Pro's and cons.Diesel Fionn wrote:I have a gas less MIG I got in Aldi. It's very basic as all you can control is the wire feed speed. It's quite strong on thin stuff like citroen C15 back doors for instance . I'm going to be using it on my Rover P6 resto and I'm worried it may not be good enough. I'll have to do the inner sills but haven't gotten around to looking at them yet. are gas free MIG's a total waste of space or do they have their purpose?
Gas free does a perfectly good job, but you'll be cleaning slag off the weld, and the weld itself may well spatter more and not necessarily be as pretty.
Then again welding fresh metal to crappy remnants, unless you get everything spotless is often liable to get the odd bit of spatter.
Gassless may be more appropriate on imperfectly cleaned surfaces as the flux core may help clean up the crud a bit better
The wire for Gasless is expensive compared to gassed mig, but if you're not welding the titanic, this isn't necessarily a problem
The KEY thing for welding is PRACTICE. If you're uncomfortable about your skills levels, get some metal of the appropriate thickness, and have a good crack at welding bits to other bits. Have a good look to see if you're getting good penetrating welds, and a good tug and yank and bend to see if they're strong, or if you've just done the welding equivalent of tacking them together with copydex