New toy

[wello]

I did a bit of shopping this week and bit the bullet and brought my self a mig
for home and after hours jobs its a BOC 250R R= remote wire feed so I can park the welder in the corner and drag wire feeder unit anywere in 8mts or 26ft from the main unit as some of my jobs are done in the back lane as there to big to get in the gate this will be very handy heres a pic of a 250R its not the one I brought it won't here here till next week but the same unit its also so is coming with 2 rolls of wire which is a bonus 1ally and 1 steel

[chopper5]

cool you going to take some closer pic's

[wello]

yep once it lands here at home I'll post some better pics

[MicroZone]

Looks like a nice big unit for some serious welding. The top unit comes apart from the bottom unit and it can be carried away from it via an extension cord ?

[Doolittle]

looks cool man.

[wallythacker]

Neat to see gear from other countries. Congrats Wello! Looks nice.

Mind telling us the price?

[wello]

Originally Posted by MicroZone

Looks like a nice big unit for some serious welding. The top unit comes apart from the bottom unit and it can be carried away from it via an extension cord ?

yep you can leave the unit were it is or take it with you hang it from a sliding beam like in the pic this the one I brought will getting a good clean up when it gets here a dusty at present

Mind telling us the price?
I paid 1600 AUD for it

[MJDamiani]

I checked the currency conversion and that equals $1,268.55 in US Dollars, sounds like a good deal. Good luck with you new toy.

Mike

[wello]

got new toy home today its was alot better than I was hoping for its done very little work runs great
heres a few pics of it

[lorenzo]

Originally Posted by 69 chevy

My local welding store is BOC gases. But I've never seen a BOC brand welding machine.

I was wondering the same thing, is that made by the same people that make the gases?

[Grahame]

Hi Guys
Most likely you will find that the machine is made by another manufacturer and is probably re badged.

As I understand it WIA and AUSMIG are the only two welding manufactures that still assemble machines here in Oz.

Even then, I suspect that it won,t be from 100% local components.

That aside, Wellos new big red beast looks great and Im sure he will get many years of use from it.

I take it that it is a 3 phase Wello ?

regards to all
Grahame

[jamlit]

My mig welder is a BOC and is made by miller. Its just painted orange in stead of blue. All the parts and part number are miller. I was told that all the BOC welders are millers. Not sure if this is still true but it was at one time. I one thing I do know is all the BOC badaged welders I have seen and used work very well.

Wello, just check inside the welder somewhere and see who manufactured it, If it is miller it will say it somewhere.

[zapster]

New anything is really cool
Untill it gets its first scratch...


Then its not new anymore..

Good score Neil..

...zap!

[maxyedor]

The controls and internal parts look like an HTP, as long as it works well and you're happy with it is all that matters.

[wello]

jamlit its not a miller (wish it was )I can say that for sure as Miller own local welder maker WIA and they won't bring 240v Millers in to our market


did a little research after work today found its home its made in Finland
its a rebadged Kemmpi welder which is fine by me as I have used that brand a lot over the years and found them to be good machince's
Grahame its not 3 phase its single phase at present but you can open her up and play with its inside's and it will run 3 phase by changing the jumpers to suit I have only used it for about 10 minutes so to make sure it worked you what can happen sometimes when you buy sight unseen came with 2 rolls of ally wire than I most like will never use I use my tig for most ally work at home

[littlefuzz]

Cool looking machine. I haven't seen one like that

[DDA52]

Nice looking unit, Wello. Congrats. I have noticed that you guys down under have had the remote feedes setups a little longer than we have. A bud in NZ has a Cigweld 300a model much like that. I recently saw a Thermal Arc version of the same machine here. I liked it. Lots of flexibility with a 26' remote feeder.