Thread: MIG or TIG?

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What do you use?

i use both but mig most of the time

I use TIG about 85% of the time. I just feel I can get a better looking weld with TIG. I know this gets used a lot, but I love the control it gives me.

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Pat

Mig 110 at home . Mig and Stick at work .

Mig or Tig on mild steel.
Tig on moly.

I depends on what Im welding I mostly use mig

Any one stick weld any more . For over 25 years 80% of the welding we do one Heavy trucks is done with a stick . When I started working on trucks . The Old Timers said it was much stronger of a weld then the MIG ?

I stick weld almost everyday at work, when welding a high pressure vessel you should tig in a root and stick weld the rest...The only thing we use a mig at work for is overlay...But for welding on cars in a shop mig is the fastest dumby poof welding you can do...One more thing you should never run down hill with your welds, if its structure...

Tig for beauty,Mig for speed,Stick out in the field. What I haven't done for some time is gas weld,which I always enjoyed as an apprentice.

Just another old welders tale. Just as everyone now thinks tig is the only thing, when Mig was new and mysterious It had all kinds of lore that came along with it. The not as good was just one of the tales.
For myself, I still use my stick welder often and the mig for most everything else. I dont use Enough moly to justify buying a Tig. When I do use moly, guess what. Out comes the OA It is faster than a Tig and I think does nicer welds. One thing it has over Tig is preheat takes care of itself.

That is one thing the guys did tell me when I started out . They said a vertical up weld is much stronger then a vertical down . But the vertical up is also harder to do . But if the metal is clean It's not a problem .

Originally Posted by 61bone

When I do use moly, guess what. Out comes the OA It is faster than a Tig and I think does nicer welds. One thing it has over Tig is preheat takes care of itself.

4130 Chromoly was actually developed for the aircraft industry and was formulated to be fairly easy to gas weld(OA). All this was done before TIG was even developed.

It's a shame that the local VoTech welding program doesn't even teach gas welding anymore. Just another skill that's going the way of dinosaurs like me.

Mike

It's been years since I used stick or OA. I've never used a TIG. All my stuff has been MIG in the last 10 years or more. Just haven't had a need for it.

Not much welding going on in my cubicle... I also simply don't trust my own skill for structural stuff. I would have to do it a lot more often for that. Body panels/skins are one thing, a chassis is quite another.

Cheers,
Dutch

Our mig is our workhorse. My Son just feels very comfortable with it. The tig I got him two Xmas' ago just sits because he is so busy building his car he doesn't have time to spend learning to use it.

I think that generally Mig is a faster process where you are making lots of long welds, and Tig is a neater (perhaps stronger) process for those things you want to look super pretty.

At some point our Tig may be used more and more (I hope )

Don