89breaker
01-30-2008, 05:09 PM
I was going to post this in the shop & tools but it seems like there are a lot more Tuesdays over here.
Copied from: http://www.weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=18772
Quality and service will be remembered long after cheap price is forgotten
I read it here over and over; every single day. It goes like this: make me a recommendation for a cheap welder that can do whatever I want, but will only get used on occasion. Examples would be truck frames and bumpers or 1\2" CR steel flower trellis. And by cheap, they mean less than the cost of the computer keyboard they're typing this on.
You'll probably only need a triple bypass once in your life. Did you go shopping for the cheapest surgeon?
Your fiancee will only wear her wedding dress 1 day. Did she buy it at Wallyworld to save $$$?
You weigh 300 pounds, but you feel the need to clean out your second story rain gutters. Did you buy the flimsiest, thinnest gauge aluminum ladder made?
Did you buy the least expensive, "guaranteed-to-cause-brain-tumors" cellphone cause you don't use it that much?
You just won free scuba diving lessons. Did you ask the instructor to strap you in to the cheapest regulator and tank he had?
Is a bullet resistant vest just as good as a bulletproof one?
Who thinks their head is only worthy of a $10 motorcycle helmet?
Do you ask the car salesman why all his models have so much horsepower, when you know you could get by with only a 5 horse Briggs & Stratton. And who needs liquid cooled anyway?
Who seeks out the lightest duty consumer products, rather than heavy duty?
I thought the buying public railed against planned obsolescence? Yet 99.5% of the newby questioners want advise on the cheapest, lightest duty, only good enough to barely get by, welder. Why is that? Does Hobart's WeldTalk have a direct link for these kinds of questioners to come to this forum?
What draws these schmucks to a professional welder's forum and expects us to recommend bottom of the barrel equipment? Professional means, after all, that all or part of your livelyhood depends on your skill, and the reliable electric arc welding machine that can accomplish your metal-joining task.
C'mon, show of hands. Speak up. How many actual professional WeldingWeb members, bought and make their living using, the cheapest chinese-slave-labor made welding machines? Anybody?
What other electrically-powered, industrial-type piece of equipment did you buy that you sought out the very cheapest available? And by cheapest, I mean expressly designed, built and serviced to meet the lowest price point possible. No other criteria was relevant. By that I mean, putting a vinyl "arc welder" sticker on a metal cabinet with a transformer inside doesn't actually mean that you can arc weld with it. Get my drift?
Copied from: http://www.weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=18772
Quality and service will be remembered long after cheap price is forgotten
I read it here over and over; every single day. It goes like this: make me a recommendation for a cheap welder that can do whatever I want, but will only get used on occasion. Examples would be truck frames and bumpers or 1\2" CR steel flower trellis. And by cheap, they mean less than the cost of the computer keyboard they're typing this on.
You'll probably only need a triple bypass once in your life. Did you go shopping for the cheapest surgeon?
Your fiancee will only wear her wedding dress 1 day. Did she buy it at Wallyworld to save $$$?
You weigh 300 pounds, but you feel the need to clean out your second story rain gutters. Did you buy the flimsiest, thinnest gauge aluminum ladder made?
Did you buy the least expensive, "guaranteed-to-cause-brain-tumors" cellphone cause you don't use it that much?
You just won free scuba diving lessons. Did you ask the instructor to strap you in to the cheapest regulator and tank he had?
Is a bullet resistant vest just as good as a bulletproof one?
Who thinks their head is only worthy of a $10 motorcycle helmet?
Do you ask the car salesman why all his models have so much horsepower, when you know you could get by with only a 5 horse Briggs & Stratton. And who needs liquid cooled anyway?
Who seeks out the lightest duty consumer products, rather than heavy duty?
I thought the buying public railed against planned obsolescence? Yet 99.5% of the newby questioners want advise on the cheapest, lightest duty, only good enough to barely get by, welder. Why is that? Does Hobart's WeldTalk have a direct link for these kinds of questioners to come to this forum?
What draws these schmucks to a professional welder's forum and expects us to recommend bottom of the barrel equipment? Professional means, after all, that all or part of your livelyhood depends on your skill, and the reliable electric arc welding machine that can accomplish your metal-joining task.
C'mon, show of hands. Speak up. How many actual professional WeldingWeb members, bought and make their living using, the cheapest chinese-slave-labor made welding machines? Anybody?
What other electrically-powered, industrial-type piece of equipment did you buy that you sought out the very cheapest available? And by cheapest, I mean expressly designed, built and serviced to meet the lowest price point possible. No other criteria was relevant. By that I mean, putting a vinyl "arc welder" sticker on a metal cabinet with a transformer inside doesn't actually mean that you can arc weld with it. Get my drift?