clee4020
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Lincoln? Miller? Others? Which do you have? Currently have a Lincoln Ranger 10000 gas and would like to get a diesel because I always have several hundred gallons of diesel fuel.
Which diesel welder/generator??
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Shield Arc
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Shield Arc
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As you are already aware of the great arc your Ranger has, why not stick with it? Not sure about these Kubota engines, but in the Vantage people always say buy the Perkins over the Kubota.
http://www.lincolnelectric.com/en-us/Equipment/Pages/product.aspx?product=K1727-3
https://weldingsupply.securesites.com/cgi-bin/einstein.pl?PNUM::1:UNDEF:X:K1727-3
http://www.lincolnelectric.com/en-us/Equipment/Pages/product.aspx?product=K1727-3
https://weldingsupply.securesites.com/cgi-bin/einstein.pl?PNUM::1:UNDEF:X:K1727-3
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Soundguy
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at work we have a hobart gasser welder / 10kw genny.
nice unit..
soundguy
nice unit..
soundguy
Mark @ Everlast
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From a technical standpoint, the Kubota is a little more "refined" engine and usually more efficient, but it has it's own weaknesses, which is primarily just that, weak.:laughing: imho. The ones you find at auction with kubotas are typically are blown, or run hot...and are sold for 200.00-500.00. But the engine is no better than the service it receives. Come to think of it, the only ones I have seen recently at auctions are kubotas....That could be good or bad depending upon how you look at it.
If it were the "newer" perkins, I cannot say. But the older generation of perkins were as rock solid as they come. I'd think I'd still lean toward the perkins though.
If it were the "newer" perkins, I cannot say. But the older generation of perkins were as rock solid as they come. I'd think I'd still lean toward the perkins though.
jake98
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Has the EPA screwed up the diesel welders' performance like the trucks and tractors?
Mark @ Everlast
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EPA has gotten their grimy fingers into every internal combustion engine on the market.
They are inflating the cost of doing business at every turn, and killing our economy. Sadly, in an effort to make engines greener, they are only making them inefficient, and more unreliable. Looks to me a dirty running engine that uses half as much fuel to the job, would be "cleaner" than one that uses twice as much fuel to do the same job.
They are inflating the cost of doing business at every turn, and killing our economy. Sadly, in an effort to make engines greener, they are only making them inefficient, and more unreliable. Looks to me a dirty running engine that uses half as much fuel to the job, would be "cleaner" than one that uses twice as much fuel to do the same job.
monckywrench
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Conoco Quarterly Profit Rises 66%; Company Plans to Cut Natural-Gas Output - Bloomberg
LP and CNG are very clean, but the market price is kept high and distribution infrastructure isn't optimised for vehicle and similar use.
LP and CNG are very clean, but the market price is kept high and distribution infrastructure isn't optimised for vehicle and similar use.