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| | | | Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 | is it more appropriate to use a Mig Welder or a Stick Welder? | | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 | Mig, the stick will just make lottsa pretty holes...lol
Tim | | | | | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 48 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 48 | Use a peice of copper to back up the weld. Do a yahoo search on body sheet metal welding!. You NEED gas and thin thin wire!
If you need a tool and don't buy it, you will find you have paid for it and don't have it.
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1952 1300 Canadian 1/2 ton restomod You Tube | | | | | Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 | thanks wasn't sure never done any welding on cars, plenty on boat trailers though.
Has anyone ever used the gasless flux wire in there truck, I have used i else where but I want the end product to look good,How did it turn out? | | | | | Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 355 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 355 | lol you don't have to have gas to weld thin on mig just makes it somewhat easyer
and gassless flux can be used on thin just turn down the amps and turn up the wire speed and have a grinder near by for when your done dosn't make pretty welds but it will weld it fine
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 | lol you don't have to have gas to weld thin on mig just makes it somewhat easyer
and gassless flux can be used on thin just turn down the amps and turn up the wire speed and have a grinder near by for when your done dosn't make pretty welds but it will weld it fine He is right, I have gone through 1 spool of wire so far on my flux core. It isn't pretty, but I am grinding all the welds down anyway. If you want to weld where it shows & are not going to grind it down, go with the gas. Flux core is a little messy.
1957 Chevrolet 1/2-ton Stepside LB in the Gallery My Photobucket shots The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) | | | | | Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 | Its just the floor of the cab so it will be covered, was just trying to get input | | | | | Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,962 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,962 | Flux core wire will make structually strong welds. In fact we prefer it over a stick for welding susppensions to axles. We have a wire feeder on a Trailblazer 440 and use .040 wire. We also have a 110 volt machine with flux wire in it to use outside in the wind on stuff not over 1/4" thick. But for body work, I use nothing but .023 wire with gas. Straight CO2 is ok, but I keep a bottle of mix handy when I weld in a patch panel that is going to have to be painted later. | | |
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