A mate has an old Murex Tradesmig 160 that I got to use yesterday for a while.
I was welding some fairly rubbish old metal (steel building trestles) with it.... and I have to say I was impressed & really liked it - it welded pretty lousy thin rubbish very nicely - even in my very amateur hands.
(It did spark lightly without the trigger pulled when the wire tip brushed the workpiece - would that be some minor fault with the welder?)
I hate to say it - but I'm pretty sure I did better, neater, easier welds with the Murex (& pretty quickly) - than I've managed with my pretty new Oxford MigMaker 180-1.
Is an elderly Murex really a better quality bit of kit than my Oxford - or could it be something like better wire, or maybe I just got lucky & lucked into an ideal setting?
I was welding some fairly rubbish old metal (steel building trestles) with it.... and I have to say I was impressed & really liked it - it welded pretty lousy thin rubbish very nicely - even in my very amateur hands.
(It did spark lightly without the trigger pulled when the wire tip brushed the workpiece - would that be some minor fault with the welder?)
I hate to say it - but I'm pretty sure I did better, neater, easier welds with the Murex (& pretty quickly) - than I've managed with my pretty new Oxford MigMaker 180-1.
Is an elderly Murex really a better quality bit of kit than my Oxford - or could it be something like better wire, or maybe I just got lucky & lucked into an ideal setting?