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I don't even own a MIG. I stick everything steel with a 40 year old crackerbox Sears AC welder and 1/16" 6013 for anything 16 ga. and under. For 14 ga.-11ga. I use 5/64" 6013.
When I stick weld, the metal is CLEAN, and I use 7018 most of the time. Needle gun post weld, and it doesn't get any stronger, or neater. IMOIf I have to wire weld, I prefer to use MIG/MAG/Flux cored - dual sheild. Using short circuit or spray transfer. Hot as a mother fooker, yet it is super strong like stick, and it slages like stick too. Which is why you drag it too. The slag keeps the heat in the weld so that it doesn't cool too fast. I little needle gunning right after to de-stress the weld and to get rid of the slag, and viola, you have one strong weld as it is an 80 series wire, so 80 kip tensile strength. Not to mention, it looks like smeared butter, and oh so smooth, instead of that stacked dime crap.I prefer TIG, to all of them though. As you have the most control. But sometimes I get the 70S6 hard wire MIG/MAG out and weld up lawn mower b.s. and small stuff that doesn't require very much strength, because it's quick, easy, and cheap.