Welder recommendations

[silverzx]

I'd sooner save for another 2 years and spend a bit more than buy a £200 hobby mig welder... They're just crap and you'll have to spend it again when inevitably it all falls to bits and nothing works anymore!

Get yourself a second hand professional job, you'll thank me when you're laying down beauty beads, not dropping pigeon shit all over the place.

OR - just get yourself an old Oxford oil filled arc welder for naff all off ebay... They're absolute monsters and will lay raping beads, which will do you for any thick stuff, a cheapy crap hobby welder will be crap on thin stuff also, so you may as well not bother, but at least the Oxford will be monstrous on the heftier stuff - it'll tack what you need to take it somewhere else and use a MIG if you must...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OXFORD-TYPE-EL...259aae034a

It may look like a piece of shit, but trust me, you can leave that bastard shorted out until the day you die and it'll STILL be pumping a few hundred amps into whatever you've got across the terminals and the transformer will barely be warm to the touch.

Seriously Rupert. WTF is that. Scrap?

I'm going to use it for like 2 minutes every now and then..

I don't think arc is the best thing to start with..? :/