Hey guys as u know i have had a few ac/dc tog machines and a few of you have said just stick with an advanced machine and learn the settings, i wipped out my ac tog machine the other week and remembered all but two dials arc force and another amp setting anyhow now i know the settings there is still a bit of beating around the bush setting it up for each particular job and not ruining the job

A while ago i was looking in the USA at there range of machines and i noticed this one easy peezy model i could pick up and bang out a professional weld within 2mins of turning the machine on its called a Hobart Easy Tig https://www.hobartwelders.com/equipm...ig-165i-m00246 do we sell this model in Australia? I have for years now been keeping my eye out for a used version 1 Everlast ac/dc tig as it only had 3 settings

Im the kind of guy that is itching to bang out beautiful welds but has no patients wasting gas learning on scrap mostly my down fall is complicated machines it seems to me the very basic ac tigs in Australia are a semi commercial platform which is strait over the head of most newbies and probably why a lot of people thing tig welding is very difficult

I was actually running beautiful beads on alloy on my second day of picking up a tig torch with next to no experience but i have seemingly been stuck at that bead level for many years now i suck at any position other than left to right welds

I think a machine like this Hobart Easy Tig would be like chalk and cheese in my abilities to tig weld aluminium but we as far as i can see dont have any basic machines in au other than the lotos ac tig


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