Hey everybody, I just sold my oxy-acetilene equipment and I´m looking forward to buy a MIG welder.
I´ve look at the Lincoln PRO MIG 175 selling at Lowe´s. I know that is lower quality than the actual Lincoln MIG but its price (599.99 bucks) its pretty tentative.
Since I live in Mexico farther I can go is Mcallen, Texas, probably Laredo too, which is pretty close to the border. All I can spend is about 700 bucks.
I would like to run CO2 only cause of the cheap and for the greater penetration than the mixtures. Here at university we use only CO2 for MIGin. I had all the welds on my go kart made out at 18.5 Volts and 140 FPM, however a guy came today wanting a little weld and I thought machine was in that settings. It was a little square tube which had around 2 mm wall. I welded and got very NICE penetration, but when I looked at the settings machine was set at 23 volts and 250 FPS and I knew I was in a bad situation. Today I grinded and rewelded all my go kart at 25.5 volts and about 225 FPS, Now I feel more confortable with it.
(the machine is a Lincoln Electric Invertec 300 or 350 multi-process machine, I like it a lot, but haven´t tried out any miller tough, are there any stores selling millers cheap near the border?)
Has anybody tried out this welder? any information or better choice? Any advice?
Thanks all
I´ve look at the Lincoln PRO MIG 175 selling at Lowe´s. I know that is lower quality than the actual Lincoln MIG but its price (599.99 bucks) its pretty tentative.
Since I live in Mexico farther I can go is Mcallen, Texas, probably Laredo too, which is pretty close to the border. All I can spend is about 700 bucks.
I would like to run CO2 only cause of the cheap and for the greater penetration than the mixtures. Here at university we use only CO2 for MIGin. I had all the welds on my go kart made out at 18.5 Volts and 140 FPM, however a guy came today wanting a little weld and I thought machine was in that settings. It was a little square tube which had around 2 mm wall. I welded and got very NICE penetration, but when I looked at the settings machine was set at 23 volts and 250 FPS and I knew I was in a bad situation. Today I grinded and rewelded all my go kart at 25.5 volts and about 225 FPS, Now I feel more confortable with it.
(the machine is a Lincoln Electric Invertec 300 or 350 multi-process machine, I like it a lot, but haven´t tried out any miller tough, are there any stores selling millers cheap near the border?)
Has anybody tried out this welder? any information or better choice? Any advice?
Thanks all
