Does anyone out there know where I can get a MIG welding machine, only for home use, not a unit for fabrication work. I want to be welding 2 to 3mm steel work for a fence and a couple of gates. So far I've only seen large units that can be used for fairly heavy work but nothing that looks like a home unit.

Hi Overherebc, i have a friend near bkk who works for a welding company, who goes and trouble shoots when there is a problem with the welders, i also think he is in sales as well. he is French but he speaks ok english

if you want i can contact him and find out if you give me some information, i have his email and his number

Cheers

Scoop

Mig welders are not very popular here (as you've noticed!). So finding a decent entry level model is going to be pretty difficult I think, there just isn't much of a market for them. Supplies will be subsequently sparse as well. I might suggest that you get a Tig welder, you'll be able to do the thin delicate stuff and can also use it as a stick welder for the big and nasty. Welpro has a wide range of readily available models and appears to be a pretty respectable company. Also someone referred me to this company that sells some western brands... http://www.diamondinter.com (likely at a premium though).

Thanks for the replies.

At the moment I have a Welpro WELTIG 250, which will weld anything really and can also, obviously, be used with a TIG set-up. Really just fancy the MIG coz its so easy to use, don't need to keep sharpening the tungsten bits etc.

As pointed out there doesn't seem to a huge market for MIG units here. Only one I did see was in the 40,000 plus bracket and I really don't want to go there.

Thanks again for both your replies.

hi there,

just keep in mind if your going to be doing a fence as you say, youll have to keep out the wind as it will blow your shielding gas away,

take care jake, x welder/ now welding supervisor

hi there,

just keep in mind if your going to be doing a fence as you say, youll have to keep out the wind as it will blow your shielding gas away,

take care jake, x welder/ now welding supervisor

Cheers

x-welder, now level 3 SWI (only joking) not level 3 just CSWIP SWI

now then i was going to go down that road myself, but to be honest i do ok as i am,

i was on good money in brazil, africa,both nigeria and angola, im in scotland at the mo, and to be honest its good money, and i get to see the kids here,,lol,

my mates just done his cswip, and hes x welder, about time more ex welders did it,

take care mate jake

now then i was going to go down that road myself, but to be honest i do ok as i am,

i was on good money in brazil, africa,both nigeria and angola, im in scotland at the mo, and to be honest its good money, and i get to see the kids here,,lol,

my mates just done his cswip, and hes x welder, about time more ex welders did it,

take care mate jake

It's handy being an x-welder when you reject a weld and get the, what do you know about welding question and you can pick up the rod and run a nice vertical on something.

Usually stops the comments.

Too cold in Scotland by the way

its not to bad here at the moment, i was here for 8 weeks last winter, now that was cold, i should be back home end of sept, the wifes hoping so anyway weve got another baby due on the 20th sept,

jake

Mig welders are not very popular here (as you've noticed!). So finding a decent entry level model is going to be pretty difficult I think, there just isn't much of a market for them. Supplies will be subsequently sparse as well. I might suggest that you get a Tig welder, you'll be able to do the thin delicate stuff and can also use it as a stick welder for the big and nasty. Welpro has a wide range of readily available models and appears to be a pretty respectable company. Also someone referred me to this company that sells some western brands... http://www.diamondinter.com (likely at a premium though).

The shipyards and big fab yards in Thailand use these these machines along with flux corded wire, as well MIG/MAG for the sake of welding a gate and few posts...SMAW ?...not sure why you would want to p*ss around with wire feeder and gas for a job like that ?

The reason why MIG/MAG and flux core not so popular in Thailand...very simple....Thailand produces SMAW electrodes for export and MIG/MAG and flux cored wires are imported, in order to protect the Thai SMAW industry the import tax on these wires is quite high.