Thread: Gas Vs Gasless

Originally Posted by RustyArc

Nope But there's quite a few homebuilt welder projects out there on the net - I'm guessing you steal the inductor design off one of them.

And all of them will have better quality components than a $100 poobox machine.Regard this adventure as $100 worth of education.

My education was only marginally better in that I got the SIP welder for nothing,buggered around with disposable cylinders ( 8 minutes of gas time) and fitted a gas solenoid and a better torch.

All of the the components are made to a price,so you end up with only a marginally better unit.

After the inductor there is s the transformer which if it is the same as most cheapos ,will have only 4 voltage tappings.Then there is a solenoid, relay contactors, switches and on it goes. If its only a bit of welding needing a mig ,borrow or hire one,it is cheaper.

Grahame