Lidl

[Robotstar5]

Lidl have some bargains on 2nd Jan, welding consumable / accessories, the 6kg dry powder extinguisher looks good for just over £12

 

[irondarren]

does make me laugh, they are selling 5kg of welding wire for £16.65, which is all well and fine but its 0.8mm not so good for cars Still at least they are selling 0.8mm contact tips which matches the wire size.

the welding gloves look a little like tig gloves. leather but with no padding, much better for low amperage work than mig gloves which have the furry liners.

In all honest truth what some of you guys need to do, (those that live near each other) club together and buy your stuff in bulk). if you speak to the likes of weldequip and say i want ten of this twenty of this etc, you will find it much cheaper. Mig tips are a great example bought in a bag of 100 they are silly money. But you have to group together and buy in bulk

 

[Wozzaaah]

I expect those electrodes are pants but £3.90 for a kilo of 2.5mm isn't bad for someone who just wants some to play with.
Halfrauds price............................£3.49 for just TEN rods!!

 

[Mikey D]

There offers do vary depending on where you live , no extinguishers in my area , is the 5kg mig wire an ok price be needing a roll for my new kemppi when it arrives

 

[irondarren]

£16 for 5kgs seems expensive to me as i only paid about £22 for 15kgs, but obviously smaller reels are more money in comparison

 

[Archie]

They probably charge a premium on small rolls but a 15kg one is normally about £15-17.

 

[Wozzaaah]

5kg 0.8mm is £14.99 at Halfords, probably cheaper from weldequip or diywelding but postage is a killer on stuff like that.

 

[Mikey D]

Thats what i was thinking , my lidl is a mile away , nearest proper welding shop 18 miles ,so cheaper than the diesel or postage ........
i would go for 15kg rolls(more economical) but the little kemppi takes 5kg only (or max)

cheers mike

 

[irondarren]

mikey, buy yourself one roll of 5kg wire. before the wire runs out make yourself a tool for holding a 15kg, so it can be wound off onto a 5 kg reel. then just buy 15kg reels until you wear out the 5kg plastic spool

 

[Hitch]

Id sooner spend more to save the messing about trying to do that, not to mention the benifits between layer wound and random wound.

 

[aero]

Lidl the 6kg dry powder extinguisher looks good for just over £12

Mmmm.....ever let off a dry powder extinguisher in a confined space? Unless you have to have dry powder I wouldn't use it. CO2 seems to work just as well but without the mess.

 

[irondarren]

As far as i am aware dry powder works the same as CO2, in terms that both attempt to deprive the fire of oxygen. CO2 obviously being a gas doesn't leave a mess. Ideal for when you set light to the car

 

[aero]

Don't go there......

 

[irondarren]

aero you mean to say you have set light to a car lol. I know someone who did a little bit of welding on his girlfriends dad's american van. Just a little patch on the bulkhead, and the heat transfer set light to the dash board. Now we constantly take the mickey out of him for it.

 

[Wozzaaah]

His girlfriend's dad wasn't meatloaf by any chance was it Darren?

 

[Drains]

Those wire prices at Lidl are nonsense. BOC will do you 15kg for under £20 if you go in off the street. We get 18kg reels of Lincoln Supramig for £16 from our supplier - and at least the quality of that is guaranteed.

 

[Drains]

Mmmm.....ever let off a dry powder extinguisher in a confined space? Unless you have to have dry powder I wouldn't use it. CO2 seems to work just as well but without the mess.

Aye - dry powder's right handy, and better than co2 as it stays where it is, so the fire stays put out (relighting can happen easy enough with co2, depending on the combustible), but by god it's a sod to clean up. And it stinks.

 

[Robotstar5]

Aye - dry powder's right handy, and better than co2 as it stays where it is, so the fire stays put out (relighting can happen easy enough with co2, depending on the combustible), but by god it's a sod to clean up. And it stinks.

Dry powder has better "knockdown" than CO2 but does not cool so re-ignition can be a problem. AFFF will do both, it's best to have a selection available if possible and use the one that suits the job (same as any tool)

 

[Muggins the Mug]

I expect those electrodes are pants but £3.90 for a kilo of 2.5mm isn't bad for someone who just wants some to play with.
Halfrauds price............................£3.49 for just TEN rods!!

Hi Wozzaaah,

That's why I went a box a box of them this morning, just to muck around with till my local welding supplier opens back up after the holidays. The 1kg box holds 51 rods of E4322.

I'll give them a wee bash shortly, but I'd like to comment on some of the other welding related stuff they were selling today. The Euro welding helmet looked ancient as someone else commented on. The worrying thing is that it didn't come with any shielding, you could have bought clear lenses separately but a filter lens would have been more useful.

The wire on the reels was made in Germany (supposedly), but I would have to defer to the judgement of others on this forum as I have no clue to it's quality. The gloves were unlined as someone else pointed out, so I'll stick with my lined ones for arc welding.

Regards,

Ian.

 

[irondarren]

i migth learn something here, but it says suitable for all welding positions, also suitable for top weld. whats top welding? welding on milk bottle tops?

anyway i look up e4322 and found what i thought was a very useful pdf document, which might amuse some here and educate others
http://www.murexwelding.co.uk/mrxcont/consumables/Product details/Murex MMA Catalogue.pdf