Gas/Gasless.Now I know from experience.

[digestives]

I finally switched to using gas and have realised what a big difference there is.Using gas is how I expected mig welding to be,the noise it makes when welding and the finished result.I can now just get on with welding without blowing holes all the time.
If only I had done it sooner.
Going back to a previous post,the bloke in the shop was dead right.

 

[malcolm]

One of my flatmates has turned up with a gasless welder. 90 amps (yuk). He's thinks it's fine so long as you don't go over the welding you've already done. The problem (to him) is that the flux left on the weld isn't all that conductive, so there's not much chance of starting an arc on it.

I'm going to borrow it when he's disapperead to work - I'm suspecting there's a different technique for gasless and gas.