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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Originally Posted by milt
Being a current (no pun there, huh?) welding student. I have to say he's right. It's what they use inside. Technology has brought the prices down for cheap utility welders, but infinite control is what you're after. The finer the adjustments and the better the circuitry, the easier is is to weld.
I have a Lincoln 135 "tapped" machine and I'd about give it away. I can go into school and weld like a pro and come home and struggle. Then, when you get to use one of those machines that thinks for you as you weld, you are spoiled forever. That is until you go to buy one. $$$$$$$$$!!!
Stay away from econo machines is all I can say.
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Spot on here. The better machines let you tailor the current and so on to the job you are doing that day.
Get a good machine and it will make you look like a pro, where like Milt said, if you have a lesser quality machine the results many times are not what you want.
Joe
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