I'm wanting to do a few small stainless steel welds on my Brutus 10 - attaching banjo burner mounts/shields from brewers hardware and a couple very small welds. I just want to buy a welder because I've always wanted to get into it.
Lincoln Handy MiG is about 280 shipped, but you have to buy gas and a tank, etc. seems like it can be a big additional expense, a tank costs like 180 plus the gas.
Stick welders can be found for about 100 bucks on Craigslist and can weld stainless without gas, etc etc.
I don't care too much about how pretty the welds are. Just functional. Is a stick welder okay for stainless? I'm just basically making a few tack welds at this point.
And I can't find a cheap mig setup on Craigslist around here (New Orleans). Been looking for a while,..
Thanks.
Lincoln Handy MiG is about 280 shipped, but you have to buy gas and a tank, etc. seems like it can be a big additional expense, a tank costs like 180 plus the gas.
Stick welders can be found for about 100 bucks on Craigslist and can weld stainless without gas, etc etc.
I don't care too much about how pretty the welds are. Just functional. Is a stick welder okay for stainless? I'm just basically making a few tack welds at this point.
And I can't find a cheap mig setup on Craigslist around here (New Orleans). Been looking for a while,..
Thanks.