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1 Campbell Hausfeld PRO-140 WG3090
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Price: $370 Adjustment Range: 24 barometer to ¼ in. Duty Cycle: 20 percent Weight: 64 lb Accepted Draw, 1/8-IN. Steel: 28—30 amps Likes: This homeowner-grade apparatus offers a lot to like. It has an all-metal drivewheel assembly, and abounding of its adjustments can be fabricated afterwards tools. Its assignment bolt has a nice big braided chestnut band beyond its aperture to ensure application through the bond circuit. Most important, it's accessible to handle; accessory editor and first-time welder Harry Sawyers flawlessly seamed two pieces of bar banal afterwards aloof a brace of analysis runs. Dislikes: The cooling fan hit its cover, creating a racket. We anchored it, but afresh it started in again. Rating: * * * 1/2
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2 Campbell Hausfeld PRO-140 WG3090
Price: $370 Adjustment Range: 24 barometer to ¼ in. Duty Cycle: 20 percent Weight: 64 lb Accepted Draw, 1/8-IN. Steel: 28—30 amps Likes: This homeowner-grade apparatus offers a lot to like. It has an all-metal drivewheel assembly, and abounding of its adjustments can be fabricated afterwards tools. Its assignment bolt has a nice big braided chestnut band beyond its aperture to ensure application through the bond circuit. Most important, it's accessible to handle; accessory editor and first-time welder Harry Sawyers flawlessly seamed two pieces of bar banal afterwards aloof a brace of analysis runs. Dislikes: The cooling fan hit its cover, creating a racket. We anchored it, but afresh it started in again. Rating: * * * 1/2
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3 Eastwood MIG 135
Price: $340 Adjustment Range: 24 barometer to ¼ in. Duty Cycle: 20 percent Weight: 45 lb Accepted Draw, 1/8-IN. Steel: 24—27 amps Likes: Eastwood's apparatus is a acceptable accepted welder, and we were admiring that it handles both accumbent and vertical adjustment so nicely. Its able clothing for the old-car army is that it does a admirable job adjustment breadth metal. Afterwards a little practice, Mike had the always adjustable voltage dialed in, and pulled flawlessly tiny chaplet bottomward the centermost of our sheet-metal samples. We additionally admired that the gun cable and its work-clamp advance were 8 anxiety long. Dislikes: Changing the wire spools a careful action that "requires three hands," as one of our testers said. Rating: * * * *
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4 Hobart Handler 140
Price: $666 Adjustment Range: 24 barometer to ¼ in. Duty Cycle: 20 percent Weight: 64 lb Accepted Draw, 1/8-IN. Steel: 28—30 amps Likes: Aback you absorb an added $300 for an American-made welder, what do you get? Guts. The Handler has 'em. Its able-bodied aluminum bus bar (to affix for flux-cored- or solid-steel-wire welding) looks like article out of a ability plant. Do audacity according bond quality? Yes. The Hobart has accomplished arc adherence on both breadth metal and bar stock, on accumbent and vertical surfaces. Dislikes: We didn't acquaintance problems with it, but the wire drive, complete with artificial parts, didn't attending as asperous as the blow of the welder. Rating: * * * * 1/2
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5 Lincoln Electric Ability MIG 140C
Price: $664 Adjustment Range: 24 barometer to 5/16 in. Duty Cycle: 20 percent Weight: 58 lb Accepted Draw, 1/8-IN. Steel: 32—35 amps Likes: Lincoln equips this welder with a diamond-shaped asphyxiate (an cyberbanking clarify that it calls Diamond Core technology). The aggregation claims that it stabilizes the adjustment arc, provides easier starts and makes for bigger adjustment at aerial or low wire speeds. It additionally says this creates bigger ascendancy of the bond puddle—the tiny basin of aqueous metal abutting to the arc. We begin Lincoln's description accurate. Glide its gun bottomward or up the collective and leave a altogether constant bead. Dislikes: A tad bigger automated architecture is alleged for on how the assignment advance and the ability cable affix to the polarity posts. You accept to put an unnecessarily aciculate angle in the cables aback you abode them for MIG (Metal-Inert-Gas) or flux-cored settings. Rating: * * * * * - BEST OVERALL
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6 Miller 211 Auto-Set
Price: $1279 Adjustment Range: 24 barometer to 3/8 in. Duty Cycle: 30 percent Weight: 70 lb Accepted Draw, 1/8-IN. Steel: 30—33 amps Likes: The Miller is so able and able that we absitively it was a little arbitrary to bout it adjoin the others. This is a superb automated tool, and it's priced accordingly. The added amount is justified by appearance such as bifold adjustment voltage (120 and 240 volts) and ample components—the breadth of the assumption acquaintance on the end of its gun cable is about three times that of a archetypal wire-feed welder. Adjustment ability a problem? We bet you could go thicker than the Miller's 8-inch-steel rating. It's so hot, we dialed aback on its recommended settings and still had ability to spare. And arc stability? With this machine, you're in for a bland ride—flying capital on Miller Airways, baby. Dislikes: None. Rating: * * * * * - INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH
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7 Northern Automated MIG 135 Welder
Price: $334 Adjustment Range: 22 barometer to 3/16 in. Duty Cycle: 20 percent Weight: 47 lb Accepted Draw, 1/8-IN. Steel: 27-30 amps Likes: Every abecedarian wonders how abundant apparatus to buy. You charge not be anxious about this entry-level welder. If You're architecture light-duty projects and acclimation things about the house, this is added than abundant machine. That's what it's rated for, and aural account of removing it from the box, we were affairs nice apple-pie chaplet afterwards accepting to bother with the controls or wire drive. It's basic, but it's good. Dislikes: The wire-drive augment is fabricated of plastic; we adopt that allotment to be metal. Rating: * * * 1/2
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8 Adjustment Safety
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All the welders were nominally rated as about 20-amp machines. Measuring the accepted at the account panel, we begin that they would fasten as aerial as 45 amps and bond at an amperage aloft their rating. We acclaim advance the wiring, ambit breaker and bowl confined your welder. While you're at it, buy a adjustment anorak or a covering adjustment apron, an auto-darkening adjustment mask, assurance glasses and covering gloves. Position a blaze extinguisher abutting by, and bright the adjustment area of annihilation that could bolt fire.
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