Re: Is Gas Welding Practical?

Posted by Trucker on January 24, 2002 at 21:11:44 from (65.167.169.4):

In Reply to: Is Gas Welding Practical? posted by Tim Briggs on January 22, 2002 at 14:32:02:

Well you can weld with a torch,but if you are a beginner and you want it to hold you need a buzz box,mig,or a generator.If you dont have the juice to run a buzz box you need a generator or mig.If you want your drawbar to stay in one piece you want a 220 volt mig,so that means a mig will cost about 1400 or so that will do the kind of welding you want and last a long time.You can weld thin stuff like a fender with one of those small migs like from Harbor Freight,but if you try and weld a drawbar its probobly going to break and you might be able to weld it as good with a torch.To weld steel that has a lot of stress on it like a drawbar you need to practice on some stuff first with a good sized welder and somebody that can tell you what you are doing wrong.Welding is not all that hard on a flat surface if you know what you are doing but it takes some practice to know how to set the heat and what speed to run,what angle to hold the rod,whether its a push or pull rod.It would probobly help if you learn how to weld with a torch,but if you want something to stay welded use some of the other methods untill you get good at it.Any way you weld metal is good if you know how to do it,but welding with a torch is most likely going to take a lot of practice to where you can trust what you stuck together.You still need it to cut metal with,and a plasma cutter is nice but it will be a long time before you buy enough oxy and acetalene to equal what one of those costs.You cant beat one of those DC welders that use a gas engine.If you had one of them and a torch you could build anything you ever needed and wouldnt have to rewire your house,plus you could take it anywhere you need to use it.

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