Welder…

[DJ’s Garage]

If you’re a genius and know everything about welding (not me) and your welds look perfect (again, not me) but you still need to ‘hot glue’ 2 pieces of metal together (me, finally). I think I bought the perfect welder.
Lincoln 211i. If you can measure the thickness of your metal, dial it to that setting, it will dial in all your settings automatically.
It will make your welding easier, just not better.

 

[Nashville Cat]

Mig is so easy even I can do it !

 

[cheveslakr]

.......and a caveman.

 

[Molly's 70]

I see you have shielding gas. I prefer 75% Argon & 25% Co2. Use a little back & forth movement or small circles.

 

[kmakar]

I always had an issue with welding 2 different gauge metals..... getting it hot enough to burn into the thicker one, but cool enough not to burn through the thinner.

 

[Molly's 70]

I always had an issue with welding 2 different gauge metals..... getting it hot enough to burn into the thicker one, but cool enough not to burn through the thinner.

I keep the arc on the thicker & quickly wash on & off the thin. Tig, Mig or stick.

 

[DJ’s Garage]

I see you have shielding gas. I prefer 75% Argon & 25% Co2. Use a little back & forth movement or small circles.

As a mechanic I welded for 30 years, but never constant enough to get really good at it. Really wanna learn to tig weld, but…

 

[77cruiser]

As a mechanic I welded for 30 years, but never constant enough to get really good at it. Really wanna learn to tig weld, but…

They say with tig you can weld a razor blade to a crankshaft. You can weld pop cans together too if need be.

 

[Molly's 70]

Never tried a razor blade to a crankshaft, but I'd give it a shot. Todays aluminum cans are crap.
I have lap welded Reynolds heavy duty aluminum foil with no filler rod. I start the arc on the table, adjust my heat and move onto the foil & don't stop!
Travel speed is everything.

 

[JohnC]

I have and Millermatic but I’m not a good welder at all. Self taught and mainly did sheet metal. I find to settings on the chart a little too low. I have to turn it up to not get cold welds.
Ran out of solid core wire recently so put some ancient flux core wire in the machine and wow, seems easier to get a much hotter weld. Still ugly but better penetration.

If I were getting a new welder today I’d be tempered to get a multiprocess welder. I’d like to learn arc welding and tig without having to have multiple machines. I’d still like to get a cheap, portable buzz box.


Nice machine by the way.

 

[DJ’s Garage]

I have and Millermatic but I’m not a good welder at all. Self taught and mainly did sheet metal. I find to settings on the chart a little too low. I have to turn it up to not get cold welds.
Ran out of solid core wire recently so put some ancient flux core wire in the machine and wow, seems easier to get a much hotter weld. Still ugly but better penetration.

If I were getting a new welder today I’d be tempered to get a multiprocess welder. I’d like to learn arc welding and tig without having to have multiple machines. I’d still like to get a cheap, portable buzz box.


Nice machine by the way.

I talked to the guy at the welding company and he recommended getting a mig welder and a separate tig welder. He said that the multi process welder (MiG w/tig) is a DC tig and what I wanted it for it wouldn’t be near as good and needed an AC machine. I don’t know myself, maybe he wanted to sell 2 machines instead of one.

 

[Molly's 70]

I talked to the guy at the welding company and he recommended getting a mig welder and a separate tig welder. He said that the multi process welder (MiG w/tig) is a DC tig and what I wanted it for it wouldn’t be near as good and needed an AC machine. I don’t know myself, maybe he wanted to sell 2 machines instead of one.

Your guy was not lying to you. Buying a duel purpose welder is like buying a duel purpose motorcycle. They do neither one well.
He is also correct on DC vs. AC current. All ferrous metals use DC. All non ferrous metals use AC. So you are wanting to weld non magnetic.

 

[DJ’s Garage]

Your guy was not lying to you. Buying a duel purpose welder is like buying a duel purpose motorcycle. They do neither one well.
He is also correct on DC vs. AC current. All ferrous metals use DC. All non ferrous metals use AC. So you are wanting to weld non magnetic.

I knew you’d know. lol
I was coming home from a friend’s house this morning and there’s a piping crew working up the road from here, one of the workers was a woman with a welding hood on and I looked around and didn’t see a green 70 so I knew it wasn’t you. lol

 

[Chevelle_Nut]

I knew you’d know. lol
I was coming home from a friend’s house this morning and there’s a piping crew working up the road from here, one of the workers was a woman with a welding hood on and I looked around and didn’t see a green 70 so I knew it wasn’t you. lol

Be careful, if Molly's 70 sees you post a good looking slab of meat for dinner he may show up.

 

[kmakar]

Heh, Molly's closer to him than to me.... Lord knows I've smoked a ton of beef and pork and everybody wants some.

 

[DJ’s Garage]

Heh, Molly's closer to him than to me.... Lord knows I've smoked a ton of beef and pork and everybody wants some.

Watch out. My Chi Hua Huaa attack dog gets 1st dibs on the ribs.

 

[cheveslakr]

 

[DJ’s Garage]

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Dang, zombie apocalypse Chi

 

[Chevelle_Nut]

Heh, Molly's closer to him than to me.... Lord knows I've smoked a ton of beef and pork and everybody wants some.

I smelled something cooking on my way home tonight.

 

[DJ’s Garage]

I smelled something cooking on my way home tonight.

You aren’t very far. Smoke signals from the grill.