Testing The Cheapest Mig Welder I Could Find

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@rodeastell3615 11 ай бұрын

A great little machine. However, I believe that with a £200 welder you would still produce better results than I could with one costing £2,000 😅😅

@billsheehy1660 11 ай бұрын

I thought that was brilliant, people should be reminded that a decent bit of tuition will help so many people on their way to welding to an acceptable standard.

@Urchfab 11 ай бұрын

Cheers mate.

@iteerrex8166 11 ай бұрын

I was thinking of getting one for home use, and the question was, how cheap is good enough. Looks like even a very cheap one is very capable. I’d say a medium price should do very nicely for home/hobby purposes. Thank you for the demonstration.

@xKmotx 11 ай бұрын

It's the artist, not the paint brush. 😉

@Martin_IPL5990 11 ай бұрын

It's always a pleasure to watch your welding tutorials Matt, brilliant as always.

@Urchfab 11 ай бұрын

Cheers mate.

@dennistwitchell8821 11 ай бұрын

First MIG welder I bought didn't even have a built in fan. Learned my lesson about going cheap in a hurry. I believe the inverter welders are much more capable than the original style for a much lower price.

@dav1dsm1th 11 ай бұрын

It's amazing (to me) what these small inverter welders can achieve on a single phase supply. Thanks for the videos.

@lesbaty8919 11 ай бұрын

We bought a small inverter welder at work and it’s an awesome machine on a 13amp supply

@Mr57blackbeauty 11 ай бұрын

Bloody hell boy you're a bit good with a welding torch👏👏👏👏👏

@thebrothers3971 11 ай бұрын

I have a Clarke 90 mig I bought a few years ago. No voltage indication just switches 1/2 and min/max. Nothing in between. And a wire speed dial. I did see somewhere a way you can find the voltage of the fixed settings using a multimeter. I must add what a fine job Matt did in showing us what can be done with an entry welder.

@StuTubed 11 ай бұрын

I have a Clarke 135TE with the same voltage selector switches. As a beginner it's really hard to learn on because every welding tutorial assumes a fine adjustable voltage control dial. Honestly I don't understand why Clarke make them like that. It doesn't help that the manual labels those switches as current control too.

@muzzthegreat 11 ай бұрын

@@StuTubed Yeah , I've got a 'decastar' 135E - 135Amps x 18 Volts = 2,430Watts which explains the limit in some countries on a single-phase. The 1/2 Min/Max switches are a cheap way to control the voltage: they directly click windings on-or-off in the transformer; doing a 'snazzy' dial is a lot more expensive. [it's an autotransformer or variac then] I've not found the switches to limiting; considering that the range is about 18 to 32 volts [? I think, can't remember], Four steps is fine-enough. I always find that the fine-ness in the speed/current dial fixes most; and all the rest is in the hands of the person; Position, Angle, Drag, Push, Weave, Orientation. Practice, not numbers on a dial.

@anthonykinrade8642 11 ай бұрын

The very one I was thinking of buying, thanks!

@geraldgooding7430 11 ай бұрын

A very good video explaining and showing what can be achieved with budget machine

@mrgrumps3062 11 ай бұрын

This guy could weld with chop sticks and a lighter.

@Urchfab 11 ай бұрын

Haha cheers mate.

@89_triumph 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Matt. Would love to see a tig video with this little welder too.. I have one slightly bigger (155a) but still budget and would eventually like to tig weld turbo manifolds (sch 10) and sheet metal.. Thanks again.

@troyboy4345 11 ай бұрын

Solid video for us non pros .... thnx pal !

@beezo2560 11 ай бұрын

Honest review. Thanks for the video.

@TheSuprahuman 11 ай бұрын

What are the odds, just looking at cheap welders on Amazon and this video pops up. Great stuff 😃👍

@johnmccarthy6451 11 ай бұрын

Good video to watch.. I'm starting out myself (& I've an old Millermatic MIG welder).. I've got to start on your, "Welding and fabrication how to tutorials" too. Yet I'm waiting on a earth clamp to come in as mine's knackered..

@trevorjarvis3021 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant video Matt.👍

@nigelmellor9477 4 ай бұрын

Would be very interested in a review of the slightly larger/more expensive TGN150MAT machine if your friends at Xtreme Plasma could arrange for that to be possible.

@leslieaustin151 11 ай бұрын

Great video , great demo, thanks. Les

@watsonwatson8051 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant episode, enjoyed that a lot

@billywhizz98 11 ай бұрын

Incredible welding skills Matt

@Urchfab 11 ай бұрын

Cheers mate.

@adeh503 11 ай бұрын

I love welding and making up thing's on a hobby level, but would love to have just a tenth of this guys skill, he's an awesome tradesman

@Urchfab 11 ай бұрын

Cheers mate.

@rsbharley4766 11 ай бұрын

Great video with excellent info Matt. if buying a mig welder to cover most job would 200amp or 250amp be the way to go, also people tell me forget the mig and get a tig. It's doing my head in, thanks for sharing. Cheers

@UKDrew 11 ай бұрын

Awesome vid.. Looks like a great lil unit... Really would be cool if you could show it on Tig as well . Im after a new one myself..

@cozifpv2069 11 ай бұрын

I have been thinking about getting a small welder to do some rust repairs on my ep3 at home. It's good to know you can get a small cheap welder that works.

@bobsyeruncle4841 7 ай бұрын

nice clean weld

@Moonlightshadow-lq4fr 3 ай бұрын

I have a Clark weld 100E, it's just over 40 years old, is falling to bits, rusty wire and it does get me by. It has had a few thousand hours use too but it welds 4mm steel great and you can still get great results with 2mm. Struggles at 1mm. Saying that though I know you could weld brilliantly using it at 1mm. I have never used flux cored wire purely because it is more expensive and I get more or less free CO2. It uses selenium diodes to rectify the electrode it's that old :) I really have to buy a new one as the wires insulation is breaking apart inside the machine and just hearing the sound of all these new welders the arc makes so smoothly. I've been worried about replacing it as it's been so good for me over the years and I've been frightened to splash out 200-300 in fear of getting junk compared to my rusty box, but this video has convinced me to finally get a new one. Thanks:)

@danstewart8218 11 ай бұрын

Many years ago I bought a sip weldmate and it was an effing disgrace, (the wire feed was like a geriatric pushing with blunt pliers) what you can get now for similar money is crazy. Great welding Matt.;D

@rosshannemann7772 9 ай бұрын

Matt that little welder will be great trackside

@deopersad2915 11 ай бұрын

Awesome Matt thank's 👍🏽🤙, but my budget welder is old but also has no gas mig welder use gaslis welding wire, it do's the job and cost over 300 in New Zealand we get ripped off with stuff here a good cheap one is about 500- 800 my good one that I used to own was 1400 it was just a mig but it had gas with it as well but had to sell year's ago , so you get better deal's over there 👍🏽

@mfwwhelan7561 11 ай бұрын

Hi Matt, Very interesting video. I was impressed by the beautiful herring bone pattern you achieved with the fillet welds. Could you explain what type of torch/hand movement you used to achieve this? Thanks, Mike

@joseywales3789 11 ай бұрын

It's easier to do.... Than to say! What I mean by that, it's easier for you to understand what is happening with the weld..... When you've got the torch in your hand. The main thing that you need to understand is penetration, the heat of the arc needs to melt into both of the parent metals that you're trying to bond together. The pattern of the weld is a byproduct of a good penetrated weld. Back and forward, curly w's and walking the cup...all produce different patterns of weld, but that's just the cosmetics of the weld. A cold weld or non- penetration weld could look brilliant but is very weak and a brilliant weld could penetrate into the parent metals but look like bubblegum! The art of good welding is consistency, constant distance of the torch to the weld, constant speed of the torch moving, consistent wire feed for the amps but it can't be taught by saying..... It needs to be taught by doing!

@reTool462 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video Matt. Any chance of doing one for a cheap Tig? Cheers

@davidrayner2831 11 ай бұрын

Looks like a nice little lightweight MiG for the hobbyist/ weekend user… I’m a none professional and currently working on a classic car, welding metal between 0.8 and 1.2. Would you choose this or is there an alternative you could suggest 👍

@jayinmi3706 11 ай бұрын

Lately a lot of channels I follow here in North America have been getting welders from companies like Arc Captain and such to try. I;d love to see what you could do with one of those.

@chrispickard3337 11 ай бұрын

Love the intro!!

@chriscoulthard4947 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant video. It is the wire feed that lets most cheap welders down, that one looks good. Shame you cant fit the 5kg rolls though.

@xtremeplasma 10 ай бұрын

the next model up does

@bigsquatchsasfoot1964 11 ай бұрын

Great vid thanks 🙏 your welding skills are impressive. It’s nice to see that you can actually achieve good and very except-able results on a machine that cheap thanks again 👍

@ronald1968 11 ай бұрын

I would recommend that when doing what you might call 'welding for dummies' type videos its worth pointing out that your earth clamp should be on what you're welding..obviously in your case its clamped to the welding bench.... but some may not understand that.....

@basilwatson1 11 ай бұрын

Maaàtee I bought a cheap Chinese mig .." hitbox" and it's great.... For general sticking stuff together.. I'm not sure I would try 12mm for 20min but 25 mm x 3 mm angle it's great ...

@molsky13 11 ай бұрын

Hi matt what was it like welding with flux core ?

@canalboating 11 ай бұрын

Lovely welds,

@stuartwilliams2693 11 ай бұрын

Hi Matt, what gas are you using and what is the story around the polarity please mate?

@williamholmes9129 11 ай бұрын

Would it help if you had to weld something a bit to thick for the machine would bit help if ground a 45deg fillet? Good info as a decent starter welder, not so sure a budget ebay one would be so smooth

@murrayedington 11 ай бұрын

Lidl recently had 120A flux cored MIG welder for £99.99 - our local branch had a couple left last week. I have a workshop full of old tat as it is, so had to give it a miss. Tempted!

@rjordans 10 ай бұрын

I have one, quite happy with it too. Nice and quick to grab and stick bits of steel together. I mostly used it for putting together some workbenches and storage from aware tube, worked great for that. Being a cored MIG welder it does give a lot of smoke though so something to use in a well ventilated area!

@ifell3 11 ай бұрын

Stick and Tig with this.... I thought the stick and Tig required constant voltage or amps and the mig the other. So this switches over, if so that's a great buy!!

@patriotkieler9750 3 ай бұрын

I would really like it if you could do a test on the Uweld Welder. They claim to be able to aluminum. The welder appears to be really cheap for that capability. Uweld 250A MIG Welder,6 in 1 Gas MIG/Gasless Flux Core/Stick/Lift TIG/Spot Weld/Spool Gun Compatible Aluminum Welding Machine Large LED Display 110V/220V Multi Process Welder (6in 1 MIG Welder 250A)

@engjds 7 ай бұрын

After stick, MIG looks easy peezy.

@acengineer737 11 ай бұрын

I’ve found recently that seeing what I’m welding is a problem. Once I strike an arc I find it difficult to see what I’m welding. Not sure if it’s my mask or the background lighting

@markwilliams3153 10 ай бұрын

I was going along the M5 towards the Avonmouth bridge and went past your van with your car on the trailer behind, I was going to toot out as I went past but there was too many cars there ... I wished I'd seen your car on the track, nice to of seen you tho

@Urchfab 10 ай бұрын

Nice to meet you kinda 😂 Next time mate. Cheers 🍻

@andyluckman9238 11 ай бұрын

Definitely interested to hear a flux core point of view

@kramer26 10 ай бұрын

Nice demo. I'm in the market for a decent little hobby welder, would probably spend a bit more, up to say £500, that could do TIG as well. Would be great to see how this machine performed with a TIG torch attached, and whether it can do AC for aluminium too...? What would be your recommendations/suggestions? Cheers

@Urchfab 10 ай бұрын

I will be doing a comparison video with 3 £500 machines in a few weeks 👍

@possle 10 ай бұрын

So a £400 branded mig welder should be well up to the job of restoring a classic car and some other jobs?

@ashc5728 11 ай бұрын

I had a couple of cheap MIG units, and they worked fora few hours before starting to have issues, and being an amateur welder my experience made it hard to tell what was issue with me vs the machine. I binned the unit and bought a unit that was about twice the cost, and its operated consistently for the past 4 years. The cheap units are not worth it.

@tompayne4945 11 ай бұрын

@1:16 blimey, is that the Wife? 🎉

@gwc4020 11 ай бұрын

Interesting.

@slimshady6718 11 ай бұрын

Would you do one on cheap tig welders that could weld aluminium? To say 6mm thick I would gladly pay a few hundred quid for one but wouldn’t know where to look

@Urchfab 10 ай бұрын

I’ll see what I can do 👍

@BillyBob-uc9zp 11 ай бұрын

Weld don Mr 😎

@MartinMcMartin 11 ай бұрын

I have seen first hand that a very competent welder can get good results from a shit machine. A newby on a shit machine however, gets bird splatter for welds. If you can learn on a good machine first it will always be a benefit.

@Diffwrecker 11 ай бұрын

0.8mm wire?

@catcaptain6023 11 ай бұрын

Similar experience, quickly ran out of wire speed...

@gost9396 11 ай бұрын

@becko1969 10 ай бұрын

I’ve seen some shocking results from an expensive machine... if you can’t weld then the price of the machine won’t make a difference

@MARTINA-gc3tq 11 ай бұрын

Wow….it comes from the manufacturer with a gas leak and you breeze over it.

@dirtysteve7866 11 ай бұрын

there are cheaper mig machines, flux core, no gas, no tig, no stick

@nicbriers9547 11 ай бұрын

Just thought I'd add the first comment......😛

@ianfoster6907 11 ай бұрын

can't watch this vid. seems to copy so many other youtubers. came to watch a welding vid, talk talk talk weld speeded up, talk talk talk what's the point, take a look at fitzee's fabrications to see how it's done🙂