Welder

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Well I just bought the Sealey Mighty Mig 100 gasless to do the engine mount on the rallye and the bits for the big turbo on the 2.1TD

Got it little cheaper than the link someone else posted. Mine is from here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/140890006260?s...1439.l2649

Hopefully be able to tell you how she does by next weekend.

I thought we were all in agreement gasless is shite!?

Maybe not as good as with gas but after speaking to a few people I think I'll be alright and as most of my welding will be outside I won't have quite so big problems on windy days with gas blowing away. Also smaller size, one less canister in the workshop, and one less thing to have to worry about replacing and flux cored wire isn't too much more expensive especially with the small amount of welding that I am likely to be doing.

Reading this has got me wanting to learn to weld now, especially when I want to try and build my own strut brace
Whats wrong with arc welding? like if it wasnt meant to be a good looking weld

Welding is one of these things that takes 10 mins to learn and a lifetime to master. ARC is very difficult to get the hang of, especially on thin (automotive) grades of steel, its o easy to blow holes in stuff with an arc and its a bit of a pain sometimes if your doing a big weld to co-ordinate your hand with not only moving along/around whatever your welding but also in towards it as the rod gets shorter. ARC is also very "agricultural" and makes alot of heat. Finally it makes slag that needs knocking off before you can see what your weld looks like and can sometimes contaminate a weld.

With a MIG you can genuinely have a quick 5 min lesson off someone and maybe 15ms of practice/playing with it before you'll be able to do reasonable looking welds that are strong enough to hold your weight and take people smashing them with hammers.

Gotta say part of the reason I bought myself a mig was wanting to make a strut brace to go round my 2.1 lump lol.