The point was, and is that I get a lot of calls from customers agonizing between the choice of buying a stick and buying a MIG and it isn't necessary to worry about either or... I do not feel the title misleading at all, a play on words a little maybe, but not misleading. Many are struggling with a budget or a space concern. They can afford to buy one or the other but need both. I am not talking about TIG here. We have advanced machines for that too, but most farmers and hobby farmers have legitimate needs for both MIG and stick welders...not so much TIG unless they are into fabricating equipment.
We have offered MIG stick welders since 2008 and Inverter MIGs longer than that...well before Miller or Lincoln jumped into the world of compact MTS or MIG stick units. We actually have set the standard here. I know because I've had private inside conversations with high ranking officers of both companies over our products and theirs...but I digress.
Every MIG welder we've sold except the E series MIG has had stick capability. But most people see the price and don't realize they also get the stick package at a price significantly below the competition's MIG only welders.
A lot of phone calls I get are people specifically looking at the Power i MIG 200 or Power i MIG 205 against other names and trying to figure out how to also buy a stick welder because they don't know which they need more. From all this it has become obvious that we don't do a good job internally of promoting the stick capabilities of the machine, and generally refer to it as a MIG welder, and indeed it is listed as such on our website under the MIG heading. My transparent intent is to show that it doesn't have to come down to a decision between the two. YOu can have both. And you don't sacrifice performance for either, and that these machines can fit the bill for the typical farm welding requirements.
But...Thanks Rock knocker for prompting me to spell out the details which I mistakenly thought were clear.
