heres a picture of my used and rather nostalgic TIG welder, it might be 30 plus years old but it welds reasonably well and the cost to get into tig welding was semi reasonable.
if your paying attention youll see a bunch of sub linked info posted lower in the thread, its there to allow you to learn a great deal of useful tips and skills, skipping over the sub links is a great way to miss out, or fail to get the info you need
keep in mind most quality welders have a heat overload safety circuit that will shut the welder off if it gets too hot due too your, use exceeding the duty cycle, that not a problem,but it can be very annoying if you buy a welder that's too small for what your doing, its a circuit breaker that's thermally controlled that helps to prevent permanently damaging your welder, but its smart to not allow the welder to get hot enough to have that breaker circuit trip, because constantly tripping the circuit will eventually damage the welder, thats one of the reasons your far better off buying a 210-250 amp mig vs a 180 amp mig if you do a great deal of welding, a 180 amp class welder will generally have a far lower duty cycle at lets say 90 amps-140 amps than the larger migs will.
example compare these two miller welders
http://www.millerwelds.com/products/mig ... 0_autoset/
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://www.millerwelds.com/products/mig ... matic_252/
http://www.ckworldwide.com/technical_specs.pdf
http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/tutorial.htm
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/ar ... ing-basics
http://www.metalwebnews.com/wc.html
http://www.millerwelds.com/pdf/guidelines_smaw.pdf
now read some links for tips
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=t ... g+welding#
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://smartflix.com/store/category/27/Welding
http://www.thefabricator.com/AluminumWe ... cfm?ID=527
http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/im ... ur-skills/
http://www.hobartwelders.com/weldtalk/
http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/te ... setup.html
http://www.moparmusclemagazine.com/tech ... index.html
VIDEOS
http://www.millerwelds.com/swf/flv/flas ... &h=240&v=8
http://www.millerwelds.com/swf/flv/flas ... &h=240&v=8
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=t ... g+welding#
http://www.millerwelds.com/swf/flv/flas ... &h=250&v=8
watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rVqWeS4 ... re=related
if your paying attention youll see a bunch of sub linked info posted lower in the thread, its there to allow you to learn a great deal of useful tips and skills, skipping over the sub links is a great way to miss out, or fail to get the info you need
keep in mind most quality welders have a heat overload safety circuit that will shut the welder off if it gets too hot due too your, use exceeding the duty cycle, that not a problem,but it can be very annoying if you buy a welder that's too small for what your doing, its a circuit breaker that's thermally controlled that helps to prevent permanently damaging your welder, but its smart to not allow the welder to get hot enough to have that breaker circuit trip, because constantly tripping the circuit will eventually damage the welder, thats one of the reasons your far better off buying a 210-250 amp mig vs a 180 amp mig if you do a great deal of welding, a 180 amp class welder will generally have a far lower duty cycle at lets say 90 amps-140 amps than the larger migs will.
example compare these two miller welders
http://www.millerwelds.com/products/mig ... 0_autoset/
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://www.millerwelds.com/products/mig ... matic_252/
http://www.ckworldwide.com/technical_specs.pdf
http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/tutorial.htm
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/ar ... ing-basics
http://www.metalwebnews.com/wc.html
http://www.millerwelds.com/pdf/guidelines_smaw.pdf
now read some links for tips
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=t ... g+welding#
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/
http://smartflix.com/store/category/27/Welding
http://www.thefabricator.com/AluminumWe ... cfm?ID=527
http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/im ... ur-skills/
http://www.hobartwelders.com/weldtalk/
http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/te ... setup.html
http://www.moparmusclemagazine.com/tech ... index.html
VIDEOS
http://www.millerwelds.com/swf/flv/flas ... &h=240&v=8
http://www.millerwelds.com/swf/flv/flas ... &h=240&v=8
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=t ... g+welding#
http://www.millerwelds.com/swf/flv/flas ... &h=250&v=8
watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rVqWeS4 ... re=related
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