any one know where you can buy "2.5mm vodex E6013 all positional"
rods from?
websites?
cheers mark.

 

my advice is ditch the ARC and get a MIG welder.

Mush easier to use and offers a better weld finish once you know what to do.

 

im a pipe welder and i would never use a arc set on anything thinner that 6mm

get urself a mig welder

even tig is a bit too powerful for car panels....for cages it is fine

 

try BOC mark there the companey that sell the gas bottles too.

115 amps vertical welding on a 4mm rod bit cold mate, i would use that sort of juice on a 3.2 rod. all welders are slightly different and run different juice some hotter then others.

are you a coded welder ?

worked at falmouth docks and you learn very fast down there. set the juice at 150 that covers vertcal up and hv fillet in 4mm and also 3.2 speedy/fastexx rods for downhand u can adjust the juice up or down 10-15 amps to suit your welding stlye ie i like it hot baby lol.

any way hows the welding going gaz?

 

No i'm not coded, but i've got tickets and done weldin since i was 14 years old.


i usually don't use ampage as the bible, as machines differ to each other, and the genny welders we have have not got ampage display, all done on throttle,
so i usually go by feel, start off a set amount, then adjust when needed

next time i'm out on site stick weldin, i'll take out the invertor set and see wot i run on 4mm vertical, but i know for sure its not 140 amps.

 

taken from the murex site just scrool down and look at the amperage range for 4mm 135-180 amps..... a inverter will struggle to burn a 4mm as well unless its running on 240 volt and even then the duty cycle will be 3 or 4 mins of welding. we have a couple of cebora sets and there pretty good for 3.2mm and weld all day on 240 volt... if u use 110 then u have to drop a rod size ie 2.5mm

we also found out that running a inverter off a jenny buggers the thing up even if running 240 volts.

ive got a few tickets and been welding since i was 6 .... old man taught me at round oak steel works.

http://www.murexwelding.co.uk/mrxcon...odes/Vodex.htm

 

No mate we don't even bother on 110, unless only doin 3mm tube handrails.

we have a inverter 110/240, which will be fine for a vertical weld on 4 mm rod.

also we don't bother runnin a genny to run a welder, we have genny welders.