CornishPete
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Looks very compact and for a maximum of £58 a year it's great value! Always nice when something exceeds expectations, glad you're pleased with it!
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Where's the quiver, where's the X factor?
Its very Ghost Busters , or Star Warsy ,, wait till the whole lot is in a hand held unit like off Aliens ,, then again it will probably be a plastic world by then , so a hot air gun would do , and Makita do one of those already ,,,
As promised, here are some weld shots with some 3.2mm 7018 rods, 3.2mm 6013 (not marked as I've forgotten where they are) and 2.5mm 6013 rods. Please note, I am NOT a professional welder. I do not generally get paid for my welds. And I have crappy hands which constantly shake. So this is not meant to be an expose on my skills as a welder but rather me trying to demonstrate the machine. The fillet weld went between a 3mm vertical and a 5mm horizontal bar. The butt welds were between 5mm steel. And the edge weld was 3mm joined to 5mm. The marks of me bashing the steel trying to chip off the @#$% hard 7018 slag are very evident.
I'm on the hunt right now, I'm watching this one on fleabay, it claims a range 10-400A, too good to be true? There are no reviews so far, but heck it's so tempting at £87. What should I do?
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Don’t waste your time or money on it
Ok, it's difficult to choose, maybe I will get this one, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28424316...mXMJBZEQPIWPB9Q==|tkp:Bk9SR97Gw-TjYQ&LH_BIN=1
if they are selling like hotcakes maybe they are good. But there is the 200A version for £10 more
Good luck with that. Chances are it'll never come close to 200a. It's the lovely Chinglish exaggerations methinks. And unless you are running long welds on 25mm thick steel with 5mm rods which I have never needed to do in my life then why would you need 200a? And if you are welding that kind of steel then spend the money on a good welder which can actually pump out that kind of amperage. And you'll definitely need a good supply for 200a - possibly a 32a supply. Other than that the suggestions by myself and others above are a much better starting point.
if you read 200A apparently will be 160A, so if it's £10 more it doesn't hurt.
now look what you made me do, i had £71 left in pay pal which ive been saving lol
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This is the R Tech offering.
Amazing little welder .
Amazing little welder .
i was going to get one of them as i have the ac/dc tig and the 180 mig but with the vat and postage it is 3x more than the draper to my door
Sorry, I didnt realise you had changed your choice to the one from Static Arc. They were on my list to consider so I would be keen to know how you get on with the welder. It may well get the 200a it is rated for as I believe they are a decent company (though I have no personal experience of them). Perhaps you'll do a writeup of the machine when you have it.
I hope you enjoy it. I have to say my Thermal Arc has had almost no use since my micro Draper welder arrived. I am pretty sure it is plotting the demise of the little upstart. I have to say that I dont actually need the Thermal Arc to achieve the same weld standard now that I have the baby Draper (it's also a DC TIG so it's staying...). If you tidy up of the Dinse connectors, be careful not to tighten the grub screw too tight as the thread is right at the edge of the brass and I broke mine when screwing it back together.
By the way, now these micro arc are all over the place, and I am late to the party, but do you know when and how it started? I remember watching people showing their DIY experiments on youtube long time ago, and maybe they made a business out of it, or maybe the major companies started developing them before youtubers?
I have the Static Arc 200A. There was 10% discount buying direct, so £66 all in. I have no idea if it hits 200A as I've used 2mm and 2.5mm rods and only had a brief play with 3.2.
It came with 25sq.mm welding leads. Mains lead is 2.5sq.mm with moulded on 13A plug, and a 16A commando plug included loose.
I chose the 200A model rather than 140A because the price difference was so small, and I thought it should have a better duty cycle.
It came with 25sq.mm welding leads. Mains lead is 2.5sq.mm with moulded on 13A plug, and a 16A commando plug included loose.
I chose the 200A model rather than 140A because the price difference was so small, and I thought it should have a better duty cycle.
