Hi,I bought one of these welders a while back only getting round to using it now.It comes with spool of aluminium wire and a tip to suit.It did come with other tips which I now can't find,could anyone please tell me which tips I should buy for flux core and gas mig welding.Thank you in advance.
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Aluminium flux cored welding. Really ???
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Parkside at the forefront of invention once again.
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The tips are based on the wire you’ll be using, typically 0.6mm, 0.8 or 1.0, with 0.8 being a decent hobby wire. Then you buy the tips to match.
You probably should decide whether to go with gas or flux core as otherwise you’re duplicating the spend for no good reason.
Have you looked into the price of gas? If you can afford the bottle (as in a decent size bottle, not the coke bottle sized disposable waste of money that Halfords sell) then that’s the way to go.
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If he could afford he would have chosed wisely and not the Pos of welder that parkside sell… you only realise how bad these are when you get the chance to weld with a decent unit !
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Not true. They weld just fine. I know because I have one along with other branded welders.
This is a weld it produced for me when testing:
These are made by Kende. So rebranded as Parkside as such. Example:
It's a good euro torch inverter Mig for the £ IMO and if you set it up right it will weld like an R Tech 180.
I suspect the confusion ref "Aluminium Wire" is that it'll have come with a small reel of flux core wire which looks like Alu.
Flux Core wire is often 0.9mm, so 0.9mm tips needed. (I've used 0.9mm tips with 0.8mm solid wire with no probs, but the correct size tip for the wire is no doubt what you ought to use).
I use both Flux Core Gasless and Solid Wire with Gas, because I have to weld outside on my driveway sometimes, and I live in windy West Wales facing west into the prevailing wind. I prefer Gas mig, but gasless does the trick when needs must.
Flux Core wire is often 0.9mm, so 0.9mm tips needed. (I've used 0.9mm tips with 0.8mm solid wire with no probs, but the correct size tip for the wire is no doubt what you ought to use).
I use both Flux Core Gasless and Solid Wire with Gas, because I have to weld outside on my driveway sometimes, and I live in windy West Wales facing west into the prevailing wind. I prefer Gas mig, but gasless does the trick when needs must.
