hobartt mig welders

Prolly will run flux core I've used.before and its ok most my welding will be done outside

Originally Posted by taterjuice

Prolly will run flux core I've used.before and its ok most my welding will be done outside

I was taught on a mig when I went to school to get certified. We were really quite spoiled when it came to the equipment we had to use. Mainly all Millers, a few very large Hobart Arcs (were talking the size of a honda crx) and 1 ESAB.
After graduating, it was hard to cope with not having the access to such amaizing machines. Often, flux core welders were the only things I could get my hands on when borrowing from freinds.
Compared to MIG, I personally think it takes alot more practice to master. Maybe because the lack of adjustments on the cheaper machines, or possibly just the lack of sheilding gas I was so used to. But like everything else, practice makes perfect.

If fluxcore is what you think will be the primary welding you will be doing, there are pleanty of great options out there as far as welders. I would just highly recomend picking a flux welder with a place to hook on a bottle if you ever wanted to use it as a mig. It really doesnt cost much more for one with the hook-ups, and if ever a project comes along that you want all nice clean looking welds, you can swap over to mig and get the beautiful welds your looking for.