Hi Gadge
My mate bought an ESAB one about 30 years ago, ( about $1600 from memory) and we were using it on site welding up 1.6mm handrail stuff, was an amazing machine, and was nice and light so you could carry it up a ladder if you were working up high. Never asked him what happened with it because there is another little 240 welder I use often when I am up there repairing/building something. Around the same time he bought 2 ESAB shields and they were $500 each. I still use my flipfront as I have done for years, but in the factorys over the years we used self darkening because they were faster. Always gets a laugh when I go to the factory with my flipfront, the apprentices can't believe I still use one
