hi, im playing with the idea of buying a small mig welder for our garage, i already have a large tig welder and oxy accetlene but i just wanted somthing more suitabel for automotive body repair work, i was thinking about a small esab, and i asked in the local supply shop and they said they had one specifically for car body work that was around 600 euros,now i have been using mig braizing wire as a filler wire a few times with my tig and i liked the way it worked at a lower temp but the guy in the shop said that the mig he was selling me would not run mig braizing wire,so im a bit stuck and would like some advice if possible, specifically on esab and the mig brazing wire, oh and i have not seen the welder yet and dont know the model
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gavuk
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..........Bit Harsh..
.think you might find very few of us have used mig braze,although there have been some posts concerning the subject,i have no personal experience with mig brazing
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Very harsh I'd say! 
You post then bump less than 12 hours later because nobody's replied then bump again with a comment like that!
As Gav says, there's very few members who have experience with mig brazing, which is why nobody's answering.
It's got nothing to do with buying a welder on here either, the shop isn't run by the forum, it's run by Weldequip!
You post then bump less than 12 hours later because nobody's replied then bump again with a comment like that!
As Gav says, there's very few members who have experience with mig brazing, which is why nobody's answering.
It's got nothing to do with buying a welder on here either, the shop isn't run by the forum, it's run by Weldequip!
pedrobedro
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The bloke in the shop told you it won't work what do you want, someone on here to tell you it will so you have someone to blame later when it doesn't? Buy a mig with a brazing program if you want a definite brazing machine but otherwise buy a mig for the shop and if it brazes then it's a bonus but don't be surprised if it doesn't do it too well.
grandads_shed
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weld the body panels .......... i dont think there is much to braze on a car ........ or am i wrong here
the snooper
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although weldequip's has a shop on the forum 99.999999% of the time its other members that give advice based on their own experiences although weldequip does give advise when asked, also note that weldequip is nothing to do with the running of the forum.
also you should have noticed that the forum is very very slow at that time of night if it were a real place there would be tumbleweed blowing around at that time
well im a member of a certain unamed car forum on the net and its the attitude of ''just buy our stuff'' that i cannot stand, im thinking about chancing one of these just for steel http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wolf-Mig-140-...874?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3a5ee51a02, any thoughts?
