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Thank you, you’ve confirmed a lot of what I’ve read / in the process of reading about the gas vs no gas debate, as well as wire feed wear.
I guess I’m at a point where I’d like to learn and got a relatively good project to learn on.
Perhaps(definitely), as always, being impatient/impulsive as I have a rare quiet Sunday where all I want to do now is practice welding.
Should probably focus on the more immediate necessity of the prep work.@dbr - 1mm ish steel / stainless steel car bodywork. I believe due to portability that MIG is probably the one? Also doesn’t have to be that pretty, probably more spot welds than nice flowing seams.
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I haven’t got a mig for sale but done a lot of welding and bought welders. Forget gasless mig welders they are not very good.
I used to buy high end machines secondhand but the most recent one I bought was a new RTech for similar cost, which is quite a popular option these days. The quality isn’t the same but it’s more disposable and easier to replace. My older high end one was too expensive to fix.
Clarke are generally cheap end, any machine mart couple hundred pound type things will usually need modding to overcome issues like plastic wire feed parts and the like that wear out too fast and cause problems.
Get yourself some hobby gas and an rtech you will probably be sorted for lowest cost and performance. If you’re doing anything pro look at a Lincoln/murex/etc. but they’re £££