In this video, Jeff Bonner shares essential tips for kicking off your MIG welding journey. Filmed in Jeff's well-equipped ...

Bare wire MIG welding can be used to join thin pieces of metal together. Flux core MIG welding can be used outdoors because it does not require a flow meter or gas supply. MIG welding is usually the ...

Flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) Similar to MIG, except there's no separate shielding gas because the wire electrode has flux in its core, which creates its own shield as the wire melts.

To create the weld, a piece of 0.8-mm flux-core welding wire is threaded through the capillary and into the joint, and fed by hand as it’s consumed. It’s awkward and awful, but it works.

Both MIG and TIG require shielding gases, unless you use a gasless flux core MIG wire, which produces its own shield for the welding process, but we wouldn't recommend buying this type of MIG ...

A step up in price from the Forney, but still affordable, is the Hobart Handler MIG Welder. A true MIG welder, the Hobart Handler can be used without gas with flux core wire, or with gas and ...

Buy Now For more advanced welders, the Vulcan OmniPro 220 ($800) does flux-cored and MIG welding, along with stick electrode and tungsten electrode and filler rod (TIG).

ESAB ’s EM 210 MIG/Flux Cored welder and EMP 210 MIG/Stick/TIG welder are inverter-based power sources for most auto/truck repair and restoration, light fabrication, and construction work. These units ...

Another innovation on this machine is the Quick Select drive roll, which has three grooves, allowing the use of 0.024-inch, 0.030-inch, and flux-core wire.