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.Kovu. wrote: »

Never used a welder! Apart from burning my initials into the barrier of the shed......maybe I can learn this winter

Thats the first thing most will make you do, if you can write your initials in continuous beads(rather than it being lumps and bits here and there) your half ways to the basics. Biggest things are have the steel clean and the gaps consistent and not to big. Your better off getting lumps of 12mm plate to mess around with and get good before trying to weld pipe or box. The plate will take an awful lot of heat whereas pipe can burn through in a split second if your not careful.

Dont turn the power up high, sure it'll melt it but it wont give a great weld. You need to weave over and back between pieces in a small arc, pretty much a C shape! Slow and steady and youl be grand!

Oh and get a light reactive helmet, there gone fairly cheap now and make welding a doss compared to old heavy face masks!

its amazing whats kept in some old sheds

Charliebull wrote: »

its amazing whats kept in some old sheds

cripes they are worth a few bob , is that allis running. the brown looks immaculate and the zetor aint bad either worth a few bob as yard tractor or export
saw a white DB990 in Cape a while back belongs to relative of wife, wouldn't sell for sentimental reasons, he is in England and roof over it rotting away

sandydan wrote: »

they are fine animals what age are they, are they bucket fed or suckled

Jan February born. Bucket fed

sandydan wrote: »

don,t get one that too cheap, some have grinding setting although some instructors frown on using for grinding, one good thing about arc and mig is you can weld either with left or right hand its all in your eye , tig and acethelene need a bit more practice as rods need to fed into heat.

www.wholesaleweldingsupplies.ie/index.php?route=product/product&path=38_114&product_id=3133#container

Have had one of these the last 2-3years and cant fault it to behonest. If i was using it absolutely every day(well it does get used a lot alright but wouldn't be 365days like) id prob spend more alright but for occasional work its good enough.

Also i wouldn't use the grind function, it's only a balls IMO, to dark to see through properly and all you'll do is burn the hell out of it with sparks, much rather normall safety glasses on grinder

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Good job. Still haven't figured out why our mower is making uneven swards

I'm a firm believer in a manual. Have you got one

whelan2 wrote: »

no man ever reads instructions

Well for a machine it's compulsory. Anyone that doesn't is a fool.