I HATE MIG WELDING lol

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i personally dis like mig welding. its so damn boring to me. i have a power pig 215 so its not like i have a 110 volt craftsman. i do more tig welding when i have to weld than mig. i'll give mig this tho when i need a quick weld ill use it but other than that i tig everything. just my 2 cents im sure ppl agree and disagree but i thought id share that.have a nice day
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Reply:To each his own. Gas floats my boat.
Reply:Everyone learns to hate production wire feed welding... unless you are burn't out and can't do much else.  No flux chipping, no electrode changing especiallly if your wire comes out of a barrel, and only the occasional gas bottle change.  The only time your head comes up is for coffee and lunch.
Reply:I look it as just another tool in your tool box.  If you have mig, tig, and stick, there are applications where one is better suited for the job than the other two.  And if you have it, you will use it.  It's just like sockets, box ends, and open ends, they all turn nuts, but....
Reply:I agree with lotechman,last year I worked in a shop installing utility beds on some pretty big International trucks.Man it was BORING!! and I really enjoy welding.But it sure did get old running beads vertical up for 60 hrs. a week!!
Reply:I am not doing this job but we have 24 panels each with 200 feet of 3/8 fillet welding.  It takes two days to do the 200 feet.  It takes a special kind of person.  But then we also have someone who took ten hours to do 36 feet of weld.  He won't be around for long.
Reply:Yeah,speed is the name of the game.That is the big plus with mig.
Reply:My two cents I suppose.I have worked in construction and in a variety of fab shops, and in one high production shop.  In three of my shops I was a welder/fabricator.  Mig welding except for the outside welding with stick was with one.  The other two were just Mig welding.  In another shop I was just labeled a welder.  It was a sheetmetal shop.  We had an assembler/ tack welder.  He put the assemblies together we then welded them.  There was a little tig welding, but everyone fought over the one tig welder.  Four welders and one tig machine.  I have worked on construction jobs repairing heavy equipment, doing pipe work, and in structural.  All of which was stick welding.  My current job I work with a blacksmith from Croatia.  He is an old guy and a little slow, but he knows his stuff.  He has a miller 210 mig.  We use it in the shop.  For installations of gates and railings I use my Bobcat and usually use 7018 for its purdy welded appearance.  I dont mind mig if im doing fabrication and as long as I'm the only one using the mig, or if one other person is providing that person knows how to use the machine correctly.  Mig is fast and easy.  You can cheat and not use your hood for tacking parts.  There is no cleaning the welds.  You dont have to worry about wasting rods.  However, mig aint no good in windy situations.  I like having both by my side and the ability to use one or the other at my discresion.  Anyways, my wife is complaining on my long windedness.  I guess my thoughts are that mig can suck because its much more mechanical than is the tig or the stick,  but as far as being boring its more of the nature of the beast that mig welding lends towards a high production nature.  But in my case I can get away from that because I work as a contractor.  If I get a job for a month or so I might mig weld high pro and totally hate it, but not mind it cause once its over I go somewhere else.  Most of the time I do work with my bobcat though and I really enjoy it.  Not usually as much under the hood time, more time doing fab, prep and clean up.  It keeps things interesting but I gotta say I really love it.  After burning out in a manufacturing plant with huge spools I needed the change.   Hope y'all understand my vocalizing hehe   happy easter btw   CHRIS
Reply:I do a lot of mig welding at work. yeah prety boring most of the time... oh yeah besides the ocassional running out of wire or changing the gas... but in a few weeks I wont even have that luxury. they just installed gas pipping through the plant so no more tanks...
Reply:I love all kinds of welding.  But then I do not do it for a living, it is just a hobby that I want to do.  I can walk away from it any time I want.  Mig is fast, easy, and if you do it right, beautiful.  Sometimes my welding was awful, now it looks better all the time (or my eyesight is failing).Thermal Arc 185 TigHTP 200 MigCraftsman O/A1942 Bridgeport Mill12 Ton Hyd PressConsew Walking Foot
Reply:Love using my lincoln fluxcore wire welder.***************************************Lincoln AC225 stick welderLincoln HD100 WeldPak flux core wire feed welderThree of the cheapest grinders money can buy
Reply:Honestly, the only use I have for the millermatic 210 in my shop is for welding aluminum or if i have 16ga steel to weld. I find the gun a nuisance to use compared smaw rods. So for steel I mostly use smaw. I go through a pile of rods every day though
Reply:It's all about time I do a lot of construction equipment repair.Teeth on excavator buckets and things of that nature. If you have to run 7018 stick all day or I can break out the miller 251 or the ln25 and be done in a couple hours and get paid the same I opt for the mig but this is my living not a hobby and time is money.So I like it it's a money maker.FAST IRON FABRICATION
Reply:i really enjoy mig welding. i have spent long days doing nothing but running two sided 6 foot beads for a 300 foot floating walkway. never boring, just always trying for improvement.
Reply:I hope you "real" welders know how much us uninformed hobby folks enjoy these casual discussions about welding and manufacturing.  These are more fun then reading a novel.
Reply:To quote my supervisor, "MIG is all about production". It's reasonably easy to learn(for a newbie like me anyway), easy cleanup(you don't have piles of 7018 stubs or TIG filler stubs all over the floor at the end of the day), and you don't have to refill consumables(gas or sticks) every couple minutes.