Manky Monkey Motors

Been looking for a mig welder on ebay,2nd hand of course,
they are fetching good  money.

they usually do...but people are building stuff at the moment  so they start getting welders and pushing the prices up

Looking for one too!! :) Picked up an arc welder for a tenner the other day, but haven't reached that part of my course yet!! ???

Clive

I'm not stuck for a welder I'v got gas ark and a tig,but i do like mig.

Hi Guys just bought myself a mig sealey 170 old but solid and good, but annoyed as it has no guages with it, and also have to sort out where or how i can get a gas boottle either pub or argon,
so guys if anyone can help i will pay well for a full bottle
kind regards Phill

Go to your local,ask the landlord.

I'm still using a set of gauges that Brock gave me as a birthday present years ago.
I rent a bottle of Argonshield from the local BOC dealer, (Hampshire Bolt & Tool in Basingstoke, Hants).
The account's actually in Flap's name so he gets the bill for the annual bottle rental & I pay him the cash. About 70 quid a year I think, plus about 50 to refill it, (they swap the empty for a full one). It's an X size bottle, which stands something like 4 feet tall & maybe 8 or 10 inches diameter. Obviously it depends how much welding I'm doing, but for general welding on brackets here & there & stuff, I probably change it twice a year.

dont know where abouts in the country u are but there is usually a stall selling welding equipment at rufforth auto jumble near york bottle's of co2 ithink were about 40 quid and if u have a bottle to return 25 this was early last year or often there is chance at the newark auto jumble on next sunday the 7th

Like Mr M, i too have a BOC contract. I have a size Y bottle and use Argoshield Universal. Costs £41 for a refill plus £13 handling so i`m paying £54.
Are you sure you use an X Andy?

Yeah, but it's a while since I refilled it, so could well be wrong on the prices.
Memory span of a goldfish me.  :P

Finally getting to feel better, so went off to college and achieved this!!!!!!

Clive

and the other side!

You'll be building frames before you know it! How's the course going? Enjoying it? Many other builders there? Most of the guys on the course I did were there to learn so they could restore old cars. There was also a woman who wanted to try metal sculpture. 

Course is good, if a little slow-paced!!

Me, a couple of car buffs, and the rest are agricultural repair-y types, paid for by Hants County Council!

Clive

Got one picking it up tomorrow,butters 1800.

180 mile round trip,but it was worth it lovely welder, now we got to get some pipe.

Lets have a look then!

I was tired after the trip, and had to get my beauty sleep,
will get some up tomorrow.

nice weld mate,  obviously a good course your on,
got all my equipment now so ready to start to weld which is going to be trial and error, mostley the later,
got my bottle for £70 off ebay full, and is argon mix, so not splatter,
regards Phill