My new Welder!

[ARAMP1]

Well, the wife has been wanting to get curtains for the house for some time now. She’s been asking me my opinion for a few weeks and I really don’t care what color or texture we get. So, I figure that the only way to get out of the living hell of curtain talk is to just go buy them. Well, she found what she wanted in the JC Penney’s catalog, so I suggest that we just go and get them this evening. Well, we get there and the curtains are on backorder or something. So, there was a little hemming and hawing about window shears, so I decide to go somewhere…anywhere. Well, I wander off to sears and I find this floor model Lincoln arc welder regular $499 plus uncle sam’s cut. Well, they had it marked down to $349 and they are doing some kind of special event and had another 10% off that. All in all, I picked it up for $340! Not a bad score!

I also picked up a fire extinguisher at Sam’s too (thanks to all the discussion on the board.)

 

[kartracer55]

Tombstone eh? NICE. Have fun with that, Im Jealous!!!

 

[l_bilyk]

aparently you can convert those to scratch tig

 

[YJTypeR]

You'll be glad you've got the option of DC, much easier.

 

[AdamMopar]

Very nice. Adam

 

[sberry]

Yup, good price. They work very well, I got one of the first ones like that, newer ones didnt seem as quiet but they do the job. Its about all most people would ever need as a stick machine,

 

[ARAMP1]

WOW, SBERRY27! Looks like you've had that one a while!

 

[Fast Orange]

Sberry-
I like the cart-big improvement over the factory wheel set-up,and it gets the cord away from the wheels when you move it.
Aramp-
That's what a 'sperienced welder looks like-overspray gives it "character".

George

 

[ARAMP1]

That's what a 'sperienced welder looks like-overspray gives it "character".

Definitely Does!!!! Even my Cheap a$$ mig welder I have now, though beat up, doesn't look that seasoned.

 

[Goobzilla]

Definitely Does!!!! Even my Cheap a$$ mig welder I have now, though beat up, doesn't look that seasoned.

My MIG looks like it came right out of the box. It's a nice rig, I just haven't had much time to play with it. I've had it at least 2 years now (HH180):

 

[sberry]

I should have wiped the dust off for a pic. Thats been one of the most profitable welding machines I have ever owned considering I paid a little over 200 for it, bought it used 2 weeks old and I was the only one that had ran it. For all practical purposes it works about as good as any machine I have ran. Get 10# of 3/32 7018 and go to it, a 10# box of 1/8 6010 too, both run about 85-90 A on that machine. DC+ The only time I move the polarity know is when using AC on specialty alloys, people want to fool with it all the time, set to DC+ and quit fooling with it.