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Old 23rd April 2010, 12:01 AM
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ppps, got my new Lorch Pro welding set the other day and it is bloody marvellous. A beautifully made machine and so much easier to use and less to clean up afterwards

There's a saying... A bad workman never blames his tools.

Fortunatly that's Blueshid ...

My Clarke is pants, I had a SIP beforehand which was much better. I would love a decent mig that gave consistent results every time it was used. It's one thign that the OXY set can be relied uppon.

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TT, my tip for the website would be to replace the 1.1 MB BMP photo with a 50 KB JPEG one. You can use ImageMagick's convert utility on one of your Linux boxes to convert the pic and resize it to the right dimensions (browser image scaling is a faux pas).
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Really nice review TT, like Spud says, owe you a beer

As for suggesting you buy the 2nd hand chassis............I know you had originally intended to buy a flatpack chassis kit, but when the full chassis became available at a fair price ......I know that you felt a pang of "hope Handy won,t mind " thoughts from the PM you sent me,
like you say in your review.........Saturn & Handy are there to be helpful to all builders & not just "sell parts"......

We totally understood why the attraction of the fully built chassis was too much not to consider it,
We both ( Spud & I ) are totally genuine in our "passion" for the Roadster & will always aim to provide a great service at a fair price but above all a genuinely helpful honest service to all builders .

Thanks for the great review ,

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Good review TT, it confirms my own thoughts on Saturn. I wish it was less than 400 miles for me to visit them They have always been incredibly helpful, the stuff I have bought from them ( chassis flat pack, brake kit, will be buying some GRP soon) has been of great quality and comes with terrific support.
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As for the chassis.. If I had not bought the completed chassis, I would probably have not advanced my plans ... Could have been a long time till I started buying stuff, I would not have been in a position to think about suspension parts untill probably next summer...

Getting a cheap chassis opend up the horizons and put the build in a much more atainable stance, enabeling me to comit to purchasing the bonez..

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Ok, for the critical, I have put it through the spell checker!!!

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TT, my tip for the website would be to replace the 1.1 MB BMP photo with a 50 KB JPEG one. You can use ImageMagick's convert utility on one of your Linux boxes to convert the pic and resize it to the right dimensions (browser image scaling is a faux pas).
Not sure why it was BMP in the first place, possibly cos I was not paying attention and using paint to rescale the image... Reworked in GIMP, but kept the image the same size as it's referenced elsewhere.

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