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Never welded before, goal is to practice and learn to eventually weld my own frame mods and custom exhaust some day. I don't have the means to store gas bottles so I'm hoping to get suggestions on something (even if it means grinding down dirty welds later) I can learn on and be suitable for what I want for around the 1000$ mark. Thanks in advance!
My main advice is to get a welder that has variable current settings..most of the entry level welders have presets and tend to be to heavy duty for automotive work and thin metals
Gasless has some advantages in that you can weld in windy conditions and you don't need to clean the parts as well....But its messy and industrial
For flux wire try 0.8mm as a starter and grab a roll of 0.6mm...I had a bit of stick welder time prior to getting my wire feed, but still spent a lot of hrs watching Youtube vids and joining any scraps of metal I could find laying around ...... Oh yeah another tip is to cut the gas shield tip back so the copper feed electrode in the tip is proud....this gives you a clearer view of the weld pool and allow the flux gasses a quicker exit.....
I started welding about a year ago.Made a small course on TIG welding and never looked back.
Its quite an investment but imo if you want to fab stuff for your motorcycle TIG welding is the way to go.
Bought a "cheap" chinese TIg welder, about 1000 Euro altogether.
What I like about TIG welding is that you have 100 per cent control over the welding and you can weld pretty much any material and thickness.
I'd 100% recommend proper MIG over flux core. You can just get small disposable gas bottles if storage is that much of an issue.
That said, stick would be the best purely from an educational point of view. Once you've mastered stick you will find MIG a piece of cake, and tig will be a much less severe learning curve.
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