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    Default My Unimig Procraft 240

    Well well, I bought this Mig about 18 months ago and no joke have not even plugged it in! Shows how much welding Ive done of late. So I'm dusting it off and hopefully gonna use it sometime tomorrow. Im setting it up to weld aluminium too, so I'll have a bottle of Argoshield light and pure Argon mounted at the back of the unit.


    I bought the Miller auto-darkening helmet around the same time. Its all been sitting under cover, underneath the carport for this time. Seems that freakishly hot Melbourne summer had just past has deformed my brand new helmet.

    Thankfully it was easily fixed with a heat gun and a bit of manipulation, cant wait to use this helmet, I'm hoping it improves my welds.







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    the unimigs are a nice welder i have the 210

    no problems so far

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    Hey sure u havent been taking fotos at my workplace? Got the same Pullman vac as well as identical Unimig.

    Would be great if u let us how the mig performs on ally and also the reg. Used mine heaps on mild steel (gasless), never on ally. The reg hasnt seen the light of day.

    Been known to leave the side door open in summer if I've got the amps cranked up high. The duty cycle on max amps isnt great.

    Nothin more annoying than the thermal overload cutting in when in the middle of a job.

    Sure its at the cheaper end of the market, but for the price I'm happy to live with a few inconveniences.

    Happy welding.
    Frisky wife, happy life. ​Then I woke up. Oh well it was fun while it lasted.
    From an early age my father taught me to wear welding gloves . "Its not to protect your hands son, its to put out the fire when u set yourself alight".

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    I run one of those uni-mig 240s as well. A decent machine with good capacity for 240 volts.

    Are you using the standard torch that came with the welder? If so, you might have some trouble running ally through it without it galling up the liner. Might need to look at a teflon liner if you plan on doing alot of that.

    Or try to keep your torch cable reasonably straight as you weld so that there are less curves and twists in the cable.

    Glad you managed to fix the miller helmet, although the mask part is pretty cheap to replace. It's the optics/viewing part that costs a fortune to replace.
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    like the helmet, I want one.
    Long live the troopie, quads and welders

    and Go the mighty Saints (AFL)

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    Hey Martrix , are you getting ready to weld up an ally CS mill?

    What about the milling video - hope you didn't delete it?

    Cheers
    Bob

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    Quote Originally Posted by method m View Post
    I run one of those uni-mig 240s as well. A decent machine with good capacity for 240 volts.

    Are you using the standard torch that came with the welder? If so, you might have some trouble running ally through it without it galling up the liner. Might need to look at a teflon liner if you plan on doing alot of that.

    Or try to keep your torch cable reasonably straight as you weld so that there are less curves and twists in the cable.

    Glad you managed to fix the miller helmet, although the mask part is pretty cheap to replace. It's the optics/viewing part that costs a fortune to replace.
    Yep, I will be trying out the standard torch with a teflon liner and a dedicated U-grooved roller, also setting up both bottles on the back of the MIG. Depending on how hard/fiddly it is to swap the liner when I want to weld ally, I might eventually just set up 2 separate torch's.

    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Hey Martrix , are you getting ready to weld up an ally CS mill?

    What about the milling video - hope you didn't delete it?

    Cheers
    Bob
    ...amongst other things, yep definitely the mill is on the list. Ive still got those rails sitting there waiting. Still got the vid on my phone.

    Quote Originally Posted by jatt View Post
    Hey sure u havent been taking fotos at my workplace? Got the same Pullman vac as well as identical Unimig.

    Would be great if u let us how the mig performs on ally and also the reg. Used mine heaps on mild steel (gasless), never on ally. The reg hasnt seen the light of day.

    Been known to leave the side door open in summer if I've got the amps cranked up high. The duty cycle on max amps isnt great.

    Nothin more annoying than the thermal overload cutting in when in the middle of a job.

    Sure its at the cheaper end of the market, but for the price I'm happy to live with a few inconveniences.

    Happy welding.
    for sure I'll be posting pics and my progress...and or problems.
    I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein

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    Made up some brackets so I could securely mount both bottles to the back of the unit. They are just rough fitted at the mo. I will clean them up and paint them when Im happy with it. I also had to widen the wheelbase to accomadate both bottles by around 100mm O/A










    Here are some pics of the guts of this MIG for those who know whats going on in there?








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