[TheForge] tig setup- thanx everybody

[Ralph Sproul]

    Reis,  Couldn't agree with you more on the trailblazer.  I priced a
trailblazer last summer and they wanted $4200 for it (gas).  I was going to
upgrade my 16 year old one........but then I figured why bother.

Until I got my Big 50 Diesel the Trailblazer ran 12 years at six days a week
for 10 hours a day with no problems........ how can you argue with results
like that.  I paid $2350 for mine new many years ago, and it paid for itself
easily in the first year.  They aren't much of a generator, but the arc
stability is amazing even on this old one.

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ries Niemi" <rniemi at fidalgo.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] tig setup- thanx everybody


>
> >
> > I was looking at new diesel Bobcats and after you plunk down the seven
> > or
> > eight grand, you still have to get the HF box for another not quite a
> > grand...
> >
>
> Well theres your problem right there- a diesel bobcat- get a
> trailblazer instead, for half the money. Its more welder in every way,
> except for the straight generator capacity- and you can get much
> cheaper dedicated generators if all you want to do is generate
> electricity. The gas engines in the trialblazers are amazing durable-
> diesel is overkill unless you are running it 8 hours a day.
>
> ries
>
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