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Re: Paging Dr. Swanson or anyone else who burns metal
i hear stick welders produce shitty ugly welds and are generally worthless these days since you can easily get a mig. unless you're on a farm and want to run stingers out to the field to fix the old tractor.
the first one you posted was a $150 mig, and i'm super curious to see how well it works, but knowing harbor freight and their tools, it is probably a $150 piece of scrap metal.
the $500 lincoln is more expensive than your part but fucking up the welds with a shitty welder means you dropped $150 on a piece of shit machine and now you have to replace the part. the lincoln will last forever and you will always be able to make perfect welds.
for your applications, you shouldn't ever need a 220v welder unless you're taco and you're building rock crawler trucks or repairing cranes.
have you ever weldered?
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