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Hi out there.....looking to buy a new 'TIG' welder about 180 amps....I will only use it for light duties....I know it will have to be AC and DC current so that I can weld Stainless and Aluminium.....I have 3 front opening windscreen surrounds to make and this will have to done in three sections, inner, outer and edge strips and then welded together using 0.75 mm stainless...of course the corners will be made seperatley. so now u know the job can anyone recommend a machine.....I cannot justify £2500-4000 for an chepo industrial jobbie can any one recommend one...what is ur experience with it ?. I've have heard of a USA made machine but as yet can't find it....... really don't want to go the used route...and certainly not a Chinese one. it'll not get used that much well definitely not everyday....I also have to make an ally boat-tailed body for a 30's chassis... so as there is a fair amount of welding to do it would be better to buy a machine than farming out the work.....so any idea's....
sunny day's

Frank Horton

[Rick]

I can't help with any product recommendation, but having spoken in the past with a friend of mine who is a coachbuilder (mainly but not solely working in aluminium), he won't use TIG on the bodies he builds from scratch. Something to do with brittleness if I recall right, I'm not sure if he was referring to the welds themselves, or the aluminium around the welds. He showed me fractures on a body that someone else had built up, using TIG.

Just my two pennorth

RJ
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If you read through the many pages of this restoration, this chap buys
himself a Tig welder ~ perhaps that will help you decide?

http://www.classicfordmag.co.uk/cf-forum/showthread.php?t=365