YakkoWarner
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- Joined
- May 29, 2024
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- Location
- Central Texas
- First Name
- Wolf
- Truck Year
- 1989
- Truck Model
- R2500 Suburban
- Engine Size
- 454
I use a Hobart 140 and get decent results, but I know I'm not great at welding. I look at welders like musical instruments - if you buy the cheapest junk guitar (or sax, or violin, whatever) you'll have a hard time fighting the instrument, but unless you are already a master you won't really gain much from buying an absolute top shelf $10,000 instrument when a $500 instrument will perform just fine. And someone who is a master can make a $500 instrument sound like a $5000 instrument through skill.
A really good welder can get good results with a "decent" machine and absolute perfect results on a top-end machine. I can get "OK" results with a decent machine and might get "OK" results with a top end machine as well.
Of course my own words may come back to bite me because I picked up an affordable Primeweld200 TIG welder to learn on, I havn't even had the chance to plug it in yet (just got the gas bottle last week) so once I grab some scrap and start making sparks we'll see what happens. It may be terrible, or it may be a decent machine. Never used one before so no previous experience to reference from.
A really good welder can get good results with a "decent" machine and absolute perfect results on a top-end machine. I can get "OK" results with a decent machine and might get "OK" results with a top end machine as well.
Of course my own words may come back to bite me because I picked up an affordable Primeweld200 TIG welder to learn on, I havn't even had the chance to plug it in yet (just got the gas bottle last week) so once I grab some scrap and start making sparks we'll see what happens. It may be terrible, or it may be a decent machine. Never used one before so no previous experience to reference from.