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Hi, Dennis I'd have to cast my vote along with everyone else and advise you to skip the HF welder. At a guess I'd say it might be the most aggravation you could buy for $200. Harbor Freight sells a few decent products, a lot of average low end products, and a lot of absolute crap. Much of the stuff that you can't immediately identify as crap just by picking it up, you have to buy and use and return, or take the advice of someone else who's used it. What other people have said about this welder, and about cheap welders in general, is absolutely right. Ridiculously low duty cycle, lack of dealer support, replacement parts difficult or impossible to get, unreliable functioning...how much frustration are you willing to put up with, even on an occasional basis? A three dollar hammer might be good enough to pound a nail once in awhile but a $200 mig welder might not be able to do what you need it to do even once. I bought HF's cheapest arc welder for $50 a few years ago, and I couldn't find anything that it would do. They refunded my money without a fuss when I returned it, but it was a waste of my time. I didn't even learn a good lesson from it since I still keep looking for that deal that's too good to be true. All the best, Stan
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