Re: Welder
 

Dana,
I have experience plasma welding stainless steel.
In my opinion I would use a TIG welder instead.

A plasma welder will not put as much heat into the surrounding area. Which
is always good
And you can have 100% penetration with a much narrower weld.

But it was hard to keep everything working on the plasma welder.
There's a lot more things to go wrong with it.

If you really think you need plasma just skip over it and go straight to
laser. $$$

A good 200 amp TIG rig will do you right.

Just my .02

Mark Burns


"Dana Rohleder" <boreal@charter.net> wrote in message
news:vjt6hrb772rad0@corp.supernews.com...
> All
>
> I have never welded before, but I would like to start. Rather than
> collecting a bunch of technology that I'll likely replace, what would you
> recommend? I'm thinking of going straight for the plasma welder/cutter -
> something light for the home garage. My first inclination was to simply go
> with a small set of portable torches. However, I would like to do a fair
> amount of body work, and I understand the torches will burn through light
> gauge steel in today's cars. But I would like to do some cutting. Since I
> already have a good air compressor, I am thinking I can get the plasma
> welder/cutter and it should do fine for me, as opposed to torches and a
MIG
> welder. That way I don't have to deal with O/A tanks. Any thoughts?
> --
> Dana
>
> "There's an old saying in Tennessee-I know it's in Texas, probably in
> Tennessee-that says, fool me once, shame on-shame on you. Fool me-you
can't
> get fooled again."- G.W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
>
>