My take on Everlast tig welders

[67cudafb]

Brad nice ss way don't you start thread and tell us about the car and your plan what engine/ tranny turbo blower you said 350 hp jump so must be something special. You can put it under projects with out welder. Love to hear about and I will post my mopars and wife's mustang have to take pics and get them posted. Good luck with build

[srp]

Gunner,

Don't know how but I missed your post until now. I had never heard of a 250EXT until last week, sorry you are having problems. Any issues I ever have had with Miller welders were resolved completely. I would be offended if anybody bashed Miller, I would see them as a squeaky wheel looking for some grease. In my earlier post I stated Longevity had no negative feedback, it seems strange there is no posts of them resolving issues. Miller does allow negative posts as well.

I always use the foot petal, When I get a new welder I set it on max amperage and never change it. If you are having problems with 4130 cracking, PM me and I will tell you what we did to stop it, if this forum has personal messages.

Gary

[zoama]

Brad,

Sorry I can't highlight your comments to reply, when I do it deletes my whole post. I sold my two large buildings so lack of space limits me from building full size chassis like pro stock and street cars. We are focusing mainly on pro-street motorcycle fab work and anything for drag Banshees.

Some of you may have already heard of me, we have a line of Banshee pipes marketed under the name of Sniper Racing Products (srp), My distributors are RDZ Racing and Passion Racing Engines. A full description of them can be seen on their web sites, I think RDZ has a good close up of some of the aluminum mufflers I have welded. Thanks so much for offering to push work my way, I would like to do the same for you.

Gary

Gunner,

Don't know how but I missed your post until now. I had never heard of a 250EXT until last week, sorry you are having problems. Any issues I ever have had with Miller welders were resolved completely. I would be offended if anybody bashed Miller, I would see them as a squeaky wheel looking for some grease. In my earlier post I stated Longevity had no negative feedback, it seems strange there is no posts of them resolving issues. Miller does allow negative posts as well.

I always use the foot petal, When I get a new welder I set it on max amperage and never change it. If you are having problems with 4130 cracking, PM me and I will tell you what we did to stop it, if this forum has personal messages.

Gary

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[todmorg]

Just think, if you guys wouldn't have insulted and worked against him like you did, we would be able to say, look at the cool #### this guy is doing with a 250EXT. He seems to do OK with his cardboard cutout of a Dynasty350.

[Oleg]

Guys .. please lets NOT bring the past again ... lets move on.

TODD i am very aware of you issue and you aware of what we doing now.

lets keep EXT out of this tread

[67cudafb]

Gunner thanks for sharing that is one sweet mustang. What color is that might look good on the cuda but that will be awhile.

[GUNNER]

My whole deal is that you get what you give. We act like children, we get treated like children. We act like good men, we get treated like good men. The rules apply to all. Let's not dwell in the past.

Read my post in the thread posted about me in this section.... I will however sum it up for you.. As Todd indicated you had your nose where it didn't belong by attacking me in the first place.... NOW to bring this into perspective.. If this was a forum discussing cars and I came here reporting about a defective car and telling you guys that it was a ####ed up mess and the dealer was denying problems but I had already heard from 1/3 of the owners of the same car that theirs had the same issue and everyone had been told it was them and not the car and yet it was as simple and clear a problem as the brakes not working and I was here telling you people if you buy one of these cars you'll most likely have the same problem and be told it's you and the dealer denies any issues all together after several trips there and countless emails and phone calls and to top it off the factory rep for the dealer calls you and repeatedly insist that you clearly don't know how to drive a car and use brakes properly or shut the door correctly either... NOW BE HONEST ----------------> At what point would you be pissed and ready to expose the dealer, the factory rep, and anyone else involved in what's a clear cover up? If you say you wouldn't than clearly you're a liar and I'm not interested in anything someone like that would have to say anyway..

You guys attack me like I was beating up on some helpless child instead of exposing a cover up that could have grown to include even you! Then you proceed to attack even Todd whom is also the only other person here that I know about ( there may be others) that makes his living with a welding machine and entrusted his lively hood to Everlast because he like myself done something that few of the rest of you have done and that's put complete trust in Everlast to be dependable.. Besides Oleg and Everlast it'self only people like myself and Todd put 100% trust in Everlast! Unlike the rest that pretend to be welders in your spare time. I myself pretend to be a doctor but that don't make me a doctor now does it? As I've said now many. many times the whole deal is regrettable but from any situation can come a good outcome if the involved parties work at it long and hard enough.******************************************* ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** ******
From this will come a better EXT machine than the original and some friendships that I'm proud to have. Now if things can get worked out for Todd I'm calling this a 100% successful situation for all involved sides!! What more can anyone ask for? The haters will need to find something new to hate about and that I can't help you with!

[zoama]

Read my post in the thread posted about me in this section.... I will however sum it up for you.. As Todd indicated you had your nose where it didn't belong by attacking me in the first place.... NOW to bring this into perspective.. If this was a forum discussing cars and I came here reporting about a defective car and telling you guys that it was a ####ed up mess and the dealer was denying problems but I had already heard from 1/3 of the owners of the same car that theirs had the same issue and everyone had been told it was them and not the car and yet it was as simple and clear a problem as the brakes not working and I was here telling you people if you buy one of these cars you'll most likely have the same problem and be told it's you and the dealer denies any issues all together after several trips there and countless emails and phone calls and to top it off the factory rep for the dealer calls you and repeatedly insist that you clearly don't know how to drive a car and use brakes properly or shut the door correctly either... NOW BE HONEST ----------------> At what point would you be pissed and ready to expose the dealer, the factory rep, and anyone else involved in what's a clear cover up? If you say you wouldn't than clearly you're a liar and I'm not interested in anything someone like that would have to say anyway..

You guys attack me like I was beating up on some helpless child instead of exposing a cover up that could have grown to include even you! Then you proceed to attack even Todd whom is also the only other person here that I know about ( there may be others) that makes his living with a welding machine and entrusted his lively hood to Everlast because he like myself done something that few of the rest of you have done and that's put complete trust in Everlast to be dependable.. Besides Oleg and Everlast it'self only people like myself and Todd put 100% trust in Everlast! Unlike the rest that pretend to be welders in your spare time. I myself pretend to be a doctor but that don't make me a doctor now does it? As I've said now many. many times the whole deal is regrettable but from any situation can come a good outcome if the involved parties work at it long and hard enough.******************************************* ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** ******
From this will come a better EXT machine than the original and some friendships that I'm proud to have. Now if things can get worked out for Todd I'm calling this a 100% successful situation for all involved sides!! What more can anyone ask for? The haters will need to find something new to hate about and that I can't help you with!

I don't intend to continue any arguments and this will be my last post in the forum on this subject for the sake of the forum...

You and I see it differently, I came in where you started making generalizations as to all the forum members. It started with Mark (an everlast employee that I don't know) and expanded from there. I'm not trying to keep it going, I'm simply stating my viewpoint. When I said "nice work.... and much nicer posts" I meant it as a compliment never considering that it could be misconstrued. Maybe we can put this behind us now and move on to better things.

[GUNNER]

OK there's a very famous Larry Morgan are you saying that's your dad? I must be missing something here because Larry still races now and again in ProStock NHRA

[GUNNER]

Gunner,

Don't know how but I missed your post until now. I had never heard of a 250EXT until last week, sorry you are having problems. Any issues I ever have had with Miller welders were resolved completely. I would be offended if anybody bashed Miller, I would see them as a squeaky wheel looking for some grease. In my earlier post I stated Longevity had no negative feedback, it seems strange there is no posts of them resolving issues. Miller does allow negative posts as well.

I always use the foot petal, When I get a new welder I set it on max amperage and never change it. If you are having problems with 4130 cracking, PM me and I will tell you what we did to stop it, if this forum has personal messages.

Gary

I didn't mean to sound like I'm having issues with 4130 cracking because I don't. Thanks for the offer to help out. My post was intended to extract information from another long time TIG welder such as myself on the subject of foot controls. I to use a foot control on everything and as awkward as it can at times laying on my back upside down twisted up in some race car roll cage still using a foot control it's very necessary when welding 4130 tubing. There has been some debate around here about foot controls and REAL WELDERS don't use foot controls type of comments being made during the several weeks I had the EXT and was having huge issues with the foot control circuit. It seems during the testing of the prototype machine by an Everlast employee that post here daily he decided that the EXT didn't need to be performance checked for use with a foot control and failed to do so by either choice or perhaps oversight, or even just lack of knowledge of proper use of a TIG machine. Either way it wasn't done and that failure resulted in a machine that was sold as the top of the line TIG machine offered by Everlast having severe teething problems that could have easily been avoided. This resulted in me posting several negative post here directed at the responsible party of this problem and subsequently not being a very popular guy on this forum as demonstrated by the immediate personal attacks from a select little group of haters every time I post on any thread. These negative comments from me were a direct result of the person that failed to performance check the foot control telling me several times that I needed to learn how to weld because real welders don't use foot controls! His solution to the foot control problems the EXT had was to simply unplug it and use the remote torch switch like ..... again in his words " real welders do!" I explained several times to him that it's impossible to do the type work I do without a foot control and maintain the quality of weld integrity and professional looks expected by my customers without a foot control and that it was of no interest to me if the machine welded perfectly with a trigger switch I simply don't use them and can't use them. This was met each and every time by the same uninformed reply of .....real welders don't use foot controls and I needed to learn to weld. After weeks of hearing that galacticly moronic reply I came here and posted the same type of insulting comments in his house as he did in mine. This has resulted in a little group of guys that aren't welders by trade making more insulting personal attacks because they aren't capable of understanding the issues at hand and resort to personal attacks that they justify because I personally attacked the person responsible for the whole mess in the first place and that told lies to his boss that my machine didn't have a problem and the issue was I didn't understand how to properly use a very complicated piece of equipment..

When I seen your post and noticed you apparently have many years welding experience same as I do I wanted to get your input on foot control use and have another established welder publicly post the importance of a foot control on a TIG specific machine. It seems posting facts isn't enough when you have a gang of uninformed haters on the attack that have one purpose behind their post and that's to inflict their hatred onto a selected target. A real Rodney King type of crowd if you know what I mean.

The above mentioned issues ultimately convinced me to return the EXT machine and purchase a Dynasty 350 to replace it. The funny thing is these guys hate that so much that they even post insane remarks about the Dynasty machine. If it weren't so pathetic it would be funny but it's truly pathetic to read negative remarks made about what's most probably the finest TIG machine sold in America today by a bunch of guys that have never welded with either an EXT or Dynasty and probably never will. I understand brand loyalty and loyalty to people but at some point it comes time to realize there's probably a better mouse trap made. Personally I haven't welded with an EX machine but I understand it don't have the issues the EXT has but I also understand that it's not nearly as smooth as the EXT when it's working in the ranges where it don't exhibit problems. These observation come from a member here that owns both an EX and EXT. As for Miller being perfect there's no such thing as perfect when it comes to machinery no matter who makes it. I do have my personal picks of the equipment I've worked with over the years and it seems it's all blue for some reason. I choose Mazak CNC equipment over any other given the chance to program and operate any of it, and Miller has always been my choice for a welding machine. I do however feel that it's possible for someone else to produce a high quality machine at a much more reasonable price than a Dynasty and that's why I decided to give the EXT a chance in the first place. I don't post negative comments about any other Everlast equipment because I would be lying since I've never used anything they make except the EXT machine. The only insulting remarks I made about anyone was the people that insulted me first and after that it's game on. There are a couple of members here that couldn't seem to keep their nose out of other people's business and started makes insulting comments directed at me even though I don't know them and never mentioned their name. This has led to me placing some on the ignore list which is a first for me on any forum. I'm glad to see another qualified welder posting informative comments about welding and not another uninformed hater here to wage personal attacks against anyone and anything that they are jealous of or about.

From what I read in your reply to my first post my guess is that you wouldn't take kindly to being told you need to learn how to weld because real welders son't use foot controls either! Just my guess but I'll go on record as saying it's spot on accurate!