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Mopar Tim said:
Yep, till it doesn't ...:thumbsup:
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Yep. Mine worked great for about a year. Then the motor just stopped one day. Replaced the trigger and gun, nothing. Went and bought a Clarke, another mistake. That thing worked great twice, then started pulsating like a dang typewriter. Scrapped, both, bought a Lincoln. 3 years old now and abused but works great. Would have been 200 bucks ahead if I’d just bought the Lincoln to begin with
 
I have a lincoln Wire feed welder. 220V. Runs great, no issues. But I can weld better with a stick welder, a "Buzz box". Lots more experience with the stick welder.
 
I got 110v Lincoln 140. Decent little hobby machine. Bought a Hobart 110v 140 for work. Hobart seems to have a much better duty cycle, more adjustable and welds supernice (does way better than Lincoln on gas, flux core welds about the same). Just my pair of pennies..
 
Ben Drinkin said:
I got 110v Lincoln 140. Decent little hobby machine. Bought a Hobart 110v 140 for work. Hobart seems to have a much better duty cycle, more adjustable and welds supernice (does way better than Lincoln on gas, flux core welds about the same). Just my pair of pennies..
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IMO its the 110V that makes it weld poorly. Not hot enough IMO.
 
The cheapies have aluminum wound transformers whereas the better welders have copper wound ones. You can tell the difference by lifting them.
 
Mopar Tim said:
IMO its the 110V that makes it weld poorly. Not hot enough IMO.
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For anything on these cars, 110 should be plenty. I have Hobart 140. Usually on low end of power. Som bigger machines may not give you the low end adjustment for sheet metal that the smaller ones do.
 
I have a cheap harbor freight wire feed welder here too. My problem is always what feeds the wire. It has the grease filled gear box above the electrical motor. Grease seeps down into the motor, it just smokes. I took it apart to clean the grease from the motor a couple of times. It ran again until it didn't again. So last time I went into it I cleaned all the remaining original grease out of it and put a very small amount of white lithium grease in. I haven't used again for several years so I don't know what it might do today.
 
zkx14 said:
For anything on these cars, 110 should be plenty. I have Hobart 140. Usually on low end of power. Som bigger machines may not give you the low end adjustment for sheet metal that the smaller ones do.
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I never had any good "luck" with my 110v lincoln welder. I never got the feel for it. The 220v one, no problems... Might just be me. :lol:
 
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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!
 
Sublime one said:
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!
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There are lots of nice inexpensive welders out there. mostly from China, but now days most things come from there...
 
Hmmm now here’s a riddle. Ordered a crank bolt for that 383, got it in, too small for the crank, walk over to the spare 440 crank perfect fit. WTF? I don’t recall B series have bigger crank balancer bolts?!
 
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