Welders Options

[Spudly]

Thinking about getting myself a welder or maybe one for chrissy from the wife, but dont know what would suit best for playing around at home..

Basically want to be able to knock up stuf out of steel, probably nothing heavier than 5mm wall.. Just things like dog cages, repairs to railers and suck, mostly light gauge 2/3mm stuff id say?

What is best? Stick? MIG? Gasless MIG??

[Fed]

Send Christos a message, he just did a welding course.
I think Jumpy knows about welders but he's such a goose.

[Jumpus GooDarus]

Mig is prob the way 2go
Bitch there is if ewe dont use it regularly ewe're paying rental on the gas bottle & it's sum ting ewe have to factor in.

Now if ewe're in need of a polishing maching to clean up your welds Fed's the guru there, just look @ his melon
Mind ewe think he used a wire brush on his last effort

[jasonb]

yeah rummy go a gasless mig,ive got one and the place i work one has one and there great,if you can get one that is gas/gasless ,that way if you want too you can connect up a bottle,,jas

[Spudly]

yeah rummy go a gasless mig,ive got one and the place i work one has one and there great,if you can get one that is gas/gasless ,that way if you want too you can connect up a bottle,,jas

Yea, was thinking a gas/gas less one would be the go..

[oz man]

Try Grays on line as there has been a few Engineering companies go to wall of late .
There is at least 3 on there.

[Christos]

I think there fore I post.

I did a welding course that was very entry level. As I knew nothing of welding other then what Jumpy was will the share. The course cover three aspects Oxy, Arc and Mig. We did have access to Tig but only to look at what can be done and how neat of a weld.

Something that I learnt, safety.

At the present time I have not purchased one, and neither has the friend that I did the course with. I would perfer to have access to a multi-function welder, meaning ability to Mig, Arc and Tig. I would also like to have Gas and Gasless option. Now after saying all that I would most likly be using Mig as the primary function.

I have been looking at the following considerations Duty Cycle as being on the higher percentage. As an example you have a duty cycle of 20% gives you weld time of 4 minutes every 20 minutes. I hope this is clear. Also looking at an enclosed container for the feed wire in Mig configuration. Just to prevent rust from gathering on the feed wire. If it does then you just strip out the first level to ensure that this does not feed in your hose.