Stick welding stainless steel & aluminium

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Hi I agree, welding is therapeutic. I think it's beause with the helmet on and the tinted lense you can shut out everything and the only thing you see is this magical dancing weld pool that you command.
I mainly use MIG and oxy, played a bit with TIG, but for the life of me I just can't do stick. I think it's because I'm an electrician and the arc from stick is too similar to the arc from electrical faults.
I finally found a use for the free gasless MIG wire I got with my welder. I connect my air compressor to the welder, wack the current up and use it for cutting.

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Sorta like a poor mans plasma cutter , very clever , used to use 5mm rods on the highest amps an old machine could handle to put holes in railway iron for fencing wire .
Mig is easier than arc to learn but if I was welding something that mattered I would use arc , some electrodes are very forgiving and easy to start making it much easier to learn .