anyone use Linde alum welder?

[keith524]

hey fellas,
I am thinking of bartering for a Linde Aluminum welder setup with spool gun... anyone have one? I have the HDA 200 stick/tig welder. I still haven't gotten to use the tig yet, I don't have argon yet. I love the stick welder though...

anyways, anyone have one and like it?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Linde-Hand-...80280391890?pt=BI_Welders&hash=item41420360d2

I believe its just like this one, only not near the price...

 

[zkling]

It's old school tech. Unless you plan on getting into aluminum boat, trailer or the like welding were you will be welding lots of liner in^2 of aluminum, or it is just so cheap you want to try it out. I'd pass. It's something that if someone already has one, sure it can work just fine, but not necessarily something I'd go out and purchase unless it was just super D duper cheap. Make sure you check the phase on the unit, if you don't have 3ph. Lots of the older industrial mig machines were 3ph input. The one you linked to is.

Old tig and stick welders are one thing but old wire feed units can become a real bear to source parts and service info on.

 

[keith524]

ok thanks for the help! I will pass on it!

 

[HORDERofTOOLS]

My opinion: that set up is near bullet proof, if anything does fail, its easily repairable with common components, the ST-23 spoolgun I have on my Esab Migmaster 250, works great, they still make the same gun, parts are no problem.
Having said that, the price is steep for the setup on EBay...your better off looking for a spoolgun and 28A spoolgun controller (which has nothing to do with high freq.) on Ebay, they come up every so often for cheap, add that to your power supply or maybe a miller 115 controller and 30A spoolgun (would cost more, but more used ones around and I think the best spoolgun around)
You would also need Argon for MIG aluminum.
Just my 2 cents...