Re: welders MIG vs. TIG

["Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>]

Karl.... I have a Tig... Mig... gas set up ... and stick.... last weekend I 
was working on a big metal project in my home shop and kinda got in the 
playing mode.....  So I tried my hand at every one of them..... and since I 
started with a Mig... it's obviously the best to me.... the real secret is 
to go slow enough... and put some serious heat in it... which means the wire 
needs to be right sized for the project and the heat setting's need to be 
right.... just like when you grab a torch.... which by the way took so much 
heat I warped the hell out of a 3/16ths' sheet of steel.....  I did enjoy 
brazing with it...( trust me this thing has no structural value.)....  I 
hated the Stick.... just looks like pure mud to me... having to chip 
something off just goes against my grain.... BUT if I'm trying to keep 
something together forever and it's THICK.... the Stick can make that happen 
in a hurry...

The Tig is the only way to go if you have all day.... and it's water cooled 
which mine isn't....  the thing  just simply rocks...

Keith
(   If I had the Tin man's skills  I wouldn't need a Mig either.... but I 
don't.... I have mine..)