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To: mad_as_he$$
FWIW. MIG welders do NOT heat and extrude wire from the tip.

Forgive my ignorance, I'm not really a very skilled or experienced welder...but at the shop there is a welder they call a "MIG" welder and it has a spool of wire in it's innards. When I squeeze the trigger on the grip, wire comes out at the tip and is turned into molten metal along with part of my workpiece in a blazing display of electric power (especially if I'm not careful it burns holes in my workpiece or welds it to the table...).

What kind of welder izzat?

40 posted on 12/04/2013 9:31:02 AM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: no-s

That is a MIG but the wire melts in the arc not in the tip.


41 posted on 12/04/2013 9:53:52 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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