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Old 05-22-2019, 02:55 PM   #13
scott123
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Location: Middleburg, North Carolina
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Re: Best overall welder machine for home garage

I'm not a tool guy where name brands mean a lot. I do not use the tools in my shop as my livelihood. If I did, I can see where some of the brands with a history of quality stand out. Getting paid on Friday can depend on whether a tool or machine holds up. I get all that.

I learned to weld (if one would call it that, better said, I can make metal stay together) on a Century wire welder. It was a 140 I think. It was so old Century was the only readable word on the machine and parts were an 'Ebay item'.

It lasted my father in law over twenty years of near daily usage in the shop. I used it for about ten and the card died. I ebay replaced it and got another couple of years out of it.

It is a relic in the wire welder field.

Started to babble but my buddy has a Vulcan from Harbor Freight, as well as a plasma cutter. They both may fall down tomorrow but he races dirt cars and his son races go-carts. Most weekends I think they go crashing instead of racing so that Vulcan has served him well for several years.

Scott
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