HF Flux Welder $99.99 on sale

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tagordon

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Location

Salt Lake City

• Jun 7, 2010

• #1

Hello all,
Thinking of getting this: http://www.harborfreight.com/welding/mig-flux-welders/90-amp-flux-wire-welder-98871.html
Have never welded anything before.
Question is should I just pay someone else to replace the floor?
TIA
Troy

 

wolfpackjeeper

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500' and 500KCAS, RAF lakenheath

• Jun 7, 2010

• #2

In your position I would probably just have it done. If you check your chapter there may be someone who would do it for you reasonably cheap. It is not the most fun job to learn to weld on.

 

Gold Cobra

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Location

Woodland, WA

• Jun 7, 2010

• #3

There is a reason it's only $99.

 

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89Daytona

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Location

NY

• Jun 8, 2010

• #4

It might work if the floors were a thicker gage of steel, you are likely to burn through the floors before you actually weld with that. For the floors a MIG with shielding gas would be a better choice than the flux core wire welder.

These would be better for a cheap welder
http://www.harborfreight.com/110-amp-220-volt-flux-and-mig-welder-94164.html
http://www.harborfreight.com/120-amp-230-volt-mig-and-flux-welder-97503.html

 

Begster

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Cape Cod/Boston, Mass

• Jun 8, 2010

• #5

Or just stay away from HF welders.

 

PacificEd

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Middle Tennessee

• Jun 8, 2010

• #6

89Daytona said:

It might work if the floors were a thicker gage of steel, you are likely to burn through the floors before you actually weld with that. For the floors a MIG with shielding gas would be a better choice than the flux core wire welder.

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X2.

Learning to weld on the thin factory sheet metal is not a fun job. I'm putting in an OEM floor pan to replace my rusted floors and the new metal is thin and very easy to blow holes in it.

I have a thread goin over in the SEC forum titled "Man What a Job". Go there to see what it is like.