Hiya mate, I bought this welder a couple of years back after watching your excellent videos on it, it's a great welder, I'm chuffed to bits with it, thanks.
I’ve been looking at getting a welder & really fancied the Cigweld 185 ultra from Australia as it pretty much sets the welder up, put the cost gets up to £1300. I’ve come across the R-Tech which is a third of the price but needs some welding knowledge/experience which I’m in very short supply of. I have really enjoyed your no nonsense approach which reminds me of the building college teachers I studied under. Thank you for the knowledge you’re sharing👍
Good vid as usual. Lets face it most of us don't buy migs for home to weld brand new material. We buy them to save money so the exhaust repair was a good shout. Geoff.
Very handy knowing the settings for 1.6mm John, as I'll be buying one of these to weld 1.6mm 1.5"OD mild steel tube. What would the settings be if I was using 0.8 wire? Cheers
Hi, I enjoyed your video's but I have a question. When you are welding the sound is like a fast "popping" machine gun. Many times welders say the settings are not right when you hear this sound. Your welds look great so what is this about sound? Thanks.
hi john got my rtech 180 and its cool but im struggling to get a decent weld, it sounds very stuttery and popping , ive tried the settings you used here but no joy , have been trying different settings but no luck, the weld look ok but the stuttering is very off putting, any advice mate
To me John's current is to high for the wire feed it is going into the spray transfer area, also try welding right to left so you can see the weld and where you are going ,and on thin plate you do not need a large weld , hope I have been of help
John ivr recently bought the Rtec 180 mig just using strate co2 I'm just burning strate through on every panel I touch fresh metal or slit rust I've mixed around with the setting using0.6 wire & still no matter how low or high go with the setting im blowing through could it be the co2 as my old sip 100amp welder didn't do so when using co2 . Any I dears ? Very grateful
m fletch the gas is controlled by a manual valve on the tig torch which is used to turn the gas supply on and off. The welder itself is used purely as the power source. This is the type of tig torch I use www.weldequip.com/tig-conversion.htm
Hiya mate, I bought this welder a couple of years back after watching your excellent videos on it, it's a great welder, I'm chuffed to bits with it, thanks.
Hi John. I've just bought one of these machine and your videos have been a great help, thanks.
I’ve been looking at getting a welder & really fancied the Cigweld 185 ultra from Australia as it pretty much sets the welder up, put the cost gets up to £1300. I’ve come across the R-Tech which is a third of the price but needs some welding knowledge/experience which I’m in very short supply of. I have really enjoyed your no nonsense approach which reminds me of the building college teachers I studied under. Thank you for the knowledge you’re sharing👍
Good vid as usual. Lets face it most of us don't buy migs for home to weld brand new material. We buy them to save money so the exhaust repair was a good shout. Geoff.
I try to keep things real
john your a legend I've learned a lot from your videos many thanks and keep it going pal.
Paul.
Could you do a video on setting up the welder for different thickness of metal please
Nice hair cut john don't worry we will get them for you.
Good video
Nice practical examples of welding. I enjoyed the video. Thanks foe sharing your product review.
Randy
Fascinating stuff. What’s creating the weld? Is it the wire itself or is it melting the actual steel?
Any chance you could do some runs on aluminium showing settings etc. Thanks for posting the demos.
Very handy knowing the settings for 1.6mm John, as I'll be buying one of these to weld 1.6mm 1.5"OD mild steel tube. What would the settings be if I was using 0.8 wire?
Cheers
Excellent video again John, thanks.
My efforts to date have produced poor brittle black “welds” via gasless flux welding. Is this oxidation?
hi john what gas setting are you using for mig, im not getting the results i would like, i have rtech 180 regulator
What about gasless welding with flux wire? How does this compare?
How does this r-tech compare to the French made GYS welders amazon is selling?
Hi,
I enjoyed your video's but I have a question. When you are welding the sound is like a fast "popping" machine gun. Many times welders say the settings are not right when you hear this sound. Your welds look great so what is this about sound?
Thanks.
agreed my tutor when i was at collage would have had me for welding that fast
hi john got my rtech 180 and its cool but im struggling to get a decent weld, it sounds very stuttery and popping , ive tried the settings you used here but no joy , have been trying different settings but no luck, the weld look ok but the stuttering is very off putting, any advice mate
To me John's current is to high for the wire feed it is going into the spray transfer area, also try welding right to left so you can see the weld and where you are going ,and on thin plate you do not need a large weld , hope I have been of help
I want to start learn how to welding, where I should to start ?
Absolute champion, cheers.
excellent review john great video
John ivr recently bought the Rtec 180 mig just using strate co2 I'm just burning strate through on every panel I touch fresh metal or slit rust I've mixed around with the setting using0.6 wire & still no matter how low or high go with the setting im blowing through could it be the co2 as my old sip 100amp welder didn't do so when using co2 . Any I dears ? Very grateful
I use .8 wire with argon co2 mix it should weld ok on co2 give r tech a ring they will help you
@@doubleboost cheers john for that & yes I will give them a bell as were very help last time I spoke to them regarding a part. Thanks
Hi
I have just I have just bought one R tech mig welder 180
Can i do welding without gas
You can use flux core wire (not ideal) you can also do MMA (stick) welding You really need gas to use the set properly
John, if you have a manual tig torch could you show how the welder copes with a bit of scratch start tig? Colin
It's only a mig welder reedxuk
m fletch it's also an inverter arc welder, so hopefully should be good for scratch start tig too.
Cheers how would you set the gas up to use it as a tig
m fletch the gas is controlled by a manual valve on the tig torch which is used to turn the gas supply on and off. The welder itself is used purely as the power source. This is the type of tig torch I use www.weldequip.com/tig-conversion.htm
That is a good idea been a while since I had a good scratch
John
Por favor ayúdeme a que me envíen una a Panamá cuánto es el costo
How about flux core no gas
Thanks John
very noisy why
He wants to get the fuck on with it. To much Yabba.