Anybody use their 250 EX with the stick?

[Nikola Tesla]

Anybody use their 250 EX with the stick? I am teaching myself to tig. I have done mig before. My first experience with welding was with a stick welder in my old bosses shop. Had to clean up a lot of rusty parts and wipe down a lot of messy hydrailic oil long before he would let me play with it. Kinda thought since it had the option on it, I would give it a try. Since I am no expert on it, I was curious if somebody had used their 250 and tell me how it was?

[geezer]

The answer to that is no. I haven't had a chance to use it on stick as I have other means to do stick ie: powerarc 200 & imig 205 which both do stick nicely. I would not buy a machine that didn't do stick. The 250 ex has stick capabilties up to 200A which matches the power arcs amps, so I expect if I do fire it up on stick it should do the job for me. Right now my 250ex is dedicated to my TIG learning when I have the spare time. For me TIG is a bit old school like back in 1960 when I took a course in gas welding. Stick is still the king and always will be for me.

[Rugar]

Ive had mine for about six months now, and have never even plugged the lead in for the electrode holder. I bought it for a TIG machine. My MIG takes care of the rest.

[everlastsupport]

You will find the 250EX stick welder quite well. I have MIGs as well, but sometime I need to weld outside and the stick is a quick, low cost, wind resistant solution and the 250EX has plenty of power. Give it a try, pick up some 6013 and 7018 rods, make sure you seal them when not in use. Also, make sure you have the polarity right with the stinger and clamp.

[cmd]

I use mine for stick sometimes. It's not the ultra best thing in the world, but it has no problem laying a good bead. Its a very competent stick welder. I could ramble some but in the end it will do what you need it to. Most of what I use stick on is when I cant reach with a mig lead. I have lots of welding cable around to go up around and in whatever I need.