Electric mig welders

Hunter92 said:

thats big enough though, isnt it james?? how thick are boot floors like 2mm?

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Its not about the max power so much its more what you can turn it down to, the bigger the welder the more choice

The butters one at uni I use to weld up 5mm box with ease will do .7mm sheet too as I've tried, hell the uni tech can weld cans up with it!

30 will be low enough surely just for boot floor and to make patches for arches?? then i've got some 3-4mm thick chequered steel i wanna make use of as well?

Dr_evil said:

Its not about the max power so much its more what you can turn it down to, the bigger the welder the more choice

The butters one at uni I use to weld up 5mm box with ease will do .7mm sheet too as I've tried, hell the uni tech can weld cans up with it!

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exactly ive tried using little ones and they dont go down enough

Hunter92 said:

30 will be low enough surely just for boot floor and to make patches for arches?? then i've got some 3-4mm thick chequered steel i wanna make use of as well?

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Would still buy a better brand at £100 though

jamesmartin said:

exactly ive tried using little ones and they dont go down enough

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I'm wanting to upgrade to a Migtronic, purely due to the fact that the local place has one and I like it!

£1800 new 5 years ago so looking at a second hand one at about £500 as it'll never need replacing……they weld coke can thin up to 2 inch thick with it! The guy I was speaking to told me it ****es through 1 inch on medium setting and they've never had anything thick enough to bother trying it on max with yet.

The guy uses it for his unimog to do the hiab as well as work like staircase building, generator stands etc

would be nice

jamesmartin said:

would be nice

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Worth buying a good one and keeping forever I reckon, same with tools

Buy good ones and when they break they get replaced under warranty, all my Teng stuff has that

lol unimog.. i'd love to have one of those!

was it u that was selling the snapon tool chest?

No that was someone else, I enquired but was a bit expensive for me


Gonna buy a cheaper one as it'll just get battered so no point buying a mint one

Ah right has he flogged it yet do you know? fair enough, gnna have a go at painting front bumper and light bar tomorrow, how does it go; PRIMER PRIMER HAMMERITE HAMMERITE HAMMERITE?

No idea, was on ebay the other day as a buy it now but dunno if it sold


Yep although I tend to skip the second coat of primer and third coat of hammerite if I'm feeling lazy

Hunter92 said:

Ah right has he flogged it yet do you know? fair enough, gnna have a go at painting front bumper and light bar tomorrow, how does it go; PRIMER PRIMER HAMMERITE HAMMERITE HAMMERITE?

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you dont want an expensive tool box just tools theres plenty of ways of cheaply storing tools

Well im using coffee jars for screws lol!!

Hunter92 said:

Well im using coffee jars for screws lol!!

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nothing wrong with that ,

righteo time for bed heres hoping it's either thick with snow tomorrow or dry can't stand the ****in rain!

wish me luck for tomorro james haha fingers crossed i dont round a bolt off!!

you wont ,keep us informed

Have fun I'm off to king cab in 5 inches of snow!

jamesmartin said:

cebors used to make the snap-on welders ,

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dayton electric was the company that made them sold under other names