Practical Classics Mig wire test

[Sean]

Up to their usual standard: on test gassless and a small roll of .8 with co2

wouldnt bother buying the mag its crap just worth a 5 min perusal while your waiting in the Tescos man creche( magazine isle).

 

[keith19]

Yes, I gave up on Practical Classics years ago, when they got a lot less practical.

It was obviously cheaper to get somebody to sit in an office and write an article on 'bygones' than pay for a garage and mechanics and a film team to show the real stuff.

Or they might do an article on three or four fifties/sixties classics touring the Cotswolds on a sunny afternoon, with nobody even getting their hands dirty.

 

[Chickenjohn]

Agreed! I soon stopped reading PC after I started welding and realised how atrocious their work standard was!.

Besides which, should be using 0.6mm mig wire for car bodywork.

 

[gavuk]

Besides which, should be using 0.6mm mig wire for car bodywork.

Why? I use 0.8mm with co2

 

[bill_gj]

It's a pity that PC has gone downhill. Can't remember which of the LR mags it was, but it went a similar way - less practical content and more about where you could spend loadsamoney.
Now, don't tell anyone as its a secret, but I'm also interested in radio and electronics and the mags in that area have also taken quite a dive in the last 10 years. A lot less practical stuff and a lot more articles about buying expensive clobber.

I think its all related to the general dumming down of the population. Lads don't seem interested in practical grubby interests and are more concerned with mobile phones and computer games and wearing jeans that hang around their @rses.

 

[pedrobedro]

Why? I use 0.8mm with co2

Me too a lot of the time with absolutely no problems.

 

[gavuk]

Rebels ain't we

 

[Sean]

Craptical Plastics findings were:- the best results were to be had with .6 wire and Argoshield but you had to turn the power up one notch.

But then if you ve been on here you'd know that

I was hoping for a look at differing brands of wire from un branded chinese stuff compared to decent brands but hey ho when they usually test 5 types of oil can all the same but with Sealey, Draper and Silverline stickers on them don't suppose we were going to get any actual usefull info.

 

[eil]

Before the internet I went for one of their best buy mig welders, a SIP 150, top choice that was.

 

[Wedg1e]

It's a pity that PC has gone downhill. Can't remember which of the LR mags it was, but it went a similar way - less practical content and more about where you could spend loadsamoney.
Now, don't tell anyone as its a secret, but I'm also interested in radio and electronics and the mags in that area have also taken quite a dive in the last 10 years. A lot less practical stuff and a lot more articles about buying expensive clobber.

I think its all related to the general dumming down of the population. Lads don't seem interested in practical grubby interests and are more concerned with mobile phones and computer games and wearing jeans that hang around their @rses.

Hear hear. I was a radio ham (ssshhhh!) in my youth when you still had to demonstrate at least some guesswork in electronics , now I suspect getting a 'ticket' is about as complicated as getting a rod licence.

Practical Classics used to be my read of choice until one day when I decided to strip away the dross and leave the articles that were any real use (and I don't mean ad-funded 'product tests' either). I found I'd put the entire mag in the bin and haven't bought one since.

 

[Robotstar5]

Hear hear. I was a radio ham (ssshhhh!) in my youth when you still had to demonstrate at least some guesswork in electronics , now I suspect getting a 'ticket' is about as complicated as getting a rod licence.

Multiple choice questions! although you have to construct a project for the intermediate exam.

I had to do a City & Guilds then 12 words per minute morse test to get full licence.

 

[CompoSimmonite]

I've just cancelled my subscription to PC. This is after having EVERY SINGLE ISSUE since it started in 1980 (and still have them) which reflects my opinion at to how much it's gone from being a hands on / DIY approach to chequebook / sponsor's products etc.

Paul h

 

[Wedg1e]

Multiple choice questions! although you have to construct a project for the intermediate exam.

I had to do a City & Guilds then 12 words per minute morse test to get full licence.

Yep, that's where it was when I did mine... C&G from multi-guess Interesting that you have to build a 'project'... what criteria? Cat's-whisker RX? PLL-synthesised multiband SSB TRX? Multi double-triode Class A linear amp?

Funnily enough I found I could send Morse, just not receive it. Still remember most of the alphabet now. Wish I could do something useful with my brain

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[Robotstar5]

Funnily enough I found I could send Morse, just not receive it. Still remember most of the alphabet now.

learning the alphabet & sending is the easy bit the 12 wpm speed is too fast for you to think & translate so it has to be learnt as another "language" so you write what you hear. My tutor took the class to 15 wpm to make the exam a bit easier, still a nerve wracking 15 minutes though!

 

[Sean]

Before the internet I went for one of their best buy mig welders, a SIP 150, top choice that was.

snap ! sip105 as its all i could find at the price and being as SIP was the bst brand....

But with the actual proper info on here its turned out to be a good little welder that welds lovely at its lowest setting - Ideal for the 0.5mm steel i have to deal with , was welding Volkswagen the other day what a piece of **** that thick stuff is