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Damonski:
DefenderDan's just been round and given Jess a looking over, pointed out one or two things to look at.

Anyway we got talking about welders and Ive got a Pro 90 Mig from the days of welding on a Fiat 500.

Question is what sort of Ampage would I need for welding on the chassis?

mark.yellow.series.3:
not as straight forward as picking a magic number. it would depend on the thickness of the particular piece your welding, and whether your laying it flat, or vertical welding, upside down, ect ect.
if you had a scrap piece of metal the same thickness you could set the mig up on the bench before starting on your chassis, if you can do this, the genral rule to set up is to lay down a weld and see if the heat has melted the metal right through to the other side, if your welding vertical back off the power a bit to give your self a little more control.

hope this helps a little.
mark.

Damonski:
Yeah I need to get some scrap metal and start playing again. Not had my welder out for a while.

ian_s:
i've welded up my chassis several times with a very very cheap mig welder, basically the smallest my dad could get, and we've never had to turn the power up much to get a decent weld.

the last welds i did i used my stick welder. by gum do i miss that mig.

mark.yellow.series.3:
i welded every inch of my chassis with stick (2.5's), only because we did not have any migs in at the time, after i finished we got two mig sets back off hire :( , compared with about 40 stick sets :x

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