Eastwood welders.

Back Forty Bob. · May 9, 2016

Work at a factory near Lincoln Electric, one of our guys worked there. He says Eastwoods are really Lincolns.
He says they come off the same line and are just as good.
Just maybe not the latest advances.
Any of you guys have one of these?
Thanks, Bob.

dr sportster · May 9, 2016

My friend has an Eastwood MIG . If Lincoln is made in China then they might be Lincolns . But the Eastwood are Chinese. But Lincolns are not made in China.

Back Forty Bob. · May 9, 2016

He saw them on the assembly line in Mentor, Ohio.

dr sportster · May 9, 2016

I found a forum where the Eastwood rep states they are all made in house. When it comes to believing him I will go with what your friend says.

Mike(NEOhio) · May 9, 2016

I worked at Lincoln for 41 years and the only private label welders I ever saw were for Nelson. Lincoln owns a lot of small companies that could be making the Eastwoods, but the China operations are strictly for the Pacific rim market and not imported to the US. And Lincoln's Mentor plant makes only MIG wire.

markct · May 9, 2016

Kinda like the truck parts chain that advertised domestic brake drums made in there own foundry. Yet when the drums came clearly marked China my boss called the salesman who explained that they had bought there own foundry in China and it just referred to them as domestic cause the ad was written in China. Ok yup that's salesmen for you

Gambles · May 9, 2016

The salesman lied again. China does not allow foreign ownership of their factories.

markct · May 9, 2016

Didn't know that, but doesn't surprise me a salesman said something not true!

MikeinKy · May 9, 2016

I may be wrong, but my daughter has worked for two local manufacturers that claim to own factories in China. She has been to both, just spent most of the month of March in one of them. Fastenal has a store next to one of them to supply bolts and tools.

chuckinnc · May 9, 2016

I own a older Eastwood 135mig and it works as well as the lincoln 140 we have at work. It also cost about the same as a Lincoln back then, I have noticed the 135's (280.00) are now cheaper than the Lincoln, makes me think maybe the old one may have been made by Lincoln but the newer one are probably made in China.

Back Forty Bob. · May 10, 2016

Could be wrong on the plant. My friend is an "Instrument Controls Specialist"
he went to other plants too.

Back Forty Bob. · May 10, 2016

The company I work for has a plant in Wuxi. We went from 218 people
down to 35.

El Hombre · May 10, 2016

I bought a Century 210 mig from Northern Tool back in '99 for $900 delivered. Weighs 240 pounds so the didn't skimp on the metal in the transformer and cabinet. I have it 3 years and Lincoln buys them and basically kills them; you can still find some Century stuff, but the tools that competed with the Lincoln tools disappeared.

I also have a 230-140 ACDC stick machine, got that at Monkey Wards in about '84, turns out it was Century too. Both still weld very nicely, but Lincoln figured it was easier to buy the brand and kill it, than compete. Miller bought Hobart sometime in the last 10 years for the same reason....

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