[TheForge] help! welder advice

[Michael Horgan]

Coming in late to this, Andy, but I bought one of these. I've run close to 
a box of 6011 through it, 3/32 " rods, and I'm very happy with it. light 
and easy to carry, runs a nice bead... or at least I'm getting better with 
the practice. ;) Not really much to go wrong, and cheap enough to buy two 
for a trip like this.

At 11:45 AM 1/29/2005, you wrote:
>My brother-in-law is off to Costa Rica to facilitate a build-your-own
>windmill power generator workshop at a community way up in the hills. They
>have LOTS of current but it's all 120 vac.
>He's on a brutally tight budget and was looking at this, on Harbor Freight:
>www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=91110
>It claims power features that I'm not familiar with, but I'd hate to be the
>one who has to use it to weld 1/4 or 3/8" steel...many passes, I guess. I'm
>also concerned that they'll be depending on it (Chicago Electric?!?) in a
>remote place.
>Anybody have any guesses or info that I can pass on?
>I'm also thinking of letting him use my Hobart 135 with a couple spools of
>flux core wire, now that I have a real MIG.
>Any info, anecdotes or opinions would be most welcome!
>Thanks,
>Andy Gladish
>Guemes Island, WA

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