Well after lots of discussion on this list and the British car list about
a month ago, I bought the Lincoln SP 125+ mig welder, withOUT the gas
bottle. It comes ready for gas, but I decided to save a buck at the last
minute. There was
a lot of talk about gas or no gas, and by some miracle I broke something on
my Singer Roadster the afternoon I bought the mig so I got to practice right
away.
I never had welded without gas before so here are a few observations for
the few of you who might care to know. I was told that without gas there
would be a lot of smoke, well there is smoke but I have not found it to
hinder my view of my welding puddle at all, the smoke just does not get in
the way. On 1/8 and bigger steel I found that there very little difference
between gas and no gas but there is a big difference on sheet metal. I had
a hard time welding on sheet metal and I did not have a hard time in the
past with my friends mig with gas. The only other thing is that splatter is
much worse without gas no matter what I am welding, the splatter is bad.
But thats only a cosmetic issue.
So thats it after 2 weeks, I find that gas does make a difference, but not
a big difference on steel. On sheet metal, its a big difference. Since my
current project is sheet metal, I am goign to rent myself a bottle this
weekend and keep it till I use up the gas. Hopefully that will be after
Xmas and I can buy a bottle.
mike
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