Welders?
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I use a Millermatic 185 Mig, and love it....it is about a 10 year old unit.
I highly suggest going with a Miller 180 "Autoset" if you're not much of a welder...it's a
pretty cool design-you tell the machine the thickness of the material you're welding, and
it controls power and wire speed.
If you don't weld much, forget about doing body panels with a stick...you'll be burning
holes all day long.
J
I highly suggest going with a Miller 180 "Autoset" if you're not much of a welder...it's a
pretty cool design-you tell the machine the thickness of the material you're welding, and
it controls power and wire speed.
If you don't weld much, forget about doing body panels with a stick...you'll be burning
holes all day long.
J
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I went to harbor freight and bought an $89 flux core welder and it even came with the wire. I would recommend it on something like floor pans because of the splatter and it also melted the 18 gauge metal on the fender of my corvair. But on the 16 gauge floor pans i had great penetration with strong beads. The flux core tends to have a lot of splatter but nothing a cheap angle grinder cant fix (only $8 at harbor freight).
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I went to harbor freight and bought an $89 flux core welder and it even came with the wire. I would recommend it on something like floor pans because of the splatter and it also melted the 18 gauge metal on the fender of my corvair. But on the 16 gauge floor pans i had great penetration with strong beads. The flux core tends to have a lot of splatter but nothing a cheap angle grinder cant fix (only $8 at harbor freight).
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