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So work is having a welding sale this month and the deals are real good the welders are priced very low, so take a look at the Flyer.
Here are 4 great welders, the Auto-Set is great for the hobbies and the Multimatic is great for portability at 29 pounds and dual voltage.
Miller Millermatic 141 Auto-Set Mig Welder 799.95$Can (640$ US)
Miller Millermatic 190 Auto-Set Mig Welder 999.95$Can (800$ US)
Miller Millermatic 211 Auto-Set Mig Welder with Free Welding Cart 1,299.95$Can (1040$ US)
Miller Multimatic 200 3 in 1 Welder with Free TIG Torch Kit 2,299.95$Can (1840$ US)
Shipping to the states should be around 80-110$Can (65-85$US) for a welder.
For all you Americans you have the privilege of having an amazing exchange rate at this moment of around 80 cents on the dollar so as a good estimate just take off 20$ from every 100$ on the flyer price and that’s about the price you pay.
Here is a review on the Miller 211 Auto-set
yeah man the dollar is really strong right now or actually since weeks/months.
I tried welding once, its hard. I need more practice with it.
doesn’t seem to matter what the exchange is if it goes in our favor the prices go up
RobertMcNjr wrote:
I tried welding once, its hard. I need more practice with it.
The Miller auto set makes it a breeze to weld nice beads.
madman_us wrote:
yeah man the dollar is really strong right now or actually since weeks/months.
Its not that yours is strong, Its more like with the amount of oil we produce and oil tanking it we tank it too.
I want to learn how to weld so bad
frankiegarcia19 wrote:
I want to learn how to weld so bad
Yea I guess I take it for credit that I learned how but i’m not that great, maybe if I had learned in welding class instead of picking it up in auto body class, cause I still don’t know how to TIG.
Yea it’s cool to know how to weld I’ve tried a couple of times at the shop but nothing to serious
My stick welding still looks like a duck walked across the project and left a load. Not too smooth.
these welders are for someone who is serious about welding, trust me ask any good welder with experience they weld by sound not settings…..and frankly the welding machine doesn’t matter……
give you a few tips…..
1 clean the welding area best you can, sandblast if you can
2 always put ground closest to welded area
3 buy yourself a can of anti-splatter
4 if welding stainless never grind with contaminated grinding discs (use 1 disc for stainless different 1 for mild steel never mix)
I could go on and on……
Yea the best description is that it should sound like bacon frying.
Also don’t use brake cleaner to clean the metal. It emits a poisonous gas that is extremely dangerous.
NicholasShetley wrote:
Also don’t use brake cleaner to clean the metal. It emits a poisonous gas that is extremely dangerous.
Everyone at my summer job should be dead.
I took 4 years of welding in high school. I kinda miss it. It would be fun to have a machine to putz with. I really liked tig there is something about it that was relaxing.
I love welding!! I’m no pro but I think I’m decent. About 10-14 years ago I used to weld a decent amount.. not so much anymore but I really enjoy when I get to drag the welder out. I’ve got a lincolin AC225 stick welder and a Lincoln pro-mig 135. They have both treated me very well over the years
back in the day working in a machine shop/fab shop I layed down my fair share of 7018 stick and 0.45 wire
That kid knows what’s up… I bet he can lay down a serious bead
Last welding project I was doing was making a wheel and handle kit for my generator. The guy that works for me wanted to weld soo bad that I finally caved in and let him make one of the dozens of welds.. he kept telling me how he knew how to weld and did some back in college… he started laying the roughest bead I have ever seen and gave me that grinder line “we can make it look good with a grinder” sort of bullshit.. a few days later guess which weld broke… yup.. his! Haha. It was so annoying to have to drag everything out again to fix it. O well. Could have been worse.
actually I was taught way back, and a lot of products were finished with welding exposed so no grinding was possible …….you touch a weld with a grinder……grind it all out and start over…….not to mention we had an in house welding tester running around spot checking all day long.
Welds had to be perfect …….(we did a lot of mining equipment and cranes who wouldn’t want perfect welds)
CWB qualifications were through the roof for our shop….