[TheForge] PLASMA CUTTER/WELDER/BRAZER

Fri Apr 25 22:14:02 2003

I agree relating to the cost to benefit ratio concept. I know somewhere on
one of these metal-list I am on there was discussion about this thing.

I am skeptically curious.

Mike McKim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RIES NIEMI" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] PLASMA CUTTER/WELDER/BRAZER

> I have not used one of these, but I have to say I am suspicious. I have
been
> welding, a lot, for over 20 years, and I have learned one thing about
> welding machines- buy good ones.
> It doesnt matter if you go red or blue, but the money you spend on a good
> welder will always be worth it. It used to be you really had to buy a tig
> machine and a mig machine, but with some of the new inverter machines, you
> can get one machine to do both.
> Miller has a finance plan- put a third down, pay the rest off monthly for
a
> year. Lincoln probably has something similar.
> These water plasma machines are a russian invention, and while I am a
Finn,
> and therefore likely to distrust the russians, my wife is half russian, so
I
> can say that my bias is technological rather than xenophobic- which would
> you buy- a ford or chevy truck, or an imported russian one? The russian
one
> will be a lot cheaper, but parts, resale, and reliablity are all big
> concerns for me, and my american made welders and plasma cutters are day
in
> day out moneymakers, extremely reliable.
> I am not one of those who only buy american- although my welders are
> american, I have machinery in my shop from Spain, Germany, Italy, Taiwan,
> China, Japan, Turkey, and even Chicago. But a cheap russian device that
> promises to do everything?
>
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