looking for a cheap 250 amp mig to play around with.
any Leads?
budget $500 delivered
meadow
nsw 2340 Tamworth
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looking for a cheap 250 amp mig to play around with.
any Leads?
budget $500 delivered
meadow
nsw 2340 Tamworth
Check this one out.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Ausmig-25...item4d2573cbf1
Ausmigs are built like brick outhouses.
yeah I saw that - maybe I should look closer. ,,,,,
I definitely would. I am guessing that you want a good serviceable mig for general farm/hobby work.Quote:
Originally Posted by meadow street
Ausmigs aren't one of the names that you hear a lot of, but they are tough and basic. Basic in as much as easy to repair with fairly generic componentry and very little to go wrong compared to an inverter machine. 99.999% certain they are all copper wound jobbies too.
The only real handicap that I see with that machine is the integral wire feeder, but your $500 budget and request for 250A means that pretty well every machine in the range will have something that you don't like. Given that the welder has a EURO gun connection, you could opt to put a gun with a long lead on the machine to give more reach if you really need it. A 5m lead would be no issue and they are available up to 7.5m. I wouldn't go over 5 personally. A previous employer of mine had a WIA 205 mig with inbuilt wire feed and while not as convenient at times as a separate unit, 90% of the time you never noticed.
250A will run .9 wire to its full potential and even 1.2mm will sing along nicely. Aluminium will run fine as will hardfacing wires and 1.2 gas shielded fluxcore in its lower operating range. The machine will also take a full size spool as far as I know.
If the seller isn't too far from you, go and have a look. Pop the covers off if you can and check for burnt smells, blackened laquer peeling from windings due to heat and any other signs that the old girl has been cooked particularly the output leads. Check she powers up and that the wire feeder and gas solenoid both operate when the trigger is pressed and that the wire drive speeds up as the wire feed control is increased. Check that the voltage switch turns properly and clicks into each setting positively.
I would not be embarrassed to say I owned an Ausmig. Actually, I nearly bought a really old 400A Ausmig earlier this year.
Good luck.
splashed out in a lincoln.
Details...........
Please.
Gotta admit, when we had a pair of Lincs at work, I still far, far preferred the Ausmigs that live there.
I'm guessing that the $500 budget is just a distant memory :U
yes Karl,
walk into metaland and there sits a floor stock lincoln .
walk out, check the Internet prices..... faint slightly ( swear a little bit).
drive around the block.
ring my my usual desk contact at the branch and mention the floor stock price which is already reduced and angle for a disco to no avail.
ring the switchboard, talk a further $150 outta the boss as a today only reduction and bingo!!!
brand newie......better than any internet price and local : )
255 amps digital readout 1 phase
fluxcore first for me, then gases later.
i love welding : )
Good one!
Lincoln make some really nice gear and quality wise it kills BOC and Cigweld.
Just remember that you need a really good power supply to utilise the full output.
what do you use Karl, welder wise?
I seem to be the Pied Piper of welders and the current count is I think somewhere around 15 or 16.
My main workhorses are a Lincoln Invertec 170 stick inverter, Hobart Tigwave 250 Tig welder with water cooler, (which replaced a CIG Transtig 250 recently), National Panasonic Single Auto 180 Mig, Lincoln SAE 600 DC generator for Arcair and such, Lincoln Idealarc 400 CC/CV with LN-7 wire feeder, UNIPLAS 60/90/120 Plasma cutter and finally a CIG Transpulse 350 Mig which will probably join the stable in a week or so. The Lincoln Idealarc will largely replace the SAE 600 and the National Panasonic, but I will keep them both.
I like the Idealarc welder as in the one unit, you have MIG, INNERSHIELD, stick, DC TIG, Arcair gouging and even Submerged Arc capabilities. For these reasons it got the nod over the 400A Ausmig, (which would have been a real steal at $350!), that I mentioned in one of my earlier posts.
As you can see there is a fair bit of Lincoln gear among the flock, not so much by design, but more by circumstance, plus I love the fact that their parts availability is excellent and manuals freely available for download. When you open up a Lincoln machine, there is a build quality that is rarely seen these days and mostly their circuit boards are repairable.
The older gear is simply bullet proof.