Opinions on cheap mig welders

[cully]

MIG welding is the easiest, anyone can operate a mig welder, just point and shoot really once you set your wire speed / amps, which is pretty simple...a cheap one will work, itl just likely drive you mental when the rollers are slipping, lance is pinching, and transformers on fire / inverter dies

this man is talking sence!

BUT
if your not using it regular the wire will rust and get jammed in the liner/tips causing the rollers to slip knotting the feed wire always had this problem with mine
i got so fecked off with it!

also the gas bottles will always be empty due to leakage from the desposable bottles

i bought a turbo sealey from ebay for £20 it needed repairing ive converted it to gasless 0.9mm wire and now im happy dont have to mess with gas and it welds nearly everything but like Darren i do like my arc for heavey gauge stuff

if you do buy a mig get one with aleast a minimum of 100Amps