New to welding

[Scott McClelland]

I am about to buy a welder to get started with. Plan to do a car restore. I am looking at a Clarke 135T or 160TM. Is there a big advantage to the 160TM?

Also will I be able to get some practice in with the small gas cylinders? 135T seems to come with a regulator for the small 600g cylinders and the 160TM needs the big cylinders? Am I reading this correctly?

Also I plan to work up to a fairly big car restore and my reading of the posts here is that CO2/Argon is the way to go for car restores?

Lots to think about.

 

[rtbcomp]

Welcome to the forum.

Give the disposable cylinders a miss, you'll get about 10 minutes from them. Go straight in for a proper "pub sized" bottle of liquid CO2, you'll need a regulator and an adaptor to connect it to the welder, but well worth it.

It's my understanding that you'll be better off with CO2/Ar mix, but I'm sure someone will expand on that point.