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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 14:46:02 -0500
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Welding Equipment Recomendations
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Try to take a course at a local trade school. Best option. I have gas  
(Oxyacetylene) and a 600 amp Hobart
TIG machine. I only use Argon as a shielding gas. I sold my wire welder  
years ago. Good for building trailers tacking on quarter panels and similar. I 
 like gas welding. Slow and easy. Also brazing and shaping and bending 
steel  parts. Gas welding is the most versatile of all forms. My mother could 
weld  aluminum with paste flux and blue glasses. 
 
Wire feeders are difficult to master when starting from scratch. If it runs 
 on 110 volts it is just about a toy welder. Thin steels nearly horizontal 
only.  Takes lots of practice to even get some spot welds going. A stick 
welder is  actually easier to learn the basics on. Use match tip 6013 sticks 
and build your  first trailer. 
 
The key is to get an instructor to teach you the many welding systems and  
how each has its good and bad points. The end game is a big TIG machine 
where  any metal, any thickness can be done. The same machine will also do stick 
 welding AC or DC. Straight or reverse polarity. And the most critical 
aircraft  work.
The heat is controlled by a foot pedal and it is a joy to use. Much welding 
 training on the Internet.
 
Lynn E. Hanover 
 
 
In a message dated 2/2/2016 2:06:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
flyrotary@lancaironline.net writes:

I have a  number of small welding projects around the home and hangar
that are  starting to accumulate.  I am thinking about getting one of
those $100  welders from Harbor Freight but I have almost no welding
experience.   There is plenty of info on the web but I thought I would
put the question  to my rotary friends.

Given that I just want to be able to do  occasional projects around the
home and airplane, what type of welding  equipment would be best for me
and what do you consider the minimum power  level that is acceptable?
I will skip the desire to do anything with  aluminum.  I am thinking
that Arc or Flux Core would be easiest.   I tried to weld with
auto-feed MIG and I just couldn't keep up with the  wire.  Also, most of
the airplane projects are too difficult to keep  any gas bubble in
place.

Thoughts?

David  Leonard

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