Oh yeah, I work with big machines everyday, love our 1250 G3's but that was not my goal here.
So it arrived Friday afternoon one day ahead of the tracking, driver called me at work so I had him stash it in my carport until i could get home.
Well packaged and at least visibly non-damaged container, free shipping from Cyber-Weld.
Interior packaging was good also.
Comes with a pretty sturdy carrying case.
Once out of the box the machine is light enough to move easily enough with one hand.
First thing I did was setup a dedicated dryer as I don't like robbing stuff from my paint gun setup.
Had to make the dryer detachable so it will fit back in the carrying case.
First test out of the box was 3/16" at 20 amps, nice clean cut.
1/4" at 20 amps cuts with very noticeable dross.
1/4" at 27 amps cuts cleanly and pierces nicely.
3/8" at 27 amps severs cleanly but as you can see the dross is back, not that hard to clean up but if you were doing any significant amount of 3/8" you need to get it onto a 220V circuit so you can bump past the 110V 27 amp limit.
Some notes:
The first two test were done on a 20 amp 110V circuit with the 15 amp adapter plug which limits you to 20 amps output, the remaining tests were done on the same circuit with the 20 amp adapter plug which bumps you to 27 amps output.
Pros-
1. I really like the weight, we have an older DV Hypertherm at work, it's probably twice the weight of this.
2. The carrying case is very sturdy and since the majority of this unit is plastic that will be an asset.
3. It does what they claim it will do.
Cons-
1. The only visible difference between the drag and stand-off tips is the orifice size, stand-off being larger.
2. The etching for the consumable part numbers is so light you need a magnifying glass to read it.
3. Ground clamp is junk, as are most these days (I have several spares).
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I know folks are going to ask why not go with a bigger unit.
I have this that Em and I picked up yesterday.
Full tanks, older Victor gauges and an older Victor Journeyman torch along with a cheesy HF cart I will take apart and weld together. $495.00
I'd been looking for probably a year for an older setup like this that was not beat to death, found it finally from an nice gentleman that has recently closed his body shop.