Im thinking of buying a mig welder. Does any have 1 and would you recommend 1 for body work.
Thanks Telf

What is your budget, and what is your skill level?

Get a gas setup. Hire a bottle if you are doing lots of work over the next few months. At $13 month bottle rental, it is good value if you are using it a lot. Then drop back to using disposable bottles.

Are you considering over $1000? A cheap machine can be more trouble than benefit. You can sell a good machine after you have finished with it. That is if you just want it to do the body work, and that is it.

I have used about 50 different MIG welders on panel steel, and my favourite is the Kemppi Minarc 180, and that is what I bought.

for basic panel work anything 100Amp upwards will do, you don't need to spend a fortune, it's more about practice and getting the right settings and clean close contacted pieces of metal

Ive seen some on ebay for about $220 for gas/gasless. Ive done a few welding courses in the past so am fermilier with welding. Ive forwarded a few to my mat who is a welder by trade so hopefully hell help me buy the best of a cheep bunch. Thanks for your advice.

agree with helbus & cb, get what you pay for - ideally, my tig was $4500, theres a reason i bought it instead of the $1200 chinese/mass rebranded same shit stuff

kempis, fronius, cigweld, all used alot for my work, theres a reason industry buys what they do, and good thinking asking the welding mate.

ps. forget gassless, they are horrid.

A WIA 190 is a excellent mig, i am just about to buy one, $900. made in australia and no issues getting parts for it.

My mate agrees with you guy's but my wallet does'nt. I think i might see if i can get a good second hand unit. If any one knows of 1 please let me know im on the goldcoast.

I only know of Lincoln, Everlast, Miller and Cigweld.

I have seen the Everlast at work and seem dams good!( Tig that is )

telf, electroweld in sydney was the cheapest place to buy for me when i got my tig, 4k less than a local supplier my work goes through! could be worth checking them out

ideally you would want a small but heavily adjustable unit so you can match your own speed with material thickness, no point having 500A machine that wont go low enough for the speed your welding .5 -3mm stuff, after awhile you manage to do whatever with whatevers on hand at the time though, 200A cigweld is the most used at my work purely because its adaptable enough to do 1mm - 5mm stuff comfortably and quickly, in the last week ive been through about 15kg of stainless wire in it so i think we have a nice relationship now

if only i got paid to work on my dub lol

Thanks for all you comments. I am now the owner of a cig mig welder $200 large off e bay Nice. Happy welding to me and the yellow sub.