"HarryS" <harry01@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I hold several military and civilian welding certificatins and have use the
>175 to fillet weld up to 1/4" with no inclusions, Also, I am certified in
>NDT, X-ray and magnaflux.

please be more specific. a welding certification without AWS in front of it
is for the most part, worthless. there is also a difference in a true
certified welder and an expired certification (if you dont use it, you lose
it). im currently aws d1.1 and d1.5, and have held many others which are
now expired because i didnt use them enough to justify keeping them.


> If you are an experiance welder all you need is the 175 for the hobb lobby
> stuff

and again i disagree. its not all about capacity, its about room for
growth. for example, i can simultaneously connect a mig gun and an aluminum
spool gun to my 210. as i go from steel to aluminum all i have to do is put
down one gun and pick up the other. this isnt possible on the smaller and
cheaper machines, and this is just one of many reasons i recommend getting a
better unit to begin with. capacity, componentry, duty cycles, etc. it all
plays a part and ads up to just an all around better machine. were it not
for cost i would recommend the 255.

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