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0:00 TL-1355 LT is the cheapest welder on Amazon
1:11 Vince's career in welding
1:58 First impressions
5:02 E6013 1/16" rod; 65A @ 220V
5:58 E6013 1/16" rod; 45A @ 220V
6:33 E6013 3/32" rod; 70A @ 220V
7:04 E6013 1/8" rod; 90A @ 220V
7:18 E7018 3/32" rod; 70A @ 220V
8:06 Can it weld a whole rod?
9:30 E7018 3/32" rod; 70A @ 110V
11:09 Will it TIG?
12:51 TIG; 35A @ 110V
13:29 TIG 1/8" tungsten filler; 35A @ 110V
13:57 TIG 1/8" tungsten filler; 75A @ 110V
14:49 What can it weld at max amperage?
15:46 E7018 5/32" rod; 137A @ 220V
16:15 E7018 3/32" rod; 137A @ 220V
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whats the watt rating on that welder
its 109 cdn for the sick only kit 241 cdn for the stick/tig kit
@@donaldcrites7504 ya, was going to mention that, was interested at 70 to toss in trailer, less so at 110.
the tig option is $241 and that's the cheapest its been since it went on amazon in aug. how did you get for $100??
As a Canadian, it would be proper to use Canadian prices, as bad as they are. Otherwise a good video, and quality review
I love watching someone super-high skilled working with "low-tier" tools, it's so satisfying
if Vince says its good ?? ---> ill buy it
I love how you had a pro use it and review it.
Tech has come a long way… taking out some of the guess work.
@@wobblysauce The real advancement is being able to look up videos on things before you buy them; this being a great example. That's what has really taken the guess work out of buying things.
Unfortunately,as I have found in my own trade, you have to know a fair bit to get a decent result from low cost tools ! This skill is very useful if you have gone and left a critical tool in the workshop. But cheap tools can only dishearten a beginner.
The welder guy with 40K hours welding was super chill and knowledgeable. You chose a cool guy that was genuinely impressed!
his hood constantly falling down pissed me off for some reason
@@wadeedwards6194 ikw but that made me laugh 😂
Yeah, he wasn't one of those intolerable OG's who think anything other than their "insert expensive brand name here" is "rubbish".
@@wadeedwards6194 Goes to show how old that hood is that it doesn't hold it up anymore. I kept thinking a few rubber bands might fix it lol
Not use any equipment that is not in working order.
Been a commercial industrial electrician for 24yrs , always wanted to learn to weld , seen this video a month or two ago and picked up this welder first week of February for my birthday . Having a total blast ! Pulling scrap steel off the jobsite all week , and spending the weekends drinking coffee and welding in the morning . Thanks !
Coffee welder 🧑🏭 ☕ 😁 Have fun
Fellow Electrician, only been in the trade 10 years, but Commerical/Industrial as well. I've had a Hobart MIG sitting around for a few years, I think this video and your comment will finally get me out in the garage welding some steel up. Gotta start somewhere.
@@DSHPerotecH right on man ! Yeah just a skill i always wanted to have . Been alot harder to do well than i thought , but im making some slow progress . And having a blast . Funny , bought an inexpensive welding table last sunday and found a connection point had broken during assembly , tacked it up and shes ready for coffee tomorrow haha had to use the welder to fix the welding table to continue learning to weld .... its a viscious cycle .
Did pretty much the same with a flux core welder for my 40th birthday. I still stink, but I stink less!
where do you gets rods from?
I love that he didn’t pass judgement on the welder before he tried it. I don’t care for people who are just keeping up appearances. He uses high end welders and buys for durability, but is still willing to evaluate the cheap stuff for us amateurs. It was really a pleasure to watch a true professional lay a bead.
I have one too and the worst issue is you have to strap it down because the leads will drag it around lol.
LMAO, NICE.
Not a bad deal😂
That very much seems like a first world problem.
Would be perfect with a 120/220 belt drive generator on the engine. They don't care about frequency, so RPM wouldn't matter.
I have one slightly bigger, 200A.. similar form factor. I bent a piece of rebar into an S- hook.. and I would carry it around with me welding up a metal building. The leads are short, so I would take it up high on a ladder and hang the welder on a purlin nearby and just weld with it everywhere I could reach-- and move again. :) .. I could weld with it anywhere with that big rebar hooked through the handle on top. Sounds cumbersome, but it was actually very handy. I could just grab it and go with a simple extension cord-- where as rolling out the big welder is a chore: if you only need a few quick welds. They are great little tools to have, even if you have a big welder.
I bought one, I was fabricating the support structure for a 20' x 30' solar array, 3" x 3" square tubing 3/16 wall. I have a Miller Thunderbolt AC machine, what a fight to weld out of position. Bought the little welder and it was a totally different experience, all position, it didn't care or fight me with what I was trying to do, it just welded and did everything I ask. It's the best $70 bucks I have ever spent on a tool. It would be a great machine for someone to learn on. To see it gets the Vince Stamp of Approval is all the better, Great Review !!!!
Just commenting on your thunder bolt welder . I had one that belonged to my father and he used it for many years .I got it after he passed away and used it for 8 years . Now my grandson has it and it still works fine . Now I wonder how long will it last . I might not live long enough to find out . So to say they last is a understatement .
it's pretty cool that something like this actually works relatively well and gets an endorsement from someone with that much experience. For people that want to try to get into welding at the home gamer level it seems like it would be worth looking at.
I love that he doesn't just call it complete garbage with no purpose, I've met a few welders that would laugh at someone even looking at this instead of a more expensive welder even if it's something they'll only use maybe once or twice a year.
I bought a Zohan miniature welder in Uganda for that reason. Its 20cm x 12cm x 10cm. That was 5 years ago, and im still using the same $60 machine
@@MyBrothersMario Yeah welders can be a different breed of gatekeeper. Its like that for nearly everything tho. Guess theyre pissed that you dont have to buy a $3000 HTP welder or a $13000 Welder + $1200 torch for the few times youre gonna use it per year. It burns 6013's very well and thats basically the only rod any average joe will use.
One of the best reviews I’ve seen lately. Love the fact that a true professional gave this an honest trial and feedback. 💯 appreciated
The coil would probably be cooler with the cover on as that would direct the fan air more across the heat sinks and coil.
Correct.
That was my thought, too.
Yup. That tiny welder did surprisingly well without cover and would likely have been ever so slightly better with it still on.
I thought that too.. but the cover also traps heat inside. So it would probably be about the same really.
@@calholli Forced convection is far more effective at moving heat than natural convection thanks to moving air 10-100X faster than natural convection would, even more so when heatsink fins are horizontal for front-to-back forced airflow instead of vertical for natural convection. The heatsinks in this thing are horizontal, they need forced air to work effectively.
Be interesting to see how it would run on something like a Bluetti power station. BTW, the case cover has to be on for the fan to draw air over the components and cool them properly, so it would probably run even cooler closed up.
That's what I was thinking on the fan.
EEVBlog shows Dave using something like cling wrap so he can still get a thermal camera image of the insides while still allowing the unit to keep itself cool under load.
How about a genset of various levels to find the threshold.
@@adrianstanton2652 This thing won't live very long running off a generator. Their output voltage is full of spikes which the electronics in the welder can't handle for more than a few times.
@theSam91 I have a Amazon 130.00 cheapo i bought about 4 years ago and it has spent half its life run off a generator and it does just fine
The guy doing the welding... what a cool and nice guy, far and away it is obvious he is great at his job and what I liked about the video is that he didn't treat the little machine as a potential piece of garbage, from the start he treated it as if it was is more expensive machine, that shows you he knows how to treat tools. Awesome guy and awesome little machine. And as he said, if you know how to weld and need to make a buck with not a lot to invest, it would be an appropiate way to start and build up from that. Saludos.
Just bought one. Same model without TIG stuff was $67. Let's learn how to stick weld! I will save for a nicer unit, but this will get me started. Thanks.
I have been welding for 32 years. I have been constantly surprised by the capabilities of these new tiny machines
I got their multi process welder and it is better than the Miller I bought like 12 years ago. Technology is advancing at a ridiculous rate and becoming less and less expensive. The Miller cost me about 1300 bucks when I got it and the Tooliom was like 400 lol
Inverter technology has brought both the size and weight requirements of the welding machine down, and they're constantly becoming a lot cheaper. With thatsaid, I did just recently buy a new ESAB inverter machine for $5000
the massive jump in solid state inverter parts, ie: no more bulky transformers and the stuff you need to keep all of that where you want it and cool is, has been a game changer for dc stuff from higer voltage ac mains. its totally bonkers.
Pretty soon we will have a tool the size of a pen 🖊️ that will be able to weld!
@@thatoneguy454c- In no way can that cheap thing compare to a Miller. Not a chance, no way. That cheap Chinese junk is just that: Junk.
A 35 year old welder once stated. “I’ve been welding for 40 years now”
I'm a Luthier to trade (technically a Violin, and Brass Musical Instrument Technician, trained for two years F/T college, two years in the manufacturing industry, and have professional memberships) Someone once told me they'd been building guitars for famous people, for 50 years, aged 57! I'm 60, and only been doing it for 40! Clearly, apart from simple arithmetic, I know nothing LOL 🤣
With overtime, that checks out😂
😂😂😂😂 especially knowing you grew up in the United States
pending on the trade they equates hours of exp to years of the trade. so the statement is technically true. If you are a dive welder you account a lifetime of exp in just a number of dives.
@@mr.l2182 you laugh but there's some truth to that. When I was a paramedic I routinely worked 60 to 80 hours a week at a high volume service (ran 8-12 calls in a 13 ht shift, with 20 min transport times on average)... and volunteered as a firefighter. By seven years or so I easily had been a paramedic for 10-12 years. (More depending on reference... some services medics would take a month, 3 months if very rural, to run what I did in a week!) So while that person may have been talking shit, there can be truth to it too. 🤷🏻♂️
Very refreshing to watch a true no BS assessment by a professional on such a small and lightweight, cheap Welder. Great Works.
My 14 year old son got excited about welding after a field trip to a tech school. Got him one of these to play with and stick stuff together, he’s been loving it. When we started telling him about the money he could make doing it as a career it really put a new spin on it for him.
"Play with" is a dangerous way of putting it, but it's good that you encouraged your son rather than deny him the experience for XYZ reason
As a welder I’m impressed by how well that little welder worked! I might have to pick on up just so I can do some tig welding!
I'm not sure about all that, but I might keep one in the toolbox of my truck and run it off a small generator or inverter.
For 100$ why not! Use a credit card and now it's free to you for awhile!😂
the scratch start will drive you nuts... i find its not the start thats the issue. its the stop! then again, they arent too hard to modify to HF. or slap a pedal on. most circuits are the same under the cover....
So if you use a credit card you don’t have to pay it back 😂
@@C0D3R33D it’s a wright off 🤣🤣
I got the 195 version of this for stick welding class, impressed the hell out of the instructor. He was pretty speechless and told everyone to go buy one. Paid $118 delivered 18 months ago for it.
Im going back and forth on getting the 195a or this 135a w/ the tig kit.. os it worth it to get the higher amp version?
@@jadeolin8514 can't say anything about this machine in particular but it's generally better to use a stronger machine at 60% than trying to squeeze 100% out of a machine
Is it still running?
@@ARASHKAGE sure is, just welded up a buddy’s snowblower attachment for his lawn tractor. Burnt 6013 just fine at 95 amps on 120 volts. Was hot enough to make a nice weld in a very tight spot.
Would be interesting to see it powered by a cheap-ish generator to demonstrate it in a worst case situation
I did it on a 5kv gen 220v Works like a charm
Yeah on amazons cheapest generator 😂
Really enjoyed this . Getting the low down off a pro welder was great, especially as he approached it with such a neutral unbiased manner. I've worked with welders in the North sea gas industry who would just dissmis it out of hand without trying it. Keep up the great content!
The cover is part of the cooling system, I'm impressed you didn't burn it up.
thats a good point, its like running a lawn mower engine without the cowling......the designed air flow is missing.
You don't think he doesn't know that; given the projects he has done?!!!
@@KStewart-th4sk I never said a thing that suggests he didn't know that.
Yeah, if anything that helps make sure it's a little beast. If it can run like that without the cover, it should last a good long while with it.
I had Harbor Freight's Titanum 125 and loved it, but being stuck on 120 left me little room to work with beyond really small jobs. I picked up one of those "220A" Chinese inverter welders from Amazon and just running flux core and stick has covered 99% of the work that I do. I am always expecting it to explode or go up in flames, but it hasn't yet. Like Vince said, if you can make or save money with one, they literally pay for themselves on their very first real job.
That's the way to go! I do the same thing; cheap 125 flux welder for thin stuff and stick for the rest. 👍
@@WeldingForJesus I weld with 2 microwave transformers I wired together and just got a chinese machine that says it can do tig, wire feed mig etc. You can do thin stuff with stick its just hard. I run 1/16th rod 6013 at a real steep angle, hopefully with a thick backing to act as a heat sink. or just tack wait. tack to avoid blow thru. If blow thru happens I come back with a thicker rod and texas 2 stick to try to fill. It spatters everywhere, prone to blow thru, blows the breaker on anything bigger than 1/16th, and does massive slag inclusion but has boogered every weld I needed to booger. Im hoping this chinese welder steps my game up because I hear people saying wire feed is easy and I want the option to burn bigger sticks without blowing my breaker. Realistically Im mostly welding tools I make out of thin scrap I found or repairing a random grill leg or lawnmower deck.Biggest project I tackled was a wood stove I made. I saw the supposed $10 stick welder that looks like a impact gun and said thats more like 90 and you can get a chinese buzzbox for that price and decided its probably time to upgrade and move passed the microwave welder.
@@gantz4umoving "past" the microwave transformer welder is probably a good idea. Although there are videos outthere that teach you to have multiple heat settings based purely off the amount 9f windings you do for which heat is required. Starting at like 60amps ànd all the way upto about 180 or higher
@@gmacka6333 I welded with the flux core and the dial made it a breeze and welded way thinner than I guarantee would just blow out all day to make some cir clip pliers from some nasty heads and rebar. I got the volts written on the wood plank to deduce amps on the microwave welder. But this proves true that "if you can learn to weld with that you can weld with anything" as switching to wire feed flux core with a dial was an absolute breeze. Im keeping the microwave welder as im sure it gives good penetration on something alot thicker than the wire feed can dial ramp to and its my 1st booger welder. Thanks.
As contrary as it may sound, I suspect that the cover for that case is important to keeping things cool inside. The louvered openings, along with the fan, likely increase air velocity and cooling effect.
Thank you. Thank you so very much for making this video. And helping an old woman out trying to figure out how I was going to reweld the front gate back together. Sounds like the unit might be quite handy around here on the farm occasionally. Thank you..
I purchased a couple of small inverter welders in 2019 for a mission trip to Cuba. I tested one before the trip and was impressed by its performance. The two Cubans I gave the welders to were ecstatic to receive the machines and they immediately began making good use of them. This little machine is even smaller than the ones I gave away and less expensive. I’ll probably buy two or three for our next mission trip. BTW, I recall a high pressure pipe welder in the Navy mentioning that the one skill he had to master for high pressure (1200 psi) steam piping was grinding. Thanks for the video. Darlington, South Carolina USA
Thanks for helping people out. I love hearing of people going on mission trips.
God bless you
What this tells me, as an quite experienced stick welder, there are no substitution for experience.... Not done a lot of tungsten welding, but in expert hands everything looks easy....
Nail on the head with that comment. Companies try too often to save a dollar and it shows in the end.
That was surprisingly a very informative video for someone with the absolute most basic knowledge of welding! I was actually cheering for the pocket welder when using the larger rod. Thank y’all for a cool video with great knowledge and information so that even a very inexperienced person could understand!
I got my grandads old oil filled Oxford here in the qeer old corrupt UK 🇬🇧 and its over 70yrs old still pumping out the welds. I use it every day and it's still going strong..
I bet you brag about that thing on every welding video you watch. They are very cool and I bet in a thousand years if one is found it would probably still work.
I'm a Fabricator, and I was Impressed for what it could actually do, even reasonable Tig welding, But I do like a Foot Control. I Learn'd to Tig Weld at "TAFE" college, here in Australia, With a Scratch start machine, Just over 30 Years ago, so I know what that takes. For a $70 Dollar welder, $100 with Tig, off Amazon, that is crazy. You could Throw that in the Boot of your car, just as a Small backup unit to fix a friends broken things, I always have my spare Helmet in the Boot, anyway. Great test on that Machine, thanks.
That's the sort of thing that I weld for anyway so it's a good little unit for me.
Looks good but how long will it last ?
Did his helmet have adjustments?
@@macc240038 6 years
If it makes it thru a few repairs it would have paid for itself. The beads he was laying at times was past what I would have ever expected. @@macc240038
I used to sell welding equipment and the smaller machines would have limiters on them. If you remove the limiters you can weld using four mm rods. They are a great tradie option for sight work. They generally can only weld for five minutes before the safety shut off kicks in that turns the machine off but keeping the fan on too cool it off.
The look of SURPRISE ON THE EXPERT WELDERS FACE is priceless!
I live in Cambodia, my small welder arc only was $65 & it's been in use quite allot for the last 3 years & still going strong.
I'm no mechanic, have never welded and probably never will, but just loved this video. Great work guys, fascinating to watch a pro at work, using non-pro, budget tools. 👍👍👍👍
You should get into it fun
Nice illustration and so good for starters and beginners. Thanks for the demo.
Great to see this professional welder and how stable his hand are 👍👍Thank-You!
Scratch start TIG is the best to learn on imo. It teaches heat control and travel speed at a more emphasized rate. And once you figure that out, along with adding filler, you can pretty much tig anything. I started off on scratch start tig on only stainless, and the first time I used a high frequency pedal machine, I was laying absolute dimes. Start with the toughest, and you can do anything
I would absolutely agree with learning on the hardest first. I learned on a great 30yr old sycrowave with a pedal which I still love to this day. But the material I learned on was outdoor beach and pool furniture that fatties lay down on and break or hurricanes who knows. All salt oxidized ,corroded away powder coated aluminum and cast iron. A few years of working that everyday after school I was able to go to technical school while in highschool for welding. After popping your cherry on that everything was easy won a national welding competition with hundreds of points between me and second place.
I agree and here is an even older example, I started out stick welding with a $20 welder sold in the ads of Popular Science in the mid 1960's. The welder ran on 30 amp 220V and was basically welding direct line through some resistance coils on an asbestos sheet. Just striking an arc was an accomplishment let alone life threatening. Once I bought my $100 Lincoln buzz box I thought I might be able to weld afterall, what a difference!
Anyone reading this and just wants to do some minor crap, or crafting should disregard learning stick welding lol. Just do wire feed if you want to. Man is right if you plan on Being a welder.
in high school my schop taught us oxyacetylene first, told us to learn the motions and puddle control and after a week or so we started using filler then taught us stick welding and in metal shop 2 is when you learned tig and mig
Thanks! Good review!
I have the same welder, got a buddy who calls me to weld his farming equipment back together. It works perfectly. 7014 1/8" no problem or 7018. Got 20' jumper cables that are better than the 6'ones it comes with
Thanks for bringing in a pro to do the review & testing. Good info. 👍
I think this video confirms that great workman don't need to blame their tools, what a great guy.
its nice to see Vince relax infront of the camera turns out he`s a true welding master and likeable guy 😘😇 maybe its time for the vince welding channel and test all sorts of welders from dirt cheap to the sky is the limit
I saw the National Steel Car sticker on his bucket, so I know this guy has been to hell and back. Nice video, and I was impressed with this welder for an at-home small project machine.
I have pretty much the same welder from amazon and I love it. Works great and as I'm in a wheelchair, it's plenty light enough to take anywhere. I put the quarter panels on my 72 Pontiac with it.
Any video where Vince makes an appearance is awesome! Vince should start a welding channel!
I feel like I just took a whole class, I learned so much!
Awesome work bro. I was looking at this for my shed. Perfect.
Thank you for that - what a surprise! I've been welding for 50 years now and would NEVER have guessed that little thing could weld that well!
Absolutely loved this video! I’ve been contemplating getting one of these welders for a project I want to do. I was hesitant getting one because I thought it was a “get what you pay for” tool. For the amount of welding I do (not a lot) this might be perfect. Thanks Rich and Vince! 👍🏻👍🏻
Just ordered a 10 in 1 from SSimder May want to check it out
@@jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798Ssmider 10-in-1 for $800? You realize we're talking about a $75 tool (notice, no 0 at the end of $75) in this video right?
I keep one similar to that in the truck for backup. I use 1/8 7014 rods for easy start and worked well to get me out some emergency pinches when i didn't want to break out all the gear and it works well with a big enough generator.
I was considering one of these for my work trailer. Might pick one up, now. Thanks for the pro review.
I have one works like a champ. I have a snap-on 250, old Lincoln buzz box, harbor freight mig, my snap-on has ALL the bells and whistles and I like the welder you just did this video on and my harbor freight mig welder the most. If I have a job that requires a lot of heat for a longer time I use the snap-on.
I have the fancier version of that welder. I have used it occasionally for about 2 years and it has worked great.
I have a 200a hi frequency tooliom and aside from needing to buy a different torch to add a foot pedal, for $300(maple syrup money) it's a rockin welder!
@@austyman97😅😂🍁🍁 Maple syrup money💰🍁💰🍁😂😂Thats hilarious!
I am impressed on how well that little welder worked and am thinking of buying one to teach my grandkids how to TIG weld. It is very enjoyable to watch another certified welder give his honest opinion. I have been a certified welder since 1977 and worked in the factory Maintenace trade as a mechanic/machinist/fabricator and now I am teaching my grandkids a lot of my skills and craftsmanship because the schools that they attend NO longer have any metal working class and the wood working that they have is pretty pathetic. You and Vince keep up the good work and keep producing the excellent videos.
Not enough time left at schools to teach useful stuff, too much time spent teaching LGBTQ culture.
@@nikspanakistiny p bigot exposed. You arent angry about LGBT people, but you are def a typical, angry middle aged man. Usually tiny p anger. Figure it out. My year was the last year to get metal shop (born in 86) and lgbt wasnt even a topic of conversation yet.
Try thinking on capitalism for awhile and you might figure out why they dont teach it in achools anymore...or keep blaming the gays. Whatever.
@@nikspanakisyour comment proves how dumb you are though...less time spent inhaling weldung fumes might do ya some good.
@@AaronHendu someones got it ;) the gays are the result, not the cause. i already have more welders than i use.
Good video for us beginning to weld. Very informative
I have this thing's big brother, the TL-250M Pro that does 250A, stick, lift TIG, and wire feed, and it's currently $325 on Amazon plus $45 for the TIG torch. As a home hobbyist, it's a great little machine and does everything I need. I've patched up my snow blower, used it to build a welding cart to hold it & plasma cutter I bought, and have made animal sculptures out of silverware both with the TIG torch and flux core wire.
I bought one of those cheap Mastercraft wire feed welders from Canadian Tire and it’s not terrible. Works decent for automotive sheet metal and exhaust pipe. Voltage and duty time is where it gets you
DeBoss and Vince, dropping everything and instant view.🎉 Vince is a awesome welder ❤
Vince drops dimes
I have this same brand welder but the 195A model. I bought it about a year ago. I have 35 years of industrial maintenance experience and have ran a bead or two. This little welder does really well especially when you are running it on 220V. If you are using 120V supply you will have to increase the amperage setting by at least 50%. The biggest rod I have burned is a 1/8" 7018 and it ran very well on 220V. A 3/32" 7018 runs very well on 120V but you have to set your amps at about 115 as opposed to about 75-90. It is well worth the money. I keep my Tooliom welder at my camp. I use a Miller 235 Thunderbolt XL at my home.
I love how his beard protects his shirt from sparks .
I love videos like this. The guy doing the welding, true professional. He didn't have that cocky elitist attitude of like " MILLER OR NOTHING" kinda person. He gave his honest opinion without bias. Now, for the welder, I agree, basic but great starter or emergency welder. There are a TON of good people with great skills and ambition who are kept from enjoying a hobby, honing a career, all because of the entry fees into things like welding. Even getting started with a Harbor Freight system is 1K just to start. Aos again, yeah I love the entry level tool reviews from a unbiased professional willing to give us a HONEST opinion and result. Even if it's sheer junk, we want to know.
Actually, a couple hundred at HF will get you a decent basic Mig welder, but you still need to find someone's old tank and regulator if you want to avoid fluxcore.
@@boots7859 The gas cylinders are the most expensive pain in the ass part of it. I got a decent flowmeter regulator from Amazon for under $30 though. Nothing fancy, but does the job.
You guys are great. It's really appreciated when someone real actually does a review, thank you
Thanks for sharing bro🎉
I bought tl-200m 3in1 welder for around 275 ish few years back and it has been a great welder. Great lil machines
Definitely added that to my list. I've had a $100 harbor freight flux core wire feed for 5 years now. Pretty sure I've run about one hundred pounds of wire through it. Zero issue aside from duty cycle times. 🤷♂️
Same here. Old Chicago electric flux welder. I had mine for 6 years, ran about 100 lb through it too. It's still running, though i broke the carry handle on top of the machine and dropped it several times. The fan sounds like it's hitting the case when it winds down but still works 👍
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I bought a cheap Vevor brand welder for $100 shipped on ebay a few weeks ago, it does stick, tig, and mig. Ive only used mig so far but im happy with it, originally bought it to remove broken maifold bolts on my truck, and was very impressed, I dont know how they can manufacture them and ship them and still make any profit at that price point.
i appreciate the honesty the pros give. really helps out us new guys not mess up
you guys are awesome! I am 51yrs old and need some welding done and HATE!!! asking for favors that people with welders promise and dont follow thru! your channel is great for newbies like me. thanks guys great vid. keepem coming! 👍👍
I love my $220 sungoldpower 200A DC tig welder. I think that $200-300 range is a good starting point as for that money I got a gas valve and acceptable build quality for a light-duty machine. I've used nicer torches since I bought it, and I've poured about a thousand dollars in tanks, accessories and consumables at it while I've learned, but it still treats me right when I need to stick two pieces of steel together.
Not bad! 100bucks and Vince approved. Cool!🎉
Literally had this in my Amazon shopping cart. Thanks for the review
Great video! It would be great to do a part two, and add a pedal, and upgrade the torch. Do a few tweaks and let Vince go crazy with it.
I think you guys did a pretty good review. Seems like a good entry level welder and also a good one for the out in the field type repairs as long as you have a generator or other power supply.
This was great! I want something like this, nice and simple to get into welding as a noob and I couldn't find any real good reviews on cheap welders. So I'm really glad you did this. And I will check out your videos.
Excellent review of welding machine,great video. Thanks
Sometimes cheap junk isn't as much junk as you thought!! Wouldn't go crazy with it but will definitely get the honey do list done!!
It would be cool to see what the welder would do connected to different portable power sources like a generator or inverter and what size they would need to be to run it.
Thanks for the honest review, I might get one to do some garage welding
Seeing you welding is a pleasure and some of your welds looking absolutely perfect.
I use to work with vince I'm an ex welder fitter, I'm quite impressed with that little welder, too bad it didn't come with a foot controller, pedal set up! because newbee's will struggle with not being able to control the heat. Definitely something you can learn the basics with, If I were to buy a tig I'd definitely would want a foot controller, but you have to pay a little more for that regardless. You do need that option in my opinion when things get too hot, you want to be able to control that heat. Especially, with thinner metal. If you just welding 1/8 :1/4 to 1/3 plate should be fine, bodywork no! you'd need a foot controller to help weld thin metal work, I think if you want to learn how to weld it's has great features with stick capabilities and an option to learn tig, over all not bad. For a hundred bucks you can't go wrong really.
Does it need a foot controller?
I bought a dirt cheap flux core MIG from my local German supermarket a few years back for £50 for garden projects that I didn't want to subject my "proper" welder to. It's still going strong and does everything I need and more. At the time people told me they were useless and good for nothing. How wrong they were.
Wow so people do actually buy the welders from Aldi. I'm shocked haha
@@noscopesallowed8128 I've actually bought 3 of them over the years. The other two were for friends who didn't have a Lidl (not Aldi) near them. Excellent little welders when used with decent wire. Handy to be able to weld up stuff outdoors without having drag the big welder out of the garage, swap polarity, load up flux core etc.
@@noscopesallowed8128I brought my welder at "Lidl" Multipurpose with 200A, for 200€
People that say a "Welding machine" is useless are not skilled at welding. and this video pretty much proves it
I have a Canadian tire special Flux care mig, great for what I need
Purchased one a few weeks ago to weld my campervan panels in i had to fabricate ..fabulous little welder using the gasless mig wire ..once set up for the steel you are using weld penetration was excellent
I am impressed with the results
Nice to see you guys do stuff like this. It's especially helpful for someone like me who doesn't have the setup for a fancy 220 welder (though I'd like one) that will have to stick some metal together here in the future on my project trucks. This is something I could definitely use to gain experience without spending tons of money right off the bat. I remember Peg doing a review on Kickin' Horse welders that were kind of the same inexpensive mini welders. I'd be curious to know what Vince's thoughts are on that brand. Another question for Vince if y'all see this is would it be worth it to buy an older Miller/Lincoln/Hobart? Years ago my father purchased an old gas powered Hobart that was used to build bridges back in the '70s or sometime around there. It was an old crane suspended unit that we rigged up on a trailer to be a mobile welder. Supposedly the only reason we stopped using it was because it drank WAY too much gas for our needs but I don't remember the reliability side of it. I've been told that old welders are worth having due to build quality but part of me thinks an old enough welder would cause nothing but headache due to age.
I have wanted to buy one of those cheap welders to learn or tinker with but I was afraid that some cheap chinesium would burn my shop down or electrocute me. I really enjoyed this video.
very impressed with your welding skills
I haven’t welded in 30 years.. I just bought this unit just based on this review! Thanks brother!!
That's a great review bringing in a guy with that much experience very very informative...
I agree this thing would be great to keep in an off-road rig or as a backup emergency welder. Good performance and the price is fantastic.
You have 220 volts when you're "off-road". I don't.
That was a really good watch, and a surprisingly capable little unit. I love seeing stuff like this where the pro scoffs at the "toy" tool and is then surprised and even impressed by it. That alone makes one worth 100 bucks just to have as a just in case tool.
This was super cool. I always wanted to get into welding, just to fix simple stuff around the house and it sounds like this will do that kind of job. I'll be sure to use the affiliate link when I buy it so you guys get a little for taking the time to make this video. Seriously, thank you.
Bought the same one for lift TIG. Works perfectly.
I’ve got a tooliom plasma cutter and it works great too, beats the hell out of a cutoff wheel!
Plasma cutters have gotten so cheap. I have some brand X Chinesium plasma cutter I got on sale on prime day last year. So far it works great.
I bought their MiG welder for couple hundred bucks and it has been pretty decent
mine just showed up today! so stoked and ready to try it out. just started mig welding 6 moths ago and I love it. for 100 bucks I had to get this to try tig and stick. I did some research and made sure to get some tungsten rods for the tig and some 3/32 rods for the stick but totally spaced on the filler rods for the tig and have no idea how to sharpen the tungsten rods for the tig.. doh! all good tho. ordered the filler rods and about to watch your video on. how to tig. I wish it didn't take me 50 years to get over my fear of failure but I am totally over it now and I will defiantly figure this out and always knowing my next weld will be better then my last. Thanks for post. the nudge I needed.
Mega-impressed with that little welder. Nice. Great vid, gang!
Remarkable.....I did my first attempt at Tig with a little inverter like that (MUCH more expensive back then!), and did quite a bit of stainless work with it. Basic stuff but it works. For this little 'magic box' to get the stamp of approval from an experience professional is significant. I can stick things together, but I'm not a welder.... I have worked with real welders... magicians the lot of them!
I bought a different brand cheap inverter welder, but as a novice welder I'm very impressed with mine. I have my dad's old Lincoln buzz box and I struggle to keep the arc going. With the inverter welder, I just try to keep the rod just inside the puddle and my welds actually like I know what I'm doing. I also have the low end harbor freight flux core welder but the inverter welder gives me a much better looking weld. It feels good not to have to grind my welds after the fact. Nice job on the review!
You just need to use the correct rods for the old "buzz box". They all work the same way. If you can use one, you can use the other.
Thank you been on the fence I'm just starting to learn huge help for me
Great review, thanks for sharing!
That's not bad for an affordable welder. I've seen Todd's coverage of some on Project Farm, where his welder friend came by and did 2 rounds of testing with several welders, and some of those were pretty decent too.
Yeah, well i asked that "Todd" 2 weeks ago what he did with all the welders he supposedly bought to run his tests. He didn't bother to reply because i just checked today. kzhead.info/sun/rbmBqb6gkIGFfo0/bejne.html