Any place around BR to take a welding class?

I'm pretty sure that Google guy has your answer.

Go buy a a little $300 entry level Lincoln wire feeder, I recommend a flux core machine with gas. Then go to a scrap yard and buy some scraps, watch some youtube videos (welding tips and tricks is a good one) and get after it. A monkey can weld with a wire feeder. If you want to learn how to TIG or weld with stick its a little harder and you would need someone to show you.

I use to be an ironworker, had to show many helpers how to tack with a flux core wire feeder, most of them could pick it up in an hour or so.

Buy either a stick or small mig machine and watch YouTube videos and read stuff online. If you weld thick shite, get a stick welder. Thinner stuff, MIG welder. MIG is much easier IMHO.

And DEFINITELY get a good grinder and a lot of wheels. Your welds will look like shite. With welding, if you don't do it consistently, you suck at it.

Stick with HF for your first one. They are cheap and work okay enough

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Why use flux core if you have gas?

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We do this for outdoor welding at our yard. Performs better in wind etc. In a home shop solid wire with shield gas would work. Or gasless flux core wire if you just need to stick it together without worrying about looks and spatter.

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. If you weld thick shite, get a stick welder.

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I'll out produce a stick machine any day with a fluxed core machine.

We weld 95% fluxed core, 5% MIG on structural. Nothing in our facilty gets stick welded and we are the largest fabricator on the Gulf.

Get a decent Miller mig machine. Always buy a machine that is a little more capable than you you. Relieve you will need it for. Don't be afraid to spend a little bit more it will save you a lot of headache. Also don't discount a used machine that looks to be in fairly good condition

I'd recommend mig over fluxcore if it's just for hobby welding.

Oh and just watch some YouTube videos and practice. You'll be fine. You're not trying to run roots and make X-ray welds out of position.

Good luck and have fun.

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Stick with HF for your first one. They are cheap and work okay enough

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well on simple things i usually take this path but im just going to have to buy something better later.

what do you think of this one.
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That's plenty of machine for household shite. Go ahead and get a dewalt 4" grinder, along with a bunch of 1/8" and 1/4" rocks. With a decent amount of practice, you'll learn how to do it effectively, you won't be a combo welder that can pass phase array, but as far as household projects, it'll be more than enough.

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Why use flux core if you have gas?

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Flux core without a shielding gas will look like absolute dog shite.