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[kenmac]

I have the 210 machine. It doesn't come close to my old tombstone lincoln copper wound transformer machine. I set mine on the highest hot start and highest arc force it has.
It does ok, but when I need to get the job done, I use my 60 yr old tombstone

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[GeneV]

I don't do much with 6011. But I've done a bunch with harbor fright's 6013 and 7018, and also forney's 7014, it's all been fine.

 

[jyoutz]

There was a batch of HF's 90A-AC 'mig' flux welders that came with flux wire so bad that a large number of those welders soon were listed on Ebay by a liquidator. 'Open box, as-new'.

I wasn't the only customer to return one. I couldn't get it to do anything but spit. Later, discussion on Welding Web identified the problem across that batch was just bad wire, so I bought the same model a year later. It worked ok.

Interesting that you experienced that. I bought some HF 6011 rod and it was the worst I’ve ever used. I thought I’d forgotten how to weld until I found some older Hobart sticks and they worked fine. Welding rod is really the only completely horrible HF product that I’ve bought. But full disclosure, that was 10 years ago. The newer HF products might be ok.

 

[jyoutz]

I have the 210 machine. It doesn't come close to my old tombstone lincoln copper wound transformer machine. I set mine on the highest hot start and highest arc force it has.
It does ok, but when I need to get the job done, I use my 60 yr old tombstone

PowerTIG 210EXT - TIG Welders | Everlast Generators

If you are wondering what having digital microprocessor control can mean, just ask anyone who has used it. The benefits are numerous, whether its increased productivity, or increased weld quality, or the ability to make precise settings, and fine tune them to the exact standards required. This...

www.everlastgenerators.com

I have one of those old tombstone models also. Always does the job. Are they still sold?

 

[scaredychicken]

Everything that I know about welding, I just learned from this thread.

I have done a little bit of soldering over the years however, for my model railroad

 

[California]

Everything I know about welding, I just learned from this thread.

Now you are ready to build a trailer to haul around your tractors!

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