Mig for car bodywork

[colhonk]

My mig does not turn down enough to weld car bodywork with 0.6mm wire. Recomendations for new smaller welder? not a Clark. stepless feed and power controls.

 

[quavers]

www.r-techwelding.co.uk got mine from here good value for money and 3 years warranty which you can extend , being a inverter welder its easy moved around

 

[Colliedog]

Have you tried the spot and pause technique? Some welders have this built in but I have found it better to just use the trigger

 

[bravheart]

Bought a blackline inverter from Ebay, claims to do all types of welding, only used as a mig so far. Seems ok don't know how thick an oil drum is but just knocked up a lockdown heater with it, ignore the chinesium power ratings works fine for hobby stuff.

Btw. if you look on mig-welding.co.uk clarke seem to be rated as hobby welders for car bodywork.
Avoid gasless.

 

[bravheart]

Mig

 

[Kidds]

I've welded an awful lot of Mk1 Escort with a Clarke 205TE.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

While I don rate the multiprocess machines we have at work the mig function is the best of the bunch on it and last year I borrowed a Jasic multiprocess inverter to weld the sills on my car. I was very impressed with it and was really tempted by a S/H one recently.

 

[Dman2]

Does the thinner wire run better in smaller machines
Can weld with 6mm on mine but wire keeps kinking

 

[john432]

Does the thinner wire run better in smaller machines
Can weld with 6mm on mine but wire keeps kinking

There's different liners for the size of wire ,blue,red and yellow,

 

[Bury the Trash]

Yeah change the liner.

Blue liner is for 0.6 wire

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Yeah change the liner.

Blue liner is for 0.6 wire

Better still buy a lighter torch fir the job

 

[Bury the Trash]

Better still buy a lighter torch fir the job

Yeah good idea, can get a light up to 150 amp torch for £25 only about twice the cost of a liner.
He might get a bit warm in fairly constant use though.

Plug and play .

 

[bravheart]

Never bothered with liner sizes on mine, check the tension on the feed roller and the spool nut, may help.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Yeah good idea, can get a light up to 150 amp torch for £25 only about twice the cost of a liner.
He might get a bit warm in fairly constant use though.

Plug and play .

If a car needs welsing it’s not going to get many continuous runs to warm it up that much!!!! Especially on a .6mm wire!!

 

[MrNoo]

I have an old Murex mig that happily runs .06 wire, just doing a Cooper S, new floor etc etc so a lot of welding. But I do have an R-Tech which is very good indeed, also use their AC/DC Tig for steel and alloy and an R-Tech plasma cutter, all of which have been trouble free since I've had them. A great company to deal with and parts available readily plus based just down the road from me so a bit of a no brainer

 

[Bury the Trash]

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Good bit of welding brave heart, on such thin stuff.

Real pity it caught fire afterwards..

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[Renaultman]

Good bit of welding brave heart, on such thin stuff.

Real pity it caught fire afterwards..

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Well that's what used to happen to a lot of cars we welded. In them days we used oxy Acetylene weld or braze. Saying we, I was better at prep than the actual welding.

 

[forblue]

That's because he used a lighter torch.!!!!!.

 

[Deutzdx3]

Bought a blackline inverter from Ebay, claims to do all types of welding, only used as a mig so far. Seems ok don't know how thick an oil drum is but just knocked up a lockdown heater with it, ignore the chinesium power ratings works fine for hobby stuff.

Btw. if you look on mig-welding.co.uk clarke seem to be rated as hobby welders for car bodywork.
Avoid gasless.

Did you get it from rallydesign?

I have one and it welds thin metal really well and weld 12mm plate quite happily. For the money it’s brilliant.

 

[bravheart]

Did you get it from rallydesign?

I have one and it welds thin metal really well and weld 12mm plate quite happily. For the money it’s brilliant.

That’s the one, have a transformer type on wheels but needed something portable, pretty impressive power range, blew through that drum at one point but was nowhere near the bottom setting. No auto setups but for the price it does all an amateur driver needs.