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Old March 2nd 2006, 23:38
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I"ve been using a borrowed 110v Snap-On, what I call a "pocket mig". Very light duty. When I decided to get my own, I was gonna get the biggest, baddest I could afford. Before I dropped the cash, I checked with a buddy who does race car chassis fab and also asked the industrial fab place that has been making and welding my pieces... what they told me was really suprising.
They both said get the smallest 220v rig you can in one of the top brands. Anything bigger will not weld sheet metal well and besides the cost doubling, you will never use the power "No one really needs to weld 1/2" in a single pass".
I've opted for the Millermatic 175.

Jeff-
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