[TheForge] help! welder advice

[Gladish Family]

Thanks for the input, Michael!
I'm guessing that in just a few years pretty much all welders will be 
inverter rather than transformer welders.
They'll all weigh 40# or less and the big heavy transformer types will 
be for sale on Ebay for $50..
Andy G.

Michael Horgan wrote:

> 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
>
>
> Michael D. Horgan , lughaid at earthlink.net
> http://members.aol.com/lughaid/