James,
Yep it was a coppermate, 10year warranty on the windings. 170amp? not sure.
It is over at my brothers house with the race car at the moment. I have not
used it with gas, but it welds good with flux cored wire. I've gone through
a few rolls of this. In the future I will go crazy with it when I rebuild
the 1600 project car at home. I want to do a 2 door conversion + seam
welding etc. I've been to busy with racing and maintaining the car to go ape
with welding. I would suggest buying one of those electric helmets and there
is a good book called "performance welding" in the Box Hill library. My old
mans a mech eng and he looked into it for me. He suggested to go for the
copper transformer not the Aluminium ones. Buy one with a trolley as mine is
barely portable (read efin heavy). It will mean that your mates will be
hassling you on the weekend, but they can always use it if they come over
with beer I suppose. Do you think you can make it to Sandown on the 5/11/00.
Your welcome to bring any car you want, even the Starion, but hopefully the
2 door (Z18T power?).
Catch ya later
Trev
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From: jamesf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 11 September 2000 17:31
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mig welder advice
Hi Trev
So how is the welder.... had a chance to use it yet?
Is that a SIP Coppermate?
if so then it would be about 170amp
I am looking at the SIP Automate 215amp @$975 inc gst
Aluminum transformer... but has 5 year machine and transformer warranty!
It's Not a portable.... and I am going to put the biggest gas bottle on it I
can find... that way it will stay at my house and not disappear for weeks
while all my mates borrow it :)
Cya
JamesF
"Pooley, Trevor" wrote:
> James,
>
> I picked up and SIP mig from Alltools down in Ringwood. The one I bought
is
> still portable (bloody heavy), has copper windings, fan, reg, can't
remember
> how many amps 200? or duty cycle. Cost around $1150.
>
> Trev
>
> Topic: mig welder advice
> ===================
> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:55:07 +1000
> From: jamesf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ----------------------------------------
> Thanks for all the replies
>
> After a bit more research it is amazing what some of the
> manufactures claim.
> It seems the things to look out for are:-
> Copper transformer windings (the cheaper ones have aluminum wire)
> Cooling Fan (cheapies usually don't have one as standard)
> Argon Gas Regulator included (it's extra with the cheapies)
> and most importantly the Duty Cycle
>
> Most of the cheap 170A are lucky to be actually 150A
> The Duty cycle is the big thing.. A 170A welder with a duty
> cycle of only around 20% @ 150A .... means that you can use
> it for 2 minutes in every 10minutes at it's full power before it gets
> too hot and you have to let it cool down....
> So a high Duty Cycle is the most important thing to look at.
>
> Anyway the short of it is that I have to save a bit more money to
> get the one I want.
>
> Cya
> JamesF
>
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