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Review on πŸ”₯ Hobart Handler 140 MIG Welder 115V - Ultimate SEO-friendly Welding Machine! by Alfonso Tipton

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Good welder after some issues fixed

I give five stars because I like it, despite two significant problems that I had and that I solved: 1. The device comes in a nice retail box as if it were You buy it at a retail store. It's printed with photos of the contents and has just enough cardboard to protect it from scratches and to hold the pieces together, but no padding other than a layer or two of single-ply corrugated cardboard. That same crate isn't enough to haul 65 pounds of metal across the country or county, and the first unit arrived with bent or misaligned body panels and some broken plastic chassis parts. I sent it back and Fed-Ex sent me another one. Goodbye profit.2. I noticed that the grooves in the metal wire drive did not align with the wire and after a while the wire came out of the groove and stopped feeding. They diagnosed it as a warranty issue and blah blah blah I told them I'd rather return the second unit than take time off work and drive 60 miles back and forth to a warranty repair center. Solution: Hobart sent me a new feed motor and spindle and I replaced them in about an hour. The new block has mostly eliminated the misalignment, but there has to be a better way to align that wire with the slots. Aside from those two things, everything else that happened is due to my inexperience and/or incompetence in the art of metal welding. On a positive note, read other reviews from people who like this welder and give it five stars and pretend I wrote the same thing here:.

Pros
  • Welds 24 sizes up to 1/4 in mild steel; Weldable materials: steel, stainless steel and aluminum
Cons
  • Without automatic