Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

kinda off topic but what is the squarewave triangluarwave? everyone i work with says arc stability but i dont think they know much ::)

Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

i made almost 30 grand with my smiley tig and then sold it for 100 less than i bought it for new.

so go ---- yourself ass ------s

Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

If you had bought a miller or another good brand, you'd not have lost that $100, and would still be using the machine now. Instead, you lost $100 and then bought a better machine.

In other words, if you had bought a good machine to start with, you could have still made that same $30k, but wouldn't have lost the $100 that you did to replace the machine. Not only that, but with a foot pedal, the products you made with the machine would have probably been higher quality. No offense intended, but I just look at things differently.

Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

I bought my smiley having never tigged before and sort of inquiring whether I wanted to invest in a tig. Now I want a TA 185. Why? I like Tigging. Yes I wish I would have gotten the TA the first time, but I don't see the smiley as a waste of money. I was going to keep it as a Plasma, but we got a Hypertherm basicaaly for free so I don't need it anymore.

Hotrex did you buy the TA locally or Ebay it?

Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...ype=osi_widget

does it run off of 220 or 110? the portable i had before was 110. (thermal arc)

Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

nvm i see it now. its a 208-240 volt power source :(, guess i need to get an electrician over here to put in a new outlet... gaay

Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

Buy a MIG. I bought a TIG and I wish for 95% of the projects I had a MIG. Alot of the time you just want to lay down a quick bead or tack and with TIG thats not nearly as easy as MIG.

Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

95 percent fo the time id rather tig things. i think mig welding is harder.

Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

I'm with Josh here. I would rather TIG. I only use my MIG for traction bars and I don't even make them anymore.

Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
 

i hate migs. you loose the precision and cleaness of a tig and your constantly fideling with your wire speed and amps. tig ftw. only thing i would ever use a mig for would be for tacking up an exhaust or putting a muffler on someones car.