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Post Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 7:44 pm 
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So i'm by far definitely the novice at welding etc, I cranked the old Ozito gasless mig budget to get me out of the shit for a few years, but had borrowed my mates gas mig to try and get some stuff done on my project. In the end, I made a purchase of a Uni-Mig Viper 182amp invertor MIG/MMA last week cause he's making the move across country.

I've only learnt from the 5 mins over a beer with a mate last year, but i'm slowly picking up on how to set my amps/wire speed and burnback. This is 2nd weld with this new machine after I fiddled with some knobs and stuff. I am enjoying the learning aspect, as my job ( chippy for a commercial/civil company) means having arc/mig is helpful on projects to replace columns, beams, braces and put plates on things instead of having to call someone else in from another site. We have plenty of small invertor caddies we use, so I head to the workshop every now and then to get some small practice in on the ARC.

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And this is giving my old CIG Transarc that I'm pretty sure Noah used on part of the Arc a go, I've only used an Arc a few times to stuff around. Just a practice piece.

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And a fabbed clutch bracket I made at the start of the year for my baleno conversion.

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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:20 am 
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Nice! Didn't want to modify the existing bracket?

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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 6:10 pm 
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Nice! Didn't want to modify the existing bracket?

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I didn't have one. Ended up borrowing one off Bumstein and made my own from 6mm plate.

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Post Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:34 pm 
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Stainless work atm. Im pretty slow but at least I enjoy itImageImageImageImage

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Post Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:59 pm 
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I actually miss the days of stainless tig pipework.... :?

Those welds would look sweet after a hit with some pickling paste. :wink:

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Post Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:20 pm 
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Still going at it. Been flying round Aus installing these booths so haven't made allot of progress with Tig.

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Post Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:22 pm 
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Just back from rAdelaide. Welded the flags for these turds after a miscommunication meant they were too high for roof clearance. ImageImage

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