollbar, which I got someone to do for me). Needless to say my brackets are all bolted or riveted together!

I'm planning on getting a gas MIG, as from reading the forums as a guest it seems to be the most straight forward thing for a novice to pick up, and to use it to remake all those bolted brackets (so I can shed a few kilos of fasteners!).

I'm sure it will also come in handy when we come to build my mates kit-car once the tin moths have finshed eating his Disco, and we can put the V8 to better use.

Cheers,

Jason

 

[Wozzaaah]

Welcome to the forum Jason, nice looking car that!

 

[greatoldone]

Well, after a long time procrastinating, I've finally bought a 2nd hand mig welder:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130751990...WNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_959wt_922

It's an Mac Tools branded 'MM180' - 30 to 180 amps in 6 power steps. I'm unsure who the actual manufacturer is, but it appears to be well made - it has an all metal wire feed, euro connector with genuine Binzle torch and a spot weld timer.

Needs a bit of clean, and a new knob on the spot weld timer control, but it looks pretty much brand new.

Now I need to get some gas, so I can start blowing holes in metal... I mean learning the dark art of welding.

Can anyone recomend a good gas supplier in the Northampton area? It's for hobby use, and I don't know how much gas I'm going to be getting through.

Ta

Jason

 

[malcolm]

Bedford Battery are doing rent free bottles that will work out a lot cheaper than BOC. There is a branch in Northampton.

 

[greatoldone]

Ooo. We like the sound of rent free. Thanks Malcom!

 

[Wozzaaah]

Welcome back Jason.
I've fixed the broken link in your original post, you must have changed the site layout since then.

 

[greatoldone]

Thanks Woz - I was looking for the edit button when I saw the link... I guess you disable editing after a period of time

 

[Wozzaaah]

Yes, the edit button disappears after a set period.