Lincoln Electric Handy MIG Welder

What size wire for a Lincoln welder?

General Usage Rules for Lincoln Mig Welders. As a rule of thumb, it is recommended to use a compact 115volt input MIG wire feeder/welder indoors on clean new steel that is 24 to 12 gauge thick. 12 gauge is a little less than 1/8" thick.

Does MIG welding use flux?

A no gas MIG welder doesn’t use gas, but rather a hollow wire that’s filled with flux. Flux is used to protect the molten weld puddle when it’s cooling. Just like flux is used to protect the weld puddle when using flux core wire, a shielding gas is used with the MIG process to protect the weld puddle.

Who makes Lincoln welders?

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational and a global manufacturer of welding products, arc welding equipment, welding consumables, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting equipment and robotic welding systems.

What is a mic welder?

A MIG welder is also a wire-feed type welder. The metal that it uses to create the weld material is held on a spool inside the welder. The type of material it uses depends on what type of metals you’re joining, but it’s always a metallic wire. For beginners, or for welders who need ultimate portability,…

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With the reputation that comes with the Lincoln brand, this is an impressively low-priced MIG welder that makes light work of smaller welding jobs. Portable and compact, the Lincoln Electric Handy MIG Welder is relatively easy to use and is a good option for the hobbyist or DIY’er who feels there is a welder-shaped hole in their lives.

The trade-off for its compact size is that it’s not as powerful as some other mid-priced models, meaning it has a metal thickness limit of 1/8th of an inch.  There’s no gauge so you don’t know how much gas you have left at any one time, but a quick trip to the DIY shop to buy an add-on will remedy that. And for heavier, more prolonged jobs it has a tendency to get a bit hot and flustered. But for the price and the Lincoln welders label, this is a more than adequate MIG and flux core welder for small jobs and essential repairs.