Thread: welder recommendations?

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Buying from a catalogue,or discount store makes good economic sense,until you have a problem or want to ask questions. My local welding supplier is also a highly skilled welder,will answer questions,sells quality equipment, even used, and if you bought it from him,takes your old stuff in trade for new,plus my money is staying here in my community. Hank

Try these people: http://www.cyberweld.com/ We have bought 3 or 4 welders and plasma cutters from them so far and they are superb in price and service. On our Tig they were $ 500 under the local guys. We love Miller equipment, our Mig has literally welded thousands and thousands of welds without a problem.

Spend a little more money and get a 220 volt mig, you will quickly find you will be able to do more with it, and also get the bottle of gas as opposed to fluxcore. Less splatter, hence cleaner welds. I know everybody looks at the 110 volt units because of price, but the bigger one will be an investment and something you can use for heavy stuff like frames.

Don

You've already gotten some decent comments so I'll just add some thoughts on Eastwood. First off this isn't a wrap on them, they are an honest business that has served the hobby well. That being said, they are basically a reseller. They've done a good job of marketing stuff that's not particularly unusual to the commercial trade, but generally unknown to the hobby/enthusiast market. As such, they're not the place to go for the "best price", you're paying them for having done the "search" for the products they sell, for the packaging, and the ease of getting things in one place from the keyboard on your lap. Most of their body repair products can be bought in just about any town that has a decent paint supply jobber that deals mostly with body shops, and can be had cheaper. I'd guess it's the same for the welder. I've got both Lincoln and Miller in small mig welders, like them both. One I bought like Don did, the other was from a local welding shop that had a "sale" going.................but I had to ask in a way that let them know that I would get it from a competitor if they "couldn't" do the deal. They all can usually buy wholesale for the same deal (unless they're really a small time outfit), so can deal if they want to.