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AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:49 pm
by Rjroxie
Any thoughts or personal experience with one of these units? I have a small Lincoln SP-125 mig welder that I use for some things but I would like to have the ability to burn rods on some bigger stuff and after watching a lot of videos I would like to learn and have the ability to try tig welding. The three company's that I have been looking at is Longivity, everlast, and the ahp. The AHP seems to have more features at a lower price than the other 2, but only offer a 3 year warranty where the others both offer 5 year warranty.
Any and all thoughts or comments are welcomed.
Thank you
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 5:00 pm
by AKweldshop
There's a handful of guys on WeldingWeb that bought and reviewed them....
Might check them out....
Can't beat $719 to your door.
~John
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 7:04 am
by weldin mike 27
Jody used their 110v mig and liked it so it that tig is built the same way, could be a good thing.
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:58 am
by Mike
Welcome to the forum Rjroxie.
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 9:03 am
by TxBigRed
I have had the AHP Alpha 200X tig welder for about a month now. I am not a welder, but have always wanted to learn how to weld aluminum since my high school welding class I had 40 some odd years ago.
I can remember trying to do aluminum in class (they called it heliarc back then) and just burning a big hole in it! I have 2 aluminum boats and figured it was time. I couldn't justify the price of the red or blue boxes for what I wanted to do. It arrived in perfect condition and well packed. I don't have any experiance with welding any other type of tig welder, but this one seems to work pretty good. I have been practicing on some 1/8 pieces of scrap I got from work. I actually did weld a place that was broken on my old boat last night, and I can tell you that welding on a bench and welding standing up leaning over to reach what you want to weld are entirely 2 different animals!
Here is a picture of some of my practice welds on the first week of having the welder:
And here are some more recent welds. Not perfect, but definitely improving. Not as easy as Jody makes it look!!
Dave
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:16 pm
by Rjroxie
Thank you all for all of your reply's, I am not a welder either but I would like to learn, not sure I need to spend thousands either but this one did seem to have features that the others did, and at a lower price.
I would love to hear from others that have this machine also.
Thank you all again.
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:56 pm
by AKweldshop
Big Red,
How did that machine do running stick???
Roxie,
There's a handful of these threads on these welders on WeldingWeb.
Might head over there and check them out.
~John
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:04 pm
by AKweldshop
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:17 pm
by Rjroxie
Thank you, I will look at them when I am at home, some sites are blocked at work, not sure why, we work in a steel mill and they block welding sites??
Thank You
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 6:42 pm
by TxBigRed
AKweldshop wrote:Big Red,
How did that machine do running stick???
~John
Don't really have anything to compare it to. I just did a couple inches just to check the machine to make sure that portion worked.
Re: AHP AlphaTIG 200DX
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:13 pm
by Dragster Guy
I have had one for 3 weeks now and so far so good i like it. i also have the mig 140 it works well also.