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Post by snapper22 on Jul 16, 2022 23:07:39 GMT -6
I have noticed that welders have sure gone up in price in just the last few years, example would be the Miller Trailblazer 325 which I am guessing is what you have Snapper, very popular machines from what I see and have taken the place of a lot of the big heavy very expensive generator welders for on a pickup welding rig. Never heard that term used for Princess Auto, certainly hit and miss with some of their products but as to their welders I imagine some factory in China is making them for a variety of companies and rebadging them. Since yours is working ok they can't be all bad but could be an issue if anything goes wrong with it, sadly the same is probably said for the lower end Miller/Lincoln/Esab. I've looked at Everlast welders ( on youtube and their order site ) and while interesting there is zero dealership backing up anything in your local town but the price is what catches ones eye for its specs. Totally hear you about duty cycle, that is where the compact lower end units are very poor with sustained output. As I recall with that Lincoln Weld Pak, it sputtered around and didn't seem much better then bird shit welding, maybe who ever stole it found out the treasure they stole and was not worth packing out of my friends basement. Lol. Any welder that has the on/off switch on the back is Chinese made from what I was told. The trailblazer dad bought when cad was at par or better. It was less then half of now. It has a cv function to hook a wire feeder in as well. My buddy has a wire feeder for his. It’s like $5 grand just for it. Mig can look good but you gotta be clean and beveled on thick stuff to get the penetration like a stick. Mig is more malleable and warpage not near as bad but you have to be clean. You want to hear fabricators whine about metal with mill scale let alone surface oxidation. Those portable pipe and rod panels you buy are mostly mig welded and it’s alright as sucker rods are passed through the pipe but I’ve broke the legs off of them to find the welds breaking because they’re one passed and not penetrating because it wasn’t cleaned. Now if it was rooted with 6010 and capped with 7018 it would be different. Trying to use mig on sucker rod I don’t know. If it’s really clean and you use lots of weld to support the round so it can’t twist maybe but I had some panels where suckers were welded on top with mig and they broke just sitting there. |
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Post by torriem on Jul 16, 2022 23:51:26 GMT -6
Not necessarily made in china, but most likely. The switch on the back of the unit is a requirement for European standards, so any unit that is destined for Europe as well as North America will have the switch on the back. All overseas units will therefore have the switch on the back, but some of them could be made in other countries besides china. Even a welder made in Germany would have the switch on the back.
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