Gas Welding or MIG welding.

I have done already 3 hours of Arc Welding and 3 hours of MIG Welding.
It was really insteresting.

I have made my mind, I will spend about 15 hours in total in MIG Welding, and 12 in GAS.
So i will get a sense of both

Thansk a lot for your advice.

Get a MIG for goodness sake!

Cheap as chips and you'll get good results straight out of the box and excellent results after 12 hours practice at school, when you decide you want to go further and do other stuff then consider investing an awful lot of money in an Oxyfuel setup.

You'll get a Mig for the price of an Oxyfuel cylinder trolley

Good luck with the welding course superfly and have a load of fun


All the best, Jim

Hello Jim,

basically you get what you pay for, so a cheap MIG gives limited welding capability.

It entirely depends on how much work you need to do and for how many years.
I have used gas for very many years and would chose that over any other machine if I had to have only one type of welder. In view of the length of time, how long do these cheap machines last? I seem to see quite a few posts about faults with wire feed for instance?
Relative to that, I think I'm on my second acetylene regulator and just a few replacement nozzles in over twenty years use.

Alec
PS I fabricated my own trolley :-)

If cost is not an issue and, you have safe premises to store Oxy-Acet (safe as in, not stored to garage attached to house). Oxy-Acetylene is the way I would go for car restoration, as Hotrodder stated, with O&A you get a better eye and feel while welding, heating till weld pool is suffice, then continuing till weld is complete, if to hot, you can flick flame away to control weld pool.

Of course mig has its own benefits, for a newbie, there is very little control while welding thin material, point and squirt hoping not to blow through. There is also the added problem of getting a decent current return if material is rusty, then there is the problem of trying to weld rusty material. No such problem with O&A!

Cheers............