Looking to get into welding, not hard core welding and I dont care about prettyness, I just want to be able to tack **** in place or weld up my exhaust and little things like this. Maybe a little body work

How do I learn? Whats a great machine to start on with no absouletely none zip nada teacher or anyone even close to qualfied to show me a thing?

Thanks

 

mig is the easyest to use hands down,

 

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I agree!! Point & Shoot.

 

mig is easy but oxy/acet will give you some skills and is a more versatile setup. cut, weld, braze, saute can't beat it.

 

MIG Oxy would work too, but MIG would allow you to do more realistic, household jobs.

 

Is there special feautures on a welder I should be looking for?

Is the wire really expensive? Different sizes for different jobs?

Basic cost for a noob for a unit?

Good brand names

Thanks so far

 

id like to know too, bump

 

iw ould say get a basic wire welder from home depot and start there. cheaper then a mig set up and good for what you want.

 

MIG is cheap.... definately easy to use... 2lb wire spool here in CDN is $11. I"ve got a small lincolin MIG and a 275 model TIG. Both work great. The mig uses arg/o2 mix and the tig uses straight ARG. Hard to say how long each tank/spool will last for everyone, I do a ton of welding. but yeah, a good first welder is a lincoln 135 series

 

i need to get me one of thoes

 

i got the $320 lincoln weldpak100hd from home depot. its been helpful so far, im about to but the gas conversion kit for it.

 

where can i get one of these migs

 

HOME DEPOT SWALES!!!! j/k look at post above this