Visiting supersh@t auto the other day, i came across this.


http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/online-store/products/CRC-Welding-Anti-Spatt...

Its anti splatter for gasless MIG welders. Ought to cure many peoples woe's. Never used it, wouldn't know how but finally there's a solution, assuming it works well.

It was splatter involved with gasless that strongly turned the majority to traditional Gas MIG welding wasn't it?

anyways, thought it was worth the share. Its water based so should be an easy post-welding clean up.
Chris.

Anti spatter has been available at welding suppliers (BOC etc) for years.

Been around for donkeys years Chris

haha, then i'm about as slow as my tired 1600.

i wonder if it works for messy toddlers? i personally have a tendency to splatter...

maybe its more dribble ?

Anti spatter is designed to prevent spatter from sticking to bare metal around your main weld.

Even on MIG you get spatter and dribble, especially when you have a spray transfer weld happening instead of a dip transfer. You have clean up time afterwards chipping the little weld balls off any bare steel around the weld.

Gasless will still spatter a lot even with the spray. You just wont have to chip the spatter off afterwards.

spot on..

i used an anti spatter spray when using a gas mig. i was still chipping them off found weld through primer to work better , then i found how to get the setting right and pretty much eliminated spatter altogether.

An update!

Just to put it out there, went to repco today, to see that you can get disposable ARGON gas cylinders for MIG welding. $50 a piece, probably approx 50cm tall by 12cm diameter. Spose there is no way to 'retrofit' a gas setup on a gasless MIG?

Pretty much all 'gasless' MIG's are able to be used for gas.

The disposable argon cylinders last about a day for me, I keep an emergency spare.

There is about 110 litres of gas in the $50 bottles
There is about 220 litres of gas in the $70 bottles at SupaGas
There is about 4300 litres of gas in the $82 E size hire bottles that also cost about $14 a month to rent.

The 'gasless' wire is about twice the price of normal wire, and you use twice as much

You do the economics that suit your needs

I've already asked a dumb question this week, but hey? I'm feeling vaguely olympic tonite, so here we go.......

How effective is the gas at stopping my hair from catching on fire when welding outside (damn splatter! )? There is usually a slight breeze, very slight only.

It will save me heaps of afters work when I'm doing my exhaust stuff. I went for gasless wire partly due to the outside work, but also because it was hard to justify the expense of the bottle hire when I would be battling to use a 5kg reel per year. These disposable Argon bottles might fix both ills.