Hi From A Newbie...

[Davek0974]

Hi all,
I'm a newbie with minor experience of Mig welding.

Although being a print production manager, i also maintain all the plant etc. And have advanced onto building specialised machines with pneumatics / PLC's etc.

I bought a Migmate Pro 170 a while back as the aluminium chassis were getting a bit limiting and expensive. Now i weld up what i need and its much cheaper.

The biggest so far was a box section frame from 100x50x6mm to hold a power press unit. I Vee'd the joints and run plenty of heat with 0.8 wire and
C02 from a pub cylinder at 10l/min, it turned out great and the welds didn't even need grinding back, i'll post some pics.

I tried stick welding once, gave up pretty quick

Mig is much more forgiving.

Dave

 

[3 Ducks]

Hi Dave....
Welcome - this is a great little site. , i'm learing all the time, my blow holes are getting smaller ...
Check out the photos - some pretty good projects on the go !
Ray

 

[Cappy]

Welcome to the mad house, hope we get to swap lotsa tales of sparks and slag and the like. A real friendly and knowledgeable place you'll find and always interesting

I tried stick welding once, gave up pretty quick

For me it's the other way round - strange though my MIG performance is improving