02GF74
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| posted on 21/10/08 at 12:29 PM |
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recommendation for TIG welder?
Can anyone recommend a TIG welder, ideally one that you are using?
needs to be 240 V single phase.
Plan is to weld steel DOM tube, 3 mm wall thickness together and same tube but to 6 mm steel plate.
budgie wise, dunno, £ 500.
If there is something that'll do AC TIG of aluminium then could push out to be £ 1 k.
Prices ^^^ include torch.
For the above requirments, what sort of spec. would I be looking at?
Will mostly be welding 1.5 inch tube as opposed to metre long runs of plate.
What a the "good" brands and what are the ones to avoid?
[Edited on 21/10/08 by 02GF74]
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UncleFista
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| posted on 21/10/08 at 05:22 PM |
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More of a specialist audience here 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Litemoth
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| posted on 21/10/08 at 06:23 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by UncleFista
More of a specialist audience here
I think that's for a M.I.G. audience not a T.I.G. audience. The Tiggers have deeper pockets than Miggers. Never the twain.
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907
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| posted on 21/10/08 at 06:30 PM |
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Hi.
It would be my advice to buy a recognized make.
If that means that your budget will only stretch to a second hand one, then so be it.
That's what I did. Tig welders pay for themselves many times over, given time.
ATB
Paul G
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Hugh Paterson
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| posted on 21/10/08 at 06:45 PM |
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Tig welders
I would suggest u look at the fronius range, a search should find em and your local supplier, I have an ac/dc Tig of theirs and its the bees knees, an
ex hire or demonstrator would be in your budget I reckon.
Shug
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zilspeed
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| posted on 21/10/08 at 06:51 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Litemoth
quote:
Originally posted by UncleFista
More of a specialist audience here
I think that's for a M.I.G. audience not a T.I.G. audience. The Tiggers have deeper pockets than Miggers. Never the twain.
There's plenty of tig talk on there too.
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mark chandler
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| posted on 21/10/08 at 07:34 PM |
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I have a commercial unit, similar to a miller unit. Most yank stuff can be strapped for single phase but you need a fat wire to the company fuse, mine
will draw over 100amps @ 240 at full power so I never stray there!
If getting a second hand one try and ensure you get a foot pedal and water cooled torch if you are looking at doing Ali.
Something like this would be ideal.
Miller
Regards Mark
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mad-butcher
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| posted on 22/10/08 at 06:34 PM |
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Get in touch with a guy named weldequip on the mig welding forum
Tony
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