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 Miller Big 40 Diesel Trailer-Mounted Welder Generator Welding Power Supply US $2,550.00 
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Can anyone recommend a good Arc/Mig welding book?
I want to build a bike trailer but have no welding experience, hence the need for a good ref book to learn from. I hope to buy a mig but need to know the pro`s & con`s of gas & gasless. Also, the CD`s on welding tuition, available on e-Bay , are they any good ?
Lincoln makes good book on welding. It is "The Procedure Handbook Of Arc Welding" (by Lincoln Electric) Or you could get "Modern Welding" (by Althouse/ Turnquist/ Bowditch). The latter book is hard to find but both are good to learn the principals of welding.
You won't learn welding itself from a book, it take practice and lots of it. Stick welding is good but hard to pick up as a beginner you have to deal with the slag left from the welding process it will weld through paint and rust. Mig is easier because you can see the weld with no flux or slag build up on the weld deposit, but the material being welded needs to be absolutely clean, no paint or rust. Gasless mig is junk! Fluxcore (gasless) mig was designed for gas but the "hobby" welders found that it could be used without gas. It is not as strong of a weld without gas as it will have porosity but when you add gas it is very good. Trailers are usually made of 1/8" material or thicker so stick welding would work fine it is cheaper to get into than mig and with a lot of practice you can weld sheet metal. I know nothing about the cds on ebay and could not find what you were talking about, sorry. I would get a good mig machine (not the cheaper 110v machines). Stay with Miller, Hobart, Thermal arc and so on, or what ever good "name brand"you have in the U.K. they are more reliable and less frustrating.
Here are some sites you may like and also try youtube enter the type of welding you want to look for they have many videos on there, Good luck!
http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/index.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Jody_Collier
http://www.khake.com/page89.html
http://welderworld.com/
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