I have been looking at the new migs i firstly wanted a synergic because of the set and go than i started looking around and had my eye on the Italco 185IM or the UNIMIG 182 Viper, Both had similar amperage and welding styles being gas and gasless they both also welded steel, stainless and aluminium so today i called the local Sydney Tools and asked about the Viper by UNIMIG i really wanted that machine but it was out of stock and on back order same goes for the Italco on back order too so i checked facebook classifieds and there was a onetime used Italco 185IM few hours later its in my possession a bit of fiddling around in the shed and a trip to bunnings for a argon mix cylinder and these are my first ever decent mig welds this was strait off the bat i just turned the knobs and away i went

i did try the multimeter across the terminals inside the machine it was reading around 9.5volts than when i hit the trigger 71volts so trying to set my settings by the youtube/multimeter video didin't pan out

that steel is around 5mm check out how bloody smooth those welds are i have been waiting for years to run beads like this but untill now it has all been gasless mig welding

this little machine rocks

there were problems i had a medium spool with a few winds of rusty wire it was Co2 wire so i fedit thru the machine and each stop and start came a puff of rusty smoke out of the torch but i kept feeding it untill the wire cleaned up than ran that long weld in the pic

i know my settings are probably off i think the wire speed is to high and i am welding to slow

another thing about a week ago i picked up a ready weld mask and it is like light and day over my china ebay mask!!! i can see very clearly
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