looking to buy a tig for home finally
#22
Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
Originally Posted by CSaddict
Valid points but my little smiley paid for itself multiple times over already.
so go ---- yourself *** ------s
#23
Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
Originally Posted by hotrex
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 *** ------s
so go ---- yourself *** ------s
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.
#24
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?
Hotrex did you buy the TA locally or Ebay it?
#25
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)
does it run off of 220 or 110? the portable i had before was 110. (thermal arc)
#29
Re: looking to buy a tig for home finally
Originally Posted by hotrex
95 percent fo the time id rather tig things. i think mig welding is harder.
#30
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.