Clark Mig 90en

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richarduk

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I thought that now we have a tool section i'll repost my short review on the mig I brought. Having now welded up one side and used it for other little jobs around the house I 100% recommend this little work horse!

Here is my new welder, looks good. Comes set up for glassless but can be converted to gass operation, just needs the regulator. The pipe is poking out the back ready to be used. The earth lead could be doing with being a bit longer and the clamp stronger, may look at a possible replacement for that.

The lead to the torch is very nice and flexible with a good length, could use it with ease with the welder on the floor welding my tests on a bench. Didn't feel it was restricting my movement as I've found with the cheap old welder I have.

The welder is quite heavy don't know if that is a bad thing, could have done with a few little tabs for winding the power lead around for storage.

But the real star is the £60 mask with it's auto tint. The amount of tint is adjustable, it really is good, get one, you're not regret it.



Comes with some flux wire and spare ends and a very rubbish (now in bin) mask.


The wire feed has the groove size stamped on the side with is good to see. Apparently some don't.


My first welds, I found the wire speed adjust very good for controlling the weld.


And from the back, not sure why by review sites show this. :)


This is the kind of heavy work I've been doing with it. In the hands of a pro i'm sure it would be neater. I'm a beginner yet was able to do good strong welds.
 
The welder is the best tool to have when dealing with old cars bought mine 8years ago and still going strong,be lost with out it. Hope to give it a work out soon finishing of the 3.5S.
 
Brabus said:
Hope to give it a work out soon finishing of the 3.5S.
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I have a sill on the 820 that you could practice on, so you will do a really good job on your 3.5S

Colin
 
richarduk said:
And from the back, not sure why by review sites show this. :)
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Usually so you can check you've got good penetration with your weld :wink:
Unlike the bird sh*t welding on Ferraris where it just sits on the top :LOL:
 
If you do replace the earth cable, get a proper welding clamp with the flat copper braid between the halves of the clamp and thicker cable. The stuff on off the shelf machines is seldom adequate, especially with a jumper cable style clamp on it.
 
unstable load said:
If you do replace the earth cable, get a proper welding clamp with the flat copper braid between the halves of the clamp and thicker cable. The stuff on off the shelf machines is seldom adequate, especially with a jumper cable style clamp on it.
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Do you have a picture of one so I know what i'm looking for? Yes the idea of replacing the cable is mainly because the clamp seems like a week link in the chain.
 
I ordered up a Clarke 90EN today. Having used the old SIP welder I had lying around a few times now, I am now totally fed up with it's unreliable wire feed. Despite being tempted to buy something a little more powerful and expensive than the Clarke 90EN, after a bit of reading I decided that the low 30A current setting was probably the most important consideration for welding the thinner and more delicate parts of P6 bodywork. Hopefully, the Clarke shall also have a better wire feed mechanism. I was also keen to give gasless MIG a try as I was fed up buying SIP CO2/Argon bottles. As I am working outside, gasless wire will hopefully be a lot more convenient.
 
I think you'll be pleased with it. I have a Clarke 100e welder which is similar and apart from changing the earth lead and liner I've found it far superior.

Rich
 
I've had the 100en for about 20 years and still going strong, keep thinking of buying a new one, but no point when this one works.
 
I agree, with gas is certainly better, and the wire is a lot cheaper, the only problem with gas is the setup costs, bottle deposit, regulator etc, looking at that site, it would cost about £150 to get fully setup.

You should be able to find a local gas supplier that could save you quite a bit of cash, and don't ignore CO2 (pub gas) as an option, it's easier and cheaper to get hold of, and gives decent results, much better than gasless. However again don't discount gasless, I always have a small roll handy in case I need to take the welder off to a remote job, rather than lugging the gas bottle around. It works but takes a bit more cleaning up afterwards.
 
Got the Clarke 90EN delivered yesterday & did a few test welds last night. The wire feed seems to be much better that my old SIP and I was quite happy with the results. The gasless wire is certainly a bit messy but then I was expecting that. I still have the regulators from the old SIP so I can always use gas if I need to keep things a bit cleaner.
 
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I agree, with gas is certainly better, and the wire is a lot cheaper, the only problem with gas is the setup costs, bottle deposit, regulator etc, looking at that site, it would cost about £150 to get fully setup.
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My missus tells me that £150 is not very much these days :wink: Certainly wouldn't buy you much pro welding time. Then you can get your deposit back if you don't plan on doing anymore :)
I use too much to change from BOC but this set up makes sense for the hobby or occasional user IMO.
 
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