i have a syncrowave 180 for sale that just sits here and i never use it. its about 1 and 1/2 years old if that used maybe 10 times.. its a/c and d/c so it can weld aluminum and stainless and mild steel..it comes with everything ready to go all you need is a bottle of argon. it comes with over $200 of tungsten electrodes all cables and foot pedal torch and regulator and also electrode holder for stick welding... 2400 invested 1500 takes it email me at Turbshangin@hotmail.com or call me cell 610-393-3854

 

I think you will have to come down on your price a bit since you can buy that setup new for $1500.
http://cgi.ebay.com/MILLER-SYN...wItem


If you paid $2400, you got ripped off.

$200 in tungsten would be something like 15 boxes? Why would you buy/need so much?

On a more positive note, these are pretty good machines. I'd pick a used Miller over a new Lincoln....anyday.

 

i just bought one the other week, and the high frequency start(the pedal)somehow took a **** on me. is this common? now, it wont weld alum. and gotta scratch the tung. to get it to "spark"

 

Do you have to scratch it when welding on DC? If not, then it's not your foot pedal.

Can you still use the pedal to adjust amperage? If so, then it's not your foot pedal.

Sometimes, startups on AC can be a bit finicky and can be difficult when tungsten is dirty. It can be sensitive to humidity changes also.

 

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On a more positive note, these are pretty good machines. I'd pick a used Miller over a new Lincoln....anyday.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Why?

Does the Miller have pulse?

Ian

 

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Why?

Does the Miller have pulse?

Ian</TD></TR></TABLE>
No, but the Lincoln equivalent (185 machine) only has a half assed pulser that does not have the full features of most pulsers. The world doesn't revolve around pulse. Welding was around for probably 500-1000 years before pulse ever came around. The fact that one has pulse isn't enough to call it a better machine.

Lincoln used to make good machines, but I think they're junk these days. They like to put in little features like this half assed pulser, just to try to get people to buy them over the Millers... but it seems that they still can't get the reliability of a Miller, much less the service.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Engloid &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Do you have to scratch it when welding on DC? If not, then it's not your foot pedal.

Can you still use the pedal to adjust amperage? If so, then it's not your foot pedal.

Sometimes, startups on AC can be a bit finicky and can be difficult when tungsten is dirty. It can be sensitive to humidity changes also. </TD></TR></TABLE>

i will have to ask my buddy, i let him borrow the machine, so he could finish up a bunch of things that he had "going"

im not saying the foot pedal is broke, but the "high frequency start" if you will. the machine, simply wont spark on its own by simply pushing on the pedal. we checked the points in the machine, and everything looks to be in "spec"

do you have any other idea's?

 

Miller had a problem with a circuit board on the 250's, where the pedal plugs into. They fixed ours at norwoods for free when they came to check it out, since it was still in warranty. May be the same type of thing?

 

Do the points even have any arcing going between them when weldint with the machine is set on continuous high frequency?

 

typical reply since you dont know what all i have to go with the welder ie. different size tungsten for different welding, extra colets and torch internal parts....this is why i hate these forums everyone knows more and is better than every one else grow up bud

 

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if you hate these forums then don't post in it. You're the one who came running in here trying to sell a used machine for the price of a new one, i don't care what you have with to go with the machine but with that price and that attitude good luck selling it on here

 

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Part of growing up is the realization of reality, not through the tainted haze of what you want the world to be.

I will go ahead and sound so arrogant as to say that I likely am a better welder and know more about it than you. (why not, I usually don't?)
If I'm wrong, I will apologize, and hope you can teach me something helpful.

As for the price of the welding machine....The truth hurts. Collets and torch parts are cheap. Tungsten is less than $2 a stick. Lets look at a collet for a WP20 torch as an example. It's 60 cents in quantities of one. Collet bodies are about $1.50. You only need a couple of each size, at most. Are you saying that you have $500-worth of tungsten, cups, collets, and collet bodies? You'd have to have a whole shitload of them to amount to that...and then find somebody that really felt the need to have that much stuff.

If you really have stuff worth about $500, list it all, as it may really help you to sell this setup.


I hate to be so bold to say it, but if you don't like people being able to post opinions, you may try your local newspaper's classified's section (or even ebay)....where nobody can post a reply.

 

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There is a reason why you can't post in the classified section yet, and it this rate you will never be able to.

By the way 1,500 is over priced