Originally Posted by Spoonman

Very true but you are speaking from the perspective of a full time welder and by the sounds of it you do a lot of welding out side of work.That's what you do so you need a good welder.

Not everybody needs a welder that will last multiple generations.A hobby welder is just that.Need to build your self a bumper for your jeep and then rarely if ever need a welder again, well a cheap hobby welder will get it done,and you're not out any money.
If you plan to do a lot of welding then it is a good idea to get a higher end welder like I said.
To go out and buy a top of the line welder just to do a couple of jobs is stupid unless you got it like that then more power to ya.
I personally dont own a mig because I feel I need a decent one and dont have $800 for the one I want right now.I can also do my welding at work if it is needed so I have even less of a reason to go out and blow the money for my own.
I also have an old "buzz box" mine is just the AC model that I inherited from my grandfather crazy how those old things last eh? Cant do much light metal welding with it though lol.

Everybody's situation is different and not everybody will have grand children lol

Originally Posted by Gary Briggs

I've been using this little 110v licoln all day.

It's pretty legit, running beautiful beads with core wire every on a 100' extension cord!

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...atalogId=10053

My iPhone camera won't take a good enough picture to show how nice these beads look! The vertical ups look great

Originally Posted by Gary Briggs

I guess I'm unusual, I can't buy cheap ****, I bought a 500$ table saw to do a 300$ job, but now I have a sweet *** table saw!

All I know is working with tools, you grow to appreciate a fine tool and once you've worked with nice equipment nothing else will compare.

900$ for my mig was cheap considering I paid $2k for the tig welder

Originally Posted by Spoonman

Well maybe you would not mind trading pay checks?
I like nice new quality tools but sometimes you just can not justify the expense especially when you might only use the tool once.Thats my mind set any ways.

Originally Posted by Demolition_x

Has anyone used this welder to do some sheet metal welding. I want to weld in some new floor pans. I have read that this welder does not do so well with thin material.

Originally Posted by black_771

Which welder? We have talked about quite a few. I would re-read all the posts here as I've spoken about this several times.

The cliff notes are the flux is not good (in my opinion) for thin sheet. I've blown through everything I've tried and ended up buying a Lincoln mig for the thin stuff. That said, I've welded thicker sheetmetal (slightly thicker then the body panels used in my dodge truck) with the flux and it was great. The bigger question is will the gauge metal of the XJ be thick enough to allow welding? I'm going to say possibly, if you tack it in over a long period of time. I don't think its going to be thick enough to lay a bead weld down with a hot flux, but thats just my opinion. You can make anything work if you experiment though.

Again, I'm not a professional, and only know what I know from my limited experience in trying to do the same thing you have mentioned.

Originally Posted by Gary Briggs

I guess I'm unusual, I can't buy cheap ****, I bought a 500$ table saw to do a 300$ job, but now I have a sweet *** table saw!

All I know is working with tools, you grow to appreciate a fine tool and once you've worked with nice equipment nothing else will compare.

900$ for my mig was cheap considering I paid $2k for the tig welder