Welder Question

I wouldnt buy one. Best thing to do is rent one. I replaced my floorboards and tail panel. Renting one was great...good places around here to rent them, not sure about where you live though. But that'd be your best bet. Oh and MIG welders are probably the simplest especially since this will be your first time. It was my first time to weld and it was real easy with a MIG welder, i'd go with it

If your gonna buy a welder then i would highly recomend a MIG.I use a Miller Millamatic 135 all long at work and it works great.Just be sure you practice and clean up the area your welding before you weld anythin.A good 2-3 inches on each side of the weld.Alot of people dont clean anything up at all but every welding manual youll ever read always stresses about the cleaning the material before you weld it.

Buy one. It is the best purchase I ever made. Once you have one you will do things you only dreamed of before and you will fix things you once thought should be scrapped. Either get a Lincoln or Miller small home MIG unit with GAS SHIELD....do not use flux core. Get a 220V version because it is hard to find a 120V circuit in a house these days that can handle the amp load of welding without tripping the breaker all the time.

Once you buy one take scraps and start playing around with your welds. It will not take you long to figure out how to weld well. If you need any help let me know.

Good Luck

I too recommend buying one. I use a Lincoln 110 with gas shielding and it is great, like spreading butter. For spot welds, I drill small holes where the original spot welds are and then fill the holes to the part it is welded to. Works great and many shops use this approach if they don't have the spot welder. I have a 120V and it works great with a 20amp circuit, I haven't tripped the breaker yet.

Flux core uses no gas, good for welding where its windy, but it sucks to clean up after you've been spoiled with gas shielding. Gas Shielding uses Argon instead of the flux core. They accomplish the same thing, they sheild the molten puddle from normal atmosphere until the weld cools enough to solidify. I have a Miller 130 (the 135 replaced it) and a friend who went in with me on it welded a full size pickup frame he cut in half back together with it and it's a 110v version. I do recommend a 20A circuit for it also. I've used it and never tripped a breaker, but I'm also not welding 10' beads either. For most home shops, a 110v unit is fine. I can't believe how someone can get by without a MIG. Even not on any projects, I probably use it once a month just to fix things or fab up something around the house that I need. I've made a T-post driver out of a Sch. 40 galv. fence post, a piece of 3/8" strap steel, and some rebar. I welded up a chain link gate frame instead of spending the money on those worthless expensive clamps, I've fixed my Snapper Rider countless times. Right now I need to weld a nut to the rounded off oil pan plug on the Isuzu Amigo I recently picked up cheap. Best money I've ever spent on a tool next to probably my Cordless drill.

I bought a miller mig for my project, and it works great! You really need the mig type shielded because of the thin metal that car work involves. Stick welding will most likely burn a hole through metal.