Went in to grab an engine, couldn't believe my eyes."Vulcan" welders reversed engineered from Lincoln. Yes I have the 210 MP and the Square Wave 200 and I love them. But I am so anxious to read a deep review pool of these new welders at Harbor Freight, this is just bananas. And if they come up with a reverse engineered Ranger, I am totally buying one.
https://www.harborfreight.com/weldi...cess-welder-with-120240-volt-input-63621.html
They just came out. Everybody seems to be holding off buying them till the YouTube heavy hitters come through with some thorough reviews based on months of heavy testing. I'm in the same boat. Excited about them, but not going to take the leap till they can be proven a bit. They're too new to trust fully, and too expensive to be a beat-on throw-it-in-the-truck machine, especially on a contract job.
And I have thought that a Predator 670 driven portable welder that is competitive with a lincoln ranger or a Miller trailblazer, but costs under 5 grand would sell like crazy, but I thought about it some more and decided that I wouldn't stake my reputation and livelihood doing portable welding on a Chinese machine.
Not to mention you'd get laughed off a job site. It's bad enough showing up with a Diesel Trailblazer... If you ain't running old red iron, (I'm talking 1940s-early 1960s Lincoln equipment), you don't get taken seriously. Aluminum wound machines are toys. That's why my small portable is a 31 year old Miller with a copper wound alternator, Onan engine, and minimal electronics. She ain't fancy, but she gets the job done every time without fail.
