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With a little practice anybody can weld, The act of welding is probably the easiest part of the process. The toughest part is setting up the machine so you can get a quality weld. Typically once you learn a welding machine and it’s setting which you will mark on the machine or write down in a notebook.

Arc welding is all gas and needs no electricity. The nice thing about this welding is that all you need is the gas and the equipment that goes with it and the wire that you use as filler. It is not as hot and only needs you to use #5 welding glasses. This equipment is also used for brazing. Also you will have a great time using it as a cutting torch.

Stick Welding is the the next type of welding and is simple. This option uses electricity. The equipment looks like a big machine that plugs in with two jumper cables coming out of the machine. One is the ground and the other holds a piece of wire coated with flux.

MIG Welding stands for Metal Inert Gas. This is the the type of welding that you typically see on the TV shows. You can do fast welding with this. This machine is similar has an electrical box an inert gas tank, a grounding cable, a gun with a wire feeding trigger. When you pull the trigger wire comes feeding out the center of the nozzle on the gun. If the machine is set up correctly welding is easy. You will need to know how to set the wire feed speed. the amount of electricity and the amount of inert gas. These setting will be different depending on what you are welding. This is where a notebook comes in hand for your settings.

Also you should know that there is 110 Volt and 220 Volt machines. The 110 Volt machines severely limit the applications. They are just not big enough to do a lot of welding. Also there are flux wire fed machines that use no inert gas. These machines are usually the kinds of machines that you will see in Walmart.

TIG Welding stands for Tungsten Inert Gas Welding. Everybody wants to learn this. This is the needle point version of welding if MIG is like Sewing. You get very pretty welds, but you will work for a very long time. Also these machine are very high voltage giving you the capability to do Aluminum welding. You will spend a long time learning to get good at this welding. The electricity voltage is variable with the use of a foot pedal. The wire is held in one hand and the gun is held in the other. Most people will have trouble with this welding

Next week I’ll Post the end or Part 2. On how to spot a good or Bad Weld. This got a little long with the explanation of what are the major ways to weld.