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Here is a link that will answer some mig materials and wire questions. It has drop downs that cover sizes of material, solid wire, and flux. You mentioned tig, for me tig is no more then oxy acc welding without the gases, similar processes.

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Miller - MIG Welding Calculator

Originally Posted by rspears

If you decide to take that step do yourself a big favor and go shop your local welding supply house and at least see what kind of deal you can get on a good quality machine. Once you know exactly what you want you can shop prices, but buying from your local guy has a lot of advantages, including them being very open to questions and even some demo time to help master the monster. A welder is one of those places where buying "economical" can end up costing a lot more in the long run.

I agree, also ask about trade in machines.My best Bud is a welding salesman
and they take in lots of trade ins,but they are not advertised. A few weeks ago he lent me the slickest little 110 volt D.C. Miller touch start tig machine he aquired on a trade deal.He knows I've been struggling with welding the thin metal on my old coupe body and told me to try it. I was sorta skeered of it because of no foot pedal like my Econo tig. But let me tell ya hes gonna have one heck of a time rasslin it away from me now ! Only thing is it being a D.C. machine it won't do aluminum.