beginner welder
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beginner welder
i want to start to learn how to make my own manifolds and basic welding but i don't know were to buy welder, or wich one would be the best fro a beginner and good for the kind of welding i want to do 
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Ok buddy theres two types od welding in the auto aftermarket community.
MIG and TIG
Just to get the basic components of a welding machine will make all the mumbo-jumbo technical stuff easier to understand. For the time being Ill be brief and blunt.
Welding is fusing two independant peices of metal together so that it will make one uniform peice. (not gluing together such as brazing/soldering)
Basic welder materials:
The gun (where the welding actually happens), the welder itself (big boxy looking thing), and the "filler material" (stuff used to fuse the two peices into one).
In MIG welding, the gun applies the electricty and the "filler material" at the same time, at the correct point. Very basic... point, click, weld.
in TIG, the welding gun and "filler material" are two completely seperate things. You hold them in different hands all together. In TIG welding, the welding gun (TIG torch) applies the electricty to weld and you decide when and how much "filler material" to apply (like soldering and brazing).
TIG takes much more talent than MIG. I spent a whole semester getting MIG down (and I still suck pretty bad compared to anything stellar), but tried TIG for a couple nights. I have so much respect for anyone who can TIG weld well.
In my garage is a Millermatic (MIG) 251 to do all of the projects that come up around here. A Miiler 180SD will be accompying it in about a year so I can actually make something worthwhile and pretty.
The only real place I see MIG welding being used over TIG (when available) is in chasis seam welding... everything else is usually TIG. Hope this helps
Rich
MIG and TIG
Just to get the basic components of a welding machine will make all the mumbo-jumbo technical stuff easier to understand. For the time being Ill be brief and blunt.
Welding is fusing two independant peices of metal together so that it will make one uniform peice. (not gluing together such as brazing/soldering)
Basic welder materials:
The gun (where the welding actually happens), the welder itself (big boxy looking thing), and the "filler material" (stuff used to fuse the two peices into one).
In MIG welding, the gun applies the electricty and the "filler material" at the same time, at the correct point. Very basic... point, click, weld.
in TIG, the welding gun and "filler material" are two completely seperate things. You hold them in different hands all together. In TIG welding, the welding gun (TIG torch) applies the electricty to weld and you decide when and how much "filler material" to apply (like soldering and brazing).
TIG takes much more talent than MIG. I spent a whole semester getting MIG down (and I still suck pretty bad compared to anything stellar), but tried TIG for a couple nights. I have so much respect for anyone who can TIG weld well.
In my garage is a Millermatic (MIG) 251 to do all of the projects that come up around here. A Miiler 180SD will be accompying it in about a year so I can actually make something worthwhile and pretty.
The only real place I see MIG welding being used over TIG (when available) is in chasis seam welding... everything else is usually TIG. Hope this helps
Rich
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