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Rick
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:04 pm    Post subject: MIG welder gas recommendations Reply with quote

Hi all

For odd jobs in the past I've used disposable canisters of gas, usually CO2/Argon mix. But for a bigger job it'd probably make sense to hire a proper bottle from somewhere. Does anyone recommend anyone in particular to hire from? I have an unused regulator somewhere to suit a big bottle.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am going over to using the below.

https://hobbyweld.co.uk/product-category/mig-tig-welding/

I have a reasonably local agent...once the bottle is paid for [at stat up] then it's only the gas to find pensionquids for.

I used to have an Energas contract....used to cost me 15 earned-quids a quarter, gas costs on top...but they would deliver if I was desperate...but...my mig gas usage was sporadic, to say the least....

Sometimes I'd go almost 12 months before striking an arc....so the Energas contract was a luxury I decided not to afford.

I use the bigger bottles, my machine won't use tiny bottles...
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have the Hobbyweld bottle, in fact I've been today to pick up a replacement after I emptied one, £46-odd for a refill. PET in Crewe do it, probably someone in Whitchurch too.

As above, there's no hire charge, just a one-off deposit plus the charge for each now bottle. I hired one from BOC for years, at least ten of those while I wasn't using the MIG at all, I shudder to think how much I wasted on bottle rental but the rent-free options weren't around then. The only other option was pub gas bottles, and that tends to be pure CO2 which isn't as good.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I too use PET in Crewe, far cheaper for us low user's than BOC was with the annual hire charge.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use Adams Gases, hobby weld / pub gas size, CO2 Aargon mix.

https://www.adamsgas.co.uk/

Wrexham Motoring Supplies might be your nearest agent?
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