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If you decide to take that step do yourself a big favor and go shop your local welding supply house and at least see what kind of deal you can get on a good quality machine. Once you know exactly what you want you can shop prices, but buying from your local guy has a lot of advantages, including them being very open to questions and even some demo time to help master the monster. A welder is one of those places where buying "economical" can end up costing a lot more in the long run.

Originally Posted by rspears

If you decide to take that step do yourself a big favor and go shop your local welding supply house and at least see what kind of deal you can get on a good quality machine. Once you know exactly what you want you can shop prices, but buying from your local guy has a lot of advantages, including them being very open to questions and even some demo time to help master the monster. A welder is one of those places where buying "economical" can end up costing a lot more in the long run.

I agree, also ask about trade in machines.My best Bud is a welding salesman
and they take in lots of trade ins,but they are not advertised. A few weeks ago he lent me the slickest little 110 volt D.C. Miller touch start tig machine he aquired on a trade deal.He knows I've been struggling with welding the thin metal on my old coupe body and told me to try it. I was sorta skeered of it because of no foot pedal like my Econo tig. But let me tell ya hes gonna have one heck of a time rasslin it away from me now ! Only thing is it being a D.C. machine it won't do aluminum.