New ebay earth lead (made from Chinesium)

[MetalMonkey]

Funny, I always did the opposite and made my jump leads and battery wiring from welding cable as it was cheap and usually a lot better quality than most of the pre-made rubbish you can buy.

 

[Munkul]

The key takeaway from all this should be the following logic:

Copper is expensive.
Expensive cables generally have lots of copper in them.
However, cheap cables definitely do not have lots of copper in them…

 

[prepman]

Just do a return as faulty...you'll get your money back..

 

[ajlelectronics]

Funny, I always did the opposite and made my jump leads and battery wiring from welding cable as it was cheap and usually a lot better quality than most of the pre-made rubbish you can buy.

Agreed, plus the fact that many jump lead sets are made from CCA.

 

[Onthespotwelding]

I bought my arc lead from Rtech welding 35mm thick copper core.

Not the cheapest but certainly won’t melt at 200 amps

4 Metre MMA Welding Cable (200Amp)

4M MMA WELDING CABLE

www.r-techwelding.co.uk

 

[zeppelin builder]

My neighbor has some very odd welding cable, it's green, looks just like garden hose. I have never seen anything like
this before.

He marries a woman with a pre-made family, and the 19 YO step son is a real piece of slacker, "your not my real daddy" kind.
Doesn't want anything to do with the new father (my friend, who is a very straight shooter kind of guy).

One day my friend is welding up a skid like used in the oil patch (where he used to work).

I stop over, we walk away from the job to talk, and the stepson's idjit's friend stops in, so they are over there by the skid....

Stepson points down to the stinger laying on the ground "Dude...he's soldering this steel together, and this bright
light comes out of this hose here"

I just about lost it.....

we used to wind up the apprentices
told them if you tie knots in the cable
it slows the grinder down

 

[Mick Annick]

Funny, I always did the opposite and made my jump leads and battery wiring from welding cable as it was cheap and usually a lot better quality than most of the pre-made rubbish you can buy.

Mine are too, 40 years old and still fine.

 

[Julian_P]

I asked for a refund - they offered me 30%. I said you're having a giraffe. They said 50%. ditto. They said 80%. ditto. Now they have completely refunded and I have the earth clamp still and it's not three bad. So, winner winner chicken dinner - serves the scamming little bstuds right.