Perfect Farm Welder

[pyobluebonus]

Mark do they have pulse in a tig? What is the cost ?

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

Mark do they have pulse in a tig? What is the cost ?

All of our AC DC units have pulse. Some have two forms of it. Most of our DC unit have a pulse.

 

[the old grind]

My MTS 251 Si has quite a range of on-time %s and frequencies for TIG. Waveform examples on page 59 of the manual.

I see it's on sale again. Note the duty cycles and included bits. (torches are 'big' enuf for o'all capacity, I bot smaller MIG/TIG for my work)

Buy your rods, wire, and fillers, and TIG electrodes the rest is there and quality bits.

PowerMTS 251Si with TIG Package | Everlast Generators

btw, when shopping I went up two models and spent another $500 US. If I get 10 years of use out of it I decided a dollar/week was affordable to 'have it all'.

IMO "I got that."

 

[Sberry]

While the featured up stuff is nice I think one of the revolutionary machines is the stick 140-160 mvp lunchbox jobs. I would have loved it but bought a Maxstar some time ago and simply dont need another one but if I did I think the Everlast would be on my short list. Its a machine I wouldnt mind testing. I heard some reallty good reviews form some late model ones, said they replace the Max for some and work just as well.
The low cost and the technology combined make them revolutionary and really moved them in to modest consumer/cost items etc. Under 300$ and can run 1/8 6011 and 3/32 lo hy on 120V and move up to 240 and can run same as a dc buzzer.
While the all in i aspect or multi is cool some of this other stuff is temptinjg for stand alone. I hate changing wire and even though I am a farmer and have a dozen machines truth be known I can do about 95+ % of it with a 175 mig 030. So nice for light, loose fit, gap fillin, so much control. I have a 250, use it once in a while and use a few sticks outside to keep my hand in it and for a little convenience on machines.

 

[Sberry]

I havnt ran a pulse, looks like some good apps but what I do for what I do there isnt much advantage to upgrade. I only recently ended up with the use of a 140 to keep 023 in, nice but my 2 staple machines would be 210 class and a 150 MVP stick. The heavier machine becomes way more a factor when time is money. A 250 is 2x as fast and uses 1/2 the gas for 2x the wire, big spools cost 1/2 as much. Any waiting while welding is 1/2 as much. Wouldnt take but a couple project/events to pay for that.

 

[Sberry]

There are some other things to consider. I looked at some threads that are already 10 years old and so much has changed and improved since then. It looks like some of this has stabilized somewhat but the risk reward ratios have turned from margins to multiples. In other words the imports used to be expensive and not so good buut now they are good and a lot cheaper, a lot. I still hear the reasoning about resale and how parts might not be there in 20 or 30 years and while these guys can post numbers they not all that much for knowing what they mean and wouldnt mind playing poker with them.
I got a bud come by wondering where he could get a part for a 5 yr old machine he bought new for 500 and ran the snot right out of. I said, ye, every new part available and he lit right up. 500$, all assembled with a 5 year warranty. He made 1000's with the thing, cost him 100 a year to own but still cant bear to toss it on the scrap, been looking for a year for a board or something. This is a guy can do trig, figure out any pipe angle ever invented. Must have bought 10 broke engine drives over the years, still doesnt have one that works. Lost 100K work over it. Making payments for a while would have been cheaper.

 

[Sberry]

I see a lot of things on the forums I really never use. There is a lot of fascination with tig. It has its place, I have it but wouldnt miss it if I didnt. I have a lot of aluminum others dont have so discounting a specialty I find my butt saver for the occasional need with a spool gun really. I see a lot of 10018 rod and the like, cant recall ever using one. A little handful of those tool allow specialty rods and a little bit of nickel but really 6011 at home and 7018. I have used them all including the beloved 6013 and 7014, some quite a bit but dont even stock it due to having DC. Not that it doesnt work but just dont use it. Nothing bad with those but its just more stuff.
An inverter that weighs 12# and runs on 120V has really retired my engine drives for the most part, a couple extra rods doesnt mean much once in a while. I got 4 engines, I could easily sell 3. Onlty reason I kept them was for possible contracting so II wouldnt need rentals for start up but I am not all that fond of it unless something fell my way.

 

[user.69169]

I got few years on you, enough to remember world before HeliArc and MIG.
Read a lot of de "welding" forums mostly for laughs.
Wonder time to time how kids figure world dey grew up in was made.
Keep remembering fellow who said all history begins de day you born. Kids just got no background to work off. Trying to run before dey can walk and build 10 story skeliton before foundation set up proper.
Couple buildings in New Orleans tippin over, 1 in Frisco too cause dey sit on piling only stuck in mud by friction. Some guy got it up maybe even got paid, good luck finding him. Whole bunch people changing name and location.

Look at things like Florida International bridge and WTC collapse and remember back to when giant chainsaw cut into bedrock for trench to be filled wid bentonite so concrete could be pumped in and dem walls still pretty water tight. Remember too how brilliant engineers built Citycorp tower at minimal cost, den some kid come along and point out wind could collapse. Lot of iron went into dat tower fast to keep wind from blowing down.

Machine built in Montreal can turn concrete bridge deck to shovel ready powder in couple days, minimal dust, few manhours. Machine don't get much used cause jackhammers make work for laborers and dey contribute. All a big game of watch de money move pocket to pocket.

Sure you like little inverter box mostly not because you ain't gotta pull cable, but because customer eating fuel cost and you got better profit not buying fuel. Dem little boxes coming along, but dey not yet ready for prime time. Engine drive sit in yard paid for ready to go to work. Little box like 1960 color TV, might work, might not when comes off shelf. I can usually make engine run, can't nothin but look at dead box of chips.

Contracting, drywall guy over on WoosieWeb lookin to build big vacuum bottles, got no idea what dey are let alone how to build, but he gonna bid de job. You ever read de posts pop up every 6 month bout getting Insurance? I know of 1 job where guy slid in by showing secretary insurance card for his truck. Dat's de bunch you bid against today. Can't see it from my house current standard of acceptable.
Bean counter world out der.

 

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[user.69169]

American Standard English my second language. US government been trying to supress coonazz since 1902 wid very little success. As of 2009 as a non native eenglish speaker I am in preferred minority by Federal Regulation.
Long and short, you got DUTY by Law to learn my language or provide translator.
Deal wid dat!

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