Buying a Mig welder is like buying an air compressor, you'll wonder how
you ever survived without one. It's really pretty simple to do, if you
have a "feel" for other tools, welding should come to you quickly.
(Hint, watch the puddle, not the bright spot.) It took me about an hour
of welding on waste stock to get it down pat.
Spring for the extra money and go gas. Flux core wire seems to spatter
and the beads look nasty, but after buying the gas conversion kit my
welds looked 100% better.
(Plus it represents an entire paradigm shift in the sort of projects you
can undertake, which is certainly worth a couple hundred bucks, no?)
John
cavies@xtra.co.nz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have just had a quote from our local body shop to do some rust repair
> work on a triumph 2500 saloon. I honestly thought the guy used the last
> 4 figures of the number plate. My son whose car it is, went through the
> concrete about 3 feet.
>
> Anyway has anybody ever bought a MIG welder and bothered to do there own
> body repairs?.
>
> It is nothing to huge and definitely not structural, mainly cosmetic
> around the back of the sills and just under the rear windscreen.
>
> But these guys are used to dealing with jap cars where every little bit
> of body is needed to hold them together.
>
> Any feedback would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Gavin Williams
> WHANGAREI
> N.Z.
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