So I was laying in bed last night flicking through Marketplace, spotted a lathe, £100. So I messaged him, messages my dad agreed we’d split it. So I went and picked it up this evening. A Logan 200, needs a clean, then recommissioning. And then I also saw a welder, I’m a sucker for a good welder. So I enquired, and walked away with a Lincoln Electric Powertec 231c for £50!!! I also had to use the welder to move the lathe, and I took off the super heavy motor.
I’ll give it all a clean up tomorrow and see where we stand, I know the welder works as I he turned it on whilst I was there. Got the gun and earth clamp too.
If you have ever seen/used a storm motorwerks gearknob on a bmw mini that's what you need to aim for.
Picked up a gas bottle, some new tips and a shroud today then gave it a home. I’m super upset the lathe has to go to my dads as I want to play with it but the shed isn’t big enough
Not that bad, mg has solid alloy as standard and can get a bobble hat for them. The storm one, with handbrake was probably the nicest change I did on the R56, finish of it was amazing.
Well we are up and running, the welder at least. I ordered a new regulator, the wrong one, oops! So I looked about repairing the old one. This was causing my issues. so I took it apart, put it in a drill and took it back with some sand paper and it works! No more leaking. It welds really nice. Meant I could finally get this nipple out too. The nipple itself was a bit too small for the extractor, so fill it with weld and it was big enough.
It wasn’t fully paid for so I had to be happy with the waeco double pulse unit (£2500) with the optional fume extraction unit/torch and the Lincoln electric ta205v AC/DC tig unit with the optional torch cooler that I paid 5k for it !
