Otto Nobedder wrote:The Millermatics are nice machines.

I'm guessing you'll be easy to talk into helping Dad with a weekend project....

Steve S

lol i wish. 16 hour round trip drive don't give much time to do much on a weekend. have to take a few more days off to do it.

i did get ahold of His local welding shop and they said for the setup would be over 500 bucks! :shock: So i said the heck with it blow the budget way out and bought him a millermatic 211 MIG welder :) Mig would probably be more used by him anyways. :D Hummm now i wonder if i can get my kids to buy m...

I ment HF for Harbor Freight. I attempted to copy the use of hf and it seemed right to make it caps. I guess i'm not up on all the lingo used these days lol Maybe i'm better off just spelling it out haha Sometimes i really wish everyone just spelled it out because i have to go search around to find ...

What's your budget? U might be surprised at how cheap some of the hf start tig machines can be. Probably around 300 i figured. but thats part of why i asked. if 300 bucks ant enough to get a decent setup why waist the money and just spend a little more. Not sure if he would even use a HF welder lol...

I bought one of these and I love it. Combine one of these with a stubby gas lens kit from HTP, the HTP flowmeter someone else mentioned, and some 3/32 2% lanthanted tungstens and you will be off to the races. I have been using my with my Hobart stickmate welder, and it has stood up pretty well so f...

Thanks for the link, the welcome, and the advice. Sad to say going local means about a hour drive to a welding shop that like to give me incorrect or junk and are pretty hard to deal with people. Not really a place i would like to go for this. Actually they have annoyed me enough that i decided to g...

Heres the deal. I'm trying to figure out what i need to get for my father for a scratch start tig setup for a fathers day gift. I know a bit late for it to be shipped in time but better late then never right? lol So i know he has a miller gas powered welder. Probably a 250 or 300 amp stick welder an...