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1. Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:15:53 -0400
OK, tonight I yanked that Home F-ing DEFECT Lincoln POS welder out of the garage by it's umbilicals! I need a new REAL welder. What are you guys using these days? And if anyone recommends a POS Linco
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00296.html (8,675 bytes)

2. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:03:28 -0400
I have both a 200 amp Miller and a 200 amp Esab , both over 20 years old . in my shop. The Miller is an excellent unit on heavier stuff, the Esab better in tight quarters and on lighter stuff due top
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00299.html (9,930 bytes)

3. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:15:29 -0400
Some random thoughts. Explain what you want in your welder, what you don't want, and the type use you are going to put the unit through. 1. Check with your local body shop/guy. He will know what work
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00300.html (8,590 bytes)

4. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:25:57 -0400
Both of your unit are over 20 years old. Can a unit of that quality be purchased today? Simple question, but it seems that new tools are just not made as well. Does this hold true for higher ticket i
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00302.html (8,700 bytes)

5. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:44:41 -0400
I hate to destroy a Frank rant with a logical answer, but when I went to buy replacement spools for my (seemingly acceptable) Lincoln, the welding shop guy handed me a full size Lincoln spool and a $
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00303.html (9,007 bytes)

6. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:42:58 -0400
Come on Bill, The chinese have got dung forging steel down to a science. And plastic geared power tools with those super intricate safety switches that last almost as long as the tool. Replace the sw
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00304.html (9,483 bytes)

7. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 23:16:13 -0400
Well my Lincoln 10 lb spool of wire on the little adaptor does nothing but jam up in my lincoln welder. And it was on a cart, and it did have a bottle and I smashed the POS on the garage floor becaus
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00308.html (9,369 bytes)

8. RE: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:29:06 -0400
Frank, Frank, Frank. Calm down. Relax. As someone who's been involved with industrial welding equipment (and is proficient with same), for the past 35 years; I gotta tell you Lincoln is one of the m
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00309.html (10,805 bytes)

9. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 23:29:42 -0400
Century 120 volt MIG goes for about $450. I liked it best of all the 120v units I looked at because it had variable controls for both the wire feed and the amps, most of the others only had a high.lo
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00310.html (10,550 bytes)

10. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 07:20:45 -0500
spend your Strangely enough, that is just what I thought. I went out to the local high schools and looked for vo-tech schools. They have gone to teaching computer classes instead. I asked you guys a
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00321.html (9,357 bytes)

11. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:47:48 -0400
I had the same problem trying to find a vo-tech class. Nothing available except for a $600 course at the community college. Rick high computer have -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked b
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00322.html (9,223 bytes)

12. RE: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:33:01 -0400
I've been giving the same advice for years, now and you're the first guy to report a lack of available vo-tech classes. I've had plenty of positive feedback from Porsche 356 guys who've taken the vo
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00323.html (10,970 bytes)

13. RE: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 07:03:32 -0700 (PDT)
Then count me #2. I'm 70 miles from Chicago near Rockford, IL, a very blue collar area, and there isn't much, save for an expensive course at the community college. We are an industrial/ manufacturin
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00324.html (8,926 bytes)

14. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:56:33 -0400
Come on Frank, tell us how you really feel!! Larry -- Larry B. Macy, Ph.D. macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu System Administrator/Manager Neuropsychiatry Section Department of Psychiatry University of Pennsylva
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00327.html (10,235 bytes)

15. RE: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:41:12 -0400
Interesting. Apparently, welders in your part of the country finally priced themselves out of business. I remember 30 years ago, in the Chicago area, there were three or four prominent shipyards. Af
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00331.html (9,576 bytes)

16. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:47:58 EDT
I agree wholeheartedly, being here in East Tennessee with a high school votech program about 5 miles from me. I have taken several rounds of auto mechanics, two rounds of auto body, two rounds of air
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00333.html (8,544 bytes)

17. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:04:13 -0500 (CDT)
I guess vo tech classes here in Oklahoma are very differnt than those in other parts of the country. I can go to my local vo-tech..err Technology center as they are now called and take a 16 week body
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00335.html (8,665 bytes)

18. Re: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:16:15 -0700
Better yet move to Salinas CA for a couple of semesters. The local CC's welding classes cost me a whopping $22 per semester and they supply everything but safety glasses/googles. I've taken their St
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00336.html (8,278 bytes)

19. RE: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:36:42 -0700 (PDT)
Hmmm...don't want to go anywhere with this, but sometimes the customer prices you out of business (see the Home Depot argument for reasons why places sell less-than-top quality goods...). I work for
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00337.html (8,487 bytes)

20. RE: Welder choice (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:40:48 -0400
Oh, the possibilities for a good Tennessee joke.... The temptation is almost too powerful... <grin> "... Maybe all States are not into voc ed the way Tennessee is." /// unsubscribe/change address req
/html/spridgets/2003-09/msg00338.html (7,692 bytes)


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