Full featured portable welders, Ready Welder now at Metal Tech!

[helocat]

Full featured portable welders, Ready Welder now at Metal Tech!

Metal Tech is now a Ready Welder dealer. The Ready Welder is 100% portable MIG (GMAW aka wire feed) spool gun welders. They operate primarily on 2 or 3 12 volt automotive batteries and are rated for steel as light as 22 gage or as thick as ¾”. The ADP model can also be hooked up directly to a stick (SMAW or ARC) machine as DC power source as well as the batteries. You can run gasless using flux core wire for steel or a shielding gas for solid core steel wire. The Ready Welder welds steel, stainless and aluminum or any metals where standard one or two pound spools are available.

I have been so impressed with these machines due to the value they bring in their size. Backed with a 2 yr parts and labor warranty, that excides most other brands of full size welders they stand out for durability. Heck the US military is now buying these and issuing them for field use. Where they come in for a LandCruiser owner is the versatility. It alone could be your main welder or a secondary intended for trail repairs. (Or the second welder when the shop moochers show up for your welder!) It comes with the briefcase sized padded carrying case so it takes minimal space to store or wheel with. For power you don’t need a 220v power source for deep welds, so even an apartment parking lot is your fab shop. The bottom line is the weld performance rivals the traditional full size MIG machine yet as for price it is far less than a full size 220v machine. The new Ready Welder info page is not up on the Metal-tech site just yet. For now for more information check out www.readywelder.com.

Special interdictory prices w/ free shipping for ih8mud members are:

Model #10000 $419.95 w/ free shipping* (Retails at $599)
Model #10000ADP $449.95 w/free shipping* (Retails at $619)


Please e-mail or call for any questions or pricing on other Metal-tech or Ready Welder products.
Metal Tech welcomes Visa, MC or Discover.

Thank you!
Mark

* Free shipping is to the lower 48 only. Canada orders welcome.

 

[teapot]

starting my christmas list

 

[Chef]

Like he said. Mark, I just hit our club list with this. I really want one of our core 6 to have one of these. Heck, maybe I can vote it out of club funds Thanks for continuing to support community with your great parts and service. Chris Rech's cage turned out real nice. I will be ordering front hoops when the 45 is done enough for them...

 

[tornadoalleycruiser]

Mark, Any idea how long this special pricing will be offered?
I have a couple of other cruiser related purchases to make prior to another welder. What I will be needing is the ability to run off the truck and off my home Mig machine so I think it would require the 10250 or the 10250CS? I'm reading the CS would make it more like my home machine, only hot when I pull the trigger right?
If it's hooked up to the home machine is the trigger of the readywelder hooked up to the gun controls on the home mig machine? Making it only hot when you pull the trigger?
I would want to use this as a spoolgun at home and a welder on the trail. Would prefer the lc10 connectors as they're compatable with my home machine as well..
Thanks for the info! Since Chef's gonna make one of us pony up! Guess it'll probably be me!

 

[honk]

I emailed Mark with this info but he may not have seen it yet. So give him a chance to adjust before buying from one of these unknown people, eh?

http://search.ebay.com/ready-welder...QsotrvalueZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1QQsosortorderZ1

 

[Chef]

My opinion on the ebay link: 32 sales, wow! Don't know him. Where's he gonna be if you have problems? I know Mark. I like Mark. I know where he'll be if I have problems. He supports the cruiser community. That's worth the extra $15 to me...

 

[helocat]

Mark, Any idea how long this special pricing will be offered?
I have a couple of other cruiser related purchases to make prior to another welder. What I will be needing is the ability to run off the truck and off my home Mig machine so I think it would require the 10250 or the 10250CS? I'm reading the CS would make it more like my home machine, only hot when I pull the trigger right?
If it's hooked up to the home machine is the trigger of the readywelder hooked up to the gun controls on the home mig machine? Making it only hot when you pull the trigger?
I would want to use this as a spoolgun at home and a welder on the trail. Would prefer the lc10 connectors as they're compatable with my home machine as well..
Thanks for the info! Since Chef's gonna make one of us pony up! Guess it'll probably be me!

The 10250 is right out of the box ready to work with any DC welder power source. It will of course also work with batteries, yet will require different cables and the need to add a ground clamp. If you plan to primarily keep it in the shop then the 10250 is the one for you. However if you also want to toss it in the truck for trail repairs as well, I suggest to get the 10000ADP. The 10000ADP is the same machine just cabled with all you need for battery power. It would be less expensive to make up the LC 10 connectors from the local welding supply. (Yes they are also offered by Reddy Welder as accessories, I can get them for you as well.) The cost for the machines is basically the same yet the cost to build up the battery cables would be more costly than the other way around. Reddy Welder offered the 10250 mainly as an after market spool gun option competing against the OEM unites out there for dedicated shop use.

As for the Cold Switch or CS option this is primarily a personal choice. RW added this option since the US Navy wanted to issue the Reddy Welder however an entire ship is negative grounded and typically made out of a conductive metal. The cold switch will make the machine work like your home welder as for turning on and off the juice to the wire. Welding w/o the CS is not difficult and takes little practice to get used to.

If it's hooked up to the home machine is the trigger of the readywelder hooked up to the gun controls on the home mig machine? Making it only hot when you pull the trigger?

When the RW is hooked up to your home machine it only gets its power from it and will not control turning on and off the power.

Mark

 

[helocat]

I emailed Mark with this info but he may not have seen it yet. So give him a chance to adjust before buying from one of these unknown people, eh?

Ken,
Thank you for sharing this. I will always beat any advertised price so consider it beat. One thing I have not been advertising, is every welder I ship out comes with a free pair of welding gloves. (I have just been shipping them as bonuses for buyers.)

My opinion on the ebay link: 32 sales, wow! Don't know him. Where's he gonna be if you have problems? I know Mark. I like Mark. I know where he'll be if I have problems. He supports the cruiser community. That's worth the extra $15 to me...

Chef: Thank you for the support.

MT does support the LandCruiser community by sponsorships for events and advertising dollars spent with the TLCA and ih8mud. As for the Reddy Welder line up Metal Tech is a stocking distributor of this product and will provide the same level of customer service as the MT name is known for.

In addition Metal Tech is about to break new ground on the web and offer the Reddy Welder for rent as well! It costs on average $50 per day to rent a low power 110v welder from a local tool rental and most do not include a hood. Metal Tech will be offering the power packed Reddy Welder 10000ADP for 7 full days complete with an auto darkening hood for $99.95 w/free prepaid return shipping.

All you need to power the unit is two 12v batteries or a stick welder!

Yes this is an attempt to get everyone thinking about welding! Even if you have never welded this is a great way to try it out. Even if you have a project that needs critical welds made by an experienced welder you can save big this way. Without any experience you can quickly learn to tack things together. (This is aided by an auto darkening hood!) This allows you to assemble your project first, fitting up the steel (or aluminum the RW does that too) and tacking it together. Once it is tacked up you then take it to the professional welder to burn the final welds. This way you only pay the pro welder for their key skill and not cleaning, grinding and fitting a project. For example, you get a roll cage kit (see the tie in here!) you can assemble the entire kit fitting up the tubes and tacking the cage up. Then pay the professional welder for those key welds, and only those key welds. You spend less and learn some basic fabrication skills at the same time.

Mark

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Hey Mark, looks like a great unit.

I know you were just being nice saying you would ship it up here to the North Pole, actually I may be back down your way in a couple of weeks to pick up a FJ55.



Rob

 

[helocat]

Hey Mark, looks like a great unit.

I know you were just being nice saying you would ship it up here to the North Pole, actually I may be back down your way in a couple of weeks to pick up a FJ55.



Rob

No problem shipping into Canada, however I can not offer the free shipping. Barring some CA law that I don't know about with welders!

But pick it up in Oregon = no GST!

Mark

 

[Mace]

Mark,
From what I understand the straight AC welders will not work with the RW. It was something about getting the "spray arc" set up properly.

I'll give you a call.

 

[honk]

"From what I understand the straight AC welders will not work with the RW"

The ReadyWelder will not work with an AC stick welder under any circumstance. It requires direct current only.

There is an instructions supplement that describes when using the ReadyWelder powered by a constant current DC stick electrode machines the welding amps and volts would allow the Ready welder to be used ONLY in a spray transfer mold. I think it means that the machines can only work for you at their max output and that would keep the Ready Welder from doing effective mig at lower settings. That part of it's use pretty much only confused me and isn't relevant for me anyway, but people shouldn't think that the Ready Welder can be hooked up to any old AC buzzbox and do mig. It ain't quite THAT good! (nothing is)

 

[dd113]

tap, tap, tap waiting on my invoice so I can buy one tap, tap, tap

 

[helocat]

tap, tap, tap waiting on my invoice so I can buy one tap, tap, tap

Invoice? Your welder is in FedEx's hands now! Guess I should bill you now eh? He he yup RW took a little time getting my stocking order to me. Got'em on the shelf now. I don’t bill in advance since you never know if something delays an order. (Like this case!) It bugs me to no end when I order something from a vender and they bill my card ASAP but ship the part days/weeks later.

Mark

 

[dd113]

I got mine and am very impressed with it. Very good product for a nice price. Guess I better pay now!

 

[MR.FJ60]

So how can I get my hands on one of these guys? Seems like an awsome product.

 

[helocat]

So how can I get my hands on one of these guys? Seems like an awsome product.

Easy!

You can shoot me an e-mail at: mark@metaltechcage.com and I can e-bill you for it OR you can call me at 503-330-3022 and I can take your order right over the phone.

ALL welders are still comming with a free set of gloves still!

Mark

 

[fj40charles]

Mark,

Can you hook the up to a premier power welder box?

Charles

 

[helocat]

Mark,

Can you hook the up to a premier power welder box?

Charles

Personally I have not, but I understand a number of people have and do. I will confirm this with the manufacture.

Mark

 

[ginericLC]

Mark,

If we rented it and it got here and we liked it so much could we buy that one? Just curious. I've got a vision problem that prevents me from welding too much. I can't see. But I think Ginger could probably do it. We'd sort of like to try before we buy.