Can you weld?

Anyone here into welding? I've recently been learning to Arc and MIG weld, keen as hell to have a go at TIG which looks by far the hardest but most professional finish. I've been enjoying it so much I'm thinking about buying a cheapish MIG through work so I can start making my own tables, weight bench etc, not to mention fabricating up bits on the car.

good shit man ... yeah getting your welding certs is like have a HT licience .. very very handy at times

Planning to do a course that'll give me a cert when the next set of courses start. Just something useful to have. Definitely a useful skill.

Never learnt although my father has an arc welder and mig welder at his business and can use both. I've watched him a few times but never picked either up.

What's the difference betweeb a mig and tig?

MIG = Metal Inert Gas Welding
TIG = Tungsten Inert Gas Welding

MIG you just have a nozzle + wire feeder, the wire is the electrode which feeds through the nozzle with the gas blowing around the wire. Its one handed operation so you can use the other hand to steady yourself and as long as you get the power and wire speed set up ok for the gauge of metal your welding its pretty simple. But can take a lot of practise to get a decent strong finish.

TIG uses a tungsten torch as the electrode, but you need your other hand to feed in the TIG rods (made of whatever metal your welding), theres no wire feeder so its 2 handed operation, you have to control where you feed the rod and how fast and when, difficult to master but TIG welding give a much nicer finish.

Welding is all about practise really, something I need a lot more of.

If you look at most exhaust systems they are MIG welded but if you looked at say a TRUST exhaust its all TIG, looks a lot nicer, far more professional, also Aluminium welding is done on a TIG welder.

Sweet thanks blade. The tig welder sounds very difficult to use but imagine the useful things you could weld. You could do exhaust manifolds, headers or pretty much anything.

Not rocket science but harder than the other two which are pretty much point and shoot, we just got the headers on my mates race car tig welded but had to wait for them and the job was a bit R&R but all good, be nice to be able to do it myself, I've just started working at an industrial/engineering supply company, welding is one of the product categories so stuff is cheap