Welding

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I've got a 110 bottle and I used it all up during the 2 bumpers I recently finished. That stuff goes quick. Although with the Lincoln, it can weld thicker not as a true mig but gasless so you won't need as much. You'll eat through it when you are doing body work though. Mine, since it's a totally different machine uses gas all the time and that consumes a lot of it. Luckily it's not that bad cost wise, it only gets expensive when you get the tri mix for stainless. Oh, and don't even bother trying to do aluminum with that machine regardless of what they say. It doesn't work, Lincoln will say that with the right aluminum wire and gas you can weld it but the truth is that it won't because of the lenght of your wire feed tube going into the gun. The aluminum wire is too soft and gets too much resistance and all it does is bunch up in the rollers. I've tried every trick I heard of and couldn't do it.
 
Good to know. They show a spool gun attachment for welding aluminum now. I'll try and master steel first. I've heard aluminum is like welding butter and not as easy as steel.
 
Aluminum can only be done (on a mig) with the optional spool gun and mostly only the larger welders (as the small ones usually do not have optional spool guns. It is difficutl due to several factors, it welds about 4 times quicker, so if you're going too slow you'll burn through, and you don't need to build up a bead the way you are doing now, just a straight line down - which is easy but you have to get the timing right.
 
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