rimcanyon
Diamond
- Joined
- Sep 28, 2002
- Location
- Salinas, CA USA
I’ve not done a lot of sheetmetal welding, but I am repairing an old Porsche with some rusted body panels and I need to get a welder that will butt weld 18ga. Steel and do a nice job. I’ve owned a Miller Syncrowave 250 for about 25 years and it has never failed me until I tried butt welding thin sheetmetal at 10 amps. It just can’t give a consistent arc; one minute it is too low in amps and the next it is burning through the sheet metal. Maybe it needs a rebuild. But for the same price I can buy a small inverter tig welder. So I am looking at the Maxstar 161 STL, or for a few more bucks, the STH. Would appreciate some feedback on those machines, keeping in mind that I have zero experience with an inverter welder; every welder I have owned has been a big transformer machine. I was a bit disappointed to find out that I cannot use any of my water cooled torches or 14 pin remotes with the 161, it seems to be a whole new ballgame.