Portable Welding Machine 110V Handheld Electric ARC Welder Gun Stick Welder Machine with IGBT Inverter 5 Variable Current Adjustment for 1/16''-1/8'' Welding Rods

Why did you pick this product vs others?: I wanted a small welder to run off the back of an electric vehicle when out camping to do emergency repairs at festivals. This works great. I first bought one of the hand held flux core welders with the little feeder wire ends but it failed as the wire regularly gets caught and wont feed.. this makes it hard to control the speed of the weld the way you can with this stick style welder. Overall this has been a great little welder to have in the back of the truck and the repairs have already paid for itself.

I was surprised. I've only used it once but it did the job. Very easy and convenient to use. Well worth the cost. Much more handy than pulling out the big welder for a small quick job.

My patio furniture is coming apart and needed some welds so I got this to try to fix it. I watched a bunch of youtube videos on how it works. I also looked at getting someone to do the welds for me and this route is a cheaper route. Plus if they break in the future I can fix them again. I was able to repair weld the furniture with this thing. Now granted the face shield was not that great and its almost impossible to use. You almost need the glasses or welding hood. I ended up just closing my eyes on a few on them. Once you get it to start it goes pretty good. I'm not a welder. If you watch the youtube videos you can see real welders using it and giving pointers. Thats what I did and it worked. Happy with the purchase!! I would buy again!!

Let me start out by saying I'm not a welder. I have a small mig welder and I have "successfully" welded a few things around the house but it wasn't pretty by any stretch. I got this little welder because of the previous reviews. Everyone said it worked great and was easy to use. They are correct. This little tool is very easy to use. Much easier for us newbies that have no idea what we're doing. I've welded a few different things for small projects I've done and it came out MUCH better with this tool than my mig welder. Still not a beautiful seam but much nicer, much cleaner and requiring for less grinding and clean-up. I recommend for anyone that doesn't use a welder regularly. You really can't go wrong at this price point.

Bought to do a couple quick welds on exhaust. For never welding before and not even cleaning the material well, it got the job done. I will find a lot of uses for it.

I’m sure I would’ve loved it but the ground clamp wire looked liked it has been chewed apart

Nice for doing repairs around the house, light duty stuff. Probably not going to weld a crane arm or a backhoe bucket. But it works for patio furniture and other thin tube type objects. Got some Hobart rods and it laid a nice bead, good heat and penetration. Like the fact that it is very portable, throw it in the UTV with a small generator and fixing fences around the property is pretty fast work. I could see where this could come in handy for off roading emergency repairs. Works for me, your results may vary.

Great

Great value

I have a couple actual welders for the big jobs but this thing is great for small jobs. It's a bit awkward but you get used to it. Seems like it shouldn't work but works surprisingly well

Welder works well, but mask needs to be improved.

Try it and you will like it and make sure you use your rod of choice. The rod that comes with it might be available in your area

Takes a little getting used to, take your time practice a bit before starting your project, I found if using 3/32 rods set it between 2.5 and 3 for smoother better bead finish. You'll want to experiment with your settings I just find that worked well for me thats all. My rule of thumb is to start hotter then decrease / reduce if its to hot (eg. burning through the material ) just a heads up for beginners.