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TIG welder info
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:04:34 -0500, Jon Elson
wrote: Bill Martin wrote: FS12746 It seems to come with an air-cooled torch, if you are doing anything substantial, you will probably want to get a water-cooled torch and cooler. It is only rated at 20% duty cycle at 200 A, so you have to stop every 30 seconds or so to let it cool at rated current. You will want to get gas lenses instead of the cheap ceramic cups to reduce Argon usage, gas is now the most expensive part of TIG welding. As for reliability and maintainability of the brand, I have no idea. Jon One can snag a Lincoln or Miller off Ebay for a grand or less and they are a known quantity. I lean towards Lincoln for Tig..Miller for Mig http://www.ebay.com/itm/Miller-Syncr...-/290603002479 http://www.ebay.com/itm/used-Lincoln...em4cf7fd a44a (offer em about $750 and see if they take it) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lincoln-Elec...-/250884703055 This is a hell of a deal http://www.ebay.com/itm/MILLER-330-A-BP-/180715793835 Gunner -- "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their? president.. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince". |
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