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Hello all.
My 2021 project is to build a Viking Recumbent Trike. I MIG Welded many things over 20 years but no longer have the MIG (Clarke 185). I've also Soldered and brazed. However, this project is reliant on "low cost"! I have an angle-grinder and amost every tool that I should need apart from a welder.
Until recently I was living on a Yacht on a Marina (Millbrook, Cornwall, UK). The pontoons were frequently being added to or repaired. One day I met up with the welder who was adding a 6 rung steel ladder from one pontoon up to a higher level. I could not beleive the small size of the Welding Set he was using. This was the first iI had heard of and seen an INVERTER Stick Welder. So small and so light in weight (No Transformer). That was a few years ago but I still have details of the make/model in my notebook . . . . . . SO, I'm going for a Hyundai MMNA 160 Inverter Welder which costs £115 (approx US$156). SO(2), a new learning curve. Have tons of steel scrap to practice on! I will be welding mainly 1/16" steel tubing and other sheet steel from 3mm to 6mm thick. I wonder what size MS Steel coated sticks and the current required for the thin stuff?
Steve
Nr Liskeard, Cornwall, UK
My 2021 project is to build a Viking Recumbent Trike. I MIG Welded many things over 20 years but no longer have the MIG (Clarke 185). I've also Soldered and brazed. However, this project is reliant on "low cost"! I have an angle-grinder and amost every tool that I should need apart from a welder.
Until recently I was living on a Yacht on a Marina (Millbrook, Cornwall, UK). The pontoons were frequently being added to or repaired. One day I met up with the welder who was adding a 6 rung steel ladder from one pontoon up to a higher level. I could not beleive the small size of the Welding Set he was using. This was the first iI had heard of and seen an INVERTER Stick Welder. So small and so light in weight (No Transformer). That was a few years ago but I still have details of the make/model in my notebook . . . . . . SO, I'm going for a Hyundai MMNA 160 Inverter Welder which costs £115 (approx US$156). SO(2), a new learning curve. Have tons of steel scrap to practice on! I will be welding mainly 1/16" steel tubing and other sheet steel from 3mm to 6mm thick. I wonder what size MS Steel coated sticks and the current required for the thin stuff?
Steve
Nr Liskeard, Cornwall, UK
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