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[tortron]

bunnings D bottle is $125 refill, i think about double that as a deposit. open sundays

one bottle lasts about 1/2 a mitsi

[Bling]

Owner cylinder here, have had it tested once, which cost ~$90 with a CO2 refill. That will last me five years, rinse and repeat. Have had it forever, it's a 6.8KG cylinder and was sub $400 to buy. Can get 5kg cylinders sub $300 on trademe. This is for CO2, which is perfectly fine for backyarders. I can easily pump out nice tidy small welds and also throw down ugly as fuck big ones. CO2 is just a cheaper way to get into it. When I got it rental options weren't as good as they are now, so I haven't kept a track of the best deal going down that path.

[NickJ]

Yep, Bunnings has bonus points with me for open 7 days, helpful as it correlates well to the most likely day to run out, Sunday.

[lowlancer]

Cheers fellas

[Bearded Baldy]

@lowlancer i was using argoshield 90/10 with it. Had a d bottle i kinda own through eziswap, buy it for x hundred dollars and go swap for a full one when it runs out. Last fill was 130bucks, no doubt has gone up.

If i had to do it again i would go bunnings d bottle of 90/10.

Because it never ever ever runs out during the week.

[Tiger Tamer]

I have been using BOC for years sometimes without doing any welding for a long time. I have been using the MIG a lot working on the Minx lately, so I have been using a fair amount of gas. I have been paying their service fee and the price of the refill.

I used a full D size bottle welding up the new chassis for the trailer.

Boc price for a refill Argoshield universal size D was $183.04 plus gst. 

If Bunnings do it for $125.00 I think I am being shafted. 

[tortron]

its gone up due to tariffs since then!

[lowlancer]

Tariffic news

[Bearded Baldy]

Yep just looked at the eziswap site. Getting shafted there too.

 

And i just checked my bottle is empty too. 

[Nominal]

14 hours ago, Tiger Tamer said:

I have been using BOC for years sometimes without doing any welding for a long time. I have been using the MIG a lot working on the Minx lately, so I have been using a fair amount of gas. I have been paying their service fee and the price of the refill.

I used a full D size bottle welding up the new chassis for the trailer.

Boc price for a refill Argoshield universal size D was $183.04 plus gst. 

If Bunnings do it for $125.00 I think I am being shafted. 

This is my BOC account, seems cheap?

 

Maybe too cheap, I'm not sure. Their website seems a bit out of whack. This is how they list the D-plan for Argoshield.

[Tiger Tamer]

I am going to change to that plan once I use this bottle. Probably only use two a year from now on.

My latest statement

[Bearded Baldy]

I get about 2 years out of a bottle on average so it doesn't really matter that i pay extra to fill. But the scottish/dutch/jewish side of me is not a fan lol.

[VitesseEFI]

Dunno about in NZ but here in the UK you can’t purely judge value by cost and bottle size as the full pressure also varies. Bottles are good for up to 300 Bar but not all are filled to this pressure. BOC here for example fill to 230 Bar whereas Air Products use 300 Bar on some of their cylinders sizes and other smaller suppliers only fill to 200 Bar. Really complicates the comparisons 🙄

[sheepers]

hello.

i bought a new welder.

its a 4 in one machine which i don't really know why its called that but all i know is it does AC DC tig and its a mig welder as well.

question, it came as a combination kit with all leads and hand pieces etc  to do both tig and mig but there's only one reg with the setup.

it says argon on it, cool, tig uses argon.

however am i supposed to use the same reg for both the argon, and the argo/co2 bottle as well??

or am i supposed to have a different reg specifically for argo/co2??

[NickJ]

The flow meter will be calibrated for Argon, but as CO2 is roughly the same density, it will make no difference 

[Bling]

My welder only came with a argon regulator as well. Apart from the cylinder pressure reading being pointless, I've have zero issues with "pure" CO2 through it for years. (With valve adapter).

I'm guessing argon mix runs at the same cylinder pressure that pure argon does?

[JustHarry]

21 hours ago, sheepers said:

 

its a 4 in one machine which i don't really know why its called that

Arc too

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