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hairyasswelder:

--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 22, 2009, 02:51:52 ---Holly snot.  A reel of 0.6mm wire should set you back less than a tenner, £15 for 5kg of the stuff if you aren't in the trade.  Disposable bottles are anywhere between £7 and £10 for 10 minutes.  SO how much is the welder costing you?

Much more than £110 and I'd be buying one.

Asfor gas, try a car boot, local pub etc.  I'm told Bullseye motor factors will swap COs pub bottles for you.

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Can get 95/5% argon mix for £40 for a pub size bottle, needs a deposit with first bottle £20.

£15 a fill for co2 pub bottles (not trade)

A large bottle argon 5 is £17 a fill + £5/6 a month +vat trade  ;)

Steve

bilge rat:
i bought a mig from machine mart . gas about 150 quid iff i remember , dont supose the amperage is the same as one you might hire but ive done 3 boot floors . rear  x member, inner wings , sill repairs. still going o'k.. might be an option for ya . always there when you need it  . which is quite often when you have a landy   ;)

Ridgeback:
Thanks to all for your answers.

We cut some of the Sills out and the rust went into the inner sills as well. We found a place that is doing the lot for about £300.
I was a coded welder but don't have the kit at home. The welding sets you get for under £200 are not that good. They will only weld thin stuff and if you have lots of rust they make the job harder then using a good quality Mig set.

Then the Gas, as said above the small bottles you get for around £10 don't last long enough to finish tacking the job together, let alone finishing 2 full sides of a landrover.

HSS did have MIG sets but not at my local branch and they did not know about the Gas.  They said it might cost £45 to get one delivered form another branch.

Thanks again for your help but I'm now off the hook.
(I hate welding other peoples cars anyway because what can start as a small patch can end up as 3-4 long days of work)

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