Beginners welder

[yorkie_chris]

And do NOT and I mean NOT tuck your jeans into your rigger boots... wear them over the top.

Originally Posted by tigersaw

By stick welder you mean the old fashioned thing that goes bzzzzz bzzzzz crackle and you just have a short rod on a croc clip like the thing we used to mend the tractors back in the 60's?
By the sound of it for the silly price they cost it might be the way to start if all I want to do is play with some angle iron

Aye don't think it's a low quality thing though, they still weld nuclear reactors and hard surface downhole drill heads with stick!

It's just the lazy mans MIG has taken over in most things because it's pretty versatile and fast.

You want some higher chromium rods to weld a unimog brake bracket back together? No problem, you try and find a roll of MIG wire that's the same alloy

Originally Posted by NTECUK

Arc ??

Yeah they're all arc processes MIG/MAG/TIG I mean MMA manual metal arc... coated rods.



Question is do you have a job in mind? If you want to do car body work get MIG or oxyacet. If you want to make BBQ frames get stick. If you want to make pretty stainless stuff get TIG.

This might be a good place to start:

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers...uys3_27223.htm

[yorkie_chris]

Aye be alright for rods up to 2.4 maybe even 3mm.

Don't buy rods from aldi/B+Q if they do them or whatever find local welding supply as the mark up to buy 10 rods is hilarious. 10 rods for the same price as 5kg of them!

[tigersaw]

Originally Posted by Teejayexc

This might be a good place to start:

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers...uys3_27223.htm

I went oooooooooo until I read
Unit not suitable for standard domestic 13 Amp power socket

fecked if I'm fitting a 30A commando socket just for that

[yorkie_chris]

I've used similar welders and bigger on 13A

Originally Posted by tigersaw

I went oooooooooo until I read
Unit not suitable for standard domestic 13 Amp power socket

fecked if I'm fitting a 30A commando socket just for that

It'll be fine on *most* stuff unless you're reckoning on deep welding 1/2" plate !

Edit, bigger the stick more oomph required.