Monkeypeas
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Hey guys, been considering buying a new £500ish welder for a while to replace my tatty old underpowered clarke for general purpose home use, i'm baffled by the options tbh
cant bring myself to buy a cheap chinese machine, one d.o.a ROHR stick machine was enough to teach me thats a bad idea
was considering either a gys easymig (plasticy generic chinesium wire feed put me off) parweld 171 or the r-tech 180 everyone adores, but these new paton welders have such a beefy wire feed motor i'm finding them super tempting
the inverter fusion 170 welders used to have a similar tempting set up but they seem to have dropped off the face of the earth, not sure what the deal is there.
i know the r-tech and parweld only have a 2 year warranty aswell, and the paton has 5 years via welding supplies direct.
the pickings seem slim second hand right now, i nearly picked up an old boc transmig cheap, but it being the 140amp model put me off, not that it wouldnt have been enough for most of what i'm likely to use it for, but a 140a machine that weighs and takes as much room up as a piano seemed a bit impractical, i guess the inverter machines win that one every time.
what would you guys do right now? i guess it still has to come down to the well proven r-tech or the new mysterious paton with its more impressive wire feed set up, features and longer warranty.
but which?, and why?, or there other options i'm missing
cant bring myself to buy a cheap chinese machine, one d.o.a ROHR stick machine was enough to teach me thats a bad idea
was considering either a gys easymig (plasticy generic chinesium wire feed put me off) parweld 171 or the r-tech 180 everyone adores, but these new paton welders have such a beefy wire feed motor i'm finding them super tempting
the inverter fusion 170 welders used to have a similar tempting set up but they seem to have dropped off the face of the earth, not sure what the deal is there.
i know the r-tech and parweld only have a 2 year warranty aswell, and the paton has 5 years via welding supplies direct.
the pickings seem slim second hand right now, i nearly picked up an old boc transmig cheap, but it being the 140amp model put me off, not that it wouldnt have been enough for most of what i'm likely to use it for, but a 140a machine that weighs and takes as much room up as a piano seemed a bit impractical, i guess the inverter machines win that one every time.
what would you guys do right now? i guess it still has to come down to the well proven r-tech or the new mysterious paton with its more impressive wire feed set up, features and longer warranty.
but which?, and why?, or there other options i'm missing