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which gas for a mig doing mild steel

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which gas for a mig doing mild steel

Post by short stuff »

i use argon but we use co2 at work what do some of you guys use for welding
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Post by gorilla »

argonshield home and work

did a lot of searching before I decided

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I use BOC's argoshield
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Post by Struth »

Argosheild is the go.

Co2 will do if you have a heater, but argoshield is fine.

Run straight Argon if you already have to save an extra bottle, but any of the Argo/Mig sheilds will do.

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Post by siggie »

ARGONSHIELD good for aluminium as well need diffrent wire
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Post by 60smurf60 »

will check the bottles wednesday when im at work, we use pure argon for alloy, and argon for mild steel. will let u no the % for mild steel. alloy is straight argon, mild steel is a mix i think
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Who here has a D size Argoshield bottle on hire from BOC?

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v6hilux wrote:Who here has a D size Argoshield bottle on hire from BOC?

Send me a PM please
Hope we're not trying to avoid bottle rent :roll:

There is another way ;)
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Post by RUFF »

v6hilux wrote:Who here has a D size Argoshield bottle on hire from BOC?

Send me a PM please
Be aware all BOC bottles are now tagged with a bar code. But its not hard to swap the bar code from bottle to bottle. You just need to make sure the account holder allways ends up with there bar code back after you swap them. I do exactly what you are trying to do but with E bottles. Im sorry i cant help you out though.

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RUFF wrote:Bottle rental is a rip off.
Yep, specially since it takes me 3 or 4 years to use the gas in 1 bottle.
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RUFF wrote: Bottle rental is a rip off.

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Post by Harb »

Argonshield for Steel in my MIG
Straight argon for alluminium in both my TIG and MIG
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Post by v840 »

cloughy wrote:
Hope we're not trying to avoid bottle rent :roll:

There is another way ;)
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Post by Nuckingfuts »

Harb wrote:Argonshield for Steel in my MIG
Straight argon for alluminium in both my TIG and MIG
This is correct
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RUFF wrote:
v6hilux wrote:Who here has a D size Argoshield bottle on hire from BOC?

Send me a PM please
Be aware all BOC bottles are now tagged with a bar code. But its not hard to swap the bar code from bottle to bottle. You just need to make sure the account holder allways ends up with there bar code back after you swap them. I do exactly what you are trying to do but with E bottles. Im sorry i cant help you out though.

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Post by mousee »

75% argon 25% co2, almost the same thing as your Argoshield...
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like most, we also use Argoshield.
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Argoshield x2
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mousee wrote:75% argon 25% co2, almost the same thing as your Argoshield...
I worked for Joyce brothers when I was a young bloke welding hospital beds they used Ar & CO2 mixed.
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Post by zagan »

At work used to use pure argon, now they use argoshield, a 50 mix of argon/co2, it's ok, but the co2 causes extra splatter compared to pure argon.
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RUFF wrote: Be aware all BOC bottles are now tagged with a bar code.
swapped some oxy/acet bottles through my mates business account direct from the supplier and they didn't check any barcode :?
That was a week ago.
They are a BOC dealer.
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Post by RUFF »

sloshy wrote:
RUFF wrote: Be aware all BOC bottles are now tagged with a bar code.
swapped some oxy/acet bottles through my mates business account direct from the supplier and they didn't check any barcode :?
That was a week ago.
They are a BOC dealer.
Thats very odd as they now need to scan all outgoing and incomming bottles to an account.
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