Old faithful!

[Rig Pig]

Good old Oxford to the rescue! Just welding up a small lifting beam for my workshop and halfway through the newfangled Mig gave up!

 

[Brad93]

Migatronic aren't known for their reliability unfortunately, despite being very good machines.

 

[Rig Pig]

It's only the liner that's nipping, unfortunately I haven't got a spare and I'm not keen to stop and drive to Norwich to get a new one. I have ordered a euro torch steel liner so next week I will have fun trying to graft it into the old non euro on the machine.

 

[Fazerruss]

Migatronic aren't known for their reliability unfortunately, despite being very good machines.

I have the same machine . Bought it second hand 25 years ago. In that time only fitted new liner , tips , a rotary switch costing a quid, two potentiometers for pennies and recently some smoothing caps.
It's had a lot of work over the years.

 

[Rig Pig]

The qc sticker inside mine says 1985, I bought it a couple of years ago as a more powerful alternative to my snap on 130a I fitted some new caps a while ago. I have to say I'm impressed with the welds, it's way more smooth that the old machine & the wire feed is in a different class.

 

[Brad93]

Well I didn't realise you were talking about a liner, I thought you meant gone pop

 

[8ob]

I confess to still owning an Oxford and not wanting to part with it , for the few quid its worth it can stay under the bench for emergencies .

Bob

 

[Scadden]

We have 1 migatronic at work, and it is horrendous to get a setting out of that doesnt produce a horrendous amount of spatter, multiple attempts of sabotage have been foiled in order to get rid of it or pawn it off to a different weld section.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I confess to still owning an Oxford and not wanting to part with it , for the few quid its worth it can stay under the bench for emergencies .

Bob

Chap next door has one [not sure which model, I just know it's green ] in his workshop used to be his father's - like yours it lives under the bench and hasn't seen power for years.