Mig welding

Acetylene at home in your garage , your home insurance is most probably now null and void. And then if there is a fire near you and they are found to be there get ready for the 200 meter evacuation fun .Neighbours love that and If there are any businesses they can sue you for loss of trade due to evacuation . We have it at work but they are considering if it’s worth it and many smaller places are getting rid of it as it’s just to much hassle and with the new regs coming out sometime soon it ain’t going to be easier .

1.6mm - 2.5mm for car work .

Good thing I don’t have it there eh…always wondered though… should we give a van with signs a 200 m berth… or are all these rules ridiculously badly managed

by the way… when were you last “evacuated”…?

You will be in a traffic incident , only 2 out of 40 of the firms vans are insured to carry it and they are seriously considering if it’s worth the hassle .

Pin if your only welding up thin gauge ie cars forget stick welders, get a mig!! buy a scrap bonnet from a scrap yard and play about with it. pity Im so far away as you could have a play with both before you buy one.

It was about 18 months ago . Lucky that it was a big site and we were 8m down a hole so the streets were deemed safe and it was only a site wide evacuation . If we had been at surface level things would have been more troublesome …and even more expensive, it was expensive as it was but it could have been much worse .

I have a gas less mig welder

It’s not a dear one I will have a look tomorrow to see what make

Tried to use it once or twice but it’s not set up

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Pin

Those small cheap migs with single feed will not properly weld anything thicker than 2.5mm , your are hobbled at that thickness limit so if you ever do want to do any welding requiring strength … your not going to be able to do it .

so come on seriously… insurance is making an established industry unviable because why?
How are Scuba divers gonna do their job? How bout pubs that use compressed air… give it a rest… where do these scare stories come from?
They drive everywhere with bottles on trucks… name the source for the “end of the industry” rumour, or shhh… :slight_smile:

The rest are fine its the acetylene is the problem due to its potential for becoming unstable and the resukts when it does . http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg327.pdf
It was on the explosives register but is being removed from that and given its own set of regs to simplfy the reading but change very little .

we got rid of acetylene, too much hassle, replaced it with Oxy propane, not quite in the same league really.

shame, but the brigade said that with it in the building, if we had a fire they would evacuate for a 500m radius and justspray the top of the building with water till it had burnt itself out.