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None of the controls do anything. It just says 105 on the screen no matter how much I turn all the knobs/flick the switches. When I pull the trigger, the screen says 202 and the hf works, but no arc. The day after it went bung I came in in the morning and it worked again, so I went and chopped rust out of the bottom of a door, bent up a bit of steel and when I went to weld it ... nothing again.

Don't think it's easy, tig needs a constant current power supply. My warranty seems to be completely useless. So far all they've sent me is the operation manual for a welder I don't have And after more requests for help, they sent me a block diagram for the wiring of the welder I don't have. I'm getting my brother to write to them in Chinese. Failing that I'm going to have to try to fix it blind, but the thing's fucking complicated.

Keen to hear how this goes. I'm looking at picking up a 1969 bike last registered in 88, plate doesn't work on carjam.

This is awesome. I just gave my souped up tamiya thunder dragon to my nephew a while back cos I hadn't used it for over 20 years. Please somebody do a tank http://jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID= ... mpaign=FPC

Mine fucked out yesterday. Now I get to see how good my warranty is.

your litres per hundred kilometres may vary but I did a lot of reading about chinese tigs about a year ago. It seems that a lot of chinese manufacturers make copies of the same circuits but some have much better quality control. Keep an eye on the duty cycle when you buy, some are only rated at around 30% In the end I opted for this IGBT one, hoping it would last: http://www.river-weld.com/igbt-acdc-200 ... p6882.html I can't say I've used it an awful lot, but I've been very happy with it. When I got it I was on the weltec course using their giant miller machines and I found mine easier to maintain a good arc at low amps. I put this down to having a much smaller tungsten installed in mine, but was quite impressed. Only problem is warranty. They offer a 2 year parts warranty, but you have to be able to follow their technician's directions to identify which board is faulty if anything goes wrong. No problems yet, touch wood. All up it cost me $1200 landed (they marked it as sample welding machine, value $150, so the customs lady didn't jump it). I ordered it on a Thursday night and it arrived the monday morning, which was pretty sweet. At one point I was about to buy the boc branded one, but glad I didn't now. I got a better machine and even if I were to buy another two I'd still have change.

Looks like the scootrs 10" wheels on 8" hubs, Matt swears by them. How's the braking? They all dive under braking, it's the suspension design. Going around bumpy corners on a vespa is interesting when you get a bit of that sideways shuffle going on. 100km/h never felt as fast as it does on a vespa! OT: James, u still want these radios? else I'm gonna chuck them or bang them on TM

So, so sweeeet.

I think you have to participate in a certain amount of club events each year too. That's the way it is with the Wellington club anyway

Word used to be that if you use the original rails you don't need a cert. I tried this with my brumby ute and didn't have any problems.

The autochoke is a coiled bimetallic spring inside a waterfilled housing iirc, they get corroded up pretty bad if proper coolant isn't used due to the dissimilar metals. Pull it apart and clean up the corrosion and it might fix it.

SAS in Petone are good.

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That is awesome. Sit the gas bottle in a tub of water, fill with beers, then you have a combination workshop heater, beer chiller and sweet noise machine.

should be fine.

Nah get a new plug, they're like $6 from repco. You can google spark plug codes to see what they mean. Here's NGK http://www.sparkplugs.co.uk/pages/techn ... g-code.htm If the thread diameter is 14mm and your current thread length is 3/4" (just guessing, this is common, measure before you try) I would guess something like a NGK B6HS might suit. 6 is a good heat range to start with. If the plug fouls alot get a hotter plug (B5HS) if it burns away get a cooler plug (B7HS) Paint looks good as is.

Can you get the cylinder block anodized? that would be sweet

do you have one called suzy also?

Nice work, bit it looked cooler in the first photo

Was expecting to see some sort of sex chair. Disappoint.

Those 3M 6001 organic vapour cartridges are what I use for epoxies. If you're working without awesome ventilation (most likely) then wear goggles too. Swimming goggles are pretty cheap and seal well, and they look ace.

If you want them all to appear the same brightness, it would pay to use trimpots on at least two of the LEDs. Saves a lot of dicking around with different resistor values.

OMG that cat^ is moving in time with the tune on the radio now. So you've got 12v signal to the relay from the ecu and 12v from the ignition circuit but the relay isn't operating? Sounds like no earth for the relay as you said. Try running a wire from the other side of the coil on the relay to the car's chassis

diesel

I rolled up as those 5000 cars were heading out, went up and just as I found a seat that crash happened. The turbo 2002 ruled me, so did that nova.