Welding kit, which one?

[Davey]

Originally Posted by 7ishNZ

ac/dc tig is cheaper to run than gas and the finished result is much better. You will need a foot pedal if you are doing ali...

Understand your point but I beg to differ, I've done literally tonnes (and in ally that's a lot ) of ally work with TIG and never used a pedal control, you just move progressively faster.

I confess that I hadn't heard that SS work was not feasible with gas and seeing as that is the major reason for getting kit it looks like TIG is the way to go. Like I said earlier I've done (hundreds of ) Tonnes of stick and MIG work on mild steel (0.8mm up to 35mm thicknesses), (tens of) Tonnes of stainless and ally with MIG and TIG from 0.8 up to 5mm thickness and even some cast iron work with stick but never had enough time/opportunity to master gas welding.

Trouble is the gas kit is cheaper and overall probably more use in my workshop than the TIG set (although this iswhat I'd really prefer along with a plasma cutter ).

D.