![]() Partly cos you can entirely undo your mistakes, and do it over. With them together, steel is your malleable friend. A welder without an angle grinder is like a rowboat without oars. Another thing - get yourself an angle grinder or two. Bad welding habits acquired in self-taught mucking around will be very hard to unlearn later on. Also, watch some youtube howto videos on welding, and buy some secondhand welding theory books (abebooks, amazon etc) asap. For instance my MIG (Esab Smashweld 250) was a gift, as 'broken', but was easy to fix. ![]() If you keep a lookout, you can likely get a very good second hand industrial welder of whatever type you decide you need, for relatively little cash. With a MIG, a TIG (different gas needed), and an oxy set, the yearly cost for those four gas cylinders dwarfs all my other yearly running costs together. You can only rent them, and that's expensive. Here in Australia it's not possible to purchase the cylinders to achieve zero 'idle' cost. Professional MIG machines are very nice, with the downside of having to pay rental on a gas cylinder. I second the 'leave it alone, use it to learn, and then someday buy a better one if you need it' comments. It also slowly disintegrates some types of cloth. ![]() Oh and btw, the arc UV doesn't just burn exposed skin. Wear high sided full-leather boots, full trousers, and leather jacket and gloves. Even worse is it burning through your plastic sneakers and sock. ![]()
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