I'm pretty sure some of the larger wire welders can handle thick material very well. Of course, they aren't as easily portable as the smaller/cheaper tacklebox sized wire welders. Some of the newer high power wire welders are more like ice-chest sized. That's still doable if someone has one and is willing to bring it. They are very pricey machines to purchase new, and hard to find used.
Nothing wrong with arc/stick welding for building a mixer, though. It's certainly a much cheaper type of welder to purchase.
>Spaceman wrote:
>I have a wire welder that is small enough to bring along without
>trouble. I'll be happy to give instructions in its use. Wire welders
>are really for lighter steel. For a mixer you use fairly heavy steel,
>and really need a larger stick welder which I don't have any more. If
>we come up with a larger welder I'll be happy to give lessons on that,
>too.
>If we're planning on making a mixer, that larger welder will be essential.
Spaceman
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