Halfords rip off .

best to look online for stuff like that before you go and buy things....and thats why I got a disposable cylinder of argon from Machinemart instead of halfords..... the 110L sizes should be £15.59 from machinemart,its 60L size thats £12 from them. The 60L bottles are also available from toolstation shops for just under £13.00.

although lets look at it fro another perspective the halfrods trade card has saved my skin a few times and Is worth it for tools and oils etc

yup, better off to use full sized bottles. I use CO2 gas for steel and that costs me £20 for a full sized cylinder exchange,and that lasts for hours of welding. I'm needing to try and mig weld some aluminium, thats why I needed some argon gas (as a one off). I did was using a clarke Pro Mig 90 welder, and wasnt sucessful with the aluminium(not sure if its my welding technique or my welder wasn't powerful enough)....so I bought a Clarke 151TE welder to try again, my garage has just been rewired with a 16amp socket to use the higher power settings.......so disposable gas cylinders are expensive, they've caused me to buy another welder and have my garage rewired.

I am getting a full size bottle as i said , the disposible was just to get the thing going with , I'm aware they are a rip off for waht they are , but i didnt expect the double rip off a cylinder costing more than twice as much as a similar but with nearly %50 less contents .

If you know Halfords are a bit pricey (which for some stuff they are) why buy stuff from there?... I think some people just expect too much from Halfords, its not a specialist store so I guess they have to charge more for items like welding gas as they don't sell a huge amount of it.

As slammage did mention though, a trade card (if you're eligible for one) makes stuff there quite cheap, £1.80 or so for an oil filter for my MGB was good enough for me

Just gotta shop around I guess, I won't pretend to know whether what Robinxr4i says about the gas types could be a factor or not as I don't weld but when I was at halfords I do remember there being Argon bottles as well as Argon and Co2 mix, I never looked to see if there was a capacity or price difference between the two though

That must be it , i have got pure argon but £15 for 60 litres is a rip off if you can get 110 litres for £12 . I should have looked i suppose .I will be pore prepared in the future so i don't have to go there again .

Who would start a whinge-bin bound thread like this in the general board? Must be someone who has never read the RR MO before - a total newbie, probably not their fault.

*Looks at OP*

Oh. Nevermind.


Have a cool old car and then post some penance. People come here to escape this sort of bitchery.

Stop moaning and don't go to halfords again,,. I don't