basic advice on buying basic welding kit please.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 12:48 am

Hey guys, so I borrowed someones welder on the weekend to knock up a log burner. First welding and it was fun. I am after a little advice as to what is good and bad in a basic setup. Under £150 total cost is my market.

The one I used kept going into thermal overload so I guess it wasn't up to the job of doing the constant welds I was after. It was a cosmo brand? Looking like an aldi special (not that thats a bad thing).

Or does anyone have a decent kit for sale?

Any advice much appreciated as always.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 12:56 am

Learning about duty cycles. Think I was just hammering it a bit hard for the size of it. lol... So I want something with 100% duty cycle at 90amps to run all day long on normal steel like wheels and angle iron etc.... does that sound about right? First tippy toe into this world. 90amps seems to be the stock setting for welding farm and garden stuff that I have seen so far?

Post by **4thgenphil** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 6:42 am

@Ted os the man you'll wanna talk to

lxstuart · Post by **lxstuart** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 7:30 am

@RebekahClydesdale might know if she's still on here.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:16 am

Cheers Phil I will give him a shout. And thanks stu I shall do the same for rebekah.

Post by **4thgenphil** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 4:30 pm

lewd lude lover wrote:Cheers Phil I will give him a shout. And thanks stu I shall do the same for rebekah.

Just a word of warning, i said i was going to take my little 90 amp one down there and he threated to throw it in the river!

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:54 pm

4thgenphil wrote:
lewd lude lover wrote:Cheers Phil I will give him a shout. And thanks stu I shall do the same for rebekah.
Just a word of warning, i said i was going to take my little 90 amp one down there and he threated to throw it in the river!

might have been because England won the rugby

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:03 am

mercutio wrote:
4thgenphil wrote:
lewd lude lover wrote:Cheers Phil I will give him a shout. And thanks stu I shall do the same for rebekah.
Just a word of warning, i said i was going to take my little 90 amp one down there and he threated to throw it in the river!
might have been because England won the rugby

I doubt they did that year.

Your gonna be looking at something around the 130 - 150 amps really. A wheel is around 3mm thick so to get any penetration which I know you like rather than just a hard lump sat on top of something a 90 amp also job ain't gonna do it.
Look for something second hand in that budget and you should find something quite capable. And throw the .6 mm wire away and chuck a roll of .8 on it too. Those little gas cartridges/cylinders are jobby too, use it for 2 minutes turn it off go back the next day and its all leaked out. Get a half size cylinder now available from your local motor factors.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:27 pm

Amazing ted thank you very much. I am going to test run the wheel burner and see if people want them where I go (come over and ask me about it rather than touting them). I'll have another one in the boot and sell it for whatever they feel its worth. Should pay for the equipment bought to make them pretty fast and thats enough to carry on.
Cheers guys.