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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 23 Nov 2009 21:00
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com>
saying something like:

>Because we're putting a few new panels in, he's suggesting getting hold
>of a spot welder. No prob - HSS hire one, for about �50. Except whilst it
>likes 240v, it wants a bit more of it than is normally kicking about.
>
>Like 32A of it.

This is outside you house or in your garage?
Easy enough to get a 32A industrial socket and wire it in to your
consumer unit, so it's on the wall beneath it.
From: Willy Eckerslyke on 24 Nov 2009 04:07
Adrian wrote:

> A quick google suggests Frost do a thingy that attaches to an Arc welder.
> http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.asp?productID=8342
>
> Waste of time or worth buying?

Others may know different, but I've a lot of time for Frost and doubt
that they'd sell anything that wasn't up to the job. If yer bloke has an
arc welder and is willing to give it a try, that attachment could save a
lot of time compared with drilling/punching holes then plug welding with
a MIG. I wouldn't expect it to do the whole job though as there'll still
be places it can't access or bits where you want a continuous weld. But
the same would apply to a proper spot welder - except then there'd be
even more places it couldn't access.
From: Adrian on 24 Nov 2009 04:29
Willy Eckerslyke <oss108no_spam(a)bangor.ac.uk> gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

> Others may know different, but I've a lot of time for Frost and doubt
> that they'd sell anything that wasn't up to the job. If yer bloke has an
> arc welder and is willing to give it a try, that attachment could save a
> lot of time compared with drilling/punching holes then plug welding with
> a MIG. I wouldn't expect it to do the whole job though as there'll still
> be places it can't access or bits where you want a continuous weld. But
> the same would apply to a proper spot welder - except then there'd be
> even more places it couldn't access.

Yes, we were only ever planning to use the spot for some/most of the job,
with MIG for the rest.

After a sleep on it, and a bit more of a google revealing some good
experiences in various forums, it's on order and the rentaspot plus genny
is cancelled.

Let's see what happens this weekend...
From: Adrian on 25 Nov 2009 12:32
Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

> After a sleep on it, and a bit more of a google revealing some good
> experiences in various forums, it's on order

It's arrived, and it looks like a decent quality bit of kit.
From: David Billington on 25 Nov 2009 12:39
Adrian wrote:
> Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they
> were saying:
>
>
>> After a sleep on it, and a bit more of a google revealing some good
>> experiences in various forums, it's on order
>>
>
> It's arrived, and it looks like a decent quality bit of kit.
>
When you get a chance to try it let us know how well it works. They've
been kicking around for donkeys years, like I saw reference to them when
I started welding around 1983, but have never tried one.
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