The V8 man
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Ok so i have a SIP migmate 130 with a small throw away gas bottle, for argumants sake if i was constantly welding how long should i expect the gas to last, hours, weeks ?
Welding gas query
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neilly
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10 mins, depends on how you got the flow set.
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possibly under an hour if you're outside
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and he's being optimistic
big bottle will only last a couple hours of continuous... but that's a lot of welding.
on that note, i went into the workshop yesterday to find that someone had decided to have a go with my mig.. which is fine..but they never turned the gas off properly so emptied a full tank
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Also depends if you are using argoshield or plain CO2.
best thing is to get a bigger bottle if you can, little disposable bottles get very expensive very quickly.
Cheers
best thing is to get a bigger bottle if you can, little disposable bottles get very expensive very quickly.
Cheers
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and he's being optimistic
big bottle will only last a couple hours of continuous... but that's a lot of welding.
on that note, i went into the workshop yesterday to find that someone had decided to have a go with my mig.. which is fine..but they never turned the gas off properly so emptied a full tank
Would be throwing my spanners out of the pram if that happened to me,
and you are right my disposable bottles never lasted a whole 10 mins,Thor1950
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Think you may on the wrong thread.......... Should be here.http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f37/official-joke-thread-24931.html
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Would be throwing my spanners out of the pram if that happened to me,
yeah i was a bit miffed at first. but i don't work there, i just get to use it and all the tools whenever i want. so for £30 quid i'll leave it and take the bottle away with me next time
V8 man here's a couple of recent threads on gas http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f37/welding-gas-253684.html http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f16/mig-welding-gas-getting-through-253405.html
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and he's being optimistic
big bottle will only last a couple hours of continuous... but that's a lot of welding.
on that note, i went into the workshop yesterday to find that someone had decided to have a go with my mig.. which is fine..but they never turned the gas off properly so emptied a full tank
once I worked in a place than was full of welders of various types
(orbital welding in closed areas ) WTF
but out in the workshop was a nice ESAB I used for my stock car racing bits
I too must have upset someone, as the next time I went to use it, the wire was flowing out so fast it was pushing me away...... oops !!
after a while I bought my first home mig......
its a man and "his" tools thing I guess
