Hello all,

I have posted a few times but never done an intro.

I am in New London, CT.

I had been planning to buy a TIG welder to work on my car project which is converting a 1978 mini to rear wheel drive. I was going to buy a lincoln 225 I think but then the credit card lowered my limit and saved me from spending soo much on one tool.

I first heard about the Everlast welders when my older brother sent me a link to a craigslist add selling them near by. I told him right away that they were probably horrible pieces of junk. Then I started researching them and after many months of looking at history on welding web mostly it was clear that there were some problems with early units. The clearest thing was that everyone/most people posting negative things about them had never bought one, seen one, and may have never even seen pics of them they just "knew" they were junk.

In the end I bought a 200DX TIG, I was going to go for the I-tig 200 but I want to weld the intake manifold which will be of aluminium so I wanted that capability and the 185 was not available two years ago when I bought my 200 DX.

I really do love the welder, it has done everything I could ask from it.
Welding all the steel tubing I want together.
Doing some alloying with my dad(i.e. using the tig arc as a heat source to melt little blobs of specialty metals together)
Welded a stainless wedding band for my friend back together, took like 5-10 amps
aluminiun.
It is just great overall.
Only just recently started using the peddle while playing with aluminium and I may call and see if they will swap it with a different one as this one seems erratic.

I also just bought the 140 MIG from Duncan up in Canada and I have to say I am very happy with that as well. Does exactly what I need it to do.

Jules