So just for clarification I weld for a living! I still have a nice stick machine and a heliarc etc etc. I just finally smoked a cheapy wire feeder I keep bottled up for misc thin crap on cars. I have been hesitant to replace it as I can fight it and generally impose my will upon it! She went up in a cloud of smoke today tacking in tunnel on Demon! I will snag a 220/240 machine this week. I just am not a fan of the 110 machines. I fully realize they are great for a lot of guys but I will invariably end up tossing mine on a service truck and take it to the field! As so many of you suggest there are really only two choices for me Red or Blue ( Lincoln or Miller) And don't make me tell you the tried and true oil field joke about the guy in an international harvester with a Hobart!