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A local guy called in the workshop today for a bit of a crack about MIG's and would I set up whatever he got etc etc etc.
For his use he has decided a cheap hobby mig is the way to go, so I suggested a Clarke.
He mentioned the prices baffled him, some higher powered models were cheaper than the lower powered.
So...just out of interest.....
Having never looked myself I had a browse on the MM site and he is right in what he said, for example the 150TE is £321 and the 152 £203.
I suspect this is something like the old and the new, being different manufacturers/suppliers and perhaps quality...but does anyone actually know the difference.
It would be nice to know, considering we often suggest Clarke machines as a good starter machine when asked by new members, I for one don't want to be guiding anyone who has struggled to save a couple of hundred quid to a machine that is no longer as good as I thought.
If the cheaper ones are a new Chinese made model for example, are they actually less user friendly and is the performance poorer or is it simply a case that people presume they are.
For his use he has decided a cheap hobby mig is the way to go, so I suggested a Clarke.
He mentioned the prices baffled him, some higher powered models were cheaper than the lower powered.
So...just out of interest.....
Having never looked myself I had a browse on the MM site and he is right in what he said, for example the 150TE is £321 and the 152 £203.
I suspect this is something like the old and the new, being different manufacturers/suppliers and perhaps quality...but does anyone actually know the difference.
It would be nice to know, considering we often suggest Clarke machines as a good starter machine when asked by new members, I for one don't want to be guiding anyone who has struggled to save a couple of hundred quid to a machine that is no longer as good as I thought.
If the cheaper ones are a new Chinese made model for example, are they actually less user friendly and is the performance poorer or is it simply a case that people presume they are.