new member"Brepei"

[brepei]

Just Wanted to say hello,
I'm a retired(62) toolmaker/welder four almost 4 years now. I own a Clarke 100E MK2 mig welder and a miller sycrowave 250 tig welder. I've been working on my 47 Ford(Street rod in progress,since 1989)rusted out body panels and I had some mig problems I thought I may get some help with in your forum. I've been reading some of the previous posts about my Clarke 100E and found good info.for some of the same problems I've had. I live in Pennsylvania,USA and need some 100E parts. I noticed that most of the web sights for parts are in the UK. To save some shipping costs,is there a reliable sight located in the US I can contact for parts? Regards, Brepei

 

[troppo]

Welcome to the madness Brepei, i`m sure we have a few american members that can point you in the right direction.

 

[Country Joe]

Welcome to the Forum, brepei!
The fellow you need to talk to is shenion, he knows his stuff, lives in the US, and has (or, at least had) a clarke, too.
I expect he'll see this, and enlighten you - failing that you could always send him a PM through the forum.
Not much help from me (as usual!)
All the Best,
CJ

 

[shenion]

Welcome to the forums :Hug:

Which parts do you need?

Most are hard to get as the US distributor went bankrupt.

 

[brepei]

I found parts for my clarke 100E MK2

I've found the parts I need at HTP america. I kept looking for the mig torch that used the few clarke products I could get in the U.S. and found that Silver Beauty and American Forge and Foundry use the same 14K torch and some Craftsman parts match up. The steel liner fron HTP is alot longer than I need but I can shorten it on the opposite end of the threaded torch end and make it the right length.I used the model number from the Clarke dealer in the U.K. and matched it to the parts at HTP and found a swan neck liner that again is a little long but I can make it work. So after going through the 100E problems posted in this forum, I found the same problems I had and the answers to the questions I had.
Thanks to everyone and I'll keep watching. Brepei

 

[shenion]

HTP are good people to deal with. I used them for consumables on my ProArc plasma cutter. Went through a similar thing as the ProArc is the same as a Marquette, Century, Lincoln and SnapOn models. Found a site that showed they were all the same then got them from HTP.

There is at least one other suppliers for the Clarke MIG torch parts and entire torches. As you did not come back and say what you neededed, I did not make recommendations.