irondarren
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To be honest its a smooth wire feed that makes a good mig welder, the one on my thermoarc is a nice fat swedish made AB motor, nice smoth wire feed. Go down to the portamig 181 basically an over sized hobby/automotive welding machine, still has an excellent wirefeed motor. Go look at similar machines in the price range and some have nothing more than a scalelectric car motor trying to pull a 5kg roll of wire up a 3mtr liner, sorry but it isnt just going to happen, the first time the torch is pulled at a tight angle the wire feed ratedrops off, because the motor doesn't have the power. End result is a poor quality weld.