What do you use?
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What do you use?
i use both but mig most of the time
I use TIG about 85% of the time. I just feel I can get a better looking weld with TIG. I know this gets used a lot, but I love the control it gives me.
Both
Pat
Mig 110 at home . Mig and Stick at work .
Mig or Tig on mild steel.
Tig on moly.
I depends on what Im welding I mostly use mig
Any one stick weld any more . For over 25 years 80% of the welding we do one Heavy trucks is done with a stick . When I started working on trucks . The Old Timers said it was much stronger of a weld then the MIG ?
I stick weld almost everyday at work, when welding a high pressure vessel you should tig in a root and stick weld the rest...The only thing we use a mig at work for is overlay...But for welding on cars in a shop mig is the fastest dumby poof welding you can do...One more thing you should never run down hill with your welds, if its structure...
Tig for beauty,Mig for speed,Stick out in the field.:D What I haven't done for some time is gas weld,which I always enjoyed as an apprentice.
Just another old welders tale. Just as everyone now thinks tig is the only thing, when Mig was new and mysterious It had all kinds of lore that came along with it. The not as good was just one of the tales.
For myself, I still use my stick welder often and the mig for most everything else. I dont use Enough moly to justify buying a Tig. When I do use moly, guess what. Out comes the OA It is faster than a Tig and I think does nicer welds. One thing it has over Tig is preheat takes care of itself.
That is one thing the guys did tell me when I started out . They said a vertical up weld is much stronger then a vertical down . But the vertical up is also harder to do . But if the metal is clean It's not a problem .
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Originally Posted by 61bone
4130 Chromoly was actually developed for the aircraft industry and was formulated to be fairly easy to gas weld(OA). All this was done before TIG was even developed.
It's a shame that the local VoTech welding program doesn't even teach gas welding anymore. Just another skill that's going the way of dinosaurs like me.:rolleyes:
Mike
It's been years since I used stick or OA. I've never used a TIG. All my stuff has been MIG in the last 10 years or more. Just haven't had a need for it.
Not much welding going on in my cubicle...:LOL: I also simply don't trust my own skill for structural stuff. I would have to do it a lot more often for that. Body panels/skins are one thing, a chassis is quite another.
Cheers,
Dutch
Our mig is our workhorse. My Son just feels very comfortable with it. The tig I got him two Xmas' ago just sits because he is so busy building his car he doesn't have time to spend learning to use it.
I think that generally Mig is a faster process where you are making lots of long welds, and Tig is a neater (perhaps stronger) process for those things you want to look super pretty.
At some point our Tig may be used more and more (I hope:rolleyes: )
Don
I always used TIG for structure. I could control it better, and it was much easier to see what I was doing. It sure is slower, though.
I use all three, i like the mig for sheetmetal, tig for structural, and stick too. stick i use on thick stuff mostly, ive been using it more here lately, trying to get good at it again.
Hey don, tell your boy to get to using that thing, from what i can tell, he is quite the perfectionist, so once he realizes the power he holds with the tig, he will never stop! Plus he will love the control he has over other methods.
[B]TIG 99 of time just better all the way if you do not think so you do not have a tig :D .no spatter clean up. over head is easy and not have to worry about burning the hell out of you no sparks .i have the lincoln 275 tig and a miller 250X mig i used the tig all the time and if i want to run a arc rod i can do that to last time i was arc welding with the lincoln was 1/4 rod weaving on a 1000+ pound mold . use the arc for iron welding to .i think if your ever are thinking of working with alum or S steel then the tig is the best bang for the buck
I agree with TIG---I have welded oa years ago, stick also---presently have a Miller 250 Mig(just changed to second 10 lb .035 wire) 3 different tigs all located in different areas of the shop
Can use stick rod with the tig machines also but only do so when welding something very heavy--most race stuff is lite, lite, lite
Love the tig for aluminum and stainless as well as titanium
PS--Got a Linde 200 amp tig machine for sale--it came out of a shop that did a lot of work on the stuff thays been left on the MOON !!!!
I have a Lincoln Tig. I use it for everything. Slow and expensive to operate but nice welds. I do a bit of outside hotrod welding too so that helps pay for the operation.
Tig is awesome for stainless, especially if it needs to be pretty.
Mig will reach in where Tig won't.
Stick will reach in where Mig won't.
They each have their application