Well I did it. After poking around for the last several days, I finally committed to retiring my poor old tired 110 v Lincoln and replaced it w/ one of the Chinese units currently available.
Behold:
This blue box is an upgrade to what I've been using as a MIG for the last 12 years. It needs 220v, and has a 175 amp rating. The main selling point for me though was it comes with a spool gun for welding aluminum. I've been wanting some way to weld aluminum for quite some time now. Had I had it back then, the valve cover on my engine would not be "glued" together, and I probably would've built the intake out of aluminum instead of sheet metal. It also comes w/ a regular MIG gun, as well as the regulator for the gas, the ground cable and clamp, and a worthless hand held mask.
For 497.53 and free shipping, it was too good of a deal not to take. The nearest priced piece was an Eastwood unit @ 489.00 (also Chinese) but they wanted 50 bucks to ship it.
But now I got one. Yea me. The perfect addition to my Chinese TIG/Plasma cutter.
Now I can reweld the bumpers back together that I've cut the ends off of to section an inch out of the total width,
Anybody wanna buy an old Lincoln 125 MIG? Cheap?
Behold:
This blue box is an upgrade to what I've been using as a MIG for the last 12 years. It needs 220v, and has a 175 amp rating. The main selling point for me though was it comes with a spool gun for welding aluminum. I've been wanting some way to weld aluminum for quite some time now. Had I had it back then, the valve cover on my engine would not be "glued" together, and I probably would've built the intake out of aluminum instead of sheet metal. It also comes w/ a regular MIG gun, as well as the regulator for the gas, the ground cable and clamp, and a worthless hand held mask.
For 497.53 and free shipping, it was too good of a deal not to take. The nearest priced piece was an Eastwood unit @ 489.00 (also Chinese) but they wanted 50 bucks to ship it.
But now I got one. Yea me. The perfect addition to my Chinese TIG/Plasma cutter.
Now I can reweld the bumpers back together that I've cut the ends off of to section an inch out of the total width,
Anybody wanna buy an old Lincoln 125 MIG? Cheap?