MIG Welding Advantages and Disadvantages:

Advantages of MIG Welding:

• The most excellent option when cosmetic appearance is an issue since it provides lesser spatter levels than flux-cored. The arc is soft and fewer likely to burn through slim material.

• The lesser spatter connected with MIG welding also means no slag to chip off and quicker cleaning time.

• MIG welding is the simple type of welding to study and is more forgiving if the operator is somewhat unpredictable in holding arc length or providing a stable travel speed. Procedure settings are more forgiving.

• If you are skilled and get exact correct guns, shielding gas, liners, drive rolls, and electrode, MIG can weld a wider range of material including thinner resources and different materials like stainless, nickel alloys or aluminum.

Disadvantages of MIG Welding:

• Since a bottle of outside shielding gas is necessary, MIG welding may not be the procedure of option if you are looking for something that offers portability and convenience. MIG also needs extra equipment such as a hose, regulator, solenoid (electric valve) in the wire feeder and flow meter.

• The welder's initial job is to arrange the surface by removing paint, rust and any surface contamination.

• MIG has a soft arc which will not correctly weld thicker materials (10 gauge would be the highest width that MIG could soundly weld with the 115 volt compact wire feeder welder we are referring to or ¼" with the 230 volt input compact wire feeder welder.) As the thickness of the material (steel) increases, the danger of cold lapping also increases since the heat input wanted for good fusion is just not possible with these small machines.