Having been welding for thirtyfive year's I think that I could give advice in this dept. If you want to build demo cars or stock car's the mig is ok but you might consider that you may be the only one with a tig welder in the neighborhod and that has it's good and bad aspects. Mcviger is right it takes more of everthing to tigweld especialy patience Gas welding is a easy transition to tig but dont get used to mig and then think your going to tig . My oldest son is self taught mig welder and can hold his own but the tig welding takes a lot of time for the amount of weld produced. Light materials such as sheetmetal can be easly welded with the tig with min distortion. The aluminum end of couls be a money maker aswell also stainless I built my third of fourth race car with a lincoln AC/DC buzbox with a add on Hifrec and a aircooled tourch no foot control now I have a 300 amp miller sincrowave with foot control palser ect it has more stuf than a cellphone to program and it's ten year's old now. Go to the library or to the book store at a local trade school and get a text book and read up before you go visit your local welding supplyer that way he won't leave you with a deer in the headlight's expression on your face and you wont be talked into something you cant use , want or need. Good luck Kevin  |