Miller maxstar 140 str

GreatWhitehunter · Jun 28, 2015

I'm in the market for a small portable stick welder and ran across a lightly used max star 140 str. This is mostly for around the house stuff. The seller claims he welds 1/2 without issue. I have no interest in TIG so I'll just be making stick repairs to implements etc. is this a good welder for my intended purposes?

Matt

Shield Arc · Jun 28, 2015

One of the Maxstars won't run 6010. Cant remember which one tho

. If you want to run 6010 may want to check into which one will not run it.

Big Barn · Jun 28, 2015

My Maxstar 150STL won't run 6010, but that may just be me.

Terry

MinnesotaDaveChalmers · Jun 28, 2015

Big Barn said:
My Maxstar 150STL won't run 6010, but that may just be me.

Terry

It's not just you - the maxstar 150 was designed that way - but runs 6011 just fine.

Big Barn · Jun 28, 2015

MinnesotaDaveChalmers said:
It's not just you - the maxstar 150 was designed that way - but runs 6011 just fine.

Thanks, Dave. Good to know. For over 40 years the only welder I ever used on the farm was an AC buzz box with 6011 and 6013.
...so I'm kind of new to everything else.

Terry

GreatWhitehunter · Jun 29, 2015

For the farm welding I tend to do I generally use 7018. I'm a novice at welding and most of my work is repairs. I've run a 150 that I borrowed from work and it performed quite well at those tasks.

Matt

roadhunter · Jun 29, 2015

I had trouble running 6010 with my maxstar 150. Ended up with a ESAB 161 for small work and really like it.

Big Barn · Jun 29, 2015

roadhunter said:
I had trouble running 6010 with my maxstar 150. Ended up with a ESAB 161 for small work and really like it.

OMG. Does that make me the only one who didn't switch to an ESAB 161????!!

Terry

MinnesotaDaveChalmers · Jun 29, 2015

Big Barn said:
OMG. Does that make me the only one who didn't switch to an ESAB 161????!!

Terry

....did I mention that my maxstar is no longer in the shop and an ESAB 161 took it's place? :dance1:

Although I only did it because I had the stick only miller, and replaced it with the stick/tig ESAB.

With 7018 they welded identical.