If it sound like frying bacon your welding if it smells like frying bacon your on fire 🔥

Thanks for taking one for the team to demonstrate the frying bacon sound.

They only call it a funny bone because everyone else laughs when you bang it. Cheers for the info John and the lathe series is brill

Had my 180 over a year now. Probably 25 kilo of wire all on car bodywork. Simply excellent

Not many folk would do a 3 year review. Great idea

I hope you are feeling better this week John. Great video content and detailed advice. 👏👍

This series is so helpful; I must thank you ever so much.

Just about to buy my 1st r tech 180 , totally new to welding but what I've just watched has answered all my thoughts/ questions , going to see if you have more videos as I want to know techniques now , ie patterns and hand angle etc . Great video 👏👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Cheers john, I watched your channel and bought one from R-Tech, now I've learnt on it and so far produced a set of 5m gates, a set of pallet forks, a rear push blade and a 3 point trailer hitch. I've also repaired a couple of digger buckets and the machine has been no problems (kiss of death) however I did burn out a torch! great channel and honest reviews.

Watched all the MIG 180 videos and ordered one. It’s arrived today.

I bought one after looking at your first review of one and boy is it a good welder even with fairly bigger jobs it copes really well John

I'm taking this as a sign you're still on the mend but easing back to a normal day. Best of luck over there!

This video is brilliant, helped alot with setting my mig up

Very nice , remember you got it - seems to have done very well. Iv done a lot of car body welding and going down to 0.6mm wire is definitely worth while if the welders going to be used on car body exclusively 😁

I bought one of these just over a year ago, and I've used it daily since then. around 6 months ago, there was a nasty pop when firing it up for the first go of the day, I phoned R-tech and there was a delivery guy at my door 4 hours later to pick it up, I had the machine back with me 3 days later (with a new main-board) so i'm very impressed with the customer service. although obviously, I'd rather it not go pop in the first place! It's got a really nice wire-feeder, which is the most important thing for a mig welder, and something that so many other chinese machines get badly wrong. It's very simple, but gets the basics right. It's also a pretty good stick welder, very smooth and easy to get along with, with enough power to run 3.2mm rods nice and hot, although 4mm are a bit of a stretch for this little machine, you can tell it isn't thrilled to be pulling those kinds of amps, but if you're running bigger rods, you should be using a bigger welder anyway! 4.5-5 stars from me!

John excellent video brought back lots of memories welding. I'm considering buying a similar unit here downunder but 185 multi mig gassless/gas, tig, mma my 1970's mma 180 has sen a lot of work time to upgrade

Great review John, great video, keep'um coming..#1

Watched welding video, I don't know why, but now I'm hungry :) Nice explanation for voltage and feed, thanks!

Cheers for the review update.

Thanks for making your videos . Proper job

This was very helpful thank you

I've had my 180 for the same time and never let me down *****

I really want a welder, but since its 40 years ago since I sold my rally car, ive nowt to weld. Back then we needed one after every rally. Oh well. Love your honesty John.

Thanks for this video.

Great bit of kit.

Great review, looking to get into welding properly now I can afford a decent welder these days and this is the one that seemed to be ticking my boxes. I knew this one was the one as I’m also a northern John, if it works for you it will work for me 😂 in all seriousness thanks for the very informative video

Thanks for sharing 👍

Hi John, This is a question on a unrelated topic. A while ago you set up a diesel heating in the workshop from Banggood. Has it lasted and is it worth the effort to fit chimney ventilation etc,

Super review John. Being left handed I see you are 'pushing' the gun; is this the norm or can you 'pull' the gun right handed?

Best Video I've seen, explained very well indeed. However, Could you please explain a little more, in regard to knowing to adjust the feed or the voltage to get the result you want? or is that simply a little trial and error??? TYIA

I had the 250 r-tech mig welder but I didn't like the spatter using argon/co2, so I sold it and bought a warrior mig 250, which is by far the better machine. I like being able to play around with inductance, ideal for thin material and less spatter. They are a decent welding machine and have good after sales service but for a top end mig I would highly recommend a warrior machine as they are on the same level as Fronius.

I use my Mig mostly for plug welding 1 mm car body panels.Recently my welds have a short vertical tail sticking up from the spot weld. I've ground down the welds and found that the upper region is hollow. The problem doesn't happen every time only occasionally. Any ideas?

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What is about welding that dictates you increase the voltage instead of lowering the wire speed? Or is it preference of the welder?

I like it when you see somebody MIGing on TV or movies, they have the voltage and wire feed set to maximum because all the sparks and shite flying everywhere looks good... 😂😂😂

hi John, quick question can i run my 180 from 32 amp supply? cheers

as per brill

Its not funny that funny bone eh John, Cheers

Use Welding terminology. Get rid of the workshop pigeons! The welding fault shown was “porosity”