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Try https://www.mrithailand.com/en/ Been there myself, it was fine. Good price. You need a doctors referral though.

Damn disease infested winged rats. If someone knows a good way to exterminate them let me know. <deleted> all over my balcony and basically live above my air conditioners. They usually fly away to the food stalls below at lunch and come back later on. Tried the shiny reflective stuff, but they've gotten smart and realise they don't do <deleted> to them Will look into netting, but

Yea, I enjoyed Seapines, very chilled course. Caddies were ok The free meal voucher was nice, played at 2pm finished around 5 had a nice tea supper afterwards. Big fan

Hey, have previously been using a hydraulic jack that finally gave out after like 10 years, planning on getting a new one, the place I got it before have the standard saddle sizes but I saw that there are some with larger saddle size. Does anyone have any experience? I would assume a larger saddle size would reduce the pressure and therefore stress on the site whatever is being jacked, and the jack itself (probably very little here). What are people's thoughts?

If I'm not wrong this is the mini one, mostly for automation, the main Metalex Event is actually in Nov this year. https://www.bitec.co.th/event/metalex-2022

@farmerjo you can get one of these clamp meters: https://www.kovet.com/product-page/400-600a-digital-clamp-meters-ut203 and use it like so:

For MIG wires - you can expect between 60-80baht per Kg for your bog standard mild steel wires (replace E6013) Gas is sold usually in cylinders and how much you use is variable so harder to quantify. Usually you buy a cylinder and refill so cost is usually upfront with the tank, then refill isn't so expensive (CO2). You can also go flux-core as many suggested, don't need gas necessarily, but much more expensive usually.

Don't worry too much about it, I tend to agree, don't go too cheap, and I've definitley used v.cheap machine in the 1-2000 baht range which just failed after a few uses. It massively depends on what you're doing though, and the thickness of the material you're using. Need to look at what specs you need and buy accordingly. A 120A machine isn't going to do the same job as a 250A machine and their uses are different, same with duty cycle etc You may have overspec-ed, but as long as you weren't ripped off (the specs of the machine match the value of the machine-ish), you can always consider selling it on, there's quite a big second hand welding machine market in Thailand too, a lot of Thai's buy second hand machines.

@Adumbration Have you tried these ones? Pretty much the same as Yawata in my experience, no issues, slightly cheaper as well. Available in the smaller hardware stores on the streets in Phuket, not in HomePro or places like that though. Agreed with some of the others - MIG is the way to go these days. Made the transition from stick a while back and it feels like going from riding a bike to riding a motorbike. MIG with either flux core/gas, flux core makes your life easier since you don't need gas, but can be a pain to use sometimes on the <deleted>tier cheap machines. Gas still produces better results in my opinion. Got one of the cheap MIG ones like Polo on Shopee previously and it just failed after a few months of use. I had some pretty big projects as I was renovating and doing up my place so wanted a better machine went with this one https://www.lazada.co.th/products/kovet-mig-200ct-200a-dc-mig-2-talaytools-i2595738493-s9245091398.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlist.list.21.ef83631fJeIokO&search=1&fastshipping=0&sale=&price=18600.00&review=1&ratingscore=5.0&location=Bangkok&stock=1&lang=en Been great, no issues, as good as my Forney when I had one back home. If you're going to keep the machine for a few years then it's better to spend a little more as an investment otherwise you might be throwing it down the drain. For stick machines getting a crappy cheap one is probably ok since they don't cost that much, but if you're going to be doing a lot, I'd suggest getting a good MIG one, you won't regret it.