It's about 5 times the price of mild wire.

TT

its all relitave as stainless tig rods are also more expensive than mild ones.

if you can afford an ac/dc tig and plan to use it for lots of jobs then go for it. i have one and use it all the time.

what i would say is dont spend loads of money on a tig welder that you only intend to make an exhaust with, then put away for ever.

at the end of the day. if you want a tig just go buy one :D remember we are not your wife you dont need a reason to have one on here. you can have one because its a cool thing to have rather than a thing to do a job with ;)

i had to have one to repair car body work wink wink.

Thanks Ash, I think you've just made my mind up;) . As thr business will buy it anyway I'll just have to come up with a reason:D . Its likely to be around Feb before I make the final decision as there's a tax and VAT bill to deal with at the end of Jan, ho hum, life goes on.

D.

Just a quick update, I've now got a gas welding and cutting set complete with portapak bottles, the smallest ones available. The reason I got this kit is it was on special at one of my local suppliers in the Christmas sale. Two stage regs for both oxy and acetylene, two 4.5 metre hoses bonded together along their length, flashback arrestors, non return valves, mixing body, cutting head with three different sized nozzles, welding torch head with three different sized nozzles, nozzle cleaning tool, sparker (crap though) all for two hundred notes. Bottles cost me another £150 ish including a years rental on the cylinders.

Made a simple plywood cabinet on castors to hold it all and set it up this morning, guess what? I can weld with gas! Looking forward to trying ally next as I have a six port manifold to make to link the CBR600 throttle bodies to the Cosworth V6 inlets, could be fun and/or expensive.

I would have loved to go the TIG route but it was just too expensive to justify at the moment and the gas kit will be soooo useful in the workshop anyway.

Cheers, D.