Welding machine, point and squeeze the trigger?

"Homemade Angle Grinder Stand"

It's just a MIG welder per seeing the gun early on. Didn't watch the rest. You still need to know what you're doing with one. They don't just squirt welds out like a caulk gun. There's the old, famous Gunner spare tire mount story if one thinks it is so easy :)

You can buy a cheap one from HF for $200 or buy a commercial machine from maybe $1500 and up...

Forget MIG - likely just flux-core - and I can buy a 130 amp FDS flux core welder for $128 CANADIAN - thats a Benjamin for you Americans.

??? My MIG is a Millermatic 200. Bought new maybe 20 years ago for around $1800. With solid .035 wire and argon 75/25 mix it can easily weld 3/8 inch material in one pass. Probably not the best way to do most jobs though.

These are serious machines for repair and production work when you get into the more expensive, well built units...

Not disputing that at all - whether used in sputter (pulsed or globular spray) or short circuit mode.

I'm still partial to SMAW (stick) welding when I need to deposit lots of metal or get deep penetration. The AC/DC tombstone is my personal welding machine of choice For fine work TIG is more easily controlled

- and I am more likely to break out the acetylene torch or take it to one of 2 friends who are very proficient with the TIG. Nothing wrong with a GOOD MIG weld -but I've never made a good one - and it is too easy to make a butt ugly weld that holds, or a good looking (to the untrained eye) weld that is no good at all.

Been playing with a "cobra" or "henrob" torch recently - gives control approaching TIG for fine work.

I had the MIG for quite a few years before getting an old stick machine. Wish I could have watched stuff like Jody puts on youtube back when I was starting out. We tend to trust/use what we have worked with the most :)

Have thought for some time now that a flame control that worked like the TIG foot pedal would be extremely helpful for acy/oxy torches. Probably one out there but I'm not going to pony up for it nowadays...

What he said. Also, practice until your weld joints consistently withstand being bent, don't trust their appearance.

What's the dividing line where stick or acetylene are equally good?

I just bought a WEN portable bandsaw. It was supposed to be new but it was used and it had been serviced. The handle nut was replaced with a smaller one with outer dimensions that do not fill its casing, therefore the bolt cannot be unscrewed from the other side. Idiots. I can't believe anybody who pretends to know anything about metalworking would recommend unbranded Chinese tool shaped objects as if they are tools.

Yeah. And? He uses a welder to make it.

You need some help playing the video???