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12-17-2009, 07:16 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lake Charles, LA
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|  Will Any Of These Welders Work For Building Tubers?
The wife is going to buy me the tools to start making my own tubers for my birthday. I have looked at all of the brazing equipment and will go with that if necessary but I saw these inexpensive welders and thought I would get some input on them. I am not really going to be using it for anything but my R/C builds so I don't need a big high dollar rig. If I like using it and want more, I will upgrade. Any opinions would be appreciate, especially if you own any of these. Thanks! http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...5916_200355916 http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...3263_200403263 http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=55909 http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=94056 http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=98871 http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=91110 |
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12-17-2009, 07:40 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Martinsburg WV
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Several of those are stick welders. Not a good choice for small scale work. The wire-feed units would be a better choice for you, IF you were thinking about doing other work with it. Larger scale work like auto repairs, etc. But they are still too big for the task of welding a scale chassis, you'll have much clean-up work to do to make the joints look decent. But it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility to use one to weld up a small scale chassis. If all you want to do is scale tube work, brazing with an oxy/acetelyne rig would be a better choice for you vs. welding. Micro sized - these are about perfect for small scale brazing, and they use the same disposable bottles that a simple plumbers torch uses, readily obtained at Lowes/Home Depot. Several builders here have good things to say about this unit: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=3687 Then you have the rest of your budget left for some Harris Safety-Silv and flux. And brake line of course. Or on a slightly larger scale, but still not too expensive. I use a Victor rig the same size as this one. The drawback here is having to go to a welders supply house to trade empty bottles for full ones: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92496 Last edited by Big Mike; 12-17-2009 at 07:43 AM. |
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12-17-2009, 08:19 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Under a Rock
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If one can afford it TIG is the best for welding this stuff.... but brazing would be most peoples choice...
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12-17-2009, 08:44 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lake Charles, LA
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Thanks, it looks like I will probably just go with a nice brazing set up. I appreciate the feedback.
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12-18-2009, 07:08 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Land of Ahhhhs
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Tig makes a much nicer looking weld once you master it. I have found some cheaper Tig machines on eBay that are a 3-in-1 (Tig, Arc and Plasma Cutter) for around $300. They look to be decent, but I haven't tried one yet.
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12-20-2009, 09:06 PM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New Oxford PA
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If you have no experience with welding I would definatly go with the brazing unit. I do chassis with TIG but it is very difficult to master. I use one of those cheapy combo rigs and love it! defiantly worth the price. A word of advise though, make some sort of filter for the cooling fan. I found out the hard way the fine metal shavings on the electronics board is bad news!  |
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12-21-2009, 08:07 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: SSF
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You could braze with a TIG.........silicon bronze. The cheapest of the brazing set ups are propane/oxy. |
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12-26-2009, 01:01 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Laval
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