[NU_BLUE]

I have a question. Most of you on here are good welders. I was wondering where ya'll learned it? Do you just pick up over the yrs. or were you trained, etc?

I've played around with a stick welder more times than I remember and I've got the basic idea from welding on farm equipment, etc. However, I would like to get into MIG and TIG welding....I'm just curious where to start.

[trackbird]

Buy a MIG first. If you can stick, you can learn to MIG. Mig welding is probably the easiest type of welding to pick up. Get some help from a friend if you can, if not, start reading and playing with scrap metal. You'll learn to mig like a pro in no time. Weld stuff together and then bend, break and/or cut it back apart. See what makes a good bond and what doesn't. Once you know what it takes to get the metal fully fused, you're on your way.

Just buy a decent quality welder and be realistic about what you want to weld with it. If you need a 220v machine, buy one, if you wish to do thin stuff, a 110v machine will do.

TIG welding has proven to be far more difficult (at least to me) than I expected it to be. I would seriously recommend a MIG long before you buy a TIG. It's not impossible to reverse the order, but it sure is more difficult.